Young People and the Environment: An Asia-Pacific Perspective (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects)

✍ Scribed by John Fien, David Yencken, Helen Sykes

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 199
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book analyses the knowledge, beliefs and behaviours that comprise the environmental attitudes of young people in the Asia-Pacific region and the cultural, political and educational contexts that have shaped them. The findings are based upon a questionnaire survey of over 10,000 young people together with focus group studies in India, South China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the west coast of the USA.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
Introduction by the Series Editors......Page 14
1. YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 16
2. JAPAN......Page 24
3. CHINA - GUANGZHOU......Page 38
4. CHINA - HONG KONG......Page 54
5.THAILAND......Page 68
6. INDIA......Page 80
7. SINGAPORE......Page 94
8. BRUNEI DARUSSALAM......Page 108
9. AUSTRALIA......Page 118
10. AOTEAROA - NEW ZEALAND......Page 130
11. FIJI......Page 142
12 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA......Page 154
13. SYNTHESIS: A CROSS-CULTURAL REFLECTION......Page 166
Questionnaire......Page 188

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