Impact of knowledge, concern and awareness about global warming and global climatic change on environmental behavior
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Impact of knowledge, concern and awareness about global warming and global climatic change on environmental behavior Veysel Yilmaz1 · Yasemin Can1 Received: 5 July 2018 / Accepted: 23 September 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract Global warming refers to the increase in average temperatures as a result of natural phenomena and the greenhouse effect caused by gases released into the atmosphere as a result of human activities, while global climatic change refers to the climatic change that results from global warming. Changes in the climate resulting from global warming cause increases in meteorological events such as drought, desertification, imbalance and deviations of precipitation, floods, typhoon, storm and tornado. The purpose of the study investigated the level of knowledge, concern and awareness about global warming and global climatic change (GWCC) effect on environmental behavior. For this purpose, a “structural equation modeling (SEM)” is proposed for the intercorrelations between the four latent variables. According to the results obtained by SEM, it was found that as the level of knowledge increased, concern and awareness also increased. Also, indirect link between the level of knowledge about (GWCC) and environmental behavior was detected. Keywords Structural equation modeling · Global climatic change · Global warming · Knowledge · Awareness · Concern · Environmental behavior
1 Introduction Today, almost all climatologists acknowledge that the Earth’s climate system is deteriorating. If mankind continues to disrupt the natural balance with its activities, without taking the necessary steps, there is little doubt that climatic change (CC) will become even worse, resulting in adverse changes in the climate due to global warming (GW). This is a fact, as the escalation of greenhouse gas emissions and particulates in the atmosphere, the destruction of the natural environment will lead to increased temperatures at a global level. GW accelerates the hydrological cycle, resulting in more * Veysel Yilmaz [email protected] Yasemin Can [email protected] 1
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Sciences and Literature, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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precipitation. Excessive precipitation leads to flooding and causes even more losses. While coastal regions see economic development and population growth, they are the regions in which the most severe weather events can be observed due to CC, and where disasters can cause significant losses (Choi and Fisher 2003). With its complex climate, Turkey is one of the countries that could be affected most by CC resulting from GW. Turkey is surrounded by seas on three sides and has a problematic topography, and due to its orographic characteristics, Turkey will be affected by CC
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