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[WEco] Environmental Survey in Hanoi, Vietnam |
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Last Saurday, I - the founder of WEco and an English club - organized an event in which we went to get foreign tourists involved in various activities, one of which was doing an environmental survey. We divided into smaller teams, and had 20 minutes to find foreigners around Sword Lake to help us with the survey. Luckily, given the limited time, every team member successfully fulfil this task. In total, we had 52 participants in our small survey. Here are the 10 questions we asked people.   1. Environmental Concern: I am glad to find out that everyone, except for 1 person, is concerned about environmental issues, more or less. Some even gave us useful ideas to raise public awareness about environment.  2. "Green" Destinations: Almost all people interviewed stressed the importance of the greennest of a city to their choice of travel destination. And that just adds to the urgent call for environment preservation in order to bring about the green beauty of the country if we want to build a reputational and beautiful image of the nation, not to mention how positive of a contribution it makes to the national economy when there are more tourists.  3. Air Quality in Hanoi: In terms of air quality in Hanoi - the capital of Vietnam - only 2 people rated 4 on a scale of 1 - 5, others rated lower. It, sadly, is the truth. The air pollution is quite serious here, not to mention that the location we carried out our survey has better air quality compared to other places in the city.  4. Factors in Air Pollution: Obviously, anyone would all agree to given contributors to bad air quality in Hanoi, including burning fossil fuels, emissions from industries and manufacturing activities, and household and farming chemicals. However, they laid great stress on exhausted gases from vehicles. And I have to admit that we have terrible problems with traffic jams. Everyone uses motorbikes, and there is not a limit to the amount of C02 and other gases a vehicle is allowed to emit.  5. Ways Tackling Air Pollution: People had various opinions on this question, but there is a similarity among them: they all thought we needed to deal with transportation and strict punishment. Many said we should have a ban on motorbikes, and try to switch to electric cars. However, it is not really practical in a developing country like Vietnam. 6. Issues Frequently Identified When You Walk on the street in Vietnam: Most people said it was trash, some added the unwanted smell and smoke to the list. This result just gives out the poor waste management and low public environmental awareness. It is not surprising to someone living in Hanoi like me, but somehow I feel slightly ashamed and sad. But I am doing my best to try to promote environment preservation in my lovely country. Wish me best luck!  7. Level of Public Environmental Awareness: The maximum of this level according to the outcomes is 3 of 5. Most said it was 2. 8. Raising Public Awareness: Obviously, people would more likely give compulsory education and government intervention priority over other choices. 9. The Greennest of The Capital of Vietnam: In general, as regards the green beauty of the city, most interviewers rated 3/5 or below. Again, not surprising. 10. "Would you like to visit Hanoi again?" Well, you all know the answer. Everyone is too nice to refuse when someone asks them this question directly.  (To keep track of their work, they all had to hand in videos to show they did carry out the survey properly. You can check it here (click) to see some videos, but not all of them have uploaded the videos.) ______________________________________________________ Externality: So, for the Halloween, we had a small party. And I told my students to quickly decorate the used coffee plastic cups in the way they thought fit for the celebration. I know their products were nothing new, and not even creative. But at least we did not throw away these plastic cups, and made a little bit contribution to recycling, didn't we? Here are a few pictures:    ______________________________________________________ |
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thanks for sharing
Posted 07-02-2018 21:40
good report
Posted 07-02-2018 21:34
I find it very meaningful that you and your friends so actively participated to complete the survey and the campaign. Not many are that much motivated. Hope the tourists were all very helpful. (everyone in the picture looks nice) thanks for sharing your story!
Posted 22-11-2016 13:59
@John David Pilapil: I am really not sure about what you mean by 'the sampling size'? About data analysis, well, basically I transferred all of the results into one excel sheet, and used Ctrl + F for each collumn to see the percentage of each choice for a single question. :D
@ Guys: thanks all. <3
Posted 21-11-2016 20:09
I hope u enjoyed Anh and please keep with such works ...Have a good day
Posted 18-11-2016 18:55
great work i hope you had amazing experience
Posted 17-11-2016 16:27
Great job, Anh! It must have been a hard time to receive surveys, especially to tourists who are very busy enjoying their vacation. I believe you have got a brief idea of the current situation in Hanoi, and what should be done to improve the environmental situation. Thanks for sharing, and have a great day today : )
Posted 16-11-2016 23:17
Wow! What a very scientific and people-oriented approach you got there, Anh! Even environmental scientists give great importance on the awareness, knowledge, and perception of the stakeholders towards their environment. In fact, two of my environmental science courses incorporated survey and stakeholder analysis on the coursework. So job well done, Anh! By the way, just would like to ask Anh, how did you analyze the data afterwards and how big is the sampling size for the survey?
Posted 16-11-2016 10:56
Great job, Dao! I am incredibly impressed by your and your team action. Keep it up (^-^)
Posted 15-11-2016 20:08
Its nice of you all to conduct survey to know people/tourists' feedback or their opinion so that relevant areas can be emphasised for improvement. Good job. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 15-11-2016 02:44
Excellent job. I am now motivated to carry out similar task in my hometown
Posted 15-11-2016 02:39
Nice survey!! We should definitely increase the public environmental awareness, and this kind of activities really help!!
Posted 15-11-2016 00:39
Its a very idea to do survey and act according to the need of people. While doing so new ideas from public can also be used and implemented.
Posted 14-11-2016 21:06
Good job. I'm glad to see you guys are doing more and even taking surveys to see how much are people concern about the environment! Can't wait to see your next move
Posted 14-11-2016 15:01