Developing Long-Term Environmental Identity
Understanding the long-term impacts of environmental education (EE) is one way to assess programs' overall success in cultivating environmental stewardship. However, it can be difficult to track those impacts over time and directly link the behaviors to particular EE experiences. In this study, the authors attempt to illuminate those complex, multifaceted linkages between non-formal programs and eventual stewardship behavior by examining the role of EE in influencing participants' social environmental identities.