Factors Associated with Environmental Behavior in the Urban Environment (Case Study: the Citizens of the City of Karaj)

Global warming and climate changes caused by human activities is one of the major environmental problems which has attracted the attention of many scientific and political circles of the world in the last two decades. The research with the subject of Factors associated with environmental behavior in the urban environment has been done. The statistical population of this research were 1,614,626 Karaj citizens with 15 to 75 year old that 384 individuals were selected by using of cluster random sampling by using of Cochran formula. The research is of survey type and questionnaire is the tool of data collecting. The questionnaire Validity is of formal type and its reliability is measured using Cronbach's alpha. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the variables of education, awareness of climate changes, general knowledge about climate changes, the perception of the risk of climate changes, attitudes towards climate changes and pro-environmental behavior. Also, there is a significant difference in pro-environmental behavior between women and men. Results of regression analysis show that, according to the adjusted coefficient of determination variables in the regression equation, 29% of the variance of the dependent variable is determined by the independent variables; and perception of the risk of climate changes, has the greatest overall impact on the pro-environmental behavior.