Factors That Affect the Green Technology Awareness in Melaka

Authors

  • N. Nazir Ali
  • M. Ahmad Murad Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
  • J. Jabar

Abstract

Nowadays, in this era of globalization, the world keeps on developing day by day. Our earth is now becoming more polluted than before due to the environmental effects caused by human being. The greed of human being had caused them to ignore the consequences of their decision and how far it would affects the environment. In accordance with this, Melaka has decided to start going green by practicing Green Technology that will not only improves the quality of environment but as well as the quality of life for the citizen in Melaka. The objective of this research is to find out factors that affects the awareness towards Green Technology. This research was held in Melaka as the respondents all from Melaka citizens. Based on the conceptual framework, the independent variables are knowledge, attitude towards environment, and government policy and regulation. Meanwhile for the dependent variables is awareness towards Green Technology. The data was gained from questionnaire session, journals, articles which had been analyzed by using the SPSS system. As the results of this research, it stated that Government Policy and Regulation is the most effective factors towards awareness of Green Technology. The result also showed that mostly people in Melaka already aware about the Green Technology, they just lack in practicing the green practices. Therefore, hopefully Melaka citizens become more alert and aware towards the Green Technology which will lead to aspiration of Melaka to achieve greatly as the title of Melaka Green City on 2020.

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Author Biography

M. Ahmad Murad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

Murzidah is a senior lecturer in Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. Her research interest is on technology adoption, technology acceptance and technology management.

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Published

2019-10-29

How to Cite

Nazir Ali, N., Ahmad Murad, M., & Jabar, J. (2019). Factors That Affect the Green Technology Awareness in Melaka. International Journal of Human and Technology Interaction (IJHaTI), 3(2 October), 75–80. Retrieved from https://ijhati.utem.edu.my/ijhati/article/view/5496

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 October (2019)

Section

Technology in Management

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