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    Assessing Environmental Knowledge, Attitude And Behavior (Kab) of The Residents of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababauniversity, 2011-05) Tenaw, Eleni; Y Aberra, Gebreyohannes (phD)
    Environmental problems such as air and water pollution, urban garbage and Climate changes in urban areas are the result of human environmental knowledge, attitude and behavior. Only changes in human knowledge, attitude and behavior can reduce these environmental problems. Thus, studying environmental knowledge, attitude and behavior of residents towards environment is a precondition to change this situation. So, the main objective of this study was to assess the environmental Knowledge, attitude and behavior of residents of Addis Ababa City Government. To examine the level of environmental knowledge, attitude and behavior of Addis Ababa residents 204 individuals were chosen through a stratified cluster random sampling technique. Respondents were interviewed a bout their environmental knowledge, attitude and behavior, and their major source of infonnation. Environmental knowledge, attitude and behavior were measured through 26, 10, and 16 items. Individual's response to each of these items has been given an equal weight of one and their total scores computed by aggregating values of each of the items. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to assess possible relationship among environmental knowledge, attitude and behaviors of respondents. Data processing and analysis was done using the CSPro and SPSS statistical packages respectively. The results of the study showed that although the majority of the residents of Addis Ababa (95.5%) are aware of existing environmental problems of the city, the level of their knowledge is observed to be still very low (58.9% of them scored below the mean valu e). When looked across the different socio·demographic characteristics Male, literate, single, and protestant Christian respondents are observed to be better in environmental knowledge (69%, 78.3%, 67.1 %, 68.8% respectively scored above the mean value) than their colleagues in other categories