Abstract:
The research was implemented about environmental education for
environmental management in the area of Lam Phaya temple floating market, Banglen
district, Nakhonpathom province, Thailand the research objectives were to manage the
environment at Lam Phaya temple floating market by participation with
environmental education in order to provide the knowledge concerning environmental
management to merchants in the marketing area. The achievement of this study was
checked the level of knowledge and awareness by Pre-test and Post-test in the topic of
environmental management of merchants at Lam Phaya temple floating market in
order to increase the participation and monitor the results of environmental
management of this area by Purposive Sampling from 30 merchants in the area.The
research was consisting of four steps, viz., Rapid Rural Appraisal-RRA, preparation of
workshop and format development of workshop, workshop and evaluation, and
monitoring after workshop.
The result was found that the group of merchant representatives at Lam Phaya
temple floating market, participating in workshop have got better knowledge and
awareness about environmental pollution and landscape management when compared
to the difference of knowledge and awareness test by the pre-test and post-test and the
t-test showed the significance result at 0.05 which has participation skill in high level.
Form the monitoring of environmental management, it was also found that the
community leaders and merchants at Lam Phaya temple floating market have
improved and maintained the environment by managing circumstance and landscape,
viz., better parking area condition, merchant dress code, and air-solid-wastewater
pollution control.