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A. Šajković: ODNOS STUDENATA ŠUMARSTVA PREMA PRIRODI I RESURSIMA Šumarski list br. 11–12, CXXIX (2005), 583-595
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SUMMARY: The research conducted in 2003 was a replica, with some
changes and added assertions, of a research from 1996. 214 people from the
Forestry department were surveyed representing more than 40 % of the entire
Forestry department student population. The survey consisted of several sections
providing different statements on the attitudes to: information sources
regarding the environment, nature, resources and development and forests.
Uni variable and bi variable were used for the data analysis, thus the results
were expressed in percentages and t-tests for comparison of the researches
2003–1996.


Findings of the research suggests that the great majority (94,0 %) of the
Forestry students is oriented towards the naturalism as a possible ethic-ecological
orientation in which the nature dominates the man, in other words they do
not accept ‘man’s’ rightful supremacy over nature. Most of them, 92,0 %, also
agrees that the level of the overall pollution is not irrelevant considering all the
advantages of the technical civilization. In addition, a great majority of the
respondents is very much against the exploitation of the natural resource in the
name of the scientific progress. However, 72 % of the surveyed students thinks
that the human kind should pursue further development regardless of the consequences,
while 83,4 % thinks that the development should be correlated with
natural resources (sustainability). Generally speaking, respondents tend to
show high level of sensibility towards all types of resources, especially potable
water. 88,8 % of all respondents believes that sources of potable water are pretty
much restricted, meaning the majority perceives water as a most important
resource for the present and future times.


Further on, respondents in 2003 are more sensitive to the processes of man’s
utilization of natural sources as oppose to the respondents in 1996, but at the
same time, they are also much more open to the idea of preventing many disasters
from happening by using new technologies. However, as oppose to the survey
from 1996, a larger group of students does not have a formed opinion
regarding that problem, which may be the result of the fast development of technologies
which enables students to keep up with the current technological
accomplishments and therefore form a valid opinion regarding the disaster prevention.


Next, students in 2003 understand better that the pollution level is not negligible
considering the advantages of the modern technology, but at the same
time results of the survey reveal that they are also more likely to support the
maximum exploitation of the natural resources. An interesting fact is that the
number of the indecisive students regarding that issue is much higer in 2003.
Also, respondents in 2003. assume that the pollution won’t progress due the use
of new technologies as oppose to the respondents’ prediction from the 1996.
They also think that non developed countries should develop at a higher rate
while the developed countries should lessen the rate of their development,
which differs from the opinion from 1996. In other words, respondents in 2003
are more in favor of the idea of speeding up the development processes of non
developed countries, which at the same time implies greater utilization of the
natural resources or at least the tendency towards the exponential growth in
order to reach the satisfying level of the developed countries.