What Difference Does It Make? Assessing Outcomes From Participation in a Residential Environmental Education Program

Stern, Marc J.; Powell, Robert B.; Ardoin, Nicole M.

doi:10.3200/joee.39.4.31-43

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“…Studies of environmental stewardship categorize environmental stewardship into two dimensions: attitudinal and behavioral stewardship (Hancock, 2007;Stern, Powell, & Ardoin, 2008). Attitudes refer to an association with and evaluation of an object, incorporating beliefs, feelings, and inclinations to the object (Leiserowitz, Kates, & Parris, 2006).…”

Section: Environmental Stewardshipmentioning

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Effects of podcast tours on tourist experiences in a national park

2012

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This study examines the influence of podcast tours on tourist experiences. Based on theoretical accounts that human voices convey rich social information, this study proposes that podcast tours increase perceived social presence and mindfulness that lead to enhanced tourist experiences and environmental stewardship. A field experiment was conducted at a national park using MP3 players containing podcast tours based on four experimental conditions: 2 information source compositions (single vs. multiple narrator voices) x 2 narrating styles (formal vs. conversational). The results support that even if communicated through audio-only media, the human voice creates a positive social context for meaningful interaction which influences tourist experiences and stewardship.Mindfulness was also found to be an important construct affecting the quality of experiences. The findings support the usefulness of podcast tours as interpretative media.

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Section: Environmental Stewardshipmentioning

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Effects of podcast tours on tourist experiences in a national park

2012

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“…Some EE programs have been demonstrated to improve children's reported environmental behavior (Stern, Powell, & Ardoin, 2008), whereas others have failed to do so (Ernst & Theimer, 2011). Researchers tend to agree that outdoor EE programs are those that have the strongest effect on children's proenvironmentalism (Duerden & Witt, 2010), mainly due to children's direct contact with nature (Cheng & Monroe, 2012;Larson et al, 2011).…”

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Children’s Restorative Experiences and Self-Reported Environmental Behaviors

Collado

Corraliza

2013

Environment and Behavior

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Esta es la versión de autor del artículo publicado en: This is an author produced version of a paper published in: AbstractPositive experiences in nature relate to children's environmental behaviors. The reasons for this link remain unknown. One possibility is that children behave more ecologically because they obtain benefits from spending time in nature. In the present study, we looked at positive experiences in nature, specifically restoration, as a motivational factor enhancing children's proenvironmental behavior. Children (N = 832) rated their school yards in terms of restoration and reported their frequency of proenvironmental behaviors as well as their environmental attitudes. Perceived restoration predicted 37% of the variance in reported proenvironmental behavior. Moreover, this relationship was completely mediated by environmental attitudes. In addition, fascination, a component of restoration, was the only direct predictor of proenvironmental behavior.

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“…These stewardship supporting activities might include activities such as environmental education of resource users or youth (Stern et al 2008;Tidball and Krasny 2011), transmission of traditional ecological knowledge (Bussey et al 2016;Reo et al 2017), network building activities Blythe et al 2017), environmental governance or policy reforms (Gelcich et al 2010), systems of rewards and punishments (Ostrom 1990;Hauzer et al 2013), and scientific or participatory monitoring and research (Shirk et al 2012;Silva and Krasny 2016). Activities such as these are fundamental to local stewardship; however, these activities alone do not improve the environment.…”

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“…The phenomena of local environmental stewardship has been studied in numerous different contexts, including forests (English et al 1997;Adhikari et al 2007;Kilgore et al 2008;Messier et al 2015), freshwater (Shandas and Messer 2008;Kreutzwiser et al 2011), grasslands and rangelands (Appiah-Opoku 2007;Squires 2012;Sayre et al 2013;Henderson et al 2014), rural agricultural landscapes (Worrell and Appleby 2000;Plummer et al 2008;Ellis 2013;Gill 2014;Raymond et al 2015), urban environments (Krasny and Tidball 2012;Connolly et al 2014;Romolini et al 2016), fisheries (Gray and Hatchard 2007;McConney et al 2014;van Putten et al 2014;Medeiros et al 2014) and coastal or marine habitats (Sharpe and Conrad 2006;Friedlander et al 2013;Silbernagel et al 2015). These studies tend to focus their analysis either on a subset of the different factors that can support or undermine stewardship -for example, on ethics, motivations, capacity, institutions, networks, context-or simply on whether or not action is being taken to steward the environment.…”

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Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Bennett¹,

Whitty²,

Finkbeiner³

et al. 2018

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There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet environmental stewardship has not received adequate conceptual attention. Establishing a clear definition and comprehensive analytical framework could strengthen our ability to understand the factors that lead to the success or failure of environmental stewardship in different contexts and how to most effectively support and enable local efforts. Here we propose such a definition and framework. First, we define local environmental stewardship as the actions taken by individuals, groups or networks of actors, with various motivations and levels of capacity, to protect, care for or responsibly use the environment in pursuit of environmental and/or social outcomes in diverse social–ecological contexts. Next, drawing from a review of the environmental stewardship, management and governance literatures, we unpack the elements of this definition to develop an analytical framework that can facilitate research on local environmental stewardship. Finally, we discuss potential interventions and leverage points for promoting or supporting local stewardship and future applications of the framework to guide descriptive, evaluative, prescriptive or systematic analysis of environmental stewardship. Further application of this framework in diverse environmental and social contexts is recommended to refine the elements and develop insights that will guide and improve the outcomes of environmental stewardship initiatives and investments. Ultimately, our aim is to raise the profile of environmental stewardship as a valuable and holistic concept for guiding productive and sustained relationships with the environment.

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What Difference Does It Make? Assessing Outcomes From Participation in a Residential Environmental Education Program

Cited by 163 publications

References 21 publications

Effects of podcast tours on tourist experiences in a national park

Effects of podcast tours on tourist experiences in a national park

Children’s Restorative Experiences and Self-Reported Environmental Behaviors

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

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