Determining the willingness to pay for ecosystem service restoration in a degraded coastal watershed: A ninth grade investigation

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作者
Nicosia, Kristina [1 ]
Daaram, Suhrudh [1 ]
Edelman, Ben [1 ]
Gedrich, Lev [1 ]
He, Eric [1 ]
McNeilly, Sarah [1 ]
Shenoy, Vishnu [1 ]
Velagapudi, Akhil [1 ]
Wu, Walter [1 ]
Zhang, Luna [1 ]
Barvalia, Aneri [1 ]
Bokka, Veena [1 ]
Chan, Brian [1 ]
Chiu, Jennifer [1 ]
Dhulipalla, Sai [1 ]
Hernandez, Victoria [1 ]
Jeon, Jenny [1 ]
Kanukollu, Pranav [1 ]
Kravets, Pearl [1 ]
Mantha, Amrita [1 ]
Miranda, Colin [1 ]
Nigam, Vishan [1 ]
Patel, Meghnee [1 ]
Praveen, Sam [1 ]
Sang, Thomas [1 ]
Upadhyay, Shruti [1 ]
Varma, Tanvee [1 ]
Xu, Camilla [1 ]
Yalamanchi, Bhavish [1 ]
Zharova, Masha [1 ]
Zheng, Allen [1 ]
Verma, Rashika [1 ]
Vasslides, James [2 ]
Manderson, John [4 ]
Jordan, Rebecca [3 ]
Gray, Steven [5 ]
机构
[1] West Windsor Plainsboro North High Sch, Plainsboro, NJ 08536 USA
[2] Barnegat Bay Partnership, Ocean Cty Coll, Toms River, NJ 08754 USA
[3] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Ecol Evolut & Nat Resources, Program Sci Learning, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
[4] NOAA, NMFS, NEFSC, Ecosyst Proc Div,James J Howard Marine Stn, Highlands, NJ 07732 USA
[5] Univ Massachusetts, Sch Environm, Boston, MA 02125 USA
关键词
Ecosystem services; Contingent valuation; Coastal watersheds; Environmental education; Citizen science; K-12; VALUATION; PERSPECTIVE;
D O I
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.010
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Over the course of a school year, a high school biology class and a local watershed partnership worked together to design a study to determine the willingness to pay for ecosystem service restoration in a local degraded watershed. With research control given to the teacher and her classroom as part of their in-class honors biology curriculum, the result was a student designed/written, and professionally structured, research manuscript. The aim of this collaboration was to: (1) integrate quantitative social science into the K-12 science curriculum to foster learning about the nature of social science investigation in a real world context; (2) create a community-based science partnership; and (3) generate social science data useful for decision-making that could withstand scientific peer review. In this commentary, we present the written product of the classrooms' work to illustrate the type of information that can be generated by a participatory science education program, along with a reflection from the students and project researchers about opportunities and barriers to conducting authentic social science research in K-12 classrooms. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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