Variation in public perceptions and attitudes towards terrestrial ecosystems

Kiley, Heather M.; Ainsworth, Gillian B.; Dongen, Wouter F. D. van; Weston, Michael A.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.179

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“…Understanding of societal and scientific attention is especially relevant within the field of biodiversity conservation, due to its potential impact on the general support for conservation efforts (Stokes, 2007;Kiley et al, 2017;Liordos et al, 2017). The biodiversity conservation arena is generally considered to be represented by four distinct, interacting sectors: the scientific community, policy makers, news media, and the general society (Papworth et al, 2015).…”

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On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions — Insights for conservation

Jarić

Correia

Roberts

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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Attention directed at different species by society and science is particularly relevant within the field of conservation, as societal preferences will strongly impact support for conservation initiatives and their success. Here, we assess the association between societal and research interests in four charismatic and threatened species groups, derived from a range of different online sources and social media platforms as well as scientific publications. We found a high level of concordance between scientific and societal taxonomic attention, which was consistent among assessed species groups and media sources. Results indicate that research is apparently not as disconnected from the interests of society as it is often reproached, and that societal support for current research objectives should be adequate. While the high degree of similarity between scientific and societal interest is both striking and satisfying, the dissimilarities are also interesting, as new scientific findings may constitute a constant source of novel interest for the society. In that respect, additional efforts will be necessary to draw scientific and societal focus towards less charismatic species that are in urgent need of research and conservation attention.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions — Insights for conservation

Jarić

Correia

Roberts

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Saat ini yang menjadi tantangan dalam melakukan konservasi alam adalah pertentangan antara tujuan konservasi alam dan preferensi manusia. Manusia dalam menilai alam hanya berdasarkan tujuan mereka masing-masing (misalnya alam hanya dipandang sebagai tempat rekreasi), hal itu tentu berbeda dari tujuan konservasi alam (Kiley, Ainsworth, van Dongen, & Weston, 2017).…”

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Pengetahuan dan Sikap Manusia Terhadap Isu Lingkungan

Alam

Ardi

Asrib

2018

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Environmental issues are problems that arise from the results of greedy human activities in exploiting nature. Many environmental issues have made humans vulnerable to disasters. The utilization of energy resources carried out by humans today results in air pollution, the greenhouse effect, and global warming. The environment becomes degraded due to human activation, a degraded environment will only have a negative impact on human life. This article discusses human knowledge and attitudes towards environmental issues. Environmental knowledge is general knowledge about facts, concepts, or relationships related to the surrounding environment and its ecosystem. Every human being has different environmental knowledge because it is influenced by factors of education, experience, information, the area of residence. Knowledge of the environment that humans have will support their environmental attitudes and behavior. Every environmental issue that occurs will bring up two kinds of attitudes in the community, namely positive and negative attitudes. Every attitude possessed by humans will determine what steps they will choose in facing environmental issues, such as turning off lights, turning off electronic equipment, choosing vehicles with minimal emissions.

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“…The higher perceived value of tree-dominated vegetation compared to treeless formations coincides with a previous study in the same area upon which vegetation with trees was perceived as more attractive than shrublands (for 96% of respondents; Lage-Picos, 2001 ). A low preference for treeless environments has been shown by a number of studies in Europe, the USA and Australia (e.g., Lamb & Purcell, 1990 ; Cook & Cable, 1995 ; Kiley et al, 2017 ). The preference for native forests over plantations in our study seems to be more related to the aesthetic or perceived ecological value of these formations rather than to their economic value, since plantations provide more revenue.…”

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Human dimensions of wildfires in NW Spain: causes, value of the burned vegetation and administrative measures

Calviño‐Cancela

Cañizo-Novelle

2018

PeerJ

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Exploring the human dimensions of forest fires is a crucial, although often overlooked, aspect of wildfire research, since wildfires often have important socio-economic impacts and humans are nowadays the main cause of wildfires in many areas of the world. We carried out a telephone survey (N = 345 interviews) in one of the most fire-prone areas in Europe (NW Spain) in order to assess citizens’ awareness about wildfire causes and risks, their perception of the value of the vegetation and of administrative measures to fight against fires. Perceptions of respondents about fire causes were in general realistic although fires caused by pyromaniacs and for profit were overestimated, while vegetation management was comparatively underestimated. Citizens were broadly aware of the fire risk associated with different vegetation types, rightly considering native oak forests and agricultural fields as less risky than shrublands and pine and eucalypt plantations. Tree-dominated vegetation was more valued than treeless formations, and native forests more than tree plantations, which seems related to a preference for ecological value over utilitarian considerations. In addition, the value of eucalypt plantations was clearly affected by the education level of respondents, being less valued as the education level increased. Most citizens considered that the administration was not doing enough to fight against fires. The law that compels landowners to reduce fuels in wildland-urban interfaces was considered effective by most respondents (72%), but 50% considered it difficult to implement by landowners. This may explain the poor degree of compliance of this law.

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Variation in public perceptions and attitudes towards terrestrial ecosystems

Cited by 25 publications

References 76 publications

On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions — Insights for conservation

On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions — Insights for conservation

Pengetahuan dan Sikap Manusia Terhadap Isu Lingkungan

Human dimensions of wildfires in NW Spain: causes, value of the burned vegetation and administrative measures

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