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The Relationship Between Public Understanding of Science and Support for Environmental Restoration
Environmental restoration can be controversial, with conflict between those undertaking restoration and the public. The controversy can often be attributed to a gap in understanding between these two groups. This thesis ...
Can public engagement with socioscientific issues change attitudes? A survey of New Zealander’s responses to genetic engineering
When science enters the public domain it can often lead to controversy if it raises questions of power, knowledge and control. This thesis uses examples of these socioscientific issues to evaluate the positive and negative ...
Learning for Survival, Resilience, Well-being and Continuance: An Epistemology and Pedagogy for Environmental Education/Education for Sustainability informed by Māori Culture
The literature suggests that philosophies, worldviews and approaches of indigenous cultures may be key to an urgent shift in paradigm towards holistic ethics, attitudes, values and behaviours essential for an ecologically ...
Power of Inspiration. Analysing the use of a spokesperson to communicate the conservation of wildlife and the natural world.
People have had a close relationship with the natural world for thousands of years, but this connection has not always had a positive effect on the flora, fauna and ecosystems of the world. Indeed over time species and ...
The Effects of Noise Pollution on Marine Mammals
This thesis is about underwater noise pollution from commercial tourism and industrial vessels, naval sonar and oil exploration, and its effects on marine mammals. It will review case studies of the effects of noise pollution ...
Narrative Models for Communicating Energy Science
Effective science communication is one of the most indispensable tools in bringing scientific understanding to the public sphere, however the field is by no means perfect. In this thesis, I address one of the central ...
War's Redemption: The Possibility of a Park for Peace in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea
In 1998 the DMZ Forum was formed with the goal to create a Park for Peace in the Demilitarized Zone between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Parks for Peace ...
Combating the Selective Use of Science: the extraordinary case of elephants in captivity
It is not uncommon for scientists to find their work, in its entirety or in part, becoming enmeshed in highly politicised issues. In the 21st Century, given the ease with which we can source information and the rapidity ...
Science Communication and Interpersonal Conversation
Science literacy and public understanding of science amongst the public has stagnated in recent decades in the United States and Australia. This has occurred despite the simultaneous rise of ubiquitous access to massive ...
Expanding the Documentary Dialogue: Audience engagement and new media for social impact in environmental and social issue documentaries
Environmental and social issue documentaries are an effective way to communicate serious matters to the public, motivating dialogue and action around important issues. The following thesis explores the contemporary documentary ...