It is accepted that social life affects the environment and social life in its environment. Human beings are meeting day by day such as air, water, soil, natural vegetation, animal species and destruction of the cultural environment. The main condition for dealing with these environmental problems is to gain environmental awareness. Environmental awareness involves exhibiting environmentally friendly behaviors by having information about the components of the environment. It is observed that measures to protect the environment have increased in the last fifty years. Among these measures, international cooperation and contracts have an important place. Some of these agreements are the 1972 Stockholm conference, the 1992 Rio World Summit, the 2005 Kyoto Protocol and the 2016 Paris Agreement. One of the effective factors on the success of these international steps taken in environmental protection is seen as socio-economic features. Because the unique socio-economic characteristics of each society are decisive in their relationship with the environment. Ma and Bateson (1999) state that there is an interaction between the environment and socio-economic characteristics and even this relationship is positive. In this research, the effects of socio-economic characteristics on environmental awareness are analyzed in case of Van city.
Keywords: Environmental Awareness, Socio-Economic Feature, Van City
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