Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments
Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1417344111
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发表时间：
2014-10-21
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Duarte, Carlos M.
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作者：
Gelcich, Stefan;Buckley, Paul;Duarte, Carlos M.
许多国际机构主张制定战略以实现海洋环境的可持续性。通常，此类战略基于专家组提供的有关退化原因和解决这些问题的政策选择的信息，但这些战略很少考虑有关公众意识、关切和优先事项的评估信息。在这里，我们报告了一项关于公众对海洋环境影响看法的泛欧调查结果，以此为科学和政策优先事项的形成提供信息。根据来自 10 个欧洲国家、涵盖不同社会经济和地理区域的人们对在线调查的 10,106 份回复，我们研究了公众对海洋影响的了解和担忧、对不同信息来源的信任以及政策和资金的优先事项。结果表明，对海洋影响的关注程度与知情程度密切相关，污染和过度捕捞是公众制定政策时优先考虑的两个领域。不同信息源的信任程度差异很大，对学术界和学术出版物的信任程度最高，但对政府或行业科学家的信任程度较低。结果表明，公众认识到海洋人为影响的紧迫性，并对海洋污染、过度捕捞和海洋酸化高度关注。激发公众意识、关注点和优先事项可以使科学家和资助者了解公众如何与海洋环境相关，确定影响，并使管理和政策优先事项与公众需求保持一致。
Numerous international bodies have advocated the development of strategies to achieve the sustainability of marine environments. Typically, such strategies are based on information from expert groups about causes of degradation and policy options to address them, but these strategies rarely take into account assessed information about public awareness, concerns, and priorities. Here we report the results of a pan-European survey of public perceptions about marine environmental impacts as a way to inform the formation of science and policy priorities. On the basis of 10,106 responses to an online survey from people in 10 European nations, spanning a diversity of socioeconomic and geographical areas, we examine the public's informedness and concern regarding marine impacts, trust in different information sources, and priorities for policy and funding. Results show that the level of concern regarding marine impacts is closely associated with the level of informedness and that pollution and overfishing are two areas prioritized by the public for policy development. The level of trust varies greatly among different information sources and is highest for academics and scholarly publications but lower for government or industry scientists. Results suggest that the public perceives the immediacy of marine anthropogenic impacts and is highly concerned about ocean pollution, overfishing, and ocean acidification. Eliciting public awareness, concerns, and priorities can enable scientists and funders to understand how the public relates to marine environments, frame impacts, and align managerial and policy priorities with public demand.