Abstract
Public understanding of environmental issues is complex and may develop in situ through embodied, sensory practices of walking through local environments, through tourist encounters with unfamiliar environments, or ex situ through formal education or entertainment, such as movies or Internet videos. Science, the media, and environmental pressure groups also influence how people think about environmental issues. Research into public understanding of environmental issues has drawn on work on the public understanding of science more generally, using concepts of the deficit model, lay knowledge and the lay/expert divide, indigenous knowledge, and citizen science as well as considering how trust and belief in environmental issues develop among the public. Geographical research has specifically considered the role of scale in shaping public understanding of environmental issues, especially in relation to local and global environmental issues.
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