Examining youth perceptions and social contexts of litter to improve marine debris environmental education

Torres, Hannah; Reynolds, Catherine J.; Lewis, Anna; Muller‐Karger, Frank E.; Alsharif, Kamal A.; Mastenbrook, Katie

doi:10.1080/13504622.2019.1633274

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“…First, marine debris is an emerging environmental challenge and poses significant threats to coastal ecosystems (Riggs et al, 2011). Second, it is a compelling environmental cause for young people to champion (Hartley et al, 2015) because the problem is highly visible, persistent, and concrete solutions like trash reduction are readily apparent (Torres et al, 2019). Further, a recent study found that environmental advocacy videos on the topic of marine debris were able to reduce attitude and behavioral gaps between partisan groups (Jennings et al, 2020).…”

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Youth Can Promote Marine Debris Concern and Policy Support Among Local Voters and Political Officials

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Many of the most sweeping social movements throughout history have been youth-led, including those related to environmental challenges. Emerging research suggests youth can build environmental concern among parents via intergenerational learning, in some cases overcoming socio-ideological differences that normally stymie attempts at collective action. What has not been studied is the potential for youth to also influence adults outside their immediate families. This study based in North Carolina, USA, explores the potential of today's young people as environmental change-agents in their communities on the topic of marine debris. Specifically, this evaluation examines responses from voters and local officials after participating in youth-led civic engagement events. After engaging with a youth-led civic engagement event, voters, and local officials completed a retrospective pretest survey that asked questions about levels of marine debris concern and their likelihood of supporting a local marine debris ordinance. Young people encouraged both concern and policy support among both voters and officials, and that concern and policy support increased independently of whether adults were voters or officials, liberals or conservatives, or knew the students personally. Further, participation in the youth-led engagement event reduced political differences in marine debris concern. This study suggests youth can play a critical role addressing marine debris challenges by promoting support for marine debris management policy, and doing so across political barriers.

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“…Adult participation in solving environmental problems is essential and informal environmental education is a key to securing it (Sutherland and Ham, 1992). According to Torres et al (2019), litter reduction programs should first engage adults, such as educators, facility staff, parents, and student leaders, because adult role models will further integrate pro-community and pro-environmental messages and actions. Moreover, adults influence the eating behavior of children (Pearson et al, 2009).…”

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“…Environmental education could inspire interest in marine environment. Recent research related to lifestyle and marine environment includes marine litters (Torres et al, 2019), aquatic invasive species (Sharp et al, 2017), water quality (Pendleton et al, 2001), and leisure boats (Wester and Eklund, 2011). From the perspective of seafood related lifestyle, Seafood Watch program navigate people choose the sustainable seafood by providing global information of fish species based on the scientific data (Monterey Bay Aquarium, 2020).…”

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“…Accordingly, there are negative public perceptions toward Osaka Bay as most of the residents are unfamiliar and unconcerned with both the bay and its local fish (Osaka Prefecture, 2014;Kuroda and Otsuka, 2018). Published literature has attempted to promote awareness of specific issues related to marine environment and conservation (Forrester et al, 2017;Hein et al, 2019;Sattler and Bonger, 2017;Sharp et al, 2017;Torres et al, 2019); however, there are only few reports on people's perceptions about the sea itself.…”

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Improving Perceptions of the Marine Environment by Hands-on Environmental Education: The Case of Hannan City, Osaka, Japan

Kuroda

2021

EUR J SUSTAIN DEV RES

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Coastal and marine environments provide ecosystem services related to human well-being. However, the link between these ecosystem services and lifestyle of nearby populations is rarely recognized. This study proposes environmental events involving a series of hands-on activities, stimulating families' awareness of both the local foods (rice, fish, and seaweed) and marine environment and linking them to the coastal environment. The present study quantitatively evaluated the changes in adults' perceptions of Osaka Bay and attitudes on rice and fish consumption through a year-long program. We found that continuous participation (increased visit to the coastal area) effectively changed the participants' perceptions of Osaka Bay and increased opportunities for eating local foods at home. In addition, the living experiences and realistic experiences increased the participants' familiarity with Osaka Bay. These results suggest that the proposed program is a powerful tool that can assist marine and conservation education outside school.

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“…Segundo Torres et al (2019), os programas educacionais são eficazes no aumento do conhecimento do conteúdo científico e existem maneiras eficientes de melhorar os programas existentes de educação informal voltados para a prevenção de lixo no mar.…”

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Coleção didático-científica de lixo no ambiente marinho em Governador Celso Ramos (SC): da montagem à autoavaliação

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2021

Rev. Br. Ed. Amb.

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O lixo no mar é um problema crescente e mundial, impulsionando debates na busca de soluções. A coleção didático-científica de lixo no mar é uma ferramenta de Educação Ambiental marinho-costeira facilitadora na tratativa e abordagem do tema. Este trabalho relata a experiência de montagem de uma coleção, que ocorreu através da coleta do macrolixo encontrado em praias de Governador Celso Ramos, entre 2019 e 2020. Parcerias viabilizaram a localização física e a operação da coleção, que incluiu uma versão resumida em ambiente on-line, respeitando o distanciamento social exigido pela pandemia Covid-19. Os resultados da autoavaliação foram positivos, viabilizando, assim, uma importante ferramenta dinâmica de divulgação científica e de sensibilização ambiental.

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Examining youth perceptions and social contexts of litter to improve marine debris environmental education

Cited by 22 publications

References 24 publications

Youth Can Promote Marine Debris Concern and Policy Support Among Local Voters and Political Officials

Youth Can Promote Marine Debris Concern and Policy Support Among Local Voters and Political Officials

Improving Perceptions of the Marine Environment by Hands-on Environmental Education: The Case of Hannan City, Osaka, Japan

Coleção didático-científica de lixo no ambiente marinho em Governador Celso Ramos (SC): da montagem à autoavaliação

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