Assessment of Environmental Behaviour Among the Urban Poor of Panjtirthi Slum, Jammu, India | Zendy

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Assessment of Environmental Behaviour Among the Urban Poor of Panjtirthi Slum, Jammu, India

Author(s) -

Shehnaz Khan,

Arvind Kumar,

Piyush Malaviya

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

current world environment

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2320-8031

pISSN - 0973-4929

DOI - 10.12944/cwe.10.3.10

Subject(s) - slum , significant difference , socioeconomics , geography , age groups , environmental health , psychology , environmental protection , demography , mathematics , medicine , sociology , statistics , population

The present study is an attempt to evaluate environmental awareness and attitude among the slum dwellers. Results based upon dwellers responses to various questions on environmental issues revealed that majority of the respondents (76.19%) had score indicating high level of basic environmental awareness. Among the gender groups, significant difference between the basic environmental awareness level among male and female respondents was observed but no significant difference was shown among different educational and age groups. Similarly, majority of respondents showed a high level (86.81%) of environmental attitude.

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