GREENHOUSE GASES AWARENESS AMONG LOCAL COMMUNITY IN SIMPANG EMPAT VILLAGE, MUALLIM PERAK

Abstract

The increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have been affected the Earth’s climate and contributed to the global warming issues which are the cooperation and responsibility of many stakeholders such as local communities play an important role to address the issue. The study aims to examine the local community awareness against greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Simpang Empat Village, Muallim Perak has been chosen as a study area. The objectives of the study are to identify the relationship between the general knowledge of greenhouse gases with the educations level among the local community regarding the awareness of greenhouse gases in Simpang Empat Village Maullim, Perak. The result shows that the greenhouse gas awareness has been influenced by their own experiences and the rise of local heat temperature where they live in. The study also found the awareness of the local community influenced by the level of respondent’s education particularly on disease outbreak and source of pollution. Therefore, the study shows the education aspect plays an important role to increase awareness among the local community in the rural area.