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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,834 Views
41 Pages

Integrating Virtual Reality into Art Education: Enhancing Public Art and Environmental Literacy Among Technical High School Students

  • Chin-Wen Liao,
  • Cheng-Chia Wang,
  • I-Chi Wang,
  • En-Shiuh Lin,
  • Bo-Siang Chen,
  • Wei-Lun Huang and
  • Wei-Sho Ho

12 March 2025

With rapid technological advancements and increasing environmental challenges, educational systems face demands for innovative teaching methods. This study integrates Virtual Reality (VR) technology into vocational high school art curricula, examinin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,776 Views
14 Pages

Faced with ecological environmental issues and a surge in the consumption of products in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, it is necessary to explore the effective driving mechanism of green consumption behavior. This study investigated the impact of publ...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,858 Views
14 Pages

29 August 2021

Environmental education is crucial to tackling the pressing ecological and societal issues on our planet. Although there are various ways to approach environmental education and raise public awareness, games are potentially an effective vehicle of kn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,541 Views
14 Pages

The advancement of technology and economic development has raised the standard of living and at the same time brought a greater burden to the environment. Environmental governance has become a common concern around the world, and although China&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,024 Views
17 Pages

The integrity of the natural habitat benefits the harmonious coexistence of nature and humans. However, a negative anthropogenic impact on natural habitats exacerbates the ongoing decline of global biodiversity, further undermining ecosystem services...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
870 Views
19 Pages

10 July 2025

The widespread integration of digital technologies into the industry, institutions, and everyday life has introduced environmental challenges known as digital pollution, including the carbon footprint of data centers, energy consumption of digital de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
610 Views
22 Pages

Health at Risk: Air Pollution and Urban Vulnerability—Perspectives in Light of the 2030 Agenda

  • Marilia Salete Tavares,
  • Camila Tavares Rodrigues,
  • Sara Lucia Silveira de Menezes and
  • Adalgiza Mafra Moreno

Air pollution is one of the major global environmental challenges, particularly in urban and industrial areas, where multiple sources emit pollutants that compromise air quality and threaten human health. This study aims to analyze the effects of air...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,111 Views
12 Pages

Preparing Public Pedagogies with ICT: The Case of Pesticides and Popular Education in Brazil

  • Joaquín Paredes-Labra,
  • Ivana-Mariel Siri and
  • Alessandro Oliveira

21 September 2018

This article analyzes the conditions through which it is possible to launch a project of public pedagogy with information and communications technologies (ICT) on environmental education and pesticides. This is a public pedagogy that is agreed betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,940 Views
21 Pages

11 August 2023

The management of water resources is crucial for sustainable development, necessitating innovative solutions to address the increasing demand for safe water. Alternative approaches must be adopted to effectively engage young generations in understand...

  • Review
  • Open Access
136 Citations
13,850 Views
18 Pages

15 May 2019

Citizen science is becoming increasingly popular as a format in environmental and sustainability education. Citizen science not only allows researchers to gather large amounts of biodiversity-related data, it also has the potential to engage the publ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,768 Views
22 Pages

From Ocean to Table: How Public Awareness Shapes the Fight Against Microplastic Pollution

  • Joshua Khorsandi,
  • Liahm Blank,
  • Kaloyan Momchilov,
  • Michael Dagovetz and
  • Kavita Batra

8 October 2025

Microplastic pollution is an escalating environmental and public health issue. Defined as plastic particles less than 5 mm in size, microplastics have been found in oceans, rivers, food, drinking water, air, and even human tissues. While scientific r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,890 Views
16 Pages

Establishing Integrative Framework for Sustainable Reef Conservation in Karimunjawa National Park, Indonesia

  • Agung Dwi Sutrisno,
  • Yun-Ju Chen,
  • I. Wayan Koko Suryawan and
  • Chun-Hung Lee

6 May 2023

The Coral Triangle region is facing negative impacts due to unbalanced carrying capacity and inappropriate public behavior, leading to unsustainable reef tourism. As a result, there has been increased awareness and preference for sustainable reef con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,042 Views
20 Pages

