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Exploring dynamism of cultural ecosystems services through a review of environmental education research

Authors: Rachelle K. Gould, Kimberly Coleman, Sonya Buglion Gluck

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Abstract

The field of cultural ecosystem services (CES) explores the non-material benefits that ecosystems provide to people. Human perceptions and valuations change, for many reasons and in many ways; research on CES, however, rarely accounts for this dynamism. In an almost entirely separate academic world, research on environmental education (EE) explores how EE programming affects peoples’ attitudes and values toward the natural world. In this review of 119 EE research publications, we explore whether CES (and the adjacent concept of relational values) can be dynamic. We approach this via two lines of inquiry that explore whether EE may instigate this change. First, we investigate whether the EE community measures (and tries to affect) CES-related outcomes. Second, we ask: Has EE research detected changes in CES-related outcomes? We find the EE programs measure many CES outcomes (e.g., aesthetic appreciation, social connectedness), and that in most cases studies observe increases in these outcomes after EE experiences.

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Metadata
Title
Exploring dynamism of cultural ecosystems services through a review of environmental education research
Authors
Rachelle K. Gould
Kimberly Coleman
Sonya Buglion Gluck
Publication date
11-04-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Ambio
Print ISSN: 0044-7447
Electronic ISSN: 1654-7209
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1045-8