Gillian Dale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Dale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Dale |
| SIGNATURE | DALE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8505-087X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Co-imagining future scenarios can enhance environmental actors’ empathy toward future generations and non-human life-forms
Community assets in the context of Covid-19: Changes in valuation and contributions to place attachment and subjective wellbeing
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted patterns of daily life and use of community spaces. This study was completed in a municipality in the Greater Niagara Region, Ontario, to explore people-place relationships after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A greater proportion of individuals perceived the way in which they value community assets had changed since the onset of the pandemic. This was supported by pre- and post-pandemic data, which found that…
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership
Notwithstanding actions taken to date through policy, programmes and practices, the planet remains on an unsustainable pathway. System level and individual actions are needed to address the challenges that confront us. Finding approaches to encourage individual pro‐environmental behaviours are important for shifting an individual's actions, and these changes can have systemic implications. Outdoor adventure education programmes represent an ideal…
The role of perceived powerlessness and other barriers to climate action
The impacts of anthropogenic climate change are rapidly worsening, but current efforts to mitigate this crisis are insufficient. Therefore, it is critically important to understand how to motivate more individuals to take action to protect against future climate change impacts. This study examines the individual‐level factors that predict motivations to act, as well as potential barriers to action in a sample of Canadian adults. Participants comp…
What Makes an Environmental Steward? An Individual Differences Approach
Engaging in environmental stewardship is critical for sustainability. Understanding individual differences and engagement is an important gap in present scholarship and addressing it is necessary to understand individual factors that relate to the types of activities engaged in, motivations and barriers to environmental stewardship. We surveyed 637 Canadian and American adults via Amazon Mechanical Turk, querying a range of demographic, psycholog…
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature
Reconnecting to nature is imperative for the sustainability of humans on Earth, offering a leverage point for system change. Connections to nature have been conceptualized as a typology of five types as follows: material; experiential; cognitive; emotional; and, philosophical, ranging from relatively shallow to deeper connections, respectively. Educational programs that immerse individuals in nature have been designed to build an appreciation for…
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change
Youth currently in secondary school will spend most of their adult life in a hotter climate associated with climate change (CC). This study investigated attitudes of youth living in an Australian Biosphere Reserve to identify their understanding of CC causes, impact, and mitigation measures, as well as their feelings of self-efficacy and hope. An online survey of 425 youth found that although participants reported a high level of understanding of…
Inter-Group Perceptions of Key Performance Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Scenic Viewpoints
This study examines the perceptions of stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scenic viewpoints. We statistically compare the perceptions of two different visitor groups (residents of the Niagara region and tourists) regarding key performance indicators (KPIs) for M&E at 12 different viewpoint sites in Niagara Parks. Visitor perceptions were also compared to environmental managers’ perceptions of the viewpoint sites. Results demonstra…
Fostering ocean empathy through future scenarios
Empathy for nature is considered a prerequisite for sustainable interactions with the biosphere. Yet to date, empirical research on how to stimulate empathy remains scarce. Here, we investigate whether future scenarios can promote greater empathy for the oceans. Using a pre‐post empathy questionnaire, participants ( N = 269) were presented with an optimistic or a pessimistic future scenario for the high seas in a virtual reality (VR) or written f…
The issue of performance in Higher education institution - Community partnerships: A Canadian perspective
Higher education institutions are expected to account for their performance and this increasingly includes strengthening community relationships. However, assessment of Higher education institution (HEI)-Community partnerships is nascent. In this study we seek to discern the situation of these partnerships and examine accountability for performance in Canada, thereby advancing understanding about this international phenomenon. A search of Canadia…
Cognitive abilities of action video game and role-playing video game players: Data from a massive open online course
Numerous studies have demonstrated that regularly playing action video games (AVGPs) is associated with increased cognitive performance. Individuals who play role-playing video games (RPGs) have usually been excluded from these studies. This is because RPGs traditionally contained no action components and were thus not expected to influence cognitive performance. However, modern RPGs increasingly include numerous action-like components. We theref…
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change
Youth currently in secondary school will spend most of their adult life in a hotter climate associated with climate change (CC). This study investigated attitudes of youth living in an Australian Biosphere Reserve to identify their understanding of CC causes, impact, and mitigation measures, as well as their feelings of self-efficacy and hope. An online survey of 425 youth found that although participants reported a high level of understanding of…
