Unit:
Department of Primary EducationLibrary of the School of Education
Author:
Tsalapati Konstantina
Dissertation committee:
Κωνσταντίνος Σκορδούλης, Καθηγητής ΠΤΔΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Γεώργιος Θ. Καλκάνης, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, ΠΤΔΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Κρυσταλλία Χαλκιά, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια, ΠΤΔΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Ευαγγελία Μαυρικάκη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, ΠΤΔΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Αποστολία Γαλάνη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, ΠΤΔΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Αγγελική Βουδούρη, Καθηγήτρια, ΠΤΔΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Θωμάς Μπαμπάλης, Καθηγητής, ΠΤΔΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Δημόσια κατανόηση περιβαλλοντικών ζητημάτων στην Ελλάδα. Ο ρόλος των ΜΜΕ και η διαμόρφωση της δημόσιας συμπεριφοράς των πολιτών.
Translated title:
Public Understanding of Environmental Issues in Greece. The role of the Media in shaping citizens' pubic behaviour.
Summary:
Media have access to most parts of the population and can be seen as an important source of information, particularly for environmental issues. Focusing on Public Understanding of Science and more specifically on Public Understanding of Environmental Issues, this research examines the relationship between popular scientific knowledge of environmental issues and pubic behaviour, the decade 2008-2017. Following stratified sampling, 532 newspaper articles were collected and content analyzed according to the following categories: knowledge-information, media agenda, source of news and environmental awareness. Furthermore, for the determination of public behaviour data collected from Special Eurobarometer regarding the attitudes towards the environment from the years, 2008, 2011, 2014 & 2017. The data were secondary analyzed and categorized according to knowledge-information, values-beliefs, attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour. The synthesis and analysis of the data indicated that people find it difficult to connect the causes and effects of the environmental problems from the information provided in the articles. Citizens trust scientists as a valid source of information and for solving environmental problems. They seem to be concerned, especially about the problems that know little about. In contrast, when well informed about an issue they seem to adopt certain environmental actions towards it. To sum up, by providing citizens with valid and scientific information, public understanding of environmental issues could be enhanced and result in raising public behaviour.
Main subject category:
Education
Keywords:
Public Understanding of Science, Public Understanding of Environmental Issues, Media, newspapers, environmental behavior, Eurobarometer
Number of references:
243
