Coastal and Marine Environmental Education

This book provides a broad overview of how the promotion of ocean and coastal literacy is being planned, applied and evaluated in Brazil, a country of continental dimensions with a great diversity of cultural, educational and social realities. It discusses a range of target groups, from children to adults; formal and informal strategies; and various promoting players, such as groups/institutions. Researchers representing Brazilian academic institutions and NGOs share their environmental education (EE) experiences in Brazil and describe the main concerns regarding the marine and coastal environments as well as how they are addressing these concerns in their EE projects. This book is of interest to anyone who is looking for ways of designing and implementing EE activities with a robust theoretical background in different socio-cultural scenarios.




Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes is a biologist with a PhD in Marine Ecology from the University of São Paulo. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of ABC in Santo André (São Paulo State, Brazil). Her main research interests are related to the development and evaluation of marine and coastal environmental education activities, and citizen science protocols. She also develops studies on the ecology of rocky shore benthic communities.

Flavio Augusto de Souza Berchez is a biologist with a PhD in Marine Ecology from the University of São Paulo (USP). He is currently a Professor of  the Biosciences Institute at USP. His main research interests are descriptive ecology of hard bottom benthic communities, particularly the habitat patterns and the effects of water motion extreme events, and the creation, application and evaluation of marine ecosystems' environmental education models.