Abstract:

In order to improve the level of public environmental awareness and environmental condition in Nanjing,we carry out a research on environmental awareness of residents in Nanjing City.Environmental awareness has been divided into four sections:knowledge of environmental protection,environmental protection awareness,satisfaction to environmental policy,government behaviors assessment.KMeans cluster,crosstabulation,chisquare tests and correlation analysis are employed in this paper.Results show that:(1) among four sections,the knowledge of environmental protection gets the highest score,but the government behaviors assessment gets the lowest; (2)chisquare tests shows education level,age and marital status are the main three influence factors; (3) correlation analysis reveals the degree of influences of three factors in a descending sequence:education level >age >marital status.At last, the paper proposes that government should improve environmental level of Nanjing in four aspects,such as improving personal environmental awareness,developing nongovernment organizations,promoting environmental protection enthusiasm of enterprises and strengthening government functions