The Academic Events Group, 9th World Conference on Educational Sciences

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The Practice of Local Government Executives to Global Warming in Thailand
Paiboon Jeamponk

Last modified: 2017-03-30

Abstract


The  objective  of  this  research  was  to  study  about  knowledge  and  awareness  of  global  warmth  problem  and  practices  of  local  ruling  organization  administrators , namely , urban  municipal  heads. The target population consisted of 106 heads. The  data  were  collected  using  a  set  of  questionnaires.

The study results revealed  that  most of  the urban  municipal  heads  were males, 41-60  years of age , and married. Almost  all  of  them  had  academic  qualifications  at  bachelor - degree or master – degree level; were very interests to news and issues concerning the  environment. All of them had prior experiences about global warmth situations. Regarding  location, about  65% of the municipalities were in the Muang Districts of various provinces. The average area was 25.85 square kilometers. The average population size was 41038.21. Most of the population were agricultural workers using water from rivers, irrigated canals and rain water. The main problems encountered were dryness, reduced agricultural products, and lack of investing funds.

With respect to knowledge of global warmth situations, it was found that about 57.6% was at the medium level and about 30% was at the low level. Concerning awareness of the situations, about 66.1% was at the medium level. However, about 76.4% had carried out relevant activities to campaign stop global warmth.

The implication of this research is that Rural Administration Promotion Department should co-ordinate to train personnel at all levels to have better conscience towards preventing and solving global warmth problems so that they would become vital mechanism in campaigning citizens in their areas of jurisdiction to be ready to cope with the ever-increasing degree of severity of such danger.


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