Perception, knowledge and attitudes towards environmental issues and management among coastal users of the most important beach destination in Argentina

Pon, Juan Pablo Seco; Becherucci, María Eugenia; Paterlini, Carla Ángela; Adrogué, Agustina Quadri; Castano, Melina V.; Zumpano, Francisco; García, Germán Oscar

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106070

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“…For students, motivation is fundamental in ocean education, as it is essential to implementing different strategies, such as gamification, which generate greater autonomy in learning and impact on these subjects [16][17][18]. On the other hand, in the case of young people and the community in general, the aim is to integrate them with different technological platforms to know their opinions and, in this way, bring together the initiatives for training on ocean issues that allow more active citizen participation in the decisions and strategies for the management and conservation of the marine environment [19][20][21][22].…”

Section: Marine Ecosystem Protection With Ocean Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bibliometric Analysis on Ocean Literacy Studies for Marine Conservation

Salazar-Sepúlveda

Vega-Muñoz

Contreras-Barraza

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The aim of this study is to present an overview of the current scientific literature pertaining to ocean literacy. We applied a bibliometric method to examine relational patterns among publications in a set of 192 papers indexed from 2004 to 2023 in Web of Science Core Collection, applying Price’s, Lotka’s, Bradford’s, and Zipf’s bibliometric laws to add more validation to VOSviewer and processing both data and metadata. The findings indicate a significant exponential growth in scientific output from 2004 to 2022 (R2 = 86%), with a substantial amount of scientific research being focused on ocean literacy. The analysis shows the thematic trends of terminologies such as knowledge and citizen perception of climate change in relation to oceans; the benefits of biodiversity management and ocean conservation; and ocean education and its relation to behavior and attitudes towards and awareness of oceans. The research and its theoretical perspectives prompt an investigation of the impacts of ocean literacy outside of education, thanks to the contributions of authors from more than fifty countries dedicated to the study of these activities.

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Section: Marine Ecosystem Protection With Ocean Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bibliometric Analysis on Ocean Literacy Studies for Marine Conservation

Salazar-Sepúlveda

Vega-Muñoz

Contreras-Barraza

et al. 2023

Water

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“…Studies have varied in the social and psychological constructs of interest. Two popular approaches include assessing the knowledge of participants [ 15 , 19 , 20 ] and site-specific user-preferences associated with popular spaces (e.g., beaches) [ 21 – 23 ]. How coastal ecosystems and related services are valued has been investigated using both monetary [ 24 , 25 ] and non-monetary valuation [ 26 , 27 ].…”

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Public perception of an important urban estuary: Values, attitudes, and policy support in the Biscayne Bay-Miami Social Ecological System

Wester

2023

PLoS ONE

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Understanding public perceptions, values, and preferences can be fundamental to effective conservation governance, management, and outreach. This is particularly true in socially and ecologically complex marine and coastal spaces, where many relevant questions remain. The social-ecological system of Biscayne Bay and Miami-Dade are on the frontier of problems that will soon engulf many coastal-urban systems. Despite the economic, ecological, and cultural importance of Biscayne Bay, research into the social components of this social-ecological system is distinctly lacking. In order to effectively address urgent coastal management issues, practitioners and policy-makers need a clear understanding of public perceptions, values, and priorities. In this paper I present the results of a large online survey (n = 1146) exploring public attitudes toward Biscayne Bay as a case study of management and opportunity in a complex coastal social-ecological system. Results describe a public that interacts with and utilizes Biscayne Bay in a variety of ways, from leisure and recreation, to subsistence. This public believes the Bay to be moderately healthy, though somewhat in decline, and has experienced a range of local environmental threats, about which they feel considerable concern. These interactions and concerns are in turn reflected in overwhelming endorsement of value statements regarding the ecological, material, cultural and economic importance of the ecosystem to the city, as well as high levels of support for policy actions to protect and restore that ecosystem. Together these findings indicate that additional policy steps to preserve and restore Biscayne Bay would enjoy support from the local public and demonstrate the power of public perceptions research to identify gaps and opportunities for management and outreach.

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“…Knowledge, Perception, and Attitude have been recognized as key variables in determining the level of understanding, opinion and behavioral approach of various stakeholders [20][21][22][23][24][25]. But the existing literature lacks the assessment of these variables in the context of marine pollution to offer an insight into the level of understanding, behavior, and engagement of stakeholders in remediating the issue [26][27][28][29][30].…”

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Multi-Criteria Relationship Analysis of Knowledge, Perception, and Attitude of Stakeholders for Engagement towards Maritime Pollution at Sea, Beach, and Coastal Environments

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The external influence due to the severe repercussions of unprecedented and un-attended pollution has put vulnerable marine ecosystems at high risk of irreversible damage. This business-as-usual scenario could render them unfit to offer sustenance along with innumerable ecosystem services. Since the Stockholm Conference on Human Environment 1972, there have been global efforts to raise awareness, build capacity, and govern the pollution issue for a sustainable solution. However, there is a growing concern about the adequacy of the desired level of mobilization and readiness so far achieved at the level of various stakeholders to respond to the issue of maritime pollution. In this context, the present study was aimed at assessing the relationship between knowledge, perception, and attitude of the stakeholders regarding their engagement towards maritime pollution at sea, beach, and coastal environments, by incorporating multi-criteria quantitative analysis method for a case study of Karachi area in Pakistan. The structured questionnaire incorporates Knowledge, Perception, and Attitude as three key variables for three principles; four standardized criteria each, with eighteen indicators transformed into queries by applying MCDA’s Simple Multi Attribute Rating (SMART) technique for scoring to quantify the feedback of 304 respondents through a ratio scale having nominal qualifiable classes. The analysis has offered insight into the ways the stakeholders are perpetrating pollution and how their respective actions are important in the abatement of marine pollution. One-tailed Pearson Correlation analysis reveals insignificant relationship between the variables, indicating that the level of understanding of the stakeholders has not developed opinions to an extent that would enable an appropriate behavioral approach toward the abatement of the pollution. It suggests inducing awareness, mobilization, and reforms to encourage collective action by all actors.

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Perception, knowledge and attitudes towards environmental issues and management among coastal users of the most important beach destination in Argentina

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

Bibliometric Analysis on Ocean Literacy Studies for Marine Conservation

Bibliometric Analysis on Ocean Literacy Studies for Marine Conservation

Public perception of an important urban estuary: Values, attitudes, and policy support in the Biscayne Bay-Miami Social Ecological System

Multi-Criteria Relationship Analysis of Knowledge, Perception, and Attitude of Stakeholders for Engagement towards Maritime Pollution at Sea, Beach, and Coastal Environments

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