Assessment of Willingness to Participate in Climate Change Activism among ATAP Students, Bauchi State, Nigeria
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The main purpose of this paper is to assess the willingness of Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic (ATAP) students to participate in voluntary climate change activism in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Willingness which is the outcome variable was measured in ordered categorical five point Likert scale: totally not willing, not willing, partially willing, willing and very much willing while explanatory variables such as field of study and place of permanent residence are measured as: Science and Social Science, and rural and urban. Stratified random sampling was used to select 384 samples for the study. Using SPSS version 18 descriptive statistics was employed to indicate students’ willingness to voluntarily participate in climate change awareness campaign, whereas the Ordinal regression was applied to determine the influence of field of study and place of permanent residence on willingness to participate. About 82% of the respondents are willing to very much willing to participate in the voluntary awareness campaign on climate change while 6% are not willing to totally not willing to participate. The result also shows that only 3.7% changes in willingness to participate is attributed to place of permanent residence and field of study indicating that about 96.3% of changes in willingness is explained by other factors. Also, while the students who leave in rural areas and those studying social science-related fields demonstrate more willingness to participate in the voluntary awareness campaign, their counterparts in urban dwellings and those studying natural Science courses exhibit low willingness to participate. The study recommends advocacy campaign to students who leave in urban areas and those who are studying Science related disciplines for collective participation toward awareness campaigns on climate change.
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