Yilmaz, O.2025-01-272025-01-2720160209-4541https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/27159This study is aimed to determine environmental awareness of public in Canakkale city. This city has important historical sites and is facing various environmental problems. Environmental awareness is the knowledge of the importance of that the damage of the environment has to be avoided and the sustainable use of the environment needs to be maintained. The related literature was examined. The increase of environmental awareness is due to effective implementation of environmental conservation programs. The behaviours and thoughts of Canakkale inhabitants on environmental awareness were determined through specially prepared questionnaire form. Besides, this study investigates the effect of the economic and socio-cultural factors on the environmental awareness. Questionnaire study was applied in 2014 to 402 people through face-to-face interviewing method. On the 'Socio-economic Structure', relation between the factors of gender, condition, age, income, profession, education was studied. According to the results of this study, the environmental awareness score was calculated as 74.44 out of 100.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessenvironmental awarenesssocio-economic structureCanakkale cityTurkeyArticle391723731N/AWOS:000375333900027