Assessment of secondary school students’ awareness, knowledge and attitudes to environmental pollution issues in the mining regions of South Africa: implications for instruction and learning

Olufemi, Adejoke Christianah; Mji, Andile; Mukhola, Murembiwa Stanley

doi:10.1080/13504622.2014.984162

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“…A potential interpretation of the positive relationship may be that some fossil fuel production is helpful to direct public attention to anthropogenic climate change. This interpretation is consistent with existing studies showing higher climate change coverage in countries with more carbon emissions 20 and other studies finding higher environmental awareness among individuals living close to coal mining regions 68 . The negative correlation could be explained by an accentuated self-serving and system-justification bias among people from countries with excessive carbon emissions 13,34 .…”

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Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief

Levi

2021

Commun Earth Environ

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Decades after the scientific community agreed on the existence of human-made climate change, substantial parts of the world’s population remain unaware or unconvinced that human activity is responsible for climate change. Belief in human-made climate change continues to vary strongly within and across different countries. Here I analyse data collected by the Gallop World Poll between 2007 and 2010 on individual attitudes across 143 countries, using a random forest model, to show that country-level conditions like environmental protection, civil liberty, and economic development are highly predictive of individual climate change belief. Individual education and internet access, in contrast, are correlated to climate change awareness, but much less to belief in climate change’s anthropogenic causes. I also identify non-linear pattern in which country-level circumstances relate to individual climate change belief. The local importance of most predictors varies strongly across countries, indicating that each country has its relatively unique set of correlates of climate change belief.

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confidence: 93%

Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief

Levi

2021

Commun Earth Environ

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“…Long term exposure to various levels concentration of pollutants may cause increased risk of cancer ( 35 ). Using of fossil fuels (coal, gas, and oil) in the various industries ( 36 ) can result in emission of several substances into the atmosphere producing greenhouse effects ( 37 ).…”

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Cancer Risk Assessment for Workers Exposed to Pollution Source, a Petrochemical Company, Iran

Harati

Shahtaheri

Yousefi

et al. 2020

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Background: Air pollution have led to severe problem of adverse health effect in the world. This study aimed to conduct the health risk assessment, cancer risk analysis, and non-cancer risk for exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in petrochemical industry. Methods: In this cross-sectional research, 123 samples were collected in the ambient air in Iran during winter 2016. For sampling and analysis of VOCs and H2S, 3 methods (numbers 1500, 1501, and 6013) presented by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) were used. For determination of risk assessment of chemical pollutants, semi-quantitative method presented by the Occupational Safety and Health Division, Singapore was used. Finally, for calculation of cancer risk analysis, Chronic Daily Intake (CDI) and calculation of non-cancer risk, Exposure Concentration (EC) were used. Results: Average concentration of benzene (2.12±0.95) in breathing zone of workers were higher than the Threshold Limit Values-Time Weighted Average (TLV-TWA) (P<0.05). Among chemical substance, benzene had very high rank of risk in petrochemical industry. Rank of risk for H2S, toluene, and xylene present in the breathing zone of workers was low. The mean cancer risk for workers exposed to benzene was estimated 8.78×10-3, in other words, 8.7 cancer per 1000 i.e. higher than the acceptable standard of 10-6 . In our study, non-cancer risk for BTX was higher than the acceptable standard of 1. Conclusion: In particular, overall cancer and toxic risk can be associated with long term exposure to benzene.

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“…According to Dalelo (2006), research on school student's knowledge and attitudes towards specific environmental issues stated expected results, feeble, and uncritical knowledge. Students have more knowledge about global environmental issues; this awareness may result in electronic or print media (Olufemi et al, 2016). Furthermore, the lack of enriching curriculum content about environmental awareness resulted in insufficient knowledge about local environmental issues (Mark C. Mifsud 2007).…”

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“…However, they didn't have a good attitude about their environment. Furthermore, Olufemi et al (2016) recommended adding more concepts to develop a deeper understating of environment awareness for the positive attitude change. Knowledge nurtures consciousness that has a direct relation to developing positive proclivity in attitude.…”

Section: Environmental Attitudementioning

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Assessing the knowledge and attitude of elementary school students towards environmental issues in Rawalpindi

Rehman

Zhan

Khalid

et al. 2021

Present Environment and Sustainable Development

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Educational institutions need to increase their efforts in the modern era of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to educate their students for a sustainable future. Teachers and curriculum is the key ingredient to educate children and teenagers to be leaders of tomorrow in protecting the environment. This quantitative study was conducted to examine elementary school students' knowledge and attitudes towards environmental issues in Rawalpindi. The environment is directly and indirectly affected by humanity. The environment is getting polluted day by day due to which it becomes difficult to live in such a massive environment. To achieve this, there is a need to develop knowledge and attitudes in each individual. For this purpose, the population of the study consisted of all the public and private schools of the Rawalpindi. A hundred students of the ten schools, five public and five private schools of Rawalpindi, were taken as a sample for data collection. To check the attitudes of students' the questionnaire-based Relevance of Science Education (ROSE) Project was used to measure a student's attitudes and to measure the knowledge of students' self-made knowledge assessment test was used to collect the data from 7thgrade students'. The study examined the knowledge and attitude of elementary school students in public and private schools. The study also checked and compared students' knowledge and attitudes in public and private schools of Rawalpindi. Data was analyzed on SPSS software; Cross tabulation and chi-square were used to check students' knowledge. The Independent t-test was used to measure the attitudes of students. The results indicated no significant difference between government and private school students' knowledge and attitudes. Private school students' had slightly more knowledge than public school students but this difference was not significant. The public and private school students had a positive attitude towards environmental issues. Students owned environmental problems and were highly motivated to solve these problems. They were agreed to take action for the betterment of the future. As a result, sustainable development from elementary school to university necessitates a paradigm shift in our educational systems. Indeed, a sustainable way of life is impossible to achieve without a proper education system that teaches our youth how to integrate sustainability principles into their daily lives and work. Significant progress has been made in integrating environmental values into current curricula, developing new approaches and producing educational content for effective EE implementation in both programmes, since it was a government initiative to integrate environmental concepts into established curricula, devise different approaches and prepare training materials for ef Teacher teaching is therefore important in both Pakistani education systems to improve vital thinking skills and to react positively to the world about potential Pakistanis.

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Assessment of secondary school students’ awareness, knowledge and attitudes to environmental pollution issues in the mining regions of South Africa: implications for instruction and learning

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief

Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief

Cancer Risk Assessment for Workers Exposed to Pollution Source, a Petrochemical Company, Iran

Assessing the knowledge and attitude of elementary school students towards environmental issues in Rawalpindi

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