How to foster the participation of local communities in environmental and climate change initiatives? How to make these actions more attractive and accessible? How can we integrate the citizen science approach in innovative paths of environmental education for adults?
Environmental education enables individuals to understand environmental issues, encouraging them to develop and undertake responsible and sustainable actions, driving the community towards a green lifestyle.
Many attempts to educate the public in adopting responsible behaviours to preserve the environment and take action against climate change have relied on alarmist strategies that can often inhibit the desire to act. Eco-anxiety is now recognised as a community phenomenon and there is a lack of a structured approach to deal with it.
In front of environmental challenges such as global warming, pollution, urban sprawl or deforestation, which increasingly jeopardise the life of living beings on our planet, the need to raise awareness of climatic issues has now become urgent. Environmental...