Martha C Monroe
Biographic Data
| ID | 75696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha C Monroe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha C |
| FAMILY NAME | Monroe |
| SIGNATURE | MONROE M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3080-5101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Engaging people in educational processes that foster environmentally valuable outcomes: A synthesis of key findings across eight systematic reviews
Alongside the rise of the evidence‐based conservation movement over the past 20 years, environmental education (EE) has emerged as a worthwhile strategy to achieve conservation goals. EE can help develop the societal attitudes, knowledge, skills, behaviours and norms that address conservation and environmental challenges and build deeper connections between nature and people. To better understand the effectiveness of EE in achieving such outcomes…
Engaging Environmental Education Through Pisa: Leveraging Curriculum as a Political Process
The Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development (OECD) works with countries worldwide to implement testing in the areas of science, mathematics and reading through the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) every three years, and this process is recognised to influence education systems through areas such as curriculum. Over the past decade, the OECD increasingly has acknowledged the need to include a greater emphasis on env…
Addressing the climate emergency with educational approaches: A bibliometric analysis of climate change education scholarship
This study uses bibliometric techniques to explore the international knowledge base on climate change education (CCE), which considers education as crucial for addressing the climate emergency through fostering climate-literate citizens. Analyzing two decades of scientific literature on CCE, we identify evolving considerations, foci, trends, and recommendations, examining a total of 1,264 articles published between 2000 and 2022 in educational-re…
Education to build agency in the Anthropocene
Thirty years ago, David Orr, an environmental studies professor at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA, wrote that a constellation of environmental issues, from accumulating hazardous waste to declining b
Conservation behavior can defy traditional predictors
Direct experiences in nature enable us learn and form environmental attitudes. Being influenced by nature as children is thought to help form a connection to nature that can lead to a lifetime of pro-environmental behaviors. A survey of adults in a watershed with a damaged estuary, however, suggests that concern and environmental identity were strong among most of the respondents and did not predict who performed environmental behaviors. Outdoor …
Evaluating Organizational Identity of Zoos to Enhance Conservation
Zoos, aquariums, and museums are expanding their identities and efforts to support wildlife conservation, but their impact is unclear. We apply a business theory of organizational identity to assess how conservation identities are created and applied. We examine three foundational and three practical components of identity using semi‐structured interviews with zoo directors and conservation directors at eight institutions. Our qualitative analysi…
A Co-orientation Analysis of Producers’ and Environmentalists’ Mental Models of Water Issues: Opportunities for Improved Communication and Collaboration
Agricultural producers and environmentalists have a mutual interest in maintaining healthy water resources; yet communication and collaboration on sustainability measures can be impeded by perceptions of incompatible water ethics. Here we apply the co-orientation model to qualitatively and quantitatively compare cross-group perspectives and composite maps of stakeholders’ mental models to understand how each group thinks about water challenges an…
Where Policy and Culture Collide: Perceptions and Responses of Swidden Farmers to the Burn Ban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Wild Meat Trade and Consumption in the Central Amazon, Brazil
Identifying effective climate change education strategies: A systematic review of the research
Considering research paradigms in environmental education
The benefits of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methodologies are often emphasized in undergraduate and graduate training about producing and analysing data. Less often discussed are the philosophies of research that can be used to explore environmental education. To help introduce students to the ways such paradigms lead to different insights and lines of inquiry, we offer a supplementary reading of a natural resource management pr…
Cultural cognition and climate change education in the U.S: Why consensus is not enough
Integrating climate change into environmental education programs and formal science classrooms can be difficult, as the issue remains controversial and highly politicized among the American public. This study proposes that the same cultural values that shape worldview differences and divide public opinion on anthropogenic climate change will influence if and how science educators support education on the topic. An online survey with quantitative …
Trends in environmental education for biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica
Exploring the essential psychological factors in fostering hope concerning climate change
