Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis

K Lee, N Gjersoe, S O'neill… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the scale of the predicted impact of climate change on future generations, most of
the academic literature investigating perceptions of climate change relates to adults or …

Challenges and opportunities for evaluating environmental education programs

A Carleton-Hug, JW Hug - Evaluation and program planning, 2010 - Elsevier
Environmental education organizations can do more to either institute evaluation or improve
the quality of their evaluation. In an effort to help evaluators bridge the gap between the …

The effectiveness of education for sustainable development revisited–a longitudinal study on secondary students' action competence for sustainability

D Olsson, N Gericke… - Environmental Education …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study revisits the seminal question of the effectiveness of education for sustainable
development (ESD) by using a novel longitudinal approach. Scholarly attention in the past …

The effect of implementation of education for sustainable development in Swedish compulsory schools–assessing pupils' sustainability consciousness

D Olsson, N Gericke… - Environmental education …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
During the past decade, numerous schools in Sweden have implemented education for
sustainable development (ESD) as an explicit guiding approach in teaching. In this paper …

The development of conservation behaviors in childhood and youth

L Chawla, V Derr - 2012 - academic.oup.com
With a focus on childhood and adolescence, this chapter seeks to understand how people
come to act responsibly on behalf of the environment. It begins with a brief overview of …

Self-perceived action competence for sustainability: The theoretical grounding and empirical validation of a novel research instrument

D Olsson, N Gericke, W Sass… - Environmental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study contributes to an operationalization of the concept of action competence for
sustainability through the theoretical development and empirical validation of a new 12-item …

The adolescent dip in students' sustainability consciousness—Implications for education for sustainable development

D Olsson, N Gericke - The Journal of Environmental Education, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research has shown that interest in and concern about environmental issues tends
to decrease in adolescence, but less is known about adolescents' broader consciousness of …

Connectedness with nature and the decline of pro-environmental behavior in adolescence: A comparison of Canada and China

T Krettenauer, W Wang, F Jia, Y Yao - Journal of Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present research investigated whether age-related differences in connectedness with
nature in adolescence are associated with pro-environmental behavior across two cultures …

Environmental attitudes and environmental behavior—which is the horse and which is the cart?

E Eilam, T Trop - Sustainability, 2012 - mdpi.com
The present article challenges the prevailing perception in the field of environmental
education that acquisition of environmental behavior is an ultimate goal of the educational …

Promoting pro-environmental behavior through citizen science? A case study with Chilean schoolchildren on marine plastic pollution

CS Wichmann, D Fischer, SM Geiger… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic marine debris (PMD) polluting marine habitats is a pressing anthropogenic global
environmental problem and its reduction requires the commitment of government and …