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and willingness to take personal and collective actions. The deliberation process is
a successful model in building citizen competencies and enhancing social capita
among local participants. Participants view the discussion is very informative and
engaging. They expressed strong interests in holding the forum at their communities
and help spread the word. The researchers would like to focus on engaging different
type of participants, such as teachers, farmers, policy makers, K-12 students in using
EIF Climate Choice as a model.
Acknowledgements This project was funded by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) and Kettering Foundation Environmental Issues Forums (EIF) and the
School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri. In addition, Missouri EPSCoR provided
funding in the form of a graduate school assistantship. Missouri EPSCoR is funded by the National
Science Foundation under Award #IIA-1355406 and #IIA-1430427.
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Jacobson S, Mcduff MD, Monroe MC (2015) Conservation education and outreach techniques.
Oxford University Press, UK, p 206p
Jasanoff S (1999) Civilisation and madness; the great BSE scare of 1996. Public Understanding of
Science 6:221–232
Leiserowitz A, Smith N, Marlon JR (2011) American teens’ knowledge of climate change.
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, Yale University, New Haven, CT. http://
climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2011_04_American-Teens%E2%
80%99-Knowledge-of-Climate-Change.pdf
Li C, Monroe MC (2017) Development and validation of the climate change hope scale for high
school students. Environ Behav 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916517708325
Macnaghten P, Urry J (1998) Contested natures. Sage, London, UK
National Issues Forums (2016) Climate choices. Dayton, OH
Ojala M (2012) Hope and climate change: the importance of hope for environmental engagement
among young people. Environ Educ Res 18(5):625–664
Oreskes N (2004) Beyond the ivory tower: the scientific consensus on climate change. Science
306:1686
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and willingness to take personal and collective actions. The deliberation process is
a successful model in building citizen competencies and enhancing social capita
among local participants. Participants view the discussion is very informative and
engaging. They expressed strong interests in holding the forum at their communities
and help spread the word. The researchers would like to focus on engaging different
type of participants, such as teachers, farmers, policy makers, K-12 students in using
EIF Climate Choice as a model.
Acknowledgements This project was funded by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) and Kettering Foundation Environmental Issues Forums (EIF) and the
School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri. In addition, Missouri EPSCoR provided
funding in the form of a graduate school assistantship. Missouri EPSCoR is funded by the National
Science Foundation under Award #IIA-1355406 and #IIA-1430427.
References
Bulkeley H (1999) Valuing the global environment: publics, politics and participation. Unpublished
Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Burgess J, Harrison C, Filius P (1998) Environmental communication and the cultural politics of
environmental citizenship. Environ Plann A 30:1445–1460
Cook J, Nuccitelli D, Green SA, Richardson M, Winkler B, Painting R, Way R, Jacobs P, Skuce A
(2013) Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature.
Environ Res Lett 8. 024024 (7 pp). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024
Creswell JW (2009) Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches.
Sage, CA
Deci EL (1971) Effects of externally mediated rewards on intrinsic motivation. J Pers Soc Psychol
18:105–115
Ding D, Maibach EW, Zhao X, Roser-Renouf C, Leiserowitz A (2011) Support for climate policy and
societal action are linked to perceptions about scientific agreement. Nat Clim Change 1:462–466.
https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE1295
Doran PT, Zimmerman MK (2009) Examining the scientific consensus on climate change. EOS
90(3):22–23
Jacobson S, Mcduff MD, Monroe MC (2015) Conservation education and outreach techniques.
Oxford University Press, UK, p 206p
Jasanoff S (1999) Civilisation and madness; the great BSE scare of 1996. Public Understanding of
Science 6:221–232
Leiserowitz A, Smith N, Marlon JR (2011) American teens’ knowledge of climate change.
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, Yale University, New Haven, CT. http://
climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2011_04_American-Teens%E2%
80%99-Knowledge-of-Climate-Change.pdf
Li C, Monroe MC (2017) Development and validation of the climate change hope scale for high
school students. Environ Behav 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916517708325
Macnaghten P, Urry J (1998) Contested natures. Sage, London, UK
National Issues Forums (2016) Climate choices. Dayton, OH
Ojala M (2012) Hope and climate change: the importance of hope for environmental engagement
among young people. Environ Educ Res 18(5):625–664
Oreskes N (2004) Beyond the ivory tower: the scientific consensus on climate change. Science
306:1686