Tarah Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3729393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tarah Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7210-2039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of the arts at the intersection of climate change and public Health: Findings from an international survey
The arts offer multiple pathways for addressing the health impacts of climate change, though structural barriers limit their implementation and scale. Findings have implications for policymakers, climate scientists, artists, and healthcare professionals seeking to integrate arts-based approaches into climate-health interventions and adaptation strategies
Creativity in climate adaptation: Conceptualizing the role of arts organizations
In the face of the climate emergency, it is becoming clear that cultural change is a necessary transformative shift that must occur to ensure human survival. Climate change is entangled with behavioural and social dimensions of our lives, necessitating that we undergo cultural transformation to access the potential of existing climate solutions. While there is both an increase in research regarding how the arts can contribute to this needed cultu…
Connecting Climate Change and Canadian Theatre: Reflecting on the Impact of the NAC’s Climate Cycle
The arts have a unique way of affecting the way that people feel about environmental issues in ways that other forms of communication cannot. The National Arts Centre (NAC) Climate Cycle was a program that the NAC English Theatre developed as a response to the escalating climate crisis to engage artists deeply in discussions on climate change and to grapple with how the performing arts can respond. It took place over two meetings: the Summit in B…
Care-full, convivial, curious: Weaving Canadian artists’ conceptions of art as a form of transformative environmental education
Addressing global climate change beyond short-term fixes requires wider cultural change. Artists, as cultural workers, play a valuable role in attending to questions of social and ecological justice. While there is growing artistic engagement with environmental research, there are few studies which critically explore the confluence of contemporary art, sustainability, and informal education within Canada. Using a framework of poetics (poiesis), t…
Taking stock of sustainability in higher education: A review of the policy literature
This paper provides a review of the current literature that examines the uptake of sustainability policies in higher education. Articles were retrieved from both ERIC and Scopus databases and then manually reviewed to ensure that they focused on each of: higher education; sustainability; and policy. A total of 91 articles were analysed using a multi-stage process that involved sorting data according to typologies (i.e. temporal, terminology, meth…
Examining environmental learning experiences at an earth education summer camp
Many barriers restrict children’s access to nature resulting in negative consequences, including a lack of opportunities to learn and engage with the natural environment. Fortunately, environmental education programs offer participants an opportunity to counteract these challenges. While the benefits of environmental education as measured by pre-determined outcomes are well documented, research focused on participants’ perceptions and preferences…
Engaging with Environmental Issues as a Musician: Career Perspectives from the Musicians of the Playlist for the Planet
Education plays an essential role in tackling humanity’s many environmental problems. Musicians, like other artists, may sometimes address environmental themes in their work. Whether or not they view themselves as such, they may at times act as environmental educators, communicators, and advocates through their art and other activities. We interviewed a cohort of musicians who engaged with environmental issues, both onstage and offstage, to uncov…
Music as a tool for environmental education and advocacy: Artistic perspectives from musicians of the Playlist for the Planet
Environmental education is a key tool in humanity’s efforts to address environmental issues. The arts can help provide some of the affective components of environmental education – emotions, values, and motivations driving pro-environmental behavior. As one of the arts, music can captivate, entertain, and create a sense of community. Using non-probabilistic purposive sampling, we interviewed a cohort of environmentally aware musicians with the go…
An analysis of Canadian STARS-rated higher education sustainability policies
Multiple perspectives on polar science educational outreach partnerships in the north Yukon, Canada
A unique element of International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2008 was the focus on sharing the excitement of ‘doing science’ with northern communities through education and outreach projects. This article reports on the perspectives of key stakeholders in Canadian IPY research projects in their pursuit to incorporate education and outreach in culturally appropriate ways. To identify the benefits, challenges, and common pitfalls when conducting researc…
Consulting stakeholders in the development of an environmental policy implementation plan: A Delphi study at Dalhousie University
This paper reports on a Delphi Study undertaken at Dalhousie University in which a multi‐stakeholder panel was consulted in order to generate ideas that could be incorporated into an Implementation Plan for the University Environmental Policy (UEP). The objectives of the study were twofold. First, the study endeavored to develop ideas as to the most desirable and feasible ways in which to incorporate the UEP into the activities and structure of t…
Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education
Weaving Connections: Educating for Peace, Social and Environmental Justice
Mapping the Continuing Professional Development Jungle: The University of Alberta Amazon Project
Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education
Weaving Connections: Educating for Peace, Social and Environmental Justice
Engaging with Environmental Issues as a Musician: Career Perspectives from the Musicians of the Playlist for the Planet
Education plays an essential role in tackling humanity’s many environmental problems. Musicians, like other artists, may sometimes address environmental themes in their work. Whether or not they view themselves as such, they may at times act as environmental educators, communicators, and advocates through their art and other activities. We interviewed a cohort of musicians who engaged with environmental issues, both onstage and offstage, to uncov…
Examining environmental learning experiences at an earth education summer camp