11 March 2022

Watershed governance has historically been administered by natural resource experts and is often inaccessible to citizen stakeholders. Although many advocate for deliberative democracy as a pathway toward natural resource sustainability, others remai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,583 Views
16 Pages

Redistributing Power in Community and Citizen Science: Effects on Youth Science Self-Efficacy and Interest

  • Sarah Clement,
  • Katie Spellman,
  • Laura Oxtoby,
  • Kelly Kealy,
  • Karin Bodony,
  • Elena Sparrow and
  • Christopher Arp

31 May 2023

Youth-focused community and citizen science (CCS) is increasingly used to promote science learning and to increase the accessibility of the tools of scientific research among historically marginalized and underserved communities. CCS projects are fre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,928 Views
16 Pages

20 May 2024

One of the contemporary challenges facing urban areas is the necessity to identify novel approaches to resident involvement in solution creation, with a particular focus on ensuring the best possible nutrition. By investigating the process of co-part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
701 Views
15 Pages

28 June 2025

This study investigates participation patterns in publicly accessible educational events organized by a college policy and research center. These programs, which addressed topics related to energy and sustainability, were conducted both online and in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,832 Views
28 Pages

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Single-Use Plastic Bags in the United Arab Emirates

  • Shahad M. Alteneiji,
  • Betty T. Mathew,
  • Hafsa A. Mohammed,
  • Abdelghafar M. Abu-Elsaoud,
  • Khaled A. El-Tarabily and
  • Seham M. Al Raish

28 August 2024

Due to their widespread misuse and inadequate waste management, single-use plastic bags represent the global plastic pollution crisis and ecosystem degradation. Comprehensive research on population knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,613 Views
28 Pages

Development of Ahmedabad’s Air Information and Response (AIR) Plan to Protect Public Health

  • Vijay S. Limaye,
  • Kim Knowlton,
  • Sayantan Sarkar,
  • Partha Sarthi Ganguly,
  • Shyam Pingle,
  • Priya Dutta,
  • Sathish L. M.,
  • Abhiyant Tiwari,
  • Bhavin Solanki and
  • Dileep Mavalankar
  • + 5 authors

Indian cities struggle with some of the highest ambient air pollution levels in the world. While national efforts are building momentum towards concerted action to reduce air pollution, individual cities are taking action on this challenge to protect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Citations
18,005 Views
12 Pages

Both Direct and Vicarious Experiences of Nature Affect Children’s Willingness to Conserve Biodiversity

  • Masashi Soga,
  • Kevin J. Gaston,
  • Yuichi Yamaura,
  • Kiyo Kurisu and
  • Keisuke Hanaki

Children are becoming less likely to have direct contact with nature. This ongoing loss of human interactions with nature, the extinction of experience, is viewed as one of the most fundamental obstacles to addressing global environmental challenges....

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,934 Views
15 Pages

Public Awareness and Perceptions of Invasive Alien Species in Small Towns

  • Nolwethu Jubase,
  • Ross T. Shackleton and
  • John Measey

14 December 2021

Invasive alien species (IAS) are a growing threat globally and cause a variety of ecological, economic, and social impacts. People can introduce IAS and facilitate their spread, and can also implement, support, or oppose their management. Understandi...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
20,282 Views
20 Pages

14 October 2023

The sale of ready-to-eat (RTE) street food represents an important source of income in many developing countries. However, these foods are frequently implicated in outbreaks of gastrointestinal diseases. Street food vendors face several constraints t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,960 Views
32 Pages

Framework for the Design of a Small Transport Hub as an Interdisciplinary Challenge to Implement Sustainable Solutions

  • Anna Staniewska,
  • Izabela Sykta,
  • Agnieszka Ozimek,
  • Krzysztof Barnaś,
  • Mariusz Dudek,
  • Magdalena Marasik and
  • Kinga Racoń-Leja

