Factors affecting perceptions and attitudes of forest engineers working in the forestry organization towards green products

Abstract

This research was carried out to measure the perceptions and attitudes of forest engineers working in the forestry organization about green products. In this context, the relationship between forest engineers' attitudes towards sustainable forest management, perceived environmental knowledge, environmental attitude, environmental concern, certification and green products and their demographic characteristics has been examined. Questionnaire technique was used to obtain the data. Within the scope of the research, a questionnaire was applied to 119 forest engineers. Statistical package (SPSS 22) program was used to analyze the data. The factor analysis results of the scales are sustainable forest management scale (KMO; 0.702 alpha; 0.460), perceived environmental knowledge scale (KMO; 0.741 alpha; 0.589), environmental attitude scale (KMO; 0.714 alpha; 0.448), environmental anxiety scale (KMO; 0.816 alpha) ; 0.876), certification scale (KMO; 0.838 alpha; 0.840), and attitude towards green products scale (KMO; 0.780 alpha; 0.822) were found to be suitable for factorization. Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis H, Factor analysis and Correlation analysis were used in the research. According to the findings of the analysis regarding the significance of the variables according to the demographic characteristics in the research, the environmental attitudes of the participants differ according to their educational status, and the certification information differs significantly according to the working status of the participants in the certified unit. When the relationship between the variables was examined, it was found that there was a negative relationship between sustainable forest management and certification knowledge, while a positive significant relationship was found between attitude towards green products and environmental concern and certification.

Keywords

• green product
• certification
• green marketing
• forest engineering
• yeşil ürün
• sertifikasyon
• yeşil pazarlama
• orman mühendisliği