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Macau Periodical Index (澳門期刊論文索引)
- Author
- Zhang, Meng; Wong, Meisi
- Title
- Value perception, threat awareness and protection willingness of world heritage: A case of university students in Macau
- Journal Name
- 澳門科技大學學報
- Pub. Info
- Dec. 2013, Vol.7, No.2, pp. 82-90
- Link
- http://lib.must.edu.mo/sites/default/files/assets/images/Duu/must_journal_201302.pdf
- Keyword
- World heritage；Value；Protection；Macau；University students
- Abstract
- Abstract : Conservation is a fundamental aspect of heritage management, especially management of world heritages, which bear unique and universal values for mankind. People in local communities play a vital role in such initiatives, so it is meaningful to learn their attitudes towards world heritages and their motivation to conserve them. This current empirical study selected Macau, where a world heritage is situated, as the study area, and mainly performed a quantitative questionnaire survey on local university students. The principal component analysis identified three factors which can represent the responding students' value perception of the world heritage, namely, cultural value, social value and economic value, based on which, the cluster analysis categorized the students into three types, namely, cultural type, economic type and negative type. According to the findings, local students demonstrate high-level perception of the values of their own world heritage, with certain degree of disparity, in contrast, room still exists for improvement with regard to awareness of threats it is faced with and willingness to protect it, which are only at a modest level. Finally, efforts to enhance heritage education were called for and other recommendations of managerial implications were also proposed accordingly. Paragraph Headings: 1. Introdution 2. Theoretical framework 2.1. Heritage value 2.2. Threats 2.3. Heritage protection/education 3. Study area and methodology 4. Result 4.1. Descriptive analysis 4.2. Factor analysis 4.3. Cluster analysis 5. Discussion and recommendation Tables: 1. Awareness of threats to Macau world heritage 2. Willingness to protect Macau world heritage 3. Factor analysis result of world heritage value perception 4. Result of cluster analysis Figures: 1. Environmental education paradigm