Course:VANT149/2020/Capstone/Arts/Team12
Sustainability Beliefs Shape Environmental Behaviours
Garbage sustainability beliefs and the importance of garbage sorting has been popularized in most of the countries around the world today. In order to response to this global-wise problem, we decided to study the problem of "How Do Sustainability Beliefs Shape International Students' Garbage Sorting Habits?"
Background Information
People started to become aware of the harm of domestic reuse and waste due to the global warming issue. Canadian universities have always put a significant amount of attention on building students sorting habits (Koestner, Houlfort, Paquet, Knight, 2001).
What Is This Study About?
This study aims to explore how sustainability beliefs would affect international students’ garbage sorting habits. As UBC has been to promote the importance of garbage sorting to the staff and students (University of British Columbia, 2019), and our study could suggest possible adjustmentsto existing plans. In addition, it will provide potential ways UBC can possibly do to improve their students’ on garbage classification.
Methodologies
The research will be done through the form of online survey, a questionnaire will be sent to the volunteer who are willing to attend this study, and they will be told to submit their survey after they complete it. Furthermore, as our goal of this research is to explore how does the sustainable belief influences those international students. Our survey will be including several questions that related to the impaction of garbage sorting and students’ opinion about the garbage sorting. All of these questions will be done through the choice question or matching question.
Implications
Exploring the connection could help guide education institutions to adjust related teaching and community-building content. It can popularize sustainable lifestyle and reduce garbage waste. Previous researches have shown that cultural backgrounds could impact sustainability behaviours (Nathaniel, 2006). Based on that, our research result can specifically provide a clearer and closer image of why international students have different sorting habits, and how they recycle their garbage in their daily life.
Take Away Messages
Audiences should be able to have a better understanding on the relationship between international students’sustainability beliefs and garbage sorting habits. At the same time,they will be able to prove the theory of “the stronger sustainability beliefs that an international has,the better garbage sorting habit he/she/they will have.”After this research,students will recognize this field has not been fully developed and UBC could take action to improve the situation.
Biographies
Cathy(Chuyu) Feng
Cathy Feng is currently studying at UBC. She aims to major in economics. The reason why she is interested in sustainability studies because she is curious about how sustainability makes the society works on environmental issues. Last but not least, Cathy believes sustainability plays an important role in society and it is significant for students to explore more about it.
Chloe(Zichen) Zhang
Chloe Zhang is currently a UBC student. She would major in psychology as a BA student. She is interested in sustainability studies because she had the access to related content from a very young age, and consider it as a vital global goal in need of practical solution.
Olivia(Tiange) Zhang
Olivia Zhang is a student currently studying at UBC Arts Program. She is interested in sustainability research because the sustainability is essential to the environmental protection among today’s population explosion. Furthermore, Olivia also feels interested in investigating the relation between publicizing the importance of sustainability and people’s truly behavior because she would like to be major in psychology in the future.
Katherine(Sihanqi) Zhou
Katherine Zhou is a student now in UBC aiming to apply economy major. Sustainability became her research topic as she shows great care for social progress and human welfare. And she is willing to study the best method to publicize the belief of sustainability because of her great interest in the sustainable growth.
