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PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND AWARENESS ON CLIMATE CHANGES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Authors:
Bogdana Vujic1, Jasmina Pekez1, Visnja Mihajlovic1, Ljiljana Radovanovic1
,
Una Marceta1, Ivan Palinkas1
1University of Novi Sad, Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin” in Zrenjanin, Republic of Serbia
Received: 13.05.2020.
Accepted: 22.06.2020.
Available: 30.06.2020.
Abstract:
Serbia, as a developing country and EU accession country, faces many challenges. One of the key areas identified as the most complicated problem in the negotiation process is the issues of environmental protection and improvement, including the energy sector. Since population in Serbia is concerned because of poor living standards, high unemployment rate, and other social issues it could be questioned what is their concern and awareness about climate change since it is a realistic and visible phenomenon that is hard for someone to ignore and neglect. This paper presents some of the results of a survey conducted among adults in rural and urban parts of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina on their perception, awareness, and knowledge about climate change issues. The research/survey also examined the specific actions that respondents would take as a personal contribution to mitigating the effects of climate problems. The results indicate that respondents have a high awareness of climate change, but the knowledge on climate change is relatively low even though the respondents graduated from faculty (about 52%).
Keywords:
Climate change, public perception, renewable energy sources
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B. Vujic, J. Pekez, V. Mihajlovic, L.Radovanovic, U. Marceta, I. Palinkas, Public Perception and Awareness on Climate Changes and the Importance of Renewable Energy Sources. Applied Engineering Letters, 5(2), 2020: 68-74.
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Vujic, B., Pekez, J., Mihajlovic, V., Radovanovic, L., Marceta, U., & Palinkas, I. (2020). Public Perception and Awareness on Climate Changes and the Importance of Renewable Energy Sources. Applied Engineering Letters, 5(2), 68–74. https://doi.org/10.18485/aeletters.2020.5.2.5
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Vujic, Bogdana, Jasmina Pekez, Visnja Mihajlovic, Ljiljana Radovanovic, Una Marceta, and Ivan Palinkas. 2020. “Public Perception and Awareness on Climate Changes and the Importance of Renewable Energy Sources.” Applied Engineering Letters 5 (2): 68–74. https://doi.org/10.18485/aeletters.2020.5.2.5.
Vujic, B., Pekez, J., Mihajlovic, V., Radovanovic, L., Marceta, U. and Palinkas, I. (2020). Public Perception and Awareness on Climate Changes and the Importance of Renewable Energy Sources. Applied Engineering Letters, 5(2), pp.68–74. doi:10.18485/aeletters.2020.5.2.5.
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PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND AWARENESS ON CLIMATE CHANGES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Authors:
Bogdana Vujic1, Jasmina Pekez1, Visnja Mihajlovic1, Ljiljana Radovanovic1
,
Una Marceta1, Ivan Palinkas1
1University of Novi Sad, Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin” in Zrenjanin, Republic of Serbia
Received: 13.05.2020.
Accepted: 22.06.2020.
Available: 30.06.2020.
Abstract:
Serbia, as a developing country and EU accession country, faces many challenges. One of the key areas identified as the most complicated problem in the negotiation process is the issues of environmental protection and improvement, including the energy sector. Since population in Serbia is concerned because of poor living standards, high unemployment rate, and other social issues it could be questioned what is their concern and awareness about climate change since it is a realistic and visible phenomenon that is hard for someone to ignore and neglect. This paper presents some of the results of a survey conducted among adults in rural and urban parts of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina on their perception, awareness, and knowledge about climate change issues. The research/survey also examined the specific actions that respondents would take as a personal contribution to mitigating the effects of climate problems. The results indicate that respondents have a high awareness of climate change, but the knowledge on climate change is relatively low even though the respondents graduated from faculty (about 52%).
Keywords:
Climate change, public perception, renewable energy sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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