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Ocean literacy to mainstream ecosystem services concept in formal and informal education: the example of coastal ecosystems of Southern Portugal

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dc.contributor.authorBarracosa, Helena
dc.contributor.authorde los Santos, Carmen B.
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Márcio
dc.contributor.authorFreitas, Cátia
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Rui
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-15T15:26:06Z
dc.date.available2019-11-15T15:26:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe concept of ecosystem services (ES) emerges as strategic to explain the influences that the ocean, and in particular coastal ecosystems, have on us and how we influence them back. Despite being a term coined several decades ago and being already widespread in the scientific community and among policy-makers, the ES concept still lacks recognition among citizens and educators. There is therefore a need to mainstream this concept in formal education and through Ocean Literacy resources. Although important developments in OL were done in the United States, particularly through the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA), this concept was only recently introduced in Europe. In Portugal, several informal OL education programs were developed in the last years, yet formal education on OL and, in particular, on ES is still very deficient. To address this limitation, the "Environmental Education Network for Ecosystem Services" (REASE), founded in 2017 in the Algarve region by a consortium of educational, environmental and scientific institutions, aims to increase OL through the dissemination of the perspective of how ES provided by coastal vegetation may contribute to the human well-being. The projects and activities implemented by REASE focus mostly on formal-education of school children and include: (1) capacity building for K-12 teachers, (2) educational programs to support and develop ES projects in schools, including a citizen science project to evaluate blue carbon stocks in the Algarve, (3) the publication of a children's book about the ES provided by the local Ria Formosa coastal lagoon, with a community-based participatory design (illustrations made by schoolchildren) and (4) a diverse array of informal education activities to raise awareness on the importance of coastal ecosystems on human well-being. REASE challenges are being successfully addressed by identifying threats to local coastal ecosystems that people worry about, and highlighting solutions to improve and maintain their health.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipAgência financiadora Fundo Ambiental, ENEA 2020 Portuguese national funds from FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology UID/Multi/04326/2019 SFRH/BPD/119344/2016pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fmars.2019.00626pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2296-7745
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12888
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediapt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectOcean literacypt_PT
dc.subjectBehavior changept_PT
dc.subjectProject-based learningpt_PT
dc.subjectBlue carbonpt_PT
dc.subjectCoastal ecosystemspt_PT
dc.subjectCitizen sciencept_PT
dc.subjectEnvironmental educationpt_PT
dc.subjectParticipatory action researchpt_PT
dc.titleOcean literacy to mainstream ecosystem services concept in formal and informal education: the example of coastal ecosystems of Southern Portugalpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.startPage626pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Marine Sciencept_PT
oaire.citation.volume6pt_PT
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