University Students’ Perception of Environmental Issues
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https://doi.org/10.21637/GT.2021.3-4.03Kulcsszavak:
environmental awareness, environmental problems, eco-friendly behav-iour, Slovakia, questionnaireAbsztrakt
The present paper focuses on environmental awareness and perception of environmental issues by university students in Slovakia. We attempt to find out what problems of the environment are considered to be the most critical ones from the students’ point of view. In addition to that, another objective is to elaborate a list of students’ suggestions regarding raising motivation of people to adopt an eco-friendly behaviour. For the research we used a questionnaire consisting of 9 questions. The results show that students perceive as most critical environmental problems water and air pollution, traffic, waste, deforestation and overconsumption.
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