Robert E. Roth

An Assessment of Environmental Knowledge and Attitudes Held by Community Leaders in the Hualien Area of Taiwan

Abstract This study assessed environmental knowledge and attitudes held by community leaders in the Hualien area of Taiwan. A 55-item instrument was administered by mailed questionnaire to 250 randomly selected community leaders, with a 70.4% response rate. Significant differences were found in knowledge scores by age, education level, income level, and ethnicity, and in attitude scores by age, educational level, occupation, and ethnicity. The results of stepwise multiple regression indicate that education level is the best predictor of environmental knowledge and attitudes. The overall level of environmental knowledge was determined to be moderately high, and the attitudes appeared to be positive.

Interpretation and Nonformal Environmental Education in Natural Resources Management.

Abstract A visitor education strategy was developed, implemented, and tested for its effectiveness in raising levels of knowledge and attitudes toward state nature preserve management. Visitor sociodemographic and site-specific data were also collected and analyzed. A stratified random sample of visitors to four Ohio state nature preserves was taken, and visitor sociodemographic, site-specific, knowledge and attitude data were obtained by a 35-item questionnaire. Results from 1,141 completed questionnaires showed preserve visitors to be mostly male, age 20–39, with incomes ranging from

Exploring the Underlying Constructs of Basic Concepts in Environmental Education

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Disaster Response

30,000, and with few of them holding memberships in either community or conservation groups. Most visited state nature preserves frequently, were very satisfied with their most recent preserve visits, and came to the preserves with either family or friends, for solitude and to see sights. A pretest of knowledge of and attitudes toward selected nature preserve management concepts showed that visitors poorly compr...

Conceptual development and environmental education

Abstract In this cross-cultural study, underlying constructs for environmental education were compared using faculty responses from The Ohio State University (OSU) and the National Taiwan University (NTU). A systematic sampling of 120 faculty members each from OSU and NTU was conducted and a Q-sort technique used. Through factor analysis with a varimax rotation on data obtained from each university, two sets of constructs were identified. The following five factors, or constructs, identified by the OSU faculty explained 38.5% of the total variance: Environmental Ethics, Population and Quality of Life, Interdependence, Environmental Management, and Socio-Culture. Five constructs identified by the NTU faculty explained 38.5% of the total variance: Environmental Ethics, Environmental Management, Interdependence, Population and Quality of Life, and Resource Conservation.

A Survey of Natural Resource and National Parks Knowledge and Attitudes of Dominican Republic Citizens.

Disaster research, although a relatively new area of inquiry for social scientists, has made substantial gains in accumulating descriptive materials, as well as some gains in accumulating analytical information about human response to disasters in the United States. Unfortunately, such knowledge is not accruing at the same rate for disasters which occur in other societies. The number of case studies of disasters outside the

Stockholm Recommendation 96: Viable in the Dominican Republic.

While many countries, especially the U.S., have developed and implemented environmental education programs, little information exists concerning the major environmental issues to be communicated, concepts to be taught, or conceptual objectives to be interpreted. Environmental education research efforts concerned with documenting program effectiveness and demonstrating goal attainment, concept, acquisition, student belief and attitude shift, and skill acquisitions are reported. Methods for assessing environmental education program effectiveness are described. (22 references)

An Assessment of Environmental Literacy and Analysis of Predictors of Responsible Environmental Behaviour Held by Secondary Teachers in the Hualien Area of Taiwan

ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to ascertain the current level of ecological knowledge and attitudes of citizens of the Dominican Republic regarding national parks and natural resources. A cluster random sample of five regions was drawn, and a 49-item instrument was administered by face-to-face interviews to approximately 2,900 respondents located in 68 communities. We found a significant difference between sex of the respondents and knowledge about existence of national parks in the Dominican Republic. More than 84% of those interviewed had not visited a national park nor participated in environmental education-interpretive activities. The overall level of ecological knowledge was determined to be very low. The attitudes toward national parks and natural resources seemed to be negative.

Fundamental Concepts for Environmental Management Education (K - 16)

Summary The Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries face serious challenges to their natural resource base. In recent years the government of the Dominican Republic has taken major steps toward the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan for national natural resources management. This plan is called Plan Sierra. An important compnoent of this plan is the outline of actions for carrying out an environmental education programme within the country. This demonstrates a commitment to fulfill Recommendation No. 96 of the Stockholm Conference in a way that could become a model for other Latin American nations.