An Analysis of Responsible Environmental Attitude and Behavior of Students

To overcome environmental problems and achieve sustainable environment requires trained manpower having graduated with a favorable attitude towards the environment and sustainability. To identify and explain the student's attitudes toward the environment as knowledgeable and influential segments of society is an essential and important step in the generation of policy and education to the environment and its hazards and how to deal with it and accepting and adjusting to environmental policy. To explore environmental attitudes and behaviors of students in higher education, the current survey was conducted in Mazandaran province. The surveyed universities included Mazandaran University, Babol Industrial Noshirvani University, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences, Veterinary University Amol, Babol University of Medical Sciences, 816 students were selected from these universities using stratified sampling. The results show that student's attitudes and behavior are relatively low. Furthermore, correlation test results showed that there is a positive relationship between environmental attitudes and behavior. Moreover, the results indicated that there is a gender difference in environmental attitudes and behaviors. Finally, the results showed that while environmental attitudes in terms of residence and the college seems the same, environmental behavior depending on the location and college is different.