Fundraising for regional environmental issues: Public perceptions of who is financially responsible for the local environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Jones ◽  
Xiang Bi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Public Perceptions

scholarly journals Maltese Youth and the Environment: A Qualitative Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Mifsud
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Graphical Display ◽  
Maltese Islands ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Contextual Study

Maltese Youth and the Environment: A Qualitative StudyThe present study attempted to highlight the main processes of the acquisition and development of various environmental perspectives and puts forward suggestions on how youth can be better addressed in the light of the research findings. The present paper involved the use of a number of focus groups and a contextual study that examined the development of environmental education on the Maltese islands, considered the main local environmental issues and subsequently analysed the main causes and mechanisms that have shaped the development of the local environment and the Maltese people. The present research identifies a number of geographic and socio economic trends which have a strong impact on young people's knowledge. The results indicate relatively low positive behaviour towards the environment, and the main issue appears to be what is seen as the ‘costs’ involved in performing such pro-environmental actions. A pervasive sense of futility in environmental actions emerged with issues relating to the Maltese government and politics being the main reasons for this feeling. An environmental perspectives model was designed employing the technique of graphical display. The model illustrates how young people perceive the future of the Maltese environment through three Cartesian axes.

scholarly journals Critical environmental education in tertiary English language teaching (ELT): A collaborative digital storytelling project

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Digital Stories

Environmental issues have recently been incorporated into English materials. Hundreds of ELT materials concerning environmental issues are available worldwide in mainstream or assigned coursebooks and may simply be adapted by teachers for their classroom use. To respond to this, the present study explores an initial endeavor to integrate critical environmental education into ELT in a higher education context. In this study, a collaborative digital storytelling project was enacted. Student teachers created digital stories about Subak, their local environment, to evaluate its problems and propose solutions to the problems. Data gleaned from a questionnaire, an interview, and digital stories were thematically analyzed. Findings indicate that digital storytelling served as a multidimensional platform for student teachers to explore economic, political, and social aspects linked to subak. Thus, their digital stories could be considered as authentic materials for environmental education. This suggests that digital storytelling (DST) is a form of a powerful campaign against environmental destruction. The main contributions of this article are to provide empirical evidence regarding the implementation of a collaborative DST project in higher education and to show pedagogical implications for English language teaching (ELT) and critical environmental pedagogy.

scholarly journals Striving for Sustainability: The Contribution of Paul Johnston to Conservation Biology

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Squires
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Real World ◽  
Aquatic Invertebrates ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Numerous People

Paul Johnston, the lead scientist with Greenpeace International, combines scientific knowledge with public debate and awareness campaigns to work towards environmental change and sustainability. Opposed by numerous people internationally, Paul Johnston is in a constant battle to change negative public perceptions of Greenpeace and their scientific endeavors such as reviews and specific studies. Through his position with Greenpeace and as a credited biologist with a PhD in selenium toxicity in aquatic invertebrates he has been involved in numerous international conferences both with public organizations and industry. Paul Johnston has built up a reputation through his tireless efforts and, regardless of criticisms of actions or stances he may take, his dedication to his beliefs and beyond that the fact that he backs his claims with real world action demands respect in the fight against environmental degradation. There are few people who have not heard of Greenpeace and Paul Johnston's contributions in raising public awareness of environmental issues is important should society have a chance of changing.

scholarly journals What is an institution? An ontological debate illustrating community forestry of Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Dilli Prasad Poudel
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
History Of

Illustrating Community Forestry (CF) of Nepal, this article discusses the concept of ‘institution’ through the perspectives of the phenomenology of Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann (1966), the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens (1984), and the conception of institution as people-nature relations. Phenomenologists concentrate on the structures of consciousness as individuals experienced and expressed while turning an objective world or phenomenon into a subjective one through objectivation, internalization and externalization/ institutionalization process. The structuralist holds that the creation of an institution is a reproduction of interaction between structures and actors. And other theorists (e.g., Leach et al., 1999; Ostrom 2005, 2009; Gupta et al., 2010; Young, 2010) consider that institutions for natural resources conflate with social institutions and mediate their relations. Although these theories are not explicit epistemologically in a pragmatic sense, they have indicated language, rules, (embedded) practices and knowledge are the referential artifacts of institutions. These theories are found applicable in the institutionalization/socialization history of CF as it had gone through the social rejection (i.e, objectivation) during the 1970s, internalization during the 1980s, and socialization of it during and after the 1990s. The socialization of CF after the 1990s was due to the formation of CF as a social space (a ‘structure’ or ‘institution’) to discuss social and environmental issues into one place where forest dependent users (‘actors’) rationalize the use of forest and its conservation for local environment in a more pragmatic sense (i.e., mediate people-nature relations). An institution for natural resources is, therefore, the combined perspectives of phenomenologists, structuralists, and those who think institutions as a mediator of people-nature relations. Thus, an institution is political (i.e., relations and interactions) and ecological/economic (i.e., access to natural resources, livelihood practices).

Community Environmental Education as a Model for Effective Environmental Programmes

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morag Blair
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

AbstractThe benefits of community environmental education outlined in environmental education literature are supported by the findings and implications of a research study undertaken in New Zealand. Evidence from a two-case case study suggests that environmental programmes guided by the key principles and practices of community environmental education, that is, public participation, environmental adult education and environmental communication, can produce effective environmental outcomes. Indeed, these cases indicate that the principles and practices of public participation provide a catalyst for genuine collaborative efforts between different organisations and local communities. Results also indicated that environmental adult education strategies can empower community members to critically evaluate local environmental issues, which in turn resulted in a commitment to improving the local environment. I thus argue in this paper that the principles and practices of community environmental education can provide benchmarks for cross-sectoral collaboration and assist communities in reaching environmental solutions.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Negative Impacts of Coffee Husk on the Local Environment

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berhanu Tolessa ◽  
Berhanu Tolessa Amena ◽  
Holm Altenbach ◽  
Getachew Shunki Tibba ◽  
Hirpa G. Lemu
Keyword(s):  
Methylene Chloride ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Organic Pollution ◽  
Coffee Husk ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Area Unit ◽  
Value Add ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract In a locality wherever intense low process is completed while not appropriate waste management measures, low effluents area unit the principal reason behind organic pollution. Low husk contains caffeine, tannins, and chlorogenic acid, creating it a dangerous exposed husk. The low method has been delivery environmental issues to the environment thanks to the discharge of pollution with a large quantity of organic waste. the target of this work is to research the negative impacts of low husk on the atmosphere to scale back environmental pollution in step with the planet Health Organization, one among the foremost vital problems that enterprises confront as they look for ways to limit their use of the artifact by changing it into value-add products/applications is that the harmful impact of low husk on the atmosphere (WHO).The significance of the experiment is to form low husk as an alternate resource to switch fiber. Methylene chloride liquid-liquid extraction was developed to avoid caffeine, tannin, and CGA spectral overlapping within the three hundred -700 nm wavelength vary. The results indicated increment deadly materials that have an effect on the atmosphere. From the experiment performed low husk are often used as an alternate resource for getting composites for might applications and solve the environmental issues.

scholarly journals Public Perceptions of Issues and Problems in the Lake Champlain Basin Area: A Summary

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-333
Author(s):  
Harold R. Capener
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New England ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Lake Champlain ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Survey Team ◽  
Basin Area

In the summer and fall of 1977 a survey team carried out a study of environmental issues and problems as perceived by high-school-ago youth, selected adult key informants, and relevant organizational leaders. The study was completed in the spring of 1978 as part of a larger series of Level B studies sponsored by the New England River Basins Commission.

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