| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 105 === Abstract
According to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, it states that by 2020, conservation and sustainable use of marine and marine resources will be managed in a sustainable way to protect marine and coastal ecology. Having a healthy and productive sea is one of the target in the agenda.
Malaysia is surrounded by tropical oceans, where has been paying a lot of attention on the conservation of coral reefs, mangroves and turtles. However, seagrass bed near the coastal area has been neglected for a long time. In the last century, 30% of global seagrass had disappeared and still decreasing rapidly. There is a number of environmental NGO and organization which concern with the seagrass issue were established recently. They spread the awareness about protecting the seagrass ecology through volunteer seahorse tagging programs and parents and kids marine education programs. Their target is to reach out to the public and local community to involve themselves in the environment around them.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the action strategies and key factors of the individual’s action competence of the NGO. The research questions are as following:
1. What is the development and operation model of the NGO?
2. What kind of actions and strategies took by the NGO to protect the seagrass bed in Malaysia?
3. What is the individual’s action competence and the role they played in the marine conservation NGO?
Action competence proposed by Jensen & Schnack (1997) will be the analytical approach to the qualitative data in this research. This study is based on in-depth interviews as the main data collection. The result of the research is using the democratic literacy and critical thinking to summarize the knowledge and insights, commitment, vision and action experience of the members from Malaysia’s marine conservation NGO. The study found that members of the seagrass protecting NGO promoted the marine conservation action with a strong democratic point of view and critical thinking and there is a close relationship between the elements of the action competence and it will affect each other.
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