Exploring and contextualising the predominant coastal and marine environmental worldview orientations of millennial South Africans
- Authors: van Rooyen, Rize Dorothea
- Date: 2022-12
- Subjects: Coastal ecology , Marine ecology , Generation Y -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/62484 , vital:72764
- Description: The increase in human activities within the marine and coastal environments has introduced new stressors to the ocean’s ecosystems. Despite the increasing specification of coastal and marine environments within South African management policy and programmes, marine issues as well as ocean and coastal-related environmental inspections still lag behind terrestrial issues. Previous research identified the importance of including contextual factors within the study of environmental worldviews and behaviour. The present study aimed to address the identified needs within South African environmental management frameworks for proactive approaches, with consideration to the values and beliefs of the citizens of South Africa as specified in the National Environmental Management Act. The study specifically explores the coastal and marine environmental worldviews of a sample of South African millennials with reference to the contextual constraints, which influence their environmental perceptions and behaviours. This generation constitutes 26.4% of South Africa’s population and, according to literature, is largely underrepresented within environmental discourse. This exploratory-descriptive study utilised four research phases to contextualise the coastal and marine environmental worldviews of nine millennial South Africans, namely, a systematic review of 1236 academic articles, an observation and analysis of 50 environmentally focused Tweets from South African news media outlets, and the subsequent engagements, the distribution of a compiled coastal and marine environmental worldview scale to a sample of nine millennial South Africans and, finally, a set of phenomenological interviews with nine millennial South Africans to discuss the contextual constraints to pro-environmental behaviours. The findings of the study resulted in the provision of a theoretical model regarding the antecedents to environmental behaviour, which addressed the complexity of antecedent attributes omitted in contemporary theory. Additionally, the findings provided a framework of contextual attributes from which to address South African coastal and marine environmental worldviews. The findings further provided baseline information for proactive, informed, as well as participatory decisions and programmes for policy, development, and conservation. The present study represented a novel contribution to academic knowledge through its provision of a theoretical and contextual framework from which to study the antecedents of environmental behaviour. It further presents a novel contribution to development practice, allowing for proactive approaches to environmental management. , Thesis (D.Phil) -- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences , School of Economics, Development & Tourism, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-12
- Authors: van Rooyen, Rize Dorothea
- Date: 2022-12
- Subjects: Coastal ecology , Marine ecology , Generation Y -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/62484 , vital:72764
- Description: The increase in human activities within the marine and coastal environments has introduced new stressors to the ocean’s ecosystems. Despite the increasing specification of coastal and marine environments within South African management policy and programmes, marine issues as well as ocean and coastal-related environmental inspections still lag behind terrestrial issues. Previous research identified the importance of including contextual factors within the study of environmental worldviews and behaviour. The present study aimed to address the identified needs within South African environmental management frameworks for proactive approaches, with consideration to the values and beliefs of the citizens of South Africa as specified in the National Environmental Management Act. The study specifically explores the coastal and marine environmental worldviews of a sample of South African millennials with reference to the contextual constraints, which influence their environmental perceptions and behaviours. This generation constitutes 26.4% of South Africa’s population and, according to literature, is largely underrepresented within environmental discourse. This exploratory-descriptive study utilised four research phases to contextualise the coastal and marine environmental worldviews of nine millennial South Africans, namely, a systematic review of 1236 academic articles, an observation and analysis of 50 environmentally focused Tweets from South African news media outlets, and the subsequent engagements, the distribution of a compiled coastal and marine environmental worldview scale to a sample of nine millennial South Africans and, finally, a set of phenomenological interviews with nine millennial South Africans to discuss the contextual constraints to pro-environmental behaviours. The findings of the study resulted in the provision of a theoretical model regarding the antecedents to environmental behaviour, which addressed the complexity of antecedent attributes omitted in contemporary theory. Additionally, the findings provided a framework of contextual attributes from which to address South African coastal and marine environmental worldviews. The findings further provided baseline information for proactive, informed, as well as participatory decisions and programmes for policy, development, and conservation. The present study represented a novel contribution to academic knowledge through its provision of a theoretical and contextual framework from which to study the antecedents of environmental behaviour. It further presents a novel contribution to development practice, allowing for proactive approaches to environmental management. , Thesis (D.Phil) -- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences , School of Economics, Development & Tourism, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-12
Systematic review of rural health development research in South Africa
- Authors: van Rooyen, Rize Dorothea
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Rural health services -- South Africa , Rural development -- South Africa Health -- Research -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/44112 , vital:37112
- Description: The challenges presented by the contextual realities of rurality on the South African rural health care system are important to the understanding of the poor health outcomes of these populations. Nonetheless, much research has been done on South African rural health. The vast amount of information, studies and policies regarding South African rural health, and its development made it ideal to be studied by systematic review. This systematic review through its adaption of a mixed methods approach, reviewed a sample of the South African rural health development research outputs between 2013 and 2018, in addition to practitioner-led research and policies. Twelve key systematic review steps were developed to assist in executing the research. In addition, a complete research protocol was part of the systematic review steps. The review protocol indicated the strategies utilised in the scoping searches, data collection and synthesis processes of the review. The findings of this research consisted of three synthesis processes. The first synthesis consisted of the presentation of the qualitative findings and the interpretation thereof. The second synthesis process compared the key themes extracted from the data outputs to those extracted from the grey literature, and the third synthesis integrated the quantitative and qualitative findings into a single review. The review found that although research and practice were aligned to an extent, there were important areas of research, which had been largely overlooked. These included areas such as participation of advocacy, training and education as well as rural-proofing. It further showed that academic research in the field of rural health development relied heavily on participant dependent research methods thereby limiting the exposure of researchers to the phenomena being studied. This review’s methodology and protocol could serve as a guideline for future researchers. The prioritisation of rural health needs and the inclusion of rurality as a variable in South African healthcare policy and strategy is essential in health development research.
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- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: van Rooyen, Rize Dorothea
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Rural health services -- South Africa , Rural development -- South Africa Health -- Research -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/44112 , vital:37112
- Description: The challenges presented by the contextual realities of rurality on the South African rural health care system are important to the understanding of the poor health outcomes of these populations. Nonetheless, much research has been done on South African rural health. The vast amount of information, studies and policies regarding South African rural health, and its development made it ideal to be studied by systematic review. This systematic review through its adaption of a mixed methods approach, reviewed a sample of the South African rural health development research outputs between 2013 and 2018, in addition to practitioner-led research and policies. Twelve key systematic review steps were developed to assist in executing the research. In addition, a complete research protocol was part of the systematic review steps. The review protocol indicated the strategies utilised in the scoping searches, data collection and synthesis processes of the review. The findings of this research consisted of three synthesis processes. The first synthesis consisted of the presentation of the qualitative findings and the interpretation thereof. The second synthesis process compared the key themes extracted from the data outputs to those extracted from the grey literature, and the third synthesis integrated the quantitative and qualitative findings into a single review. The review found that although research and practice were aligned to an extent, there were important areas of research, which had been largely overlooked. These included areas such as participation of advocacy, training and education as well as rural-proofing. It further showed that academic research in the field of rural health development relied heavily on participant dependent research methods thereby limiting the exposure of researchers to the phenomena being studied. This review’s methodology and protocol could serve as a guideline for future researchers. The prioritisation of rural health needs and the inclusion of rurality as a variable in South African healthcare policy and strategy is essential in health development research.
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- Date Issued: 2019
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