Who cares? European attitudes towards marine and coastal environments
Who cares? European attitudes towards marine and coastal environments
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DOI：
10.1016/j.marpol.2016.06.012
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发表时间：
2016-10-01
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Mee, Laurence
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作者：
Potts, Tavis;Pita, Cristina;Mee, Laurence
了解公众如何看待海洋环境是生态系统方法的一个核心组成部分。尽管探索社会与海洋之间的联系很重要，但这仍然是海洋科学中一个相对未探索的方面。本文介绍了一项新颖的欧洲调查的结果，该调查探讨了四个区域海洋七个国家的个人对海洋环境的价值观、关切和愿望。它为文献提供了创新性的贡献，使我们更好地了解公众对海洋的看法如何因国家、区域和年龄和性别等人口变量而有很大差异。本次调查发现了四个重要问题：（1）各国对海洋的关切各不相同，但总体上低于其他环境关切;（2）公众认为生态系统服务，特别是具有广泛社会意义的监管、文化和供应服务十分重要;（3）科学界和公众对影响海洋系统的主要压力的看法存在分歧;（4）科学界和公众对海洋系统的主要压力的看法存在分歧。（4）年龄或世代等人口因素比社区与沿海环境的接近程度更能影响人们对海洋问题的看法。公众对海洋的看法将在支持海洋规划、大规模部署海洋可再生能源和海洋保护区等具有重大社会和经济影响的改革方面发挥重要作用，尽管尚未确定。(C)2016爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有
Understanding how the public perceives the marine environment is a central component of the ecosystem approach. Despite the importance of exploring the links between society and the sea, it is still a relatively unexplored dimension of marine science. This paper presents the results of a novel European survey that explores the values, concerns and aspirations of individuals regarding the marine environment in seven countries across four regional seas. It provides an innovative contribution to the literature by refining our knowledge of how public perceptions on the oceans vary significantly by country, region and by demographic variables such as age and gender. Four issues emerge as important from this survey: (1) Concern about the oceans is variable but generally below other environmental concerns in different countries; (2) Ecosystem services, in particular regulatory, cultural and provisioning services that have broader societal relevance are recognised as important by the public; (3) There is a schism between scientific and public perspectives on the key pressures that affect marine systems; and (4) demographic factors such as age or generation can influence perceptions on marine issues more than the proximity of a community to the coastal environment. Public viewpoints on the oceans will play an important, if yet undetermined, role in supporting reforms such as marine planning, the large scale deployment of marine reriewables and marine protected areas that have significant social and economic consequences. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.