13 July 2023

The numerous effects of climate change on the urban environment over the past decades have urged many planning professionals to implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Higher education institutions (HEIs) bear partic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,579 Views
12 Pages

Globally, antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a significant threat. A comprehensive plan is required to combat antimicrobial resistance. There have been national and international efforts to address this global health problem, but much work remai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,334 Views
22 Pages

1 December 2022

Services surrounding green buildings are specialised and directed towards the process of design and comprise comprehensive and quantified management in its entirety. Implicitly, consultancies are unable to deliver this service at the standard and pac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,823 Views
21 Pages

Bibliometric Mapping of School Garden Studies: A Thematic Trends Analysis

  • Dante Castillo,
  • Alejandro Vega-Muñoz,
  • Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda,
  • Nicolás Contreras-Barraza and
  • Mario Torres-Alcayaga

This paper analyzes the thematic trends in school garden studies over the past few decades, using a relational bibliometric methodology on a corpus of 392 articles and review articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. The paper seeks to...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,870 Views
27 Pages

8 October 2024

Background: As early as 1995, the Institute of Medicine suggested that nurses were inadequately prepared for and educated about climate change and its health consequences. The aim of this systematic review is to identify the most reliable, robust, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,234 Views
17 Pages

Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are substances that interfere with the endocrine system, posing risks to health across various life stages, particularly during adolescence when hormonal changes are pronounced. Despite the recognition of adolescents as vul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,781 Views
11 Pages

This essay introduces the notion of “human-geosphere intersections”, describes “engineering” as an aspect of anthropogenic global change, and reflects on particular “paradigms” that may govern human-geosphere intersections. Seen conceptually, enginee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,516 Views
17 Pages

5 July 2024

National parks are important spatial places for environmental education. To improve the perception and effectiveness of environmental education, it is critical to facilitate the public’s spatial experience. To explore influencing factors of per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,446 Views
15 Pages

Investigating the Role of Public Relations Campaigns in Environment Awareness Among University Students

  • Muhammad Noor Al Adwan,
  • Asmaa Hegazy,
  • Shaimaa Ezzat Basha,
  • Aesha Mamdouh,
  • Mohmad El hAjji,
  • Bakhita Alketbi and
  • Hossam Fayez

20 June 2025

The current study investigates the effect of Public Relations Campaigns in environmental education and attitudes toward environmental sustainability, and behavioral intentions among university students in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. The quest...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,906 Views
18 Pages

16 August 2024

Green chemistry refers to the design and application of practices that prevent pollution and promote environmental sustainability. A set of 12 principles make up the core of the green chemistry philosophy, and, since their emergence, they have been i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,852 Views
19 Pages

5 November 2018

Under the international initiative of environmental education and ecological conservation, promoting the public’s environmental awareness is the mission and goal of the museum’s environmental education. The main function of the museum is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,220 Views
30 Pages

1 April 2025

Environmental literacy plays a crucial role in promoting sustainable behavior and increasing public participation in environmental protection. This study investigates the environmental literacy of the general public in Chiayi County, Taiwan, focusing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,668 Views
18 Pages

With the rapid development of the economy, we are facing more and more problems, and the construction of ecological civilization has become the focus of our national concern. With the rapid development of network technology, the immediacy of the new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,487 Views
11 Pages

Parental Educational Attainment and Social Environment of Urban Public Schools in the U.S.: Blacks’ Diminished Returns

  • Shanika Boyce,
  • Mohsen Bazargan,
  • Cleopatra H. Caldwell,
  • Marc A. Zimmerman and
  • Shervin Assari

Background: Recent research has documented marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs) of socioeconomic status (SES), defined as weaker effects of SES indicators, such as parental educational attainment, on securing tangible outcomes for the me...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,436 Views
4 Pages

This special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is dedicated to the publication of selected papers presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research. The Sympo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
249 Citations
25,057 Views
19 Pages

16 June 2019

The promotion of pro-environmental behavior is regarded as very important in solving environmental problems. The Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory usually emphasizes internal factors; however, we have transformed this theory by including the environment...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,838 Views
21 Pages

