TY - JOUR
T1 - Prosperity and environmental challenge in a gaming city
T2 - environmental awareness of citizens in the Macao Special Administrative Region, China
AU - Wong, Koon Kwai
AU - Ho, Kin Chung
AU - Hon, Pui Si
AU - Tse, Ka Ho
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the Public Opinion Survey Centre of Macao for funding the study. The data were collected by the Centre through telephone interviews. The data were subsequently analysed by scholars in both Hong Kong and Macao.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - This paper discusses the major environmental challenges caused by the post-handover development in Macao, a gaming-dominant city in southern China. Based on data collected in an Environmental Awareness Survey in 2011, the paper examines the city's emerging challenges in environmental issues. The survey reveals that most Macao citizens are aware of, and concerned about, the environmental problems of the city and the neighbouring region. They are pessimistic about the environmental quality of the city. Citizens hold firm materialist values, and demonstrate differential environmental awareness for different development projects. They hold conflicting views, however, about who should be responsible for protecting the environment. For instance, although most citizens claim that they are willing to pay, or even to change their lifestyle to protect the environment, they blame the government for many of the environmental flaws. Results show that Macao has to determine how to transform itself from a materialist posture to a post-materialist one.
AB - This paper discusses the major environmental challenges caused by the post-handover development in Macao, a gaming-dominant city in southern China. Based on data collected in an Environmental Awareness Survey in 2011, the paper examines the city's emerging challenges in environmental issues. The survey reveals that most Macao citizens are aware of, and concerned about, the environmental problems of the city and the neighbouring region. They are pessimistic about the environmental quality of the city. Citizens hold firm materialist values, and demonstrate differential environmental awareness for different development projects. They hold conflicting views, however, about who should be responsible for protecting the environment. For instance, although most citizens claim that they are willing to pay, or even to change their lifestyle to protect the environment, they blame the government for many of the environmental flaws. Results show that Macao has to determine how to transform itself from a materialist posture to a post-materialist one.
KW - Environmental perception
KW - Gaming industry development
KW - Macao
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899945708&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00207233.2014.890428
DO - 10.1080/00207233.2014.890428
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84899945708
SN - 0020-7233
VL - 71
SP - 139
EP - 153
JO - International Journal of Environmental Studies
JF - International Journal of Environmental Studies
IS - 2
ER -