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Mitsuyuki NAMIKI and Kazukiyo HIGUCHI (Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University / Hosei University Gradua)
Abstract:
Nagano City in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, is an environmentally advanced municipality. This study examines the relationship between the change of the residents' degree of acquisition of environmental information before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the residents' degree of formation of environmental consciousness concerning an energy problem by means of a survey conducted by questionnaire. The results show that for the person in whom the degree of acquisition of environmental information increased after the earthquake the degree of acquisition of environmental information before the earthquake was low and after the earthquake was high in comparison with the person in whom the degree of acquisition of environmental information didn’t increase. And the degree of acquisition of environmental information contributed to the residents' degree of formation of environmental consciousness concerning an energy problem. It is thought that, as for the person whom the degree of acquisition of environmental information increased after the earthquake, the degree of acquisition of environmental information might increase in a short time after the earthquake.
Key Word:
Nagano City, environmental information, environmental consciousness, energy