Hope is an important component that helps engage people in solving problems. Environmental educational resources addressing climate change effectively should ideally nurture hope as well as increase understanding about the issue. However, hopefulness about resolving climate change challenges is a relatively new construct in the literature and little is known about it. To understand the factors that affect hope, we assessed hope using the reasonab…
Framing climate change communication to prompt individual and collective action among adolescents from agricultural communities
Climate communication research suggests strategic message framing may help build public consensus on climate change causes, risks and solutions. However, few have investigated how framing applies to adolescents. Similarly, little research has focused on agricultural audiences, who are among the most vulnerable to and least accepting of climate change. Among 950 high school agriculture students in North Carolina, we found agriculture and environme…
Climate change communication insights from cooperative Extension professionals in the US Southern states: Finding common ground
Climate change is often avoided in educational programming due to its perceived polarizing nature. Identifying areas of agreement may help educators introduce climate change topics and help audiences begin to listen. As part of a survey of Extension professionals in the southeastern US, respondents shared their thoughts about climate change. Based on methods used by Maibach, Leiserowitz, Roser-Renouf, and Mertz [(2011). Identifying like-minded au…
Conservation education and outreach techniques
Marketing conservation
Agencies, educators, communities and wildfire: Partnerships to enhance environmental education for youth
We studied seven programs that engage youth from 10 to 18 years old in wildfire risk reduction in their communities in the United States through in-depth interviews to examine the nature and role of community-school partnerships in resource-focused environmental education. While the programs use a variety of strategies, from Scout badge to summer school, they exhibit several common dimensions: they all engage youth in community projects; they all…
Harnessing homophily to improve climate change education
The Cooperative Extension Service (Extension) in the United States is well positioned to educate the public, particularly farmers and foresters, about climate change and to encourage responsible adoption of adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, the climate change attitudes and perceptions of Extension professionals have limited Extension's involvement. A survey of Extension professionals (n = 2758) in eight southern states found several …
From Play Areas to Natural Areas: The Role of Zoos in Getting Families Outdoors
Zoos have the potential to help families recreate in nearby natural areas, increasing the likelihood of children playing in nature. The Paws On Children's Exhibit at Brevard Zoo (Melbourne, FL) was designed to provide a fun, educational children's play environment and to increase familiarity with and encourage family visits to the local upland and estuarine ecosystems. In this article, the authors explore through observation and survey data how c…
Cognitive Methods and a Case Study for Assessing Shared Perspectives as a Result of Social Learning
Measuring shared perspectives as a result of social learning has largely been limited to document reviews, participant observations, and interviews. Systematic methods that allow for quantitative analysis and minimize response effects may also be informative. This article discusses the use of consensus analysis and salience for analyzing the first stages of Cognitive Domain Analysis and the Conceptual Content Cognitive Map (3CM) to explore shared…
Intermediate Collaborative Adaptive Management Strategies Build Stakeholder Capacity
Monroe, M. C., R. Plate, and A. Oxarart. 2013. Intermediate collaborative adaptive management strategies build stakeholder capacity. Ecology and Society 18(2): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05444-180224
Teasing Apart the Details: How Social Learning can Affect Collective Action in the Bolivian Amazon
Connection to Nature: Children’s Affective Attitude Toward Nature
A connection to nature index was developed and tested to measure children’s affective attitude toward the natural environment. The index was employed through a survey that investigates students’ attitude toward Lagoon Quest, a mandatory environmental education program for all fourth-grade, public school students in Brevard County, Florida. Factor analyses were conducted to explore and confirm different factors in the connection to nature index. A…
The Look of the Land: Homeowner Landscape Management and Wildfire Preparedness in Minnesota and Florida
Many forest and fire agencies seek to influence homeowners to manage vegetation near their home to reduce wildfire risk. To be successful managers need to understand the range of existing landscape typologies based on a defensible space evaluation, homeowners' activities for wildfire preparedness, and what they value in landscape attributes. Interviews and visits with 80 homeowners at risk of wildfire in the wildland–urban interface of northern M…
Framing climate change communication to prompt individual and collective action among adolescents from agricultural communities
Climate communication research suggests strategic message framing may help build public consensus on climate change causes, risks and solutions. However, few have investigated how framing applies to adolescents. Similarly, little research has focused on agricultural audiences, who are among the most vulnerable to and least accepting of climate change. Among 950 high school agriculture students in North Carolina, we found agriculture and environme…
