Background Sustainable development (SD) is a common concept. Knowledge and attitudes are essential in the SD process. This study assesses the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of local people about SD. Aim To study the factors that influence the understanding of the concept, contents, and indicators of different aspects affecting the health and environmental issues. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out from June to July 2007 among 546 households in the Quang Tri province. Data were gathered on basis of socio-demographic variables, namely age, gender, education, occupation, income, and region. Chi square tests and multivariate analysis were performed on the obtained data. The data were cleaned and analysed using SPSS 15.0 for windows. Results Occupation is related to knowledge, attitude, or practice. Income is related to knowledge or practice. Gender related to only attitude. Lastly, region is related to attitude or practice. The proportion of wrong understanding about SD is 2.0 times (95% CI: 1.3; 3.1, p \ 0.001) higher than that of the people who have good understanding about it. The rate of willingness to do any related SD programmes of the people who understanding is 2.1 times (95% CI: 1.4;Readers should send their comments on this paper to: BhaskarNath@aol.com within 3 months of publication of this issue.3.2, p \ 0.001) higher than that of the people who have bad one. Conclusions This study shows that knowledge on sustainability of the local communities is low. Occupation and income influence understanding of SD more than region, age, gender, and education. Most of the local people who do not understand SD in general, do not want to participate or act in SD programmes.
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Programme mentioned in Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is one of the main initiatives of the world community to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. In Vietnam, solar plant and wind power development are two important resolutions to address the impact of climate change and GHG reduction. To evaluate the sustainability of these projects, a solar plant and wind power project on Con Co Island, Quang Tri province, Vietnam is taken as a case study. The analytic hierarchy process and multi-criteria assessment are applied as the main measurement instruments. Scenario I provides the sustainability scores of composite sustainable development index (I CSD : 0.509) for the solar plant and for the wind plant (I CSD : 0.490). In Scenario II both power projects score high (the solar plant I CSD : 0.86 and the wind power I CSD : 0.838). The multi-indicator assessment allows evaluating the two projects on the island. The results of this study indicated that, these projects help to reduce the environmental pollution and improve the local life. In addition, it raises the awareness of decision-makers about the values of the energy systems as part of the CDM.
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