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Therefore, participation
reflects one’s
implementation of what heshe knows and how heshe behaves towards something. This means that knowledge and attitude are
both perfected by practice as it is the realization that either the person himherself or others could evidently observe.
For example, realizing the importance of trees in the forest in the process of absorbing water to void flood one may
have a positive attitude towards forestation. However, the attitude will be meaningful if it is accompanied with a good action as to
contribute to forestation, possibly ranging from the smallest portion of participation, such as telling others not to devastate, to
the largest one, such as stopping and banning illegal logging, or at least green your own home yard.
7. Conclusion
A sustainable city concept needs basic requirements that have to be completed. On one had, the government at the first
place have to consider enabling factors such as, social, politic, economic, and environment. The government should promote
and facilitate the city to achieve the goal of sustainable city. On the other hand, as an individual action, a city residents have a
great capability to conduct their role as a part of the achievement process as long as they are agree to develop their knowledge,
attitude and practice to support their green behavior.
As many as 300 respondents ages ranging from 18 to 40 will be involved in this research. They will be divided into
three groups according to the circles of the city: the first, second, and third circle. Each circle will be represented by 100 randomly-
taken respondents. A questionnaire consisting of knowledge, attitude, and practice items will be administered to obtain the
data.
Likert’s scale will be used which means that in every item there will be four options for the respondents to choose. Each
option is scored differently from others, ranging from 1 to 4. Score 1 shows the least suited response and score 4 the most suited
one.
When the respondents have returned the questionnaires, all the answers will be scored. The average score will be counted,
first of all, internally based on the city circle in which the respondents live. This is to differentiate the results of the three
circles and to find out people of which circle perform the best. And then, the accumulation of the scores of all respondents will be
obtained to deduce a result of the whole sample. Percentages in relation to the responses to knowledge, attitude, and practice
questions will be revealed in order to help with the drawing of conclusions.
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