@inbook{ac909490dec04eaf9a5173c6a02585fb,
title = "Ocean Literacy: Background, Future Drivers, and Opportunities",
abstract = "In this introductory chapter a brief overall introduction is given in which current trends in ocean sciences, relevant for the development of ocean literacy, are sketched. In The ocean as the planet{\textquoteright}s life support system, the history of oceanography is briefly discussed, and a number of characteristics of the ocean are mentioned. In four The need to… sections trends in ocean sciences understanding, observing, protecting, and involving citizens and pupils from primary and secondary schools, are discussed.",
keywords = "Census of Marine Life, Monitoring, Ocean characteristics, Perceptions, UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Water cycle",
author = "Stel, {Jan H.}",
note = "Funding Information: In 2005 at the second World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) was accepted and established. The main goal of GEO is to create the Global Earth Observation Systems of System, GEOSS, to bring together various specialized earth observing systems. In Europe, this resulted in the establishment of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) earth observation program. This program was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), and funded by the EU (Fig. 6). During its Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-70155-0_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-70154-3",
series = "Key Challenges in Geography",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "3--20",
editor = "Koutsopoulos, {Kostis C.} and Stel, {Jan H.}",
booktitle = "Ocean Literacy: Understanding the Ocean",
address = "United States",
}