Authors: Ashish S Sharma, Sona A Sheth, Ekta A Malvania, Nidhi A Parker, Khushbu H Gandhi, Parshad J Dhaduk.
Background: Looking at the current scenario, environmental awareness becomes a necessity in order to avoid further exploitation of our natural biotic systems. Environmental awareness amongst the students would directly become proportional to their participation in the environmental related issues.
Aims: To evaluate the level of environmental awareness and responsibilities amongst the students of H.L. college of commerce, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Materials and Methods: It is a cross-sectional survey, in which 197 students of First, Second and Third year students of H.L. College of commerce, Ahmedabad, participated voluntarily. A self administered structured questionnaire with multiple-choice questions was designed for this survey. Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis using SPSS version 20 software.
Results: The awareness regarding environmental issues is mediocre. The response regarding environmental responsibility is good enough. In this study, we found that >50% of respondents reveal positive inclination towards environmental awareness and individual responsibility for pollution free environment, thus preserving the environment using renewable sources of energy and cost effective transport mechanism as well as learning the environmental issues and their management through lectures or seminars. One of the significant finding was that <50% of respondents shows negative attitude regarding saving our environment.
Conclusion: The respondents agreed that global climate is changing at a rapid pace. It’s all because of human activities but implementation is a major concern. Nationwide surveys could help mitigate the issues, implementing laws that will preserve the environment and bring awareness amongst the future generations.
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