The role of civil society organization in awareness the different segments of Egyptian society to the issue of climate change (A comparitive study between rural and urban)

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FACULTY OF GRADUTE STUDIES AND ENVIROMENTAL RESEARCH

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The aim of the research is to identify about the role of civil society organization in awareness the citizens to the phenomena of climate change, its reasons and how to deal with it, the sample of the research formed of (100) single of beneficiaries of awareness in a rural and urban, and(23) single of awareness raising trainers in the organization ,research belongs to descriptive research that aims to descripe and analyses the phenomena topic of study using the social survey method through apply two questionnaires, the first about awareness beneficiaries of awareness and included (1- primary data,2- knowledge of sample members about climate change ,3-the awareness of reasons of climate change-4-the awareness effect of climate change,5-how to treat with climate change phenomena), the second questionare of coaches and included (1-primary data,2-awarness of trainers about reasons of climate change,3- awareness effect of climate change), research uses the following theories (social action theory-learning theory-Enviromental stream entry), the research reach to some results , the most important of it: Civil society organizations have been interested in organizing seminars on the environment and how to preserve it from pollution, but they are not specific to specific seminars on the phenomenon of climate change and how to deal with it, There are differences between the rural and urban sample in awareness of climate change. We find that the rural sample does not have any knowledge of the term climate change, unlike the urban sample, a large percentage of which has knowledge of the term climate change through the media and the Internet, There are differences between the rural and urban samples in their feelings of climate change, as a result of severe urban pollution, dust, and car exhausts, which have a greater impact on the weather condition and high temperatures (for the urban sample), but the rural sample does not notice a noticeable increase in temperatures due to the large number of areas. Green, and less car exhaust and dust,The organization did not care to organize separate seminars on the phenomenon of climate change, and therefore the trainer did not mention the causes of climate change, Most of the rural sample is not convinced that humans have a role in the occurrence of the phenomenon of climate change as a result of their lack of knowledge about it and how humans influence its occurrence, unlike the urban sample in their response that humans have a role in the occurrence of climate changes, and here the cultural dimension intervenes in the defferent between the rural sample and urban in the importance of awareness of climate changes.

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