The issue of performance in Higher education institution - Community partnerships: A Canadian perspective
Higher education institutions are expected to account for their performance and this increasingly includes strengthening community relationships. However, assessment of Higher education institution (HEI)-Community partnerships is nascent. In this study we seek to discern the situation of these partnerships and examine accountability for performance in Canada, thereby advancing understanding about this international phenomenon. A search of Canadia…
Cognitive abilities of action video game and role-playing video game players: Data from a massive open online course
Numerous studies have demonstrated that regularly playing action video games (AVGPs) is associated with increased cognitive performance. Individuals who play role-playing video games (RPGs) have usually been excluded from these studies. This is because RPGs traditionally contained no action components and were thus not expected to influence cognitive performance. However, modern RPGs increasingly include numerous action-like components. We theref…
Fostering ocean empathy through future scenarios
Empathy for nature is considered a prerequisite for sustainable interactions with the biosphere. Yet to date, empirical research on how to stimulate empathy remains scarce. Here, we investigate whether future scenarios can promote greater empathy for the oceans. Using a pre‐post empathy questionnaire, participants ( N = 269) were presented with an optimistic or a pessimistic future scenario for the high seas in a virtual reality (VR) or written f…
The issue of performance in Higher education institution - Community partnerships: A Canadian perspective
Higher education institutions are expected to account for their performance and this increasingly includes strengthening community relationships. However, assessment of Higher education institution (HEI)-Community partnerships is nascent. In this study we seek to discern the situation of these partnerships and examine accountability for performance in Canada, thereby advancing understanding about this international phenomenon. A search of Canadia…
What Makes an Environmental Steward? An Individual Differences Approach
Engaging in environmental stewardship is critical for sustainability. Understanding individual differences and engagement is an important gap in present scholarship and addressing it is necessary to understand individual factors that relate to the types of activities engaged in, motivations and barriers to environmental stewardship. We surveyed 637 Canadian and American adults via Amazon Mechanical Turk, querying a range of demographic, psycholog…
The role of a nature-based program in fostering multiple connections to nature
Reconnecting to nature is imperative for the sustainability of humans on Earth, offering a leverage point for system change. Connections to nature have been conceptualized as a typology of five types as follows: material; experiential; cognitive; emotional; and, philosophical, ranging from relatively shallow to deeper connections, respectively. Educational programs that immerse individuals in nature have been designed to build an appreciation for…
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change
Youth currently in secondary school will spend most of their adult life in a hotter climate associated with climate change (CC). This study investigated attitudes of youth living in an Australian Biosphere Reserve to identify their understanding of CC causes, impact, and mitigation measures, as well as their feelings of self-efficacy and hope. An online survey of 425 youth found that although participants reported a high level of understanding of…
Inter-Group Perceptions of Key Performance Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating Scenic Viewpoints
This study examines the perceptions of stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scenic viewpoints. We statistically compare the perceptions of two different visitor groups (residents of the Niagara region and tourists) regarding key performance indicators (KPIs) for M&E at 12 different viewpoint sites in Niagara Parks. Visitor perceptions were also compared to environmental managers’ perceptions of the viewpoint sites. Results demonstra…
Outdoor adventure education as a platform for developing environmental leadership
Notwithstanding actions taken to date through policy, programmes and practices, the planet remains on an unsustainable pathway. System level and individual actions are needed to address the challenges that confront us. Finding approaches to encourage individual pro‐environmental behaviours are important for shifting an individual's actions, and these changes can have systemic implications. Outdoor adventure education programmes represent an ideal…
The role of perceived powerlessness and other barriers to climate action
The impacts of anthropogenic climate change are rapidly worsening, but current efforts to mitigate this crisis are insufficient. Therefore, it is critically important to understand how to motivate more individuals to take action to protect against future climate change impacts. This study examines the individual‐level factors that predict motivations to act, as well as potential barriers to action in a sample of Canadian adults. Participants comp…
Co-imagining future scenarios can enhance environmental actors’ empathy toward future generations and non-human life-forms
Community assets in the context of Covid-19: Changes in valuation and contributions to place attachment and subjective wellbeing
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted patterns of daily life and use of community spaces. This study was completed in a municipality in the Greater Niagara Region, Ontario, to explore people-place relationships after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A greater proportion of individuals perceived the way in which they value community assets had changed since the onset of the pandemic. This was supported by pre- and post-pandemic data, which found that…
Psychology (10 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works)