The effects of environment‐based education on students' critical thinking skills and disposition toward critical thinking
This study examined the relationship between environment‐based education and high school students' critical thinking skills and disposition toward critical thinking. Four hundred four 9th and 12th grade students from 11 Florida high schools participated in the study. A Pretest‐Posttest Nonequivalent Comparison Group Design (9th grade) and a Posttest Only Nonequivalent Comparison Group Design (12th grade) were used. Interviews of students and teac…
Exploring the essential psychological factors in fostering hope concerning climate change
Hope is an important component that helps engage people in solving problems. Environmental educational resources addressing climate change effectively should ideally nurture hope as well as increase understanding about the issue. However, hopefulness about resolving climate change challenges is a relatively new construct in the literature and little is known about it. To understand the factors that affect hope, we assessed hope using the reasonab…
Harnessing homophily to improve climate change education
The Cooperative Extension Service (Extension) in the United States is well positioned to educate the public, particularly farmers and foresters, about climate change and to encourage responsible adoption of adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, the climate change attitudes and perceptions of Extension professionals have limited Extension's involvement. A survey of Extension professionals (n = 2758) in eight southern states found several …
Cultural cognition and climate change education in the U.S: Why consensus is not enough
Integrating climate change into environmental education programs and formal science classrooms can be difficult, as the issue remains controversial and highly politicized among the American public. This study proposes that the same cultural values that shape worldview differences and divide public opinion on anthropogenic climate change will influence if and how science educators support education on the topic. An online survey with quantitative …
Cognitive Methods and a Case Study for Assessing Shared Perspectives as a Result of Social Learning
Measuring shared perspectives as a result of social learning has largely been limited to document reviews, participant observations, and interviews. Systematic methods that allow for quantitative analysis and minimize response effects may also be informative. This article discusses the use of consensus analysis and salience for analyzing the first stages of Cognitive Domain Analysis and the Conceptual Content Cognitive Map (3CM) to explore shared…
Where Policy and Culture Collide: Perceptions and Responses of Swidden Farmers to the Burn Ban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Considering research paradigms in environmental education
The benefits of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methodologies are often emphasized in undergraduate and graduate training about producing and analysing data. Less often discussed are the philosophies of research that can be used to explore environmental education. To help introduce students to the ways such paradigms lead to different insights and lines of inquiry, we offer a supplementary reading of a natural resource management pr…
Intermediate Collaborative Adaptive Management Strategies Build Stakeholder Capacity
Monroe, M. C., R. Plate, and A. Oxarart. 2013. Intermediate collaborative adaptive management strategies build stakeholder capacity. Ecology and Society 18(2): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05444-180224
Addressing the climate emergency with educational approaches: A bibliometric analysis of climate change education scholarship
This study uses bibliometric techniques to explore the international knowledge base on climate change education (CCE), which considers education as crucial for addressing the climate emergency through fostering climate-literate citizens. Analyzing two decades of scientific literature on CCE, we identify evolving considerations, foci, trends, and recommendations, examining a total of 1,264 articles published between 2000 and 2022 in educational-re…
Towards creating an inclusive community of researchers: The first three years of the North American Association for Environmental Education research symposium
This article uses a series of interlinked, personal vignettes to discuss the first three years of the North American Association for Environmental Education research symposium, from the perspectives of the key organizers. Seven challenges in the field of environmental education research are identified in a recent historical context, and we illustrate how the symposium sought to address them. The challenges were, that: (i) environmental education …
Some Fundamentals of Engaging Stories
This paper discusses a form of information transfer referred to as story. It is suggested that stories serve as a singularly effective replacement for direct experience, a useful but sometimes difficult environmental education technique. The effectiveness of stories is argued to derive from their ability to engage the attention of the reader. The paper concludes with a list of elements that can be used to create cognitively engaging stories
Agencies, educators, communities and wildfire: Partnerships to enhance environmental education for youth
