Ecological footprint of university students: Does gender matter

  • سال انتشار: 1395
  • محل انتشار: فصلنامه جهانی علوم و مدیریت محیط زیست، دوره: 2، شماره: 4
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_GJESM-2-4_005
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 458
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نویسندگان

M.A.P Medina

Department of Environmental Science, College of Forestry and Environmental Science, Central Mindanao University, University Town, Musuan, Bukidnon, Philippines

A.G. Toledo-Bruno

Department of Environmental Science, College of Forestry and Environmental Science, Central Mindanao University, University Town, Musuan, Bukidnon, Philippines

چکیده

To determine if there is a gender difference in the resource consumption activities of students in Central Mindanao University, a Philippine state university, an ecological foot printing study was conducted in August 2014. Consumption data from 380 student respondents were gathered using a survey questionnaire. A web-based software created by the Global Footprint Network was used to convert the consumption data into its equivalent ecological footprint value. Sample size was reduced to 324 (male = 162; female = 162) through a 1:1 nearest neighbor matching without replacement method for propensity score matching. Subsequently, unpaired t-test was employed for comparing the difference in ecological footprint between the male and female student respondents. Results reveal that the tudents’ecological footprint is slightly lower than the national average. Furthermore, most of their ecological footprint comesfrom their carbon footprint. Male respondents were found to have a significantly higher ecological footprint comparedto female respondents. This implies gender difference in terms of resource consumption.

کلیدواژه ها

Ecological footprint (EF); Gender comparison; Resource consumption; Sustainability; University student

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