16 International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change, 5(1), 16-29, January-March 2014 Copyright © 2014, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. ABSTRACT Environmental citizenship is specifcally concerned with understanding the nature of global issues and taking an active role in addressing them. The aim of the present paper is the identifcation of the characteristics that constitute the environmental citizen among high school students in Greece. Literature review revealed the characteristics that an environmental citizen should possess. Thus, a research was conducted via a closed-type questionnaire in order to identify those characteristics in the students’ responses. The results suggest that the knowledge of the students on certain environmental issues is suffcient. Also, the major motive for participa- tion in environmental activities is the high level of awareness of the students about the global environment. Finally, a classifcation of high school students in fve clusters, describing the relevance of their responses to the environmental citizenship characteristics, is presented. Are Greek High School Students Environmental Citizens? A Cluster Analysis Approach Despina Sdrali, Department of Home Economics and Ecology, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Nikolaos Galanis, Department of Home Economics and Ecology, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Maria Goussia-Rizou, Department of Home Economics and Ecology, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Konstadinos Abeliotis, Department of Home Economics and Ecology, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Keywords: Cluster Analysis, Education, Environmental Citizen, Greece, Secondary Schools INTRODUCTION In today’s complex world, issues of the global environmental movement, coupled with the growing public awareness of ecological problems, do not seem to have worked out as expected. Despite the increasing attention given to the idea of environmental citizenship, there is still an unresolved problem, i.e. how to move from theory to practice. What causes the discrepancy is that although every citizen is ex- pected to act in an environmentally responsible manner, this does imply that, at the same time, his actions will also be enhancing his personal interests. Or in other words, as Dobson (2007) states, environmental citizenship involves the recognition that self-interest behaviour will not always protect or sustain public goods such as the environment. Rethinking new models of citizenship should begin from this fact. For everyone, there DOI: 10.4018/ijissc.2014010102