Empowering young people with climate and ocean science: Five strategies for adults to consider

Kelly, Rachel; Elsler, Laura G.; Polejack, Andrei; Linden, Sander van der; Tönnesson, Kajsa; Schoedinger, S. E.; Santoro, Francesca; Pecl, Gretta; Palmgren, Michael G.; Mariani, Patrizio; Glithero, Diz; Evans, Karen; Cvitanovic, Christopher; Cook, John; Bartram, Jamie; Wisz, Mary S.

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2022.07.007

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“…Climate change research is not a comfortable read, but through careful design of educational activities, it is possible to deliver knowledge and hope in climate change education. Kelly et al (2022) identified the importance of encompassing diverse voices, active dialogue-based science learning, connection to nature, critical thinking skills, and visions of a sustainable future. We add to this list the importance of providing ladders to support young people to participate in, understand and communicate climate change research, such as through engaging them in the research process itself.…”

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“…Therefore, we must find ways for young people to be part of the discourses on adaptation processes, and here, hypothesise that research orientated climate change education provides one such avenue to facilitate inclusion. As a foundation, Kelly et al (2022) identified five strategies to consider when engaging young people in climate and ocean sciences: include diverse voices, generate active dialogue-based science learning, establish a connection to nature, develop critical thinking skills, and co-create visions of a sustainable future. We build on this work asking, how can we harness the shift to online information delivery resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in order to reach new audiences and provide for the development of adaptation research skills that empower young people in the climate change discourse?…”

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The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

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When young people engage with climate change education, they are often left feeling disempowered and daunted. But past research has shown that there are ways to design and deliver climate change education that can be empowering and enabling. The delivery of climate change education was further challenged in 2020 by the shift to online learning driven by the COVID‐19 pandemic restrictions. However, the challenges of the pandemic context also offered an opportunity to engage new audiences and establish new collaborations in climate change education. In this paper, we explore how the shift to online research, collaboration and education can also be harnessed to develop interdisciplinary coastal adaptation training for young people interested in better understanding the complexities of our coastal environments. The resulting ‘More than Maps’ framework draws on qualitative and quantitative data collected over a two‐year programme focused on the design and delivery of an international climate change research capacity building workshop series, across the United Kingdom, Ghana, Jamaica and Australia. Carried out by an interdisciplinary team of early career researchers and established academics, 15 workshops were developed on coastal adaptation research methods, targeting a range of ‘young’ audiences who are and will continue to be impacted by climate change. Building on reflections from the workshops' design and delivery, we developed a scalable framework to aid researchers in sharing open‐access, replicable methods for studying climate change mitigation and adaptation. This work demonstrates that our workshop participants had increased confidence, sought to apply learned methods to other contexts, and wanted to share this knowledge with others. We conclude that the COVID‐19 online workspace facilitated rather than hindered the international collaboration and delivery of these coastal adaptation research methods workshops, and we provide best practice tips to researchers delivering climate change education.

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The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

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“…It will be essential to include representatives from typically underrepresented stakeholders who can highlight the rights and interests of e.g. small-island developing states, indigenous groups and youth organizations (see Wisz et al, 2020;Kelly et al, 2022). It may be necessary to promote awareness about ocean carbon among these groups though targeted outreach efforts so that they can decide how to prioritize their participation in stakeholder events that support the negotiations.…”

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Protecting ocean carbon through biodiversity and climate governance

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Global policy goals for halting biodiversity loss and climate change depend on each other to be successful. Marine biodiversity and climate change are intertwined through foodwebs that cycle and transport carbon and contribute to carbon sequestration. Yet, biodiversity conservation and fisheries management seldom explicitly include ocean carbon transport and sequestration. In order to effectively manage and govern human activities that affect carbon cycling and sequestration, international biodiversity and climate agreements need to address both biodiversity and climate issues. International agreements that address issues for climate and biodiversity are best poised to facilitate the protection of ocean carbon with existing policies. The degree to which the main international biodiversity and climate agreements make reference to multiple issues has however not been documented. Here, we used a text mining analysis of over 2,700 binding and non-binding policy documents from ten global ocean-related agreements to identify keywords related to biodiversity, climate, and ocean carbon. While climate references were mostly siloed within climate agreements, biodiversity references were included in most agreements. Further, we found that six percent of policy documents (n=166) included ocean carbon keywords. In light of our results, we highlight opportunities to strengthen the protection of ocean carbon in upcoming negotiations of international agreements, and via area-based management, environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment.

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“…Measuring awareness generally is relatively commonplace within ocean literacy researchfor example, awareness is included in the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition's national study through questions which asked about respondents' awareness of threats to the ocean. However, there is a need to understand, and perhaps, raise awareness of what can be done, of the actions that can be taken at a range of scales and to foster a sense of ownership and empowerment (Kelly et al, 2022a(Kelly et al, , 2022b.…”

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“…Moreover, in response to calls for action, there is also a need to reflect on who has the opportunity, capacity, and, indeed, privilege to be able to participate in environmental activism for the ocean (Bennett et al, 2021;Taylor, 2016;Gibson-Wood and Wakefield, 2013). Hence, ocean literacy initiatives and policies need to empower people and institutions, and crucially, this empowerment must include people from communities who have been historically under-represented, or completely excluded, from ocean discussions, for example, youth groups (Kelly et al, 2022a(Kelly et al, , 2022bRussell, 2019) and minoritized groups. For example, Indigenous communities (Wehi et al, 2021;Parsons et al, 2021;Von der Porten et al, 2016), communities from the Global South (Shellock et al, 2022;The Guardian, 2021;Stefanoudis et al, 2021), youth groups (Halstead et al, 2022) and members of LGBTQI+ communities (Ocean Wise, 2021).…”

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The evolution of ocean literacy: A new framework for the United Nations Ocean Decade and beyond

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Shellock

2023

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Empowering young people with climate and ocean science: Five strategies for adults to consider

Cited by 14 publications

References 82 publications

The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation

Protecting ocean carbon through biodiversity and climate governance

The evolution of ocean literacy: A new framework for the United Nations Ocean Decade and beyond

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