Public awareness, concerns, and priorities about anthropogenic impacts on marine environments.

ABSTRACT: 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 differen

SUBMITTER: Gelcich S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4210304 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature