Lithuanian Population’s Attitudes Towards the Issue of Garbage Disposal and a Typology of Environmental Concerns
Journal Title: KultŁ«ra ir visuomenė. SocialiniŁ³ tyrimŁ³ Ł¾urnalas - Year 2010, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
The paper discusses the empirical data obtained from the survey on garbage in Alytus region. Scholarly literature distinguishes three types of concerns about garbage in the industrial society: 1) a concern about pollution; 2) a concern about the waste of energy and resources; and 3) a concern about the decrease of garbage (Schindler 1998). In this paper, we attempt to demonstrate that the first type of the environmental concern is characteristic of the majority of the population of alytus, similarly as in a previous survey in Kaunas and Šiauliai in 2001. We argue that this type of concern reflects an early development of the industrial society and special environmental preoccupations in Lithuania in general. The population’s concern about garbage is also related to people’s behavior and attitudes. Only a small part of the population (3 %) perceives the issue of garbage as the problem of the waste of energy and resources. The data support the assumption that the population of Alytus region still has a strong need for materialistic and physical security. This need marginalizes the values of ecological concern.
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Vylius Leonavičius
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