scholarly journals We should not separate out environmental issues, but the current approach to plastic pollution can be a distraction from meaningful action. A response to Avery-Gomm et al.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stafford ◽  
Peter Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Environmental Behaviours

We agree with Avery-Gomm et al. that we should not separate out environmental issues. We also agree with them over the relative threat of plastic to our oceans. However, recent evidence on the ‘spillover effect’ of pro-environmental behaviours and on public attitudes to threats to areas such as the Great Barrier Reef suggest common consumerist and political approaches to tackle plastic pollution can cause a distraction from issues caused by climate change and biodiversity loss. We reiterate that we need political changes to address overconsumption in order to make real progress on all environmental issues

scholarly journals Neoliberalism and the Environment: Are We Aware Of Appropriate Action to Save the Planet and Do We Think We Are Doing Enough?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie-Anne Jones ◽  
Rick Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
The Uk

We currently face several, interlinked environmental crises, including climate change, habitat destruction and biodiversity loss. However, many governments seem unwilling to take strong and immediate action to address these threats, preferring to promote neoliberal approaches to allow consumers and the general public to make environmentally friendly choices. This is despite neoliberal approaches being much less likely to be successful than government leadership, taxation, subsidies, and legislation in addressing environmental issues. In this study, we examine public perception of environmental threats and solutions to these threats, in a survey, mainly completed in the UK. Climate change is seen as the biggest issue, likely due to recent activist campaigns and subsequent media attention on the issue. Neoliberal attitudes, such as green consumer choices to environmental concerns, do still dominate in a series of possible presented solutions, and score more highly than lifestyle changes such as changing diet. However, when questioned specifically about plastic pollution, government intervention to ban all unnecessary plastic scored very strongly, indicating a shift from a consumer driven response. Furthermore, most participants think they are at best only partly ‘doing their bit’ to protect the environment. The results demonstrate that the public are aware that not enough is happening to protect the environment and provide evidence that there is willingness for stronger government intervention to address environmental issues, although there is potential resistance to major lifestyle changes.

scholarly journals Neoliberalism and the Environment: Are We Aware of Appropriate Action to Save the Planet and Do We Think We Are Doing Enough?

Earth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-339
Author(s):  
Ellie-Anne Jones ◽  
Rick Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
The Uk

We currently face several interlinked environmental crises, including climate change, habitat destruction and biodiversity loss. However, many governments seem unwilling to take strong and immediate action to address these threats, preferring to promote neoliberal approaches to allow consumers and the general public to make environmentally friendly choices. This is despite neoliberal approaches being much less likely to be successful than government leadership, taxation, subsidies, and legislation in addressing environmental issues. In this study, we examine public perception of environmental threats and solutions to these threats in a survey mainly completed in the UK. Climate change is seen as the biggest issue, likely due to recent activist campaigns and subsequent media attention on the issue. Neoliberal attitudes, such as green consumer choices to environmental concerns, do still dominate in a series of possible presented solutions, and they score more highly than lifestyle changes, such as changing diet. However, when questioned specifically about plastic pollution, government intervention to ban all unnecessary plastic scored very strongly, indicating a shift from a consumer-driven response. Furthermore, most participants think they are at best only partly “doing their bit” to protect the environment. The results demonstrate that the public is aware that not enough is happening to protect the environment and provide evidence that there is willingness for stronger government intervention to address environmental issues; however, there is potential resistance to major lifestyle changes.

scholarly journals Climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and the response of Australians

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Goldberg ◽  
Nadine Marshall ◽  
Alastair Birtles ◽  
Peter Case ◽  
Erin Bohensky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef

1. Making Sense of Earth’s Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Wilderness Preservation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Nature Preservation

This chapter introduces the politics of the Earth, which has featured a large and ever-growing range of concerns, such as pollution, wilderness preservation, population growth, depletion of natural resources, climate change, biodiversity loss, and destabilization of the Earth system. It explains how the issues of Earth’s politics are interlaced with a range of questions about human livelihood, social justice, public attitudes, and proper relation to one other and other entities on the planet. It also discusses the consequences of discourses for politics and policies. The chapter clarifies how environmental issues like ecological limits, nature preservation, climate change, biodiversity, rainforest protection, environmental justice, and pollution are interconnected in all kinds of ways. It develops an environmental discourse analysis approach and shows how this approach will be applied in subsequent chapters, beginning with the positioning of environmental discourses in relation to the long dominant of discourse of industrialism.

Vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change and local pressures

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1978-1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas H. Wolff ◽  
Peter J. Mumby ◽  
Michelle Devlin ◽  
Kenneth R. N. Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Local Pressures

Great Barrier Reef

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Kingsford ◽  
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Coral Disease ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
International Experts

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is 344 400 square kilometres in size and is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. This comprehensive guide describes the organisms and ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them. Contemporary pressing issues such as climate change, coral bleaching, coral disease and the challenges of coral reef fisheries are also discussed. In addition,the book includes a field guide that will help people to identify the common animals and plants on the reef, then to delve into the book to learn more about the roles the biota play. Beautifully illustrated and with contributions from 33 international experts, The Great Barrier Reef is a must-read for the interested reef tourist, student, researcher and environmental manager. While it has an Australian focus, it can equally be used as a baseline text for most Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Winner of a Whitley Certificate of Commendation for 2009.

A Sea Country Learning Partnership in Times of Anthropocenic Risk: Offshore Coral Reef Education and Our Story of Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Whitehouse ◽  
Marie Taylor ◽  
Neus (Snowy) Evans ◽  
Tanya Doyle ◽  
Juanita Sellwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Coral Bleaching ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Rapid Environmental Change ◽  
Civic Environmentalism

AbstractThis is a researched account of an offshore coral reef education partnership formed during a time of rapid environmental change (the coral bleaching events in the years 2015 to 2017). The aim of the partnership is to encourage a learning connection with Sea Country. Framed as civic environmentalism, this article explores the dimensions of practice between a reef tourism provider, local schools, a local university, and local Indigenous rangers that enables primary, secondary and university students, rangers, and educators to travel together on day trips to the outer Great Barrier Reef and islands and have immersive and sharing educational experiences. Offshore environmental education and higher quality marine education is increasingly important in the Anthropocene, when Australian reefs are subject to the pressures of climate change and other impacts other impacts that diminish their resilience.

scholarly journals Evidence-based communication on climate change and health: Testing videos, text, and maps on climate change and Lyme disease in Manitoba, Canada

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252952
Author(s):  
Laura Cameron ◽  
Rhéa Rocque ◽  
Kailey Penner ◽  
Ian Mauro
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Lyme Disease ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Cumulative Impacts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Environmental Behaviours

Given the climate crisis and its cumulative impacts on public health, effective communication strategies that engage the public in adaptation and mitigation are critical. Many have argued that a health frame increases engagement, as do visual methodologies including online and interactive platforms, yet to date there has been limited research on audience responses to health messaging using visual interventions. This study explores public attitudes regarding communication tools focused on climate change and climate-affected Lyme disease through six focus groups (n = 61) in rural and urban southern Manitoba, Canada. The results add to the growing evidence of the efficacy of visual and storytelling methods in climate communications and argues for a continuum of mediums: moving from video, text, to maps. Findings underscore the importance of tailoring both communication messages and mediums to increase uptake of adaptive health and environmental behaviours, for some audiences bridging health and climate change while for others strategically decoupling them.

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