Environmental Education as a Means for Valuing and Conserving Camelids and Pastoralism in the Argentinean Altiplano of Jujuy

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Commentary: Controversies and Common Ground in Wild and Domestic Fine Fiber Production in Argentina

“…] The fluent dialogue between our different knowledge systems was key to conduct successful chakus [CSR projects]". VICAM has gained international recognition for these and other activities that are open to all community members, such as our environmental education programs (Vilá et al, 2009(Vilá et al, , 2020bVilá and Arzamendia, 2016). Similarly, some activities were carried out in response to explicit requests by local communities, such as the development of an environmental calendar representing periods and yearly events of agricultural, social and symbolic significance (Vilá and Arzamendia, 2016).…”

The Influence of Various Role Models on Children’s Pro-environmental Behaviours

“…Five broad types of intervention have been studied. The first group of interventions consists of teaching activities such as painting ( Bezzon da Silva and Soares da Silva, 2013 ; Vilá et al, 2020 ; Yeşilyurt et al, 2020 ), games ( Loukia et al, 2021 ), using photos ( Choi and Jo, 2012 ) and viewing plants ( Choque and Teresa, 2021 ). The second consists of environmental education (EE) programmes developed by schools to improve students’ pro-environmental behaviour, such as hope-enhancing pro-environmental programmes ( Kerret et al, 2020 ), residential outdoor environmental education programmes ( Mullenbach et al, 2019 ) and the Children and Trees Growing Together programme ( Dolins et al, 2010 ).…”