Nature-based environmental education of children: Environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, together, are related to ecological behaviour

By Siegmar Otto, Pamela M. Pensini. 2017

682 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Claudio D. Rosa
2. Silvia Collado
3. Genovaitė Liobikienė
4. M. S. Poškus
5. J. A. Corraliza

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Silvia Collado
2. J. A. Corraliza
3. Claudio D. Rosa
4. Miles Richardson
5. A. Hunt
6. R. Lumber
7. Lea Barbett
8. Holli-Anne Passmore

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Silvia Collado
2. J. A. Corraliza
3. Claudio D. Rosa
4. Miles Richardson
5. A. Hunt
6. R. Lumber
7. S. O'Neill
8. Julie Barnett

Citations in the corpus

• The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behaviours (2020, background): “As noted in the introduction, empirical support for knowledge of nature leading to pro-environmental behaviours has been evidenced in several studies (e.g. Chan et al., 2014; Gungor et al., 2018; Otto & Pensini, 2017; Schneller et al., 2015).”
• The Importance of Environmental Knowledge for Private and Public Sphere Pro-Environmental Behavior: Modifying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory (2019, methodology): “The promotion of environmental knowledge is viewed as a fundamental component of environmental education [37,38].”
• Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis (2020, background): “One potential hypothesis could be that participation in the strikes facilitates increased “connectedness to nature,” and an acquisition of knowledge about climate change, shown in combination to increase ecological behavior (Otto & Pensini, 2017).”
• The Effect of a Nature-Based Environmental Education Program on Children’s Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A Randomized Experiment with Primary Schools (2020, methodology): “These results resemble those of a correlational study in which Otto and Pensini [13] concluded that participation in NBEE programs organized outside of the school (e.”
• A Measure of Nature Connectedness for Children and Adults: Validation, Performance, and Insights (2019, background): “The importance of nature connectedness in ecological behaviors has also been found in previous research [8].”