On the Knowledge of University Students About the Strategies of National Sustainable Development

Abstract

The definition of sustainable development has a past which spans two decades. Today it is evident that the three pillars of sustainable development – environment, economy and society – have a strong correspondence and equally effect on every people. The UN’s Environment and Development Conference in 1992 declared the requirement in the document of Objectives for the XXI. century, that governments should prepare national sustainable development strategies. The World Conference of Sustainable Development in August 2002 made a stronger decision: „the states should make immediate steps forward … defining and preparing their national sustainable development, and for the purpose to start its realization until 2005”. Most of the countries fulfilled these requirements, and the Hungarian government promises to prepare its national strategy by the end of 2004.The aim of my study is to survey the knowledge of university students about the above mentioned process and generally about the topic of sustainable development. The selection of the target group is justified by the importance of young intelligentsia in the future. In order to examine their knowledge, I prepared a questionnaire and from the emerging primary data, my conclusion and statements have been deducted by a processing-analysing course, on the bases of which I made my suggestions.

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“…We can say that the population rather overestimate their knowledge in this issue (Figure 2), especially people who belong to the more confident category, based on their own assessment. This is fully in line with relevant domestic empiric researches (Gáthy, 2004;Kollarics et al, 2021), based on which the domestic population's environmental and sustainability knowledge is poor.…”

“…The knowledge of Hungarian society about environment protection and sustainable development is rather poor, based on empirical researches carried out in this respect in Hungary (Gáthy, 2004;Kollarics et al, 2021). Literature says we should not expect a strong relation between environmental attitude and environmental knowledge.…”

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“…A környezetvédelemmel, fenntartható fejlődéssel kapcsolatos ismeretek a magyar társadalomban inkább szegényesnek tekinthetők a hazai ilyen irányú empirikus kutatások alapján (Gáthy, 2004;kollarics et al, 2021). A szakirodalom szerint a környezeti attitűd és a környezeti ismeretek között nem kell erős összefüggést várni.…”

“…Forrás: BME-MNB lakossági zöldpénzügyi felmérés (2020) alapján saját szerkesztés 0,2379 0,4565 0,6574 azok, akik önbevallás alapján a magabiztosabb kategóriába tartoznak. Ez teljes mértékben összhangban van az ilyen irányú hazai empirikus kutatásokkal (Gáthy, 2004;kollarics et al, 2021), amely alapján a hazai lakosság környezetvédelmi, fenntarthatósági ismeretanyaga szegényes.…”

“…Elmondható, hogy a hazai lakosság inkább túlbecsüli a zöldismereteit, fenntarthatósági ismeretanyaga szegényes. Ez teljes mérték-ben összhangban van az ilyen irányú korábbi hazai empirikus kutatásokkal (Gáthy, 2004;kollarics et al, 2021).…”