Factors Influencing Environmental Knowledge, Attitude and Participatory Behavior towards Land Degradation. The case ase of Injibara Secondary and Preparatory School, North-Western North Western Ethiopia
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Knowledge, Attitude, Participatory Behavior, Land DegradationAbstract
Environmental knowledge, attitude and participatory behavior as one of the components of the environmental education have been investigated for many respects. The present study investigates the influence of age, gender, academic stream, grade level and family background on environmental knowledge, attitude and participatory behavior. A total of 286 study participants take part in the study. They were assessed using the Likert scale for environmental attitude and participatory behavior and multiple-choice for environmental knowledge. In addition, to strengthen the data obtained through questionnaire, Focused Group Discussions and interview were used and the data obtained analyzed using SPSS version 15.0 for windows. Results of the study revealed that there is statistically significant variation on overall environmental knowledge, attitude and participatory behavior across study participants due to variation in age and grade level. Based on gender and academic stream there is significant difference in environmental knowledge. On the other hand, there is no significant difference in respondents’ environmental knowledge, attitude and participatory behavior based on their family economic variation.
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