Giulia Marchesini
Educational Marine Areas: when culture and nature interact through Education for Sustainable Development in Polynesia and beyond
This research explores the relationship between indigenous knowledge and the environment embodied by the Educational Marine Areas (EMA) approach. It examines the drivers behind the EMA approach to better understand its essential elements in order to study its replicability within the global goal of Education for Sustainable Development. So far, in French Polynesia, no academic research has been conducted nor has any evaluation been carried out on the Marquesas-born Educational Marine Area concept and practice. This research investigates the continuum between nature and culture relying on the past, present and future to understand the place and meaning of Educational Marine Areas approach in French Polynesia and its possible broader replicability.
Supervisors
Professor Claire Freeman & Zehra Gabillon