We studied seven programs that engage youth from 10 to 18 years old in wildfire risk reduction in their communities in the United States through in-depth interviews to examine the nature and role of community-school partnerships in resource-focused environmental education. While the programs use a variety of strategies, from Scout badge to summer school, they exhibit several common dimensions: they all engage youth in community projects; they all…
Some Fundamentals of Engaging Stories
This paper discusses a form of information transfer referred to as story. It is suggested that stories serve as a singularly effective replacement for direct experience, a useful but sometimes difficult environmental education technique. The effectiveness of stories is argued to derive from their ability to engage the attention of the reader. The paper concludes with a list of elements that can be used to create cognitively engaging stories
The effects of environment‐based education on students' critical thinking skills and disposition toward critical thinking
This study examined the relationship between environment‐based education and high school students' critical thinking skills and disposition toward critical thinking. Four hundred four 9th and 12th grade students from 11 Florida high schools participated in the study. A Pretest‐Posttest Nonequivalent Comparison Group Design (9th grade) and a Posttest Only Nonequivalent Comparison Group Design (12th grade) were used. Interviews of students and teac…
The Look of the Land: Homeowner Landscape Management and Wildfire Preparedness in Minnesota and Florida
Many forest and fire agencies seek to influence homeowners to manage vegetation near their home to reduce wildfire risk. To be successful managers need to understand the range of existing landscape typologies based on a defensible space evaluation, homeowners' activities for wildfire preparedness, and what they value in landscape attributes. Interviews and visits with 80 homeowners at risk of wildfire in the wildland–urban interface of northern M…
Towards creating an inclusive community of researchers: The first three years of the North American Association for Environmental Education research symposium
This article uses a series of interlinked, personal vignettes to discuss the first three years of the North American Association for Environmental Education research symposium, from the perspectives of the key organizers. Seven challenges in the field of environmental education research are identified in a recent historical context, and we illustrate how the symposium sought to address them. The challenges were, that: (i) environmental education …
Connection to Nature: Children’s Affective Attitude Toward Nature
A connection to nature index was developed and tested to measure children’s affective attitude toward the natural environment. The index was employed through a survey that investigates students’ attitude toward Lagoon Quest, a mandatory environmental education program for all fourth-grade, public school students in Brevard County, Florida. Factor analyses were conducted to explore and confirm different factors in the connection to nature index. A…
Predicting Cattle Rancher Wildlife Management Activities: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
Integrating wildlife management into routine livestock operations has become a priority of many wildlife conservation agencies and nongovernmental organizations because grazing lands occupy more than one-third of the United States. We surveyed 1,093 beef cattle ranchers by mail to predict cattle rancher intentions to consider wildlife management in routine cattle management activities. We framed our survey using the theory of planned behavior, wh…
From Play Areas to Natural Areas: The Role of Zoos in Getting Families Outdoors
Zoos have the potential to help families recreate in nearby natural areas, increasing the likelihood of children playing in nature. The Paws On Children's Exhibit at Brevard Zoo (Melbourne, FL) was designed to provide a fun, educational children's play environment and to increase familiarity with and encourage family visits to the local upland and estuarine ecosystems. In this article, the authors explore through observation and survey data how c…
Cognitive Methods and a Case Study for Assessing Shared Perspectives as a Result of Social Learning
Measuring shared perspectives as a result of social learning has largely been limited to document reviews, participant observations, and interviews. Systematic methods that allow for quantitative analysis and minimize response effects may also be informative. This article discusses the use of consensus analysis and salience for analyzing the first stages of Cognitive Domain Analysis and the Conceptual Content Cognitive Map (3CM) to explore shared…
Intermediate Collaborative Adaptive Management Strategies Build Stakeholder Capacity
Monroe, M. C., R. Plate, and A. Oxarart. 2013. Intermediate collaborative adaptive management strategies build stakeholder capacity. Ecology and Society 18(2): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05444-180224
Teasing Apart the Details: How Social Learning can Affect Collective Action in the Bolivian Amazon
Harnessing homophily to improve climate change education
The Cooperative Extension Service (Extension) in the United States is well positioned to educate the public, particularly farmers and foresters, about climate change and to encourage responsible adoption of adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, the climate change attitudes and perceptions of Extension professionals have limited Extension's involvement. A survey of Extension professionals (n = 2758) in eight southern states found several …
