Journal article
Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours
EMA Strain, KA Alexander, S Kienker, R Morris, R Jarvis, R Coleman, B Bollard, LB Firth, AM Knights, JH Grabowski, L Airoldi, BKK Chan, SY Chee, Z Cheng, R Coutinho, RG de Menezes, M Ding, Y Dong, CML Fraser, AG Gómez Show all
Science of the Total Environment | ELSEVIER | Published : 2019
Abstract
Marine harbours are the focus of a diverse range of activities and subject to multiple anthropogenically induced pressures. Support for environmental management options aimed at improving degraded harbours depends on understanding the factors which influence people's perceptions of harbour environments. We used an online survey, across 12 harbours, to assess sources of variation people's perceptions of harbour health and ecological engineering. We tested the hypotheses: 1) people living near impacted harbours would consider their environment to be more unhealthy and degraded, be more concerned about the environment and supportive of and willing to pay for ecological engineering relative to t..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank The Ian Potter Foundation (Grant no: NA), the Harding Miller Foundation (Grant no: NA), the New South Wales Government Office of Science and Research, Research Coastal Node of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Adaptation Hub (Grant no: NA), Northeastern University (Grant no: NA), Rufford Small Grants (Grant no: 304.PPANTAI.650876.T128), E&O Properties Penang Sdn. Bhd. (Grant no: 304.PPANTAI.650827.E118), and the RUI grant (Grant no: 1001.PPANTAI.811341) for their financial support. Special thanks for help with collecting survey responses, to Dominic McAfee and Stephanie Bagala in Sydney, Alicia Donnellan Barraclough in Auckland, the students and staff of the Scypher and Grabowski laboratories in Boston and Marco Abbiati, Massimo Ponti, Marina Colangelo and Francesca Costantini in Ravenna. This study was part of the World Harbour Project (http://www.worldharbourproject.org/).