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

Autor: Victoria Hernandez, Pearl Kravets, Sarah McNeilly, James Vasslides, Sai Dhulipalla, Akhil Velagapudi, Rashika Verma, Brian Chan, Allen Zheng, Colin Miranda, Steven Gray, Rebecca Jordan, Vishan Nigam, Kristina Nicosia, Lev Gedrich, John P. Manderson, Meghnee Patel, Suhrudh Daaram, Thomas Sang, Luna Zhang, Walter Wu, Sam Praveen, Aneri Barvalia, Masha Zharova, Shruti Upadhyay, Jennifer Chiu, Tanvee Varma, Jenny Jeon, Bhavish Yalamanchi, Ben Edelman, Veena Bokka, Amrita Mantha, Eric He, Pranav Kanukollu, Camilla Xu, Vishnu Shenoy
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Ecological Economics. 104:145-151
ISSN: 0921-8009
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.010
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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