The Study of Awareness and Behavior Linkage on Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction in Community – A Case Study in Sanxia District of New Taipei City

• Main Authors: Lee﹐fang-liang, 李坊良
• Other Authors: Dr. Lee Chien-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ykf6tk

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 自然資源與環境管理研究所在職專班 === 104 === Abstract The Study of Awareness and Behavior Linkage on Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction in Community – A Case Study in Sanxia District of New Taipei City By Lee﹐fang-liang July 2016 Advisor：Dr. Lee Chien-Ming Department：Institute of Natural Resource and Environmental Management Major：Natural Resource and Environmental Management Degree：MASTER of ARTS Energy conservation and carbon reduction has become the most important mitigation measure to tackle climate change. UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) proposed that the public should start from doing “momentum for change, change for good”. To promote public awareness and to change public’s life style into low carbon living has become an important step in global counter measure to tackle climate change. Therefore, promoting public awareness on climate change and energy saving by education and enlightenment in order to develop the public’s positive attitude on energy conservation and carbon reduction and improving behavior pattern can put energy conservation and carbon reduction in daily action. New Taipei City is one of the low carbon model city in the country, and aggressively promotes the education and enlightenment on energy conservation and carbon reduction. Thus, this study chooses the residents in New Taipei City Sanxia District, and conducts a relational questionnaire survey on their awareness of energy conservation and carbon reduction and their action. We expect to comprehend their awareness on energy conservation and carbon reduction, and the key factors on influencing the action of energy conservation and carbon reduction. By taking those as the references, we can establish the policies of the education and enlightenment on energy conservation and carbon reduction, and develop the tools for economic approach. According to the survey of this study, the results reveal that the public awareness, attitude and action on energy conservation and carbon reduction is significantly positively correlated with education level and monthly income, while weakly correlated with residential area; the older people get, the more environmental concern they have; and the more awareness they have on energy conservation and carbon reduction. In general, regarding the awareness on energy conservation and carbon reduction, most people’s choices are positive. For example, regarding the awareness of using energy saving devices, global warming, energy shortage, power saving, and emissions reduction, more than 80% of respondents agree or strongly agree. Regarding attitude, the percentage is down, but still more than 60% of respondents agree or strongly agree. Regarding the cross analysis of the understanding degree of the action of energy conservation and carbon reduction, the higher the education level, the higher the understanding degree. To classify the understanding degree by occupation categories, the information technology sector and military, public and teaching personnel have the highest understanding degree. Concerning energy conservation and carbon reduction, no matter how much the income is, all respondents have positive attitude and their awareness and action are obvious. To take a broad view, Sanxia District does not take a large proportion of population in New Taipei City, but the data reveal that lots of policies have been implemented on the community residents. This study utilizes decomposition methods to assess the suitability of questionnaire of survey and its category aspect (or factor), and the relational analysis between the aspects. The finding of this study is the designed questionnaire survey items match their attribute of aspects. This study reveals that public awareness (not correct attitude) on energy conservation and carbon reduction has a positive relationship with the aggressive action of energy conservation and carbon reduction. Keyword：Energy conservation and Carbon reduction；Awareness；Attitude；Behaviour