Original scientific paper

PRESENT-DAY ECOLOGIC THREAT TO SURVIVAL

Branka Bjelac ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

The text discusses the forms of assessing the dangers of present- day ecologic threats to survival caused by certain ecologic problems. The assessment of the threats is shown by the results of the research made in June 1992 on a sample groups of student population of Zagreb and Rijeka Universities (N=547). The reČsearch has been using the polling method and, among others, the instrument for the assessment of ecologic threats has been used. The instrument consisted of 11 statements, operational for ecologic threats, to which the Likert 5 degrees type scale has been joined. The examined persons have been assessing the present-day level of threat of each of the problems to the survival of life on Earth. The display of the distribution of frequencies and ranges of ecological threats was followed by comparing the obtained data to the results of the research works on the same subject made on the similar sample group (N=451) in 1988 and on the Zagreb student sample group (N=314) in 1986. Despite certain changes of the ranges the assessed ecologic threats, the relative constant perception of these threats was concluded on. The high ranges of arithmetic means of the problems - industrial waste, pollution of air, water, rivers and sea, refuse and nuclear plants - are pointing to the fact that the problems are being perceived as ecological threats to survival of the highest range.

Keywords

assessment; dangers; ecologic problems; ecologic threats; perceptions; pollution; survival

Hrčak ID:

138895

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/138895

Publication date:

15.10.1992.

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