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Social cohesion in restoration landscapes: The case of Rwanda

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecosystem restoration is recognized as a strategy for addressing landscape degradation. In contexts where ecological degradation overlaps with the deterioration of social cohesion, restoration must also contribute to rebuilding social ties alongside restoring ecosystems.
Valery Ndagijimana, Michael Weinhardt, Stefan Sieber, Katharina Löhr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of youth extracurricular activities and political intentions in later political participation and civic engagement. [PDF]

J Adolesc
Lundberg E, Abdelzadeh A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Buildings as accidental habitat: Where animals nest, sleep and forage

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Animals have long inhabited human buildings alongside us, but our understanding comes from isolated studies, such as reports of a possum in the roof or a bat in our walls. What we lack is the building's perspective: which building features actually serve as habitat and for whom?
Bethany M. Kiss, Sarah A. Bekessy, Brandon Mak, Fabio Sweet, Georgia E. Garrard, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Casey Visintin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual humility and the learning sciences: can self-reports and behavioral measures coexist to understand civic engagement? [PDF]

Front Psychol
Lira M, McElroy-Heltzel S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Forging environmentalism: The influence of childhood nature experiences on people's pro‐biodiversity value orientations and attitudes

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract With the rapid expansion of transnational biodiversity policy instruments promoting large‐scale landscape transformations that depend on public support for their success and feasibility, understanding the mechanisms underlying pro‐biodiversity attitudes has become important.
Oriol Garcia‐Antúnez, Christopher M. Raymond, Thomas Beery, Anton Stahl Olafsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plurality in transformative change: Three co‐created pathways toward nature‐positive Europe(s)

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The accelerating decline of biodiversity necessitates transformative change to protect nature and society, which requires innovative actions and governance strategies. This paper advances the conceptual understanding of transformative change by identifying patterns of change in three co‐created transformative pathways for a nature‐positive ...
Mara de Pater, Aniek Hebinck, Symke Nieboer, Anita Lazurko, Robbert Biesbroek, Laura Pereira, Elizabeth Díaz‐General, Aron Teunissen, Samia Baadj, Anna Chilton, Seweryn Krupnik, Richard Kock, Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi, W. Mathijs Rozemuller, Eirini Sakellari   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Bee The CURE: Increasing Student Science Self-Efficacy, Science Identity, and Predictors of Scientific Civic Engagement in a Community College CURE. [PDF]

CBE Life Sci Educ
Dunbar-Wallis AK, Katcher J, Moore W, Corwin LA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Integrating Sustainability Through Socio‐Scientific Issues in Chile: Towards a Decolonial Chemistry Education

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how integrating sustainability through socio‐scientific issue (SSI) in secondary chemistry teaching shapes epistemic openness and closure from a decolonial perspective, as mediated through classroom discourse. Drawing on a co‐planned lesson on copper mining in Chile – a scientifically rich yet ethically and politically ...
Denise Quiroz‐Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

The Transformational STEM Consciousness Scale: A QuantCrit Measure of a Liberatory STEM Outcome

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Guided by QuantCrit, we introduce and validate the Transformational STEM Consciousness (TSC) scale, which fuses students' motivation to pursue racial and social justice through STEM with a critique of STEM's historic complicity in inequity. Surveying 255 undergraduate and graduate students in 18 justice‐integrated STEM courses across 11 US ...
Juan C. Garibay, Lindsay Wheeler
wiley   +1 more source