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Radhakrishna, Sindhu
- The Culture of Environmental Education: Insights from a Citizen Science Experiment in India
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1 School of Natural and Engineering Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
2 School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
1 School of Natural and Engineering Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
2 School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 107, No 2 (2014), Pagination: 176-178Abstract
The impact of culture on environmental education is well acknowledged by theorists and practitioners in the field; however, the particular mechanisms by which cultural factors may influence environmental educational practices are still relatively unexplored. In this note we describe a citizen science initiative that we attempted to implement in a rural area in southern India, and draw on our experiences with the project to show how cultural beliefs regarding the purpose of school education and the importance of environmental issues can interact in subtle ways to present challenging scenarios to environmental educators.Full Text
- Human-Wildlife Conflict
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Pawan Kumar Agrawal
1,
Baldev Raj
2,
Sindhu Radhakrishna
2,
Abraham Verghese
3,
Kesavan Subaharan
3,
Ankita Gupta
3,
Abraham Verghese
4
Affiliations
1 National Agricultural Science Fund, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi 110 012, IN
2 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
3 National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru 560 024, IN
4 GPS Institute of Agricultural Management, Bengaluru 560 058, IN
1 National Agricultural Science Fund, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi 110 012, IN
2 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
3 National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru 560 024, IN
4 GPS Institute of Agricultural Management, Bengaluru 560 058, IN
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Current Science, Vol 111, No 10 (2016), Pagination: 1581-1582Abstract
Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is on the rise globally, and is one of the significant environmental problems in India. In India, HWC manifests itself in several ways, such as wildlife poaching, retaliatory killing of/injury to wildlife species, crop raiding and livestock predation by wildlife species, injury to humans or human mortality, and destruction of property, houses and buildings by wildlife. Of these, wildlife conflict in agro pastoral contexts has been a subject of debate and great concern nationally, not only for its impact on the farmers, but also for the consequences regarding wildlife conflict. In India, HWC involves multiple stakeholders and multitudinous socio-cultural and environmental issues. Hence any study on this topic must encompass a multi-disciplinary effort that provides a holistic understanding of the history of wildlife, crop and livestock raiding, its nature and consequences and discuss various techniques that have been used or recommended to mitigate the effects of this crisis.Full Text
- The Extinction of Experience in a Biodiversity Hotspot: Rural School Children’s Knowledge of Animals in the Western Ghats, India
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1 Animal Behaviour and Cognition Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Education Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
1 Animal Behaviour and Cognition Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Education Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 121, No 2 (2021), Pagination: 313-316Abstract
Lack of environmental awareness or ignorance re-garding the ecological role of animals among children has long-term negative consequences for the biodiver-sity of a nation. We conducted a study in a biodiversity hotspot in southern India to examine the knowledge level of rural school children regarding the mammali-an species in their region. The results of the study showed that school children were able to recognize regional mammalian species that are publicized by media sources, but had little knowledge about their conservation status or more significant information about them. Environmental education programmes must focus on making children more aware of the im-portance of various animals sharing their habitat, so that they have greater knowledge regarding the eco-logical roles of animals in the ecosystem.Keywords
Biodiversity Hotspot, Environmental Education, Mammals, School Children.Full Text
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