A Study on College Students’ Cognition and Attitude towards Global Warming

DOI

10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Global warming, College students, Cognition and attitude, Environment and sustainability.

Abstract

Global warming, a bone of contention in environment research, has aroused wide concern of the government and all walks of life. College students, a special group cultivated by the state, play an indispensable role in the sustainable development of the environment. In order to explore college students’ cognition and attitude towards this serious environmental issue, a questionnaire was conducted in a university. The study shows that only a small proportion of students effectively grasp the relative information of global warming, though most respondents have realized the problem. Two major reasons are found out to account for the gap: the influence brought by global warming is regional and sporadic is one of the external factors; respondents’ weak consciousness and insufficient knowledge is another. Recommendations are presented to enhance respondents’ environmental awareness and capacity.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jia-Hui Chen
AU  - Ya-Xuan Chen
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - A Study on College Students’ Cognition and Attitude towards Global Warming
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 164
EP  - 167
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.24
DO  - 10.2991/icmesd-19.2019.24
ID  - Chen2019/07
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