College Students’ Perceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Its Impact on Environmental Citizenship
Ali Abdulhassan Abbas1 Rajaa Hussein Abd Ali2
1University of Kerbala, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting, Kerbala, Iraq.
2University of Kerbala, Science College, Physics Department, Kerbala, Iraq. a)
Corresponding author: fuhrer313@gmail.com ; ali.abd.alhassan@uokerbala.edu.iq b) rajaa.ali@uokerbala.edu.iq
Abstract. This paper aims to monitor and analyze the nature of the relationship between environmental sustainability and environmental citizenship, and the problem of the study is to determine the requirements of environmental sustainability and to know the role of the dimensions of environmental sustainability in influencing the dimensions of environmental citizenship, The questionnaire was used and the sample was (468) students in the College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting. The results of the study showed that both the level of environmental sustainability and environmental citizenship in their dimensions were high in a number of them, several sub-hypotheses were accepted, and non-significant hypotheses were rejected and removed. The most important finding is the need for there to be educational courses for university students regarding the study variables in terms of concepts, importance, and how to apply environmental sustainability on the ground to build a society that enjoys environmental citizenship.
