TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental awareness, governance and public participation
T2 - Public perception perspectives
AU - Wong, Koon Kwai
N1 - Funding Information:
The second major public environmental awareness survey was conducted in December 2007. The survey was sponsored by the China Environmental Awareness Program, which aims to promote environmental education, raise the environmental awareness of the whole nation and offer scientific data to support decision making. The survey was carried out via door-to-door face-to-face interviews. The respondents of the 2007 survey were Chinese residents living in urban and rural areas, ranging in age from 15 to 69 years. The sample consisted of over 3000 individuals from 20 provinces, municipalities and Autonomous Regions. The successful sample was weighted in accordance with the data contained in the 1% population sample survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of China in 2005. After weighting, the sample consisted of 3043 respondents [1]. There was a time lapse of approximately a decade between the two surveys. Thus, it was appropriate to conduct a longitudinal analysis to discern if there were any changes in people’s perceptions concerning China’s environmental problems, especially during a rapid economic development.
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - China's rapid economic growth has come at severe environmental cost, challenging its sustainable development. This paper compares the findings of two public environmental awareness surveys conducted in 1998 and 2007 respectively. Although the findings suggest that the level of public environmental awareness is rising, the institutions that represent the public interest are weak. Thus the Chinese people rely on the government to solve the country's environmental problems. Environmental NGOs are part of a developing civil movement. The growing public environmental awareness provides an opportunity to help advance civic development in China.
AB - China's rapid economic growth has come at severe environmental cost, challenging its sustainable development. This paper compares the findings of two public environmental awareness surveys conducted in 1998 and 2007 respectively. Although the findings suggest that the level of public environmental awareness is rising, the institutions that represent the public interest are weak. Thus the Chinese people rely on the government to solve the country's environmental problems. Environmental NGOs are part of a developing civil movement. The growing public environmental awareness provides an opportunity to help advance civic development in China.
KW - Civic development in China
KW - Environmental awareness
KW - Environmental governance
KW - Environmental NGOs
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U2 - 10.1080/00207231003683424
DO - 10.1080/00207231003683424
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:77951731256
SN - 0020-7233
VL - 67
SP - 169
EP - 181
JO - International Journal of Environmental Studies
JF - International Journal of Environmental Studies
IS - 2
ER -
