This study critically examines Hong Kong's environmental education initiatives beyond schooling in the last 5 years with reference to the engagement of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in this process under an emerging sponsorship regime. It highlights that the manifested form and mode of environmen-talism in general and environmental education in particular are embedded within the socio-political context of colonial governance, the proliferation of green ideas and the local adaptation of ideas of environmental education. It is observed and argued that environmental education programmes in the last 5 years, promoted mainly in the mass media domain, have been partially successful in changing people's perception on environmental affairs, but environmental groups' autonomy is questioned under a sponsorship regime. The paper ends with remarks on the future of environmental education under a new political regime in 1997 and beyond.
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It is the report of a research funded by the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education. The questionnaires are in Chinese and English. The report includes the bibliographical references and a conceptual-cum-methodological outline of the study. It examines the demographic factors and the results of the survey. The report discusses citizens' participation in the social arena, in particular in the electoral affairs, their knowledge and views on the rule of law, and their view on Hong Kong's future and the Basic Law.