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Author(s)
Buket Asilsoy1 and Derya Oktay2
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2016.05.003
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1. Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Near East University, Nicosia 99138, North Cyprus
2. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun 55139, Turkey
ABSTRACT
Environmental attitude studies have been a key focus within the environmental research field, as the significance of ecological citizenship for the sustainable development discourse has been highly recognized in recent years. In this context, the influence of demographic variables on environmental attitude is an emerging issue that is widely investigated in the west. In this respect, this paper seeks to understand the impact of demographic variables on the environmental worldview of Famagusta residents in order to make a scientific contribution to the possible construction of relevant strategies. A random sample of 165 residents within the territory of Famagusta Municipality was chosen for the survey. The survey tapped the relationship between environmental (ecocentric and anthropocentric) attitudes and selected demographic variables (age, gender, education and household income) and the survey results were evaluated with the help of SPSS (statistical package for social sciences) analyses. The findings reveal that younger respondents, women and the highly educated do not achieve higher scores of environmental attitudes and household income has a statistically significant nonlinear effect.
KEYWORDS
Environmental worldview, demographic variables, survey research, Famagusta.
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