18 November 2024

Utilizing the Web of Science database as a retrieval source, this study employs CiteSpace software to conduct a visualization analysis of 8380 documents related to outdoor education published from 1994 to 2023. The findings reveal a phased increase i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,634 Views
12 Pages

Assessing Environmental Health Hazard Awareness for Sustainability: A Survey of Adults in Saudi Arabia

  • Ahmad Y. Alqassim,
  • Abdullah A. Alharbi,
  • Mohammed A. Muaddi,
  • Razan M. Jurebi,
  • Lojain I. Daak,
  • Atheer I. Moafa,
  • Marwa A. Masmali,
  • Rawan N. Salami,
  • Hatoon Y. Zakri and
  • Mohamed Salih Mahfouz
  • + 1 author

10 January 2024

Rapid modernization in Saudi Arabia has led to environmental challenges like pollution. Public understanding of pollutants is crucial for public participation in Saudi government efforts to monitor and mitigate impacts. This cross-sectional observati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,583 Views
21 Pages

Corporate environmental investment decisions play a crucial role in the protection of the public environment. As the decision-maker and executor, the environmental consciousness and social responsibility of the chief executive officer (CEO) has a lon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,195 Views
12 Pages

31 October 2020

COVID-19 has impacted education on all levels, with many institutions turning to online formats to deal with the global public health crisis. This study aims to carefully consider participatory risk management, given concerns about the specific impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,950 Views
19 Pages

Green technology innovation can bring about dual benefits, i.e., technological progress and energy conservation, as well as emission reduction, which are regarded as effective means to achieve economic development and environmental protection. The in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,935 Views
22 Pages

Environmental Behavior of Secondary Education Students: A Case Study at Central Greece

  • Stamatios Ntanos,
  • Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos,
  • Garyfallos Arabatzis,
  • Vasilios Palios and
  • Miltiadis Chalikias

21 May 2018

During the last three decades, human behavior has been becoming energy alarming towards environmental sustainability. One of the most influential initiatives towards environmental protection and increased environmental consciousness is the solidifica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,082 Views
16 Pages

Environmental pollution threatens public health and has become a social concern in recent years. Despite the conditions for public participation in environmental governance have improved considerably, the level of public engagement in government proj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,178 Views
16 Pages

Sowing the Seeds of Commons in Education: Three Case Studies from the Horizon Project 2020 SMOOTH

  • Yannis Pechtelidis,
  • Ioannis Kozaris,
  • Stelios Pantazidis and
  • Angeliki Botonaki

22 October 2023

This paper explores how educational commons, in which education and learning are shaped by the members of the educational community in terms of equality, freedom, and creative participation, contribute to addressing inequalities, empowering democracy...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,546 Views
16 Pages

28 June 2024

This research uncovers contemporary patterns by employing the bibliometric analysis approach to analyze sustainability research in the education domain. Consequently, we map the academic outputs and observe a tendency of increased publications, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,772 Views
20 Pages

This study examines how risk perception and authoritarian personality affect public engagement in mitigating air pollution. Data were collected (n = 2010) from 13 Chinese cities with varying air pollution gradients using questionnaires. The results d...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,250 Views
14 Pages

13 July 2020

Increased environmental and social risk, ubiquitous information technology, and growing demands for and growing threats to democracy and public participation will alter the education and practice of all the design professions and the geographically o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,261 Views
26 Pages

Environmental Burden and School Readiness in an Urban County: Implications for Communities to Promote Healthy Child Development

  • Rebecca J. Bulotsky-Shearer,
  • Casey Mullins,
  • Abby Mutic,
  • Carin Molchan,
  • Elizabeth Campos,
  • Scott C. Brown and
  • Ruby Natale

22 July 2025

Geographic disparities threaten equitable access for children to health-promoting safe green spaces, and quality early education in the communities in which they live and grow. To address gaps in the field, we integrated the fields of developmental p...

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