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Environmental Attitudes of Business Students in Croatia

Environmental damages are increasingly affecting people’s lives and, thus, require urgent changes. Our attitudes to the environment are formed throughout life, while those of students are particularly important because they are the ones who will conduct social changes in the future. The current paper is aimed at studying the environmental attitudes of business students, since they represent the foundation for modelling education and their future behaviour in the business environment. The study was conducted on Croatian business students. Following increased ecological awareness in the world, the results of the current study also show that business students have positive environmental attitudes. No significance difference was found between male and female students. They are willing to acquire as much environmental knowledge as possible, they prioritise field work, and the students who enrolled the course on environmental protection show more positive attitudes. In comparison with modern products, they favour environmental protection, but in case of transportation they are not willing to give up their comfort to protect the environment. Besides, they are not enough prone to waste recycling. It can be finally concluded that environmental issues are very complex today and require efforts shared by all the included subjects, with a focus on the education of young people.

Enviromental attitudes; ecology; enviromental awareness

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