Many barriers restrict children’s access to nature resulting in negative consequences, including a lack of opportunities to learn and engage with the natural environment. Fortunately, environmental education programs offer participants an opportunity to counteract these challenges. While the benefits of environmental education as measured by pre-determined outcomes are well documented, research focused on participants’ perceptions and preferences…
Music as a tool for environmental education and advocacy: Artistic perspectives from musicians of the Playlist for the Planet
Environmental education is a key tool in humanity’s efforts to address environmental issues. The arts can help provide some of the affective components of environmental education – emotions, values, and motivations driving pro-environmental behavior. As one of the arts, music can captivate, entertain, and create a sense of community. Using non-probabilistic purposive sampling, we interviewed a cohort of environmentally aware musicians with the go…
Mapping the Continuing Professional Development Jungle: The University of Alberta Amazon Project
Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education
Weaving Connections: Educating for Peace, Social and Environmental Justice
Consulting stakeholders in the development of an environmental policy implementation plan: A Delphi study at Dalhousie University
This paper reports on a Delphi Study undertaken at Dalhousie University in which a multi‐stakeholder panel was consulted in order to generate ideas that could be incorporated into an Implementation Plan for the University Environmental Policy (UEP). The objectives of the study were twofold. First, the study endeavored to develop ideas as to the most desirable and feasible ways in which to incorporate the UEP into the activities and structure of t…
Multiple perspectives on polar science educational outreach partnerships in the north Yukon, Canada
A unique element of International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2008 was the focus on sharing the excitement of ‘doing science’ with northern communities through education and outreach projects. This article reports on the perspectives of key stakeholders in Canadian IPY research projects in their pursuit to incorporate education and outreach in culturally appropriate ways. To identify the benefits, challenges, and common pitfalls when conducting researc…
An analysis of Canadian STARS-rated higher education sustainability policies
Music as a tool for environmental education and advocacy: Artistic perspectives from musicians of the Playlist for the Planet
Environmental education is a key tool in humanity’s efforts to address environmental issues. The arts can help provide some of the affective components of environmental education – emotions, values, and motivations driving pro-environmental behavior. As one of the arts, music can captivate, entertain, and create a sense of community. Using non-probabilistic purposive sampling, we interviewed a cohort of environmentally aware musicians with the go…
Examining environmental learning experiences at an earth education summer camp
Many barriers restrict children’s access to nature resulting in negative consequences, including a lack of opportunities to learn and engage with the natural environment. Fortunately, environmental education programs offer participants an opportunity to counteract these challenges. While the benefits of environmental education as measured by pre-determined outcomes are well documented, research focused on participants’ perceptions and preferences…
Engaging with Environmental Issues as a Musician: Career Perspectives from the Musicians of the Playlist for the Planet
Education plays an essential role in tackling humanity’s many environmental problems. Musicians, like other artists, may sometimes address environmental themes in their work. Whether or not they view themselves as such, they may at times act as environmental educators, communicators, and advocates through their art and other activities. We interviewed a cohort of musicians who engaged with environmental issues, both onstage and offstage, to uncov…
Taking stock of sustainability in higher education: A review of the policy literature
This paper provides a review of the current literature that examines the uptake of sustainability policies in higher education. Articles were retrieved from both ERIC and Scopus databases and then manually reviewed to ensure that they focused on each of: higher education; sustainability; and policy. A total of 91 articles were analysed using a multi-stage process that involved sorting data according to typologies (i.e. temporal, terminology, meth…
Care-full, convivial, curious: Weaving Canadian artists’ conceptions of art as a form of transformative environmental education
Addressing global climate change beyond short-term fixes requires wider cultural change. Artists, as cultural workers, play a valuable role in attending to questions of social and ecological justice. While there is growing artistic engagement with environmental research, there are few studies which critically explore the confluence of contemporary art, sustainability, and informal education within Canada. Using a framework of poetics (poiesis), t…
Creativity in climate adaptation: Conceptualizing the role of arts organizations
In the face of the climate emergency, it is becoming clear that cultural change is a necessary transformative shift that must occur to ensure human survival. Climate change is entangled with behavioural and social dimensions of our lives, necessitating that we undergo cultural transformation to access the potential of existing climate solutions. While there is both an increase in research regarding how the arts can contribute to this needed cultu…
Connecting Climate Change and Canadian Theatre: Reflecting on the Impact of the NAC’s Climate Cycle
The arts have a unique way of affecting the way that people feel about environmental issues in ways that other forms of communication cannot. The National Arts Centre (NAC) Climate Cycle was a program that the NAC English Theatre developed as a response to the escalating climate crisis to engage artists deeply in discussions on climate change and to grapple with how the performing arts can respond. It took place over two meetings: the Summit in B…
The role of the arts at the intersection of climate change and public Health: Findings from an international survey
The arts offer multiple pathways for addressing the health impacts of climate change, though structural barriers limit their implementation and scale. Findings have implications for policymakers, climate scientists, artists, and healthcare professionals seeking to integrate arts-based approaches into climate-health interventions and adaptation strategies
Political science (8 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental education (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Geography (4 works)