Conservation education and outreach techniques
Marketing conservation
Agencies, educators, communities and wildfire: Partnerships to enhance environmental education for youth
We studied seven programs that engage youth from 10 to 18 years old in wildfire risk reduction in their communities in the United States through in-depth interviews to examine the nature and role of community-school partnerships in resource-focused environmental education. While the programs use a variety of strategies, from Scout badge to summer school, they exhibit several common dimensions: they all engage youth in community projects; they all…
Climate change communication insights from cooperative Extension professionals in the US Southern states: Finding common ground
Climate change is often avoided in educational programming due to its perceived polarizing nature. Identifying areas of agreement may help educators introduce climate change topics and help audiences begin to listen. As part of a survey of Extension professionals in the southeastern US, respondents shared their thoughts about climate change. Based on methods used by Maibach, Leiserowitz, Roser-Renouf, and Mertz [(2011). Identifying like-minded au…
Trends in environmental education for biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica
Exploring the essential psychological factors in fostering hope concerning climate change
Hope is an important component that helps engage people in solving problems. Environmental educational resources addressing climate change effectively should ideally nurture hope as well as increase understanding about the issue. However, hopefulness about resolving climate change challenges is a relatively new construct in the literature and little is known about it. To understand the factors that affect hope, we assessed hope using the reasonab…
Framing climate change communication to prompt individual and collective action among adolescents from agricultural communities
Climate communication research suggests strategic message framing may help build public consensus on climate change causes, risks and solutions. However, few have investigated how framing applies to adolescents. Similarly, little research has focused on agricultural audiences, who are among the most vulnerable to and least accepting of climate change. Among 950 high school agriculture students in North Carolina, we found agriculture and environme…
Cultural cognition and climate change education in the U.S: Why consensus is not enough
Integrating climate change into environmental education programs and formal science classrooms can be difficult, as the issue remains controversial and highly politicized among the American public. This study proposes that the same cultural values that shape worldview differences and divide public opinion on anthropogenic climate change will influence if and how science educators support education on the topic. An online survey with quantitative …
Wild Meat Trade and Consumption in the Central Amazon, Brazil
Identifying effective climate change education strategies: A systematic review of the research
Considering research paradigms in environmental education
The benefits of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methodologies are often emphasized in undergraduate and graduate training about producing and analysing data. Less often discussed are the philosophies of research that can be used to explore environmental education. To help introduce students to the ways such paradigms lead to different insights and lines of inquiry, we offer a supplementary reading of a natural resource management pr…
Conservation behavior can defy traditional predictors
Direct experiences in nature enable us learn and form environmental attitudes. Being influenced by nature as children is thought to help form a connection to nature that can lead to a lifetime of pro-environmental behaviors. A survey of adults in a watershed with a damaged estuary, however, suggests that concern and environmental identity were strong among most of the respondents and did not predict who performed environmental behaviors. Outdoor …
Evaluating Organizational Identity of Zoos to Enhance Conservation
Zoos, aquariums, and museums are expanding their identities and efforts to support wildlife conservation, but their impact is unclear. We apply a business theory of organizational identity to assess how conservation identities are created and applied. We examine three foundational and three practical components of identity using semi‐structured interviews with zoo directors and conservation directors at eight institutions. Our qualitative analysi…
A Co-orientation Analysis of Producers’ and Environmentalists’ Mental Models of Water Issues: Opportunities for Improved Communication and Collaboration
Agricultural producers and environmentalists have a mutual interest in maintaining healthy water resources; yet communication and collaboration on sustainability measures can be impeded by perceptions of incompatible water ethics. Here we apply the co-orientation model to qualitatively and quantitatively compare cross-group perspectives and composite maps of stakeholders’ mental models to understand how each group thinks about water challenges an…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (16 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Environmental education (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)