Investigating societal attitudes towards the marine environment of Ireland

Valuing unfamiliar Mediterranean deep-sea ecosystems using visual Q-methodology

“…Nevertheless, while the researchers found many threats that could damage marine habitats in both coastal and deep-sea environments, usually people have a restricted understanding of the importance and the environmental problems of marine resources [33]. Both the public and the marine stakeholders mostly focus on few treats, highly visible and near the shore [34].…”

Public engagement with marine climate change issues: (Re)framings, understandings and responses

“…Whitmarsh, 2008). More recently, a survey of Irish citizens' attitudes to marine environments suggested that their views on the most significant threats do not for the most part correspond with those of expert or scientific communities (Hyne et al, 2014).…”

Measuring ocean literacy in pre-service teachers: psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Survey of Ocean Literacy and Experience (SOLE)

“…The small body of studies conducted before the ocean literacy movement in 2004, have focused on students and have taken place mostly in the USA (Fortner and Teates 1980;Fortner 1985;Fortner and Mayer 1989;Howick 1991;Brody 1996;Lambert 2005), as well as in other countries such as the UK (Revell, Stanisstreet, and Boyes 1994), Canada (Cummins and Snivelly 2000), South Africa (Ballantyne 2004), andIsrael (Ben-Zvi-Assarf andOrion 2005). Among the few studies having been conducted after 2004, the focus has also been on students (Greely 2008;Marrero 2009;Plankis and Marrero 2010;Kim 2014), as well as on the general public in the USA (Steel et al 2005;Fletcher et al 2009;Hynes, Norton, and Corless 2014), on high school students in Canada (Guest, Lotze, and Wallace 2015), university students in Taiwan (Chen and Tsai 2015) and pre-service teachers in Greece (Boubonari, Markos, and Kevrekidis 2013). The paucity of relevant studies underline the necessity to measure the level of knowledge of ocean sciences issues in various cultures and target groups.…”