Social cohesion in restoration landscapes: The case of Rwanda
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 +3 more
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The role of youth extracurricular activities and political intentions in later political participation and civic engagement. [PDF]
Lundberg E, Abdelzadeh A.
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Buildings as accidental habitat: Where animals nest, sleep and forage
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 +6 more
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Intellectual humility and the learning sciences: can self-reports and behavioral measures coexist to understand civic engagement? [PDF]
Lira M, McElroy-Heltzel S.
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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 +3 more
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Plurality in transformative change: Three co‐created pathways toward nature‐positive Europe(s)
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 +14 more
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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis
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
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Bee The CURE: Increasing Student Science Self-Efficacy, Science Identity, and Predictors of Scientific Civic Engagement in a Community College CURE. [PDF]
Dunbar-Wallis AK +3 more
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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
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The Transformational STEM Consciousness Scale: A QuantCrit Measure of a Liberatory STEM Outcome
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
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