{"id":13304,"date":"2019-10-16T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/?page_id=13304"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:42:49","slug":"environmental-education-and-communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/research\/areas-of-research\/environmental-education-and-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Education and Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/10\/students_education-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Kids Working Together - Areas of Research - Parks Recreation and Tourism Management NC State\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building Environmental Literacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To address grand challenges such as global environmental change and shrinking biodiversity, we need people who understand the science behind complex environmental problems, care about the issues, and are motivated and equipped to work toward solutions.\u00a0Our faculty work to\u00a0<strong>build environmental literacy<\/strong>\u00a0in a host of contexts within North Carolina and beyond, bringing together faculty from across campus to study best practices for science communication, how to connect children and nature, how to integrate nature-based learning into our schools, how to leverage citizen and participatory science to inspire engagement with the natural world, and how to empower youth and communities to pursue sustainable solutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet Our Experts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the College of Natural Resources, our faculty are at the forefront of education and research in the field of environmental education and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/carencooper\/\">Caren Cooper<\/a>, Professor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/directory\/lincoln-larson\/\">Lincoln Larson<\/a>, Associate Professor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/directory\/erin-seekamp\/\">Erin Seekamp<\/a>, Professor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/directory\/kathryn-tate-stevenson\/\">Kathryn Stevenson<\/a>, Associate Professor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Environmental Literacy To address grand challenges such as global environmental change and shrinking biodiversity, we need people who understand the science behind complex environmental problems, care about the issues,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":11001,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"six","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22492,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13304\/revisions\/22492"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/prtm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}