Abstract
Environmental problems are a collection of problems triggered by the actions of individual human beings, and education about the environment is important for solving them. Opportunities for learning about the environment are becoming increasingly scarce in urban areas because of a reduction in natural spaces caused by the progress of land and city development. We conducted a survey on the awareness of pond users in order to understand the level of awareness of average park pond users and thus propose a method of providing an effective environmental education. We used two factors, awareness of aquatic environment conservation and actual behavior toward environment conservation, and verified the relationship between those two factors using a covariance structure analysis. The results of the analysis revealed that the park user's awareness of aquatic environment conservation is specified by their desire for waterfronts, and that improved awareness of aquatic environment conservation leads to acquiring of knowledge of the aquatic environment. It was thus found that an environmental education linked to acquiring knowledge about the environment at the actual waterfront is useful in improving the awareness of aquatic environment conservation.
