Towards a Marine Mindset: Visiting an Aquarium Can Improve Attitudes and Intentions Regarding Marine Sustainability

Wyles, Kayleigh J.; Pahl, Sabine; White, Mathew P.; Morris, Sarah; Cracknell, Deborah; Thompson, Richard C.

doi:10.1080/10645578.2013.768077

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“…In addition, the opportunity to experience ocean environments up close, even temporarily, may boost the public's concern. In this vein, research has found that visits to an aquarium can promote attitudes that are more supportive of marine stewardship [61]. Moreover, advances in virtual reality technology provide unprecedented opportunities for sensory immersion into difficult-to-reach environments, including the deep ocean [62].…”

Section: Psychological Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating about ocean health: theoretical and practical considerations

Schuldt

McComas

Byrne

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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As anthropogenic stressors threaten the health of marine ecosystems, there is a need to better understand how the public processes and responds to information about ocean health. Recent studies of public perceptions about ocean issues report high concern but limited knowledge, prompting calls for information campaigns to mobilize public support for ocean restoration policy. Drawing on the literature from communication, psychology and related social science disciplines, we consider a set of social-cognitive challenges that researchers and advocates are likely to encounter when communicating with the public about ocean health and emerging marine diseases—namely, the psychological distance at which ocean issues are construed, the unfamiliarity of aquatic systems to many members of the public and the potential for marine health issues to be interpreted through politicized schemas that encourage motivated reasoning over the dispassionate consideration of scientific evidence. We offer theory-based strategies to help public outreach efforts address these challenges and present data from a recent experiment exploring the role of message framing (emphasizing the public health or environmental consequences of marine disease) in shaping public support for environmental policy.

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Section: Psychological Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating about ocean health: theoretical and practical considerations

Schuldt

McComas

Byrne

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Additionally, scientific information presented at facilities is often incorrect or distorted in order to avoid negative publicity, such as lower life expectancies of captive cetaceans in comparison to wild cetaceans (Rose et al, 2009;Jett and Ventre, 2015). However, there is evidence that zoos and aquariums may improve the overall pro-conservation attitudes, knowledge, intentions, and behaviors of visitors, at least in the short-term (Wyles et al, 2013). Skibins et al (2013) suggested that the most effective way to cultivate pro-conservation behaviors among visitors is to stimulate levels of "conservation caring" (how individuals think, feel, and act toward a species), for example, through affective messaging and persuasive communication.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Kraken in the Aquarium: Questions that Urgently Need to be Addressed in Order to Advance Marine Conservation

Cigliano

Bauer²,

Draheim

et al. 2016

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Despite advances in marine conservation research, policy, and management, human activities continue to negatively affect marine species, habitats, and ecosystems, and the people who rely on them for needed resources. This begs the question: What is preventing us from being more effective in conserving marine species, habitats, and ecosystems? Answering this requires us to identify gaps in marine conservation efforts and develop a consensus on how best to target our efforts. One way to do this is to conduct research prioritization exercises. The questions discussed here were identified during a series of workshops designed to establish a list of important questions that need to be answered to advance marine conservation. We deemed these particular questions to be in a separate class than those considered in the associated paper "Seventy-One Important Questions for the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity" (Parsons et al., 2014b). These questions were put into a separate category because they were identified as areas of ecological, social, and economic research that include external drivers or required sizable paradigm shifts to address. Here we describe and discuss these "Kraken in the aquarium" questions-the marine equivalent of "the elephant in the room" questions-in four sections: human nature, meeting our responsibilities, entrenched interests, and corporate driven policy. Within each section, we address multiple questions by identifying the issues and offering examples of ways forward where possible. This paper is intended to start a dialog about these difficult questions that loom over marine conservation research and management. It is becoming increasingly important that the conservation practitioner community engages in these discussions and develops solutions in order for our work to be fully effective.

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“…Messages emerging from these literatures include the value of benchmarking and the potential utility of alternative methodologies [11][12][13][14][15]. With respect to the latter, Mair and Laing's Transtheoretical Model, for example, provides a framework for the purpose of determining the pathway to behavioural change [16].…”

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Assessing the societal impacts of green demonstration homes: a Canadian case study

2016

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Background: This article investigates the overall societal impacts of the REEP House for Sustainable Living (REEP House) in Kitchener, Canada. Methods: Available information on green demonstration homes (GDHs) is reviewed to identify their goals, past assessment practices and their impacts on different measures ranging from energy consumption to behavioural changes. From this, the need for a multicriteria framework for evaluating GDHs is demonstrated. Drawing upon the GDH experience, the broader impact assessment literature, knowledge gained from community-focused recreational events and information from open eco-homes, such a framework is developed.

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Towards a Marine Mindset: Visiting an Aquarium Can Improve Attitudes and Intentions Regarding Marine Sustainability

Cited by 45 publications

References 20 publications

Communicating about ocean health: theoretical and practical considerations

Communicating about ocean health: theoretical and practical considerations

The Kraken in the Aquarium: Questions that Urgently Need to be Addressed in Order to Advance Marine Conservation

Assessing the societal impacts of green demonstration homes: a Canadian case study

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