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.