Air Pollution and Environmental Activism: A Study of Environmental Awareness and Behavior in College Students from Jiangsu, China
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- September 29, 2023
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Callison, Virginia W.
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Abstract
- Chinese college students are both aware and knowledgeable of the negative effects of air pollution. Despite being an environmentally conscious group, Chinese college students do not regularly engage in environmental activism seeking to address air pollution. This lack of student engagement, in spite of being well-informed of the issues, indicates that air pollution will not be solved through environmental activism. Framed as a pilot study, this research will analyze the opinions and behavior of 44 college students in Jiangsu, China in order to predict how Chinese youth will seek to solve problems of air pollution. This research will focus on environmental activism as a measure of the willingness of college students to address air pollution as a collective group. By analyzing the responses of these students, this research will evaluate how students view and are involved in environmental activism, as well as what methods students prefer in terms of solving air pollution. Using this information and data from previous studies, this research will predict what actions students will use to improve air quality in Jiangsu.
- Date of publication
- spring 2016
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Visser, Robin
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
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- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2016
- Extent
- 75 p.
- Date uploaded
- April 27, 2016
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