Download or read book Young People and the Environment written by John Fien and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the knowledge, beliefs and behaviours that comprise the environmental attitudes of young people in the Asia-Pacific region and the cultural, political and educational contexts that have shaped them. The findings are based upon a questionnaire survey of over 10,000 young people together with focus group studies in India, South China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the west coast of the USA.