| dc.description.abstract | Urban green open space is a part of urban management which functions as urban green garden, urban green forest, urban green recreation site, green sports activity, and green yard. The important factor for keeping their conservation in Banda Aceh is by involving youth as dynamists, catalysts, motivators, innovators, and evaluators. Youth is also related to their own characteristics, based on characteristics, age, sex, organization, and occupation. The objective of the research was 1) to find out the role of youth in improving open green space conservation in Banda Aceh, 2) to find out the correlation between youth characteristics and their role in increasing green open space conservation in Banda Aceh. The research was a survey in which the data were gathered from the samples and population to represent all population. It also used descriptive quantitative method which was aimed to describe, explain, or summarize various conditions, situations, phenomena according to the occurrences in order to test the previous hypothesis. The population was 96,181 youngsters who were 16-30 years old in Banda Aceh, and 99.85 of them were used as the samples, completed to 100 respondents. The conclusion of the research was that 1) the youth as dynamists, catalysts, motivators, innovators, and evaluators had played an important role in improving green open space conservation in Banda Aceh, and 2) there was the correlation between the role of youth and youth characteristics in improving green open space in Banda Aceh. Based on the result of crosstab, it was found that there was significant correlation of sex, education, occupation, and organization with the role of youth. | en_US |
