Original scientific paper
PERCEPTION OF CONCRETE FORMS OF ENDANGERING AND POLLUTING OF HUMAN ENVIRONMENT IN ZAGREB AREA
Aleksandar Racz
; Institute for Health Care of the Town of Zagreb - Sector for Health and Ecology, Zagreb
Abstract
The essay presents the results of environment and epidemiology research on perception of concrete tendencies to endanger and pollute human environment; the research was made on two Zagreb microlocations.
The examined people have been very critical about various forms and manifestations of polluting in different environment media. But, there was hardly any conscious understanding of causes and possible consequences of the pollution.
Analysing the influence of particular characteristics of the examined people onto the way their expressed attitudes were formed has shown that those who are living in more endangered environment or are working in a more polluted working environment perceive with greater clarity and more critical eye the environmental pollution than the other examined people.
The conscious understanding of causes and consequences does not proportionally correspond to the level of pollution of the examined people's environment. It is, in fact, defined by other features as the kind of activity the examined people are performing. The age and sex differences have not proved of much significance in creating different attitudes, while the differences in the origin and education of the examined people proved significant only in case of evaluating the environmental and economical acceptability of constructing the incineration plant - more educated people, from Zagreb, are more critical in the assessment of the acceptability from the less educated originally come from smaller towns.
Keywords
perception of environmental problems; endangering and polluting of human environment in Zagreb
Hrčak ID:
137532
URI
Publication date:
15.4.1992.
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