Environmental Education
Sahar Tabibian; Mahnaz Ranjbar
Abstract
The most important effects of green spaces in cities are their environmental functions, which are created by a balance in the metabolism of the city and raising the level of beauty that leads to the increase of biological qualities of cities. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the views, ...
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The most important effects of green spaces in cities are their environmental functions, which are created by a balance in the metabolism of the city and raising the level of beauty that leads to the increase of biological qualities of cities. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the views, awareness, and participation of citizens regarding the development and impact of urban green space in the city of Ahvaz. The research method was conducted in the form of distribution and completion of a questionnaire with multiple choice questions for 4 consecutive weeks. The sampling method was cluster random and the statistical population was considered to be people over 18 years. After completing the questionnaire, the available information was entered into the computer using SPSS22. Pearson's correlation coefficient, T-test, chi-square, F-test, LSD, Duncan's test, and analysis of variance were used. The results showed that the relationship between the independent variables, including gender, level of education, age, and occupation, with the view index, is significant at the 1% level. The assumption of the equality of mean in the view index between men and women was rejected with 95% certainty. View index in the educational and occupational categories was significant at the level of 5%. Also, there was a significant relationship between the age of the respondents and their views. Therefore, with the increase in age, educational and occupational level, their view on the importance of green space development increases. The relationship between age, gender, education, and occupation of the respondents with awareness index was significant at 0.05 level. While none of the variables had a significant relationship with the participation index.
Mahnaz Ranjbar; Sahar Tabibian; Saba Khalaj; Mojgan Noorafshan
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today, with rapid advancement of industry and technology, many concerns about the adverse consequences threaten human life. The objective of this research is to investigate environmental education as an implement to reduce and evaluate the environmental consequences of petrochemical products based on ...
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today, with rapid advancement of industry and technology, many concerns about the adverse consequences threaten human life. The objective of this research is to investigate environmental education as an implement to reduce and evaluate the environmental consequences of petrochemical products based on the hierarchical analysis. The methodology was a survey of a statistical group involving 30 managers and experts in the petrochemical industry. The tool for the survey has consisted of a questionnaire with a pair scale-single response. In this model, the validity of the research was confirmed by the Delphi method and obtaining the opinion of experts in the field of occupational health and reliability of the questionnaire calculated by the inconsistency rate (less than 0.1). First, three criteria including environmental impact, destruction of the natural environment, impacts on individual health, and the most important harmful effects of each criterion were identified. Among the three main criteria, the most influential factor is the environmental impact criterion with a relative weight of 0.670. The criteria for the destruction of the natural environment and health effect of petrochemical workers with a relative weight of 0.260 and 0.699, respectively, are in the next priority. The water pollution parameter with a relative weight of 0.602 is the most important among the 5 sub-criteria. The parameter of effects on the biological environment with a relative weight of 0.373 among the 3 sub-criteria, and the parameter of the respiratory system with a relative weight of 0.417 among the 5 sub-criteria have the greatest effect, respectively.
M. Ranjbar; L. Gheyrati Arani; M. S. Jamshidi Rad
Volume 4, Issue 4 , September 2016, , Pages 32-17
Abstract
In this paper, an approach has been proposed considering strategies based on values and religious teachings. The aim of this paper is the study of villagers’ religious attitude style towards the water and its consumption which carried out by means of a survey. To this end, 270 people from rural ...
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In this paper, an approach has been proposed considering strategies based on values and religious teachings. The aim of this paper is the study of villagers’ religious attitude style towards the water and its consumption which carried out by means of a survey. To this end, 270 people from rural areas Ramsheh, the province of Isfahan (low- water area), and Izadkhast (high-water area) from Fars province were interviewed by the cluster sampling method. After determining the validity of the study, its reliability was determined by Cronbach Alpha Test whose standardized rate was 0.93. Likert scale was used to measure the attitude of villagers and non-parametric tests of SPSS software (Mann-Whitney U & Kruskal-Wallis -test) were used to analyze them.The results showed that, recognition and religious feeling of villagers about water is almost strong in both regions and their behavior towards water is proportional to the religious teachings. In terms of emotional attitudes, the rural housewives feeling about water was stronger than men. In contrast, the tendency to behave according to the religious teachings among rural men was more than women. Illiterate peasants and rural people older than 51 years had stronger feeling about water than literate and younger people. In the areas which villagers take the advantage of water surplus, there were stronger feelings towards water among the villagers. The Villagers who have fruit garden and villagers that use other types of drinking water sources such as wells, canals, rivers and rain have more appropriate behavior towards water than the villagers use the other types of water resources - such as water plumbing.
