- Title
- Exploring and contextualising the predominant coastal and marine environmental worldview orientations of millennial South Africans
- Creator
- van Rooyen, Rize Dorothea
- Subject
- Coastal ecology
- Subject
- Marine ecology
- Subject
- Generation Y -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2022-12
- Date
- 2022-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/62484
- Identifier
- 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.
- Description
- Thesis (D.Phil) -- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences , School of Economics, Development & Tourism, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 407 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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