Readiness of residents of Arkhangelsk for garbage reform changes. Sociological research
Abstract The problem of ecological consciousness of urban population on the example of residents of Arkhangelsk is raised in the article. A brief description of the importance of solving environmental problems in the Arctic is given. The article describes the garbage reform in Russia and the reasons...
| Published in: | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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IOP Publishing
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012028 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012028/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012028 |
| Summary: | Abstract The problem of ecological consciousness of urban population on the example of residents of Arkhangelsk is raised in the article. A brief description of the importance of solving environmental problems in the Arctic is given. The article describes the garbage reform in Russia and the reasons for its realization. The Arkhangelsk region is considered to be the one of the Arctic regions of Russia. The analysis of the cause of the acute social debate about the garbage topic in the Arkhangelsk region is also given. A bilateral initiative of changing attitudes towards natural resources is described. The sociological research results of the readiness of the population of the Arkhangelsk region for separate waste collection are given. The number of study participants is given and the selection is determined. The authors explain the reason for the dual nature of the questionnaire, because the study was carried out both extra-mural (online) and face-to-face (with the help of interviewers). The result of subjective assessment of purity of the city by residents is given, and noted reasons are analyzed in the article. The analysis of the most popular categories of solid municipal waste distribution and the reason for the high proportion of plastic waste is provided. The results of solving situational problems aimed at studying the environmental behavior of respondents are given. The reason for probability of insincere answers of sociological research participants is described. The population’s opinion on the readiness for garbage separation obtained during sociological research is also analyzed. Statistics of the availability of containers for separate collection of solid municipal wastes by their geographical and numerical incidence in Arkhangelsk is given. General conclusions of the research are presented and recommendation on mass education of the population of the region is given in this work. The article contains charts and tables showing the main results of sociological research. |
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