Study of environmental awareness, practices and behaviours among UniMAP students

Abstract

Environmental awareness has received much attention in recent years due to human population growth, even though science is improving every day. Still, that improvement comes with risks that can be avoided with a little bit of knowledge. Understanding the public’s environmental awareness is essential to inform government approaches to addressing this issue. This study presents a cross-sectional survey of young generations, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) students between the ages of 20 and 25, to examine the perception, awareness and opinions of Malaysian students about the environment. The survey consisted of three sections, which included information on socio-demographic information, information on public perception of the environment, information on public awareness of the environment and its related impacts, and information on environmental attitudes and recommendations to address some of the related environmental issues. The results show that the value of environmental awareness and knowledge is good, which indicates that there is a high level of knowledge and awareness among university students. Of the 107 respondents, more than 70 per cent were positive and had an adequate level of environmental awareness, and 60 per cent showed positive environmental practices and behaviours.

The Relationship of School Students' Environmental Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Awareness toward the Environment: A Systematic Review

“…From a total of 11 articles, there are two articles that focused their studies in Malaysia (Arshad et al, 2020;Makhtar et al, 2021) two in Indonesia (Adriyanto et al, 2021;Anggraini & Karyanto, 2018), and one each in Sri Lanka (Kuruppuarachchi et al, 2021), South Korea (Choe et al, 2019), Thailand (Janmaimool & Khajohnmanee, 2019), China (Gao, 2018), Cyprus (Asilsoy et al, 2017), Portugal (Paço & Lavrador, 2017) and the UAE (Hammami et al, 2017).…”

“…With regard to the period of the journals, three papers were published in 2017 (Asilsoy et al, 2017;Hammami et al, 2017;Paço & Lavrador, 2017), three in 2021 (Adriyanto et al, 2021;Kuruppuarachchi et al, 2021;Makhtar et al, 2021), two in 2018 (Anggraini & Karyanto, 2018;Gao, 2018), and another two in 2019 (Choe et al, 2019;Janmaimool & Khajohnmanee, 2019). There was also an article published in 2020 (Arshad et al, 2020).…”

“…There were two studies that tapped into environmental awareness, focusing on students' knowledge, attitude, and behavior toward their environment (Makhtar et al, 2021;Arshad et al, 2020). The study by Makhtar et al (2021) revealed positive correlation between environmental knowledge and awareness.…”

“…There were two studies that tapped into environmental awareness, focusing on students' knowledge, attitude, and behavior toward their environment (Makhtar et al, 2021;Arshad et al, 2020). The study by Makhtar et al (2021) revealed positive correlation between environmental knowledge and awareness. This result proves and strengthened studies conducted by Aminrad et al (2013); Guven and Slun (2017) which explains a significant correlation between knowledge and awareness of environmental issues.…”

Construct and Priority Ranking of Factors Affecting Crowdfunding for Green Products

“…Green diversified context: The green context impacts each step of the product life cycle with tangible and intangible factors, such as green policy [49], green trends [50], public environmental awareness [51], green technologies [52], and green education [53].…”