JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Year:2016 | Volume:4 | Issue:4|Papers Count:7

The pro-environmental behavior is one of the most effective factors for protecting the environment which is heavily depending on the environmental awareness of citizens. This study explored the effect of “environmental awareness” on “attitude” and “environmental behaviors” of Qom university female students based on Bamberg and Möser’s Theory about the factors affecting environmental behaviors. Survey research method was adopted and the data collection instrument was questionnaire. In the current study, 370 participants were selected using Cochrane formula for categorical sampling. The descriptive results showed most of the students’ (57.9 %) environmental awareness seem to be at medium level. The inferential results indicated that, there was a significant relationship between the “environmental awareness”, “environmental attitude”, “tendency for environmental behavior” and “pro-environmental behaviors“ while no significant relationship between the awareness resources and environmental awareness was observed. “Environmental awareness” directly, indirectly and generally exerts remarkable influence on environmental behavior. The results of regression analysis showed that the three remaining independent variables explain only 20.6 % of the variance of the dependent variable. In total, the findings of the present study confirmed the theoretical framework based on which the research model was planned. For improving pro-environmental behaviors, awareness resources must be reinforced; all state and private organizations and institutes as well as families must help the process of “environmental socialization”, and education quality must be enhanced.

In this paper, an approach considering strategies based on values and religious teachings has been proposed. 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.

The aim of present study was investigating the role of social capital components on environmental Non–Governmental Organizations performance. The statistical population of this research consisted of all members in environmental Non-Governmental Organizations of Khuzestan province (N=359). Using Cochran formula, 90 members were chosen and studied as the proportional stratified random sampling method (N=90). This research was a descriptive- correlation survey that has been conducted by using survey technique.The main instrument in this study was questionnaire which its validity confirmed by professor of Department of Agricultural Extension and Education of Tehran University. Its reliability was also measured by Cronbach's Alpha coefficient which have been determined the for organizational performance scale 0.89 and social capital 0.86. Data were analyzed by spsswin 11.5 in two parts of descriptive and inferential statistics. Research findings showed that value of performance of environmental Non-Government Organization has been low and moderate. The results of the correlation coefficient indicated that the positive and significant relationship were among social capital components, consist of trust social, solidarity social, participation social, awareness social and organizational performance. Regression analysis also shows the explanation ability of 35.5 percent of the variance by social participation and social solidarity variables.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of environmental radio programs on the promotion of knowledge, attitude and environmental behavior of students as the three main dimensions of environmental education. The research method is practical, and the data collection tool is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control group. The study population consisted of 40 students of Payam Noor University of Markazi Province that have been selected by convenience sampling method and have been randomly classified into two study and control groups. The method of this research included the introduction of students and asking them to follow and listen to the radio constant environmental programs of Islamic Republic of Iran included the Blue Planet radio program of Iran radio and also the environmental parts of the bright horizon radio program of Salamat radio in a three month period. After 3 months in order to assess the effect of the mentioned radio programs, a post-test was taken from students. The data collection tool included a questionnaire that its content validity has been quantitatively and qualitatively confirmed by taking a survey from 25 professors and faculty members of the related fields. Also, its reliability has been confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method. The data analysis has been done by using of descriptive and inferential statistics. According to the statistical analysis results, the Blue Planet and Bright horizon radio programs had a significant positive effect on the three dimensions of students environmental Literacy; especially they had higher effect on their environmental knowledge.

Today the population increasing growth and promotion of inappropriate use patterns have led to the abnormal use of land capacities whose consequences have caused the destruction of natural capitals (resources), increasing of diseases, waste production and increasing of waste materials. Lack of attention to this important matter will face the Earth with serious problems in the not too distant future. In this regard, present research was done with the purpose of determining the effect of environmental attitude, environmental knowledge and information, environmental concerns, health orientations, social responsibility, social context, education, being cosmopolitan, using of the Internet, disease and food allergies background on the tendency of Khorramabad citizens to sustainable consumption behavior. The study population consisted of Khorramabad residents, a sample of 386 individuals was selected by using of multi-stage cluster random sampling method for the study. To data analysis, descriptive statistics and regression path analysis have been used. Results show that some variables such as environmental attitude, environmental knowledge and information, environmental concerns, health orientations and social responsibility directly and some other variables such as education, being cosmopolitan, using of the Internet, disease background with food allergy indirectly were explained 30 percent of Khorramabad residents sustainable consumption behavior variance totally. Among these variables, health orientations and environmental attitudes were the most effective variables on sustainable consumption behavior. Therefore, it is recommended that the relevant organizations take the necessary actions in order tochange attitudes and to improve the people’s health orientations level.

The growth of science and technology, after the renaissance was leading to greater domination of human beings over nature and its indiscriminate exploitation. This phenomenon led to the emer-gence of the environmental crisis. This event made the necessity of attention and recognition of crisis causes and strengthen of environmental ethics clear to everyone. Presenting temporary solutions and also philosophical and religious theories emerged among nature enthusiasts and scholars following this feeling.Lynn White believed that Christianity arrogance towards nature was the cause of this environmental crisis and introduced the anthro-pology of monotheistic religions (Judeo-Christian) as the main cause of this crisis. His viewpoint was criticized by Christian critics, but according to Islamic anthropology which has some views in common with Christian anthropology, not only Lynn White’s utterance on environmental ethics is inaccurate but Islam can be the new religion that "Lynn White" has offered to save nature. This research using descriptive-analytical method to collect library information including the recognition, study, and classification of informa-tion, data analysis and summarization on the subject matter and by analyzing of Lynn White’s view point in explaining the causes of the environmental crisis emergence has criticized this view based on the Islamic anthropology. The results of this research show that Lynn White's viewpoint in dealing with Islamic anthropology is unable to explain the causes of the environmental crisis emergence in accordance with fact.

The individual and social behaviors of people affect on the environment and its problems. There cognition of villagers’ social capital effect on their environmental behaviors can provide an important contribution to environmental protection planners in the rural areas. The current descriptive correlation study was done with the aim of investigating the social capital effect on villagers’ environmental behavior. The target population were all of the rural households in Marivan City (N=11228), by using Cochran sampling formula, 250 subjects selected through randomized multi-stage sampling method. Data analysis was done by using of Spss20 software and correlation and regression statistical methods step by step. The results showed that 82.8 percent of villagers have environmental protection behavior on an average level. The level of social trust, social cohesion and social participation in the viewpoint of the majority of villagers (65.6, 62.4 and 98 percent respectively) was moderate. The correlation analysis showed that there is a positive meaningful relationship among all three components of social capital with the villagers’ environmental behaviors. A step by step multiple regression analysis showed that four variables of educational level, social participation, age and social cohesion explain 37.7 percent of villagers environmental protection behavior level.