Murky waters: Media reporting of marine protected areas in South Australia

Compas, Eric; Clarke, Beverley; Cutler, Cecile; Daish, Kathleen

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2007.03.001

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“…A greater educational emphasis on broader ecosystem processes that combine biological with physical and chemical aspects may lead to more comprehensive public understanding of the ocean in general, and of desalination impacts in particular. The limited knowledge of less visible physical and chemical processes and benthic features among our respondents was similar to findings of previous studies (Beldon 1999, Compas et al 2007. Increasing exposure to these concepts in ocean outreach and education efforts should increase knowledge about these aspects of oceanography.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Predictors of coastal stakeholders' knowledge about seawater desalination impacts on marine ecosystems

Heck¹,

Petersen²,

Potts³

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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This study investigates variables that shape coastal stakeholders' knowledge about marine ecosystems and impacts of seawater desalination. The influence of trans-situational and situation-specific variables on self-assessed and factual knowledge among coastal residents and commercial marine stakeholders. Data were collected using a questionnaire based survey administered to a random sample of coastal residents and commercial marine stakeholders in eight communities in central California. Knowledge of biological features was higher than knowledge of physical and chemical processes. Both trans-situational and situation-specific variables were significant predictors of knowledge, in particular gender, education, and ocean use patterns. TV and social media were the only information sources that correlated negatively with knowledge. Predictors for distinct types of knowledge were different and provide insights that could help target specific ocean literacy gaps. The study also finds that commercial marine stakeholders were more knowledgeable than other coastal residents. Having an economic stake in the marine environment appears to be a strong motivation to be more educated about the ocean.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Predictors of coastal stakeholders' knowledge about seawater desalination impacts on marine ecosystems

Heck¹,

Petersen²,

Potts³

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Data gaps were filled from media files held in each marine park government office and state library archives. Content analysis of news stories and letters to the editor was conducted to determine whether they indicated a predominately supportive, critical, mixed or neutral message about the marine park (Wolch et al, 1997, Boissonneault et al, 2005, Compas et al, 2007, van Vuuren, 2009. In addition the role of the primary definer in each news article was classified according to stakeholder group.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition reporting of interventions such as the declaration of MPAs is seldom placed within the global context that gives rise to a declaration. Instead it tends to focus on the conflict between opposing stakeholder groups (Ericson et al, 1989, Compas et al, 2007, Lester, 2010, Baysha and Calabrese, 2012.…”

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Who cares wins: The role of local news and news sources in influencing community responses to marine protected areas

Voyer

Dreher

Gladstone

et al. 2013

Ocean & Coastal Management

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“…While newspaper reporting of ocean-related issues in the USA were found to be consistent with the views of marine scientists (Johns & Jacquet, 2018), studies in Australia and Finland show how news reporting can sometimes lead to inaccurate understanding of marine issues and hinder marine protection efforts (Compas, Clarke, Cutler, & Daish, 2007;Eagle, Hay, & Low, 2018;Lyytimäki, 2012). Balanced news reporting focused on industry-conservation adversaries can also challenge and discredit marine conservation initiatives (Foxwell-Norton & Konkes, 2019;Voyer, Dreher, Gladstone, & Goodall, 2013).…”

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Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

Kolandai-Matchett

Armoudian

2020

Aquatic Conservation

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1. Human activities are a major source of threat to marine ecosystems. Solutions thus require changes to or cessation of those activities in addition to multiple restorative and conservation effortsall of which, in turn, require public support for success. However, scientific understanding of threats to marine ecosystems has not paralleled public understanding of those threats in many jurisdictions. Highly complex, interwoven, distant, vulnerable to multiple stressors, and hosting biota that are biologically unfamiliar to people, marine ecosystems present unique communication challenges. 2. The merits of effective communication capable of motivating behavioural change, policy action and support for marine conservation are often emphasized. To date, however, environmental communication, as a field, has largely focused on terrestrial ecosystems and more recently on climate change, leaving research-informed marine conservation communication neglected. 3. Adding to the small compilation of marine conservation communication literature, this integrative review provides a new understanding of how six message frames (emotional, problem/solution, outcome, value-based, distance, and social norm) can interactively help enhance the effectuality of conservation messages. Insights from the framing-related literature are merged with those from relevant fields including the theoretical literature, and the behavioural, social, and environmental sciences to define concepts, provide examples and explain the relevance of the six identified frames. The potential strength of these frames are discussed and suggestions on how they might be used to communicate different marine conservation issues are provided.

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Murky waters: Media reporting of marine protected areas in South Australia

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Predictors of coastal stakeholders' knowledge about seawater desalination impacts on marine ecosystems

Predictors of coastal stakeholders' knowledge about seawater desalination impacts on marine ecosystems

Who cares wins: The role of local news and news sources in influencing community responses to marine protected areas

Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

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