Perception of Environmental Hazards in Hong Kong Chinese

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Title
Perception of Environmental Hazards in Hong Kong Chinese
Description
Perception of Environmental Hazards in Hong Kong Chinese gives a wide variety of types of information. The article describes many of the major environmental risks that are happening in Hong Kong. Along with the description, it gives very detailed statistics of what major environmental issues are perceived by citizens in Hong Kong. It ranks the importance of these issues based on categories of the issues and of the citizens.

This article also provides a connection of these issues to the values of the Hong Kong citizens' culture, especially focusing on the impact of Confucianism. It goes into depth on how the religion molds their perception of the environment, and humans role and impact on it. There is a focus on how they perceive humanity's role in the world, and how it relates to sustainability, and specific risks that they perceive.
Date
July 11, 2003
Creator(s)
Julian Chuk‐ling Lai and Julia Tao
Article Type
Scholarly Article
Spatial Coverage
Hong Kong
Denomination
Confucianism
Audience
All audiences/General public
name
Eric Anderson