How to predict environmental attitude by neighborhood sense of community

The environmental attitude is interested with the relationship between human and its environment, as a subject of environmental psychology. Environmental problems that come up with the industrial revolution have led to increasing awareness and consciousness on the environment since from 1970s in the scope of sustainability. It is expected from the persons who have conscious on environmental issues raise awareness and conscious at the community level as well. Normally, it is expected from the community members that have strong environmental awareness and conscious to be alive and have strong social relations. Neighborhood scale should be considered as the core place to build community and ensure social sustainability. This study aims to reveal the experimental relationship between environmental attitude and sense of community and determine how various socio-demographic objective variables explain subjective environmental attitude variable. Oral interviews applied to the inhabitants of Kultur Neighborhood from Duzce City as our study area. Linear regression model was conducted to test the experimental relationship between the concepts of sense of community and environmental attitude, and one-way ANOVA and t-tests were operated to learn relationships between environmental attitude and socio-demographic variables.