Diagnosing and Enhancing Environmental Literacy of Citizens to Raise Green Awareness

1. Research purpose

• A nationwide consensus on the understanding on and necessity of the environmental policy is needed in order to successfully achieve the policy objectives.
• The necessity of environmental education is being highlighted but in reality, there is a lack of objectives and specific indicators to verify its effect.
• The goal of environmental education should be the expansion of environmental literacy and indicators to measure this should be developed.

2. Research scope

• Summarize the concept of environmental literacy and develop the scales for adults
• Measure the level of environmental literacy of citizens
• Confirm the predictors and consequences of environmental literacy
• Understand citizen types via cluster analysis