Globally, direct and indirect human impacts have led to the widespread degradation of marine ecosystems. The resulting loss of habitat and marine biodiversity has led to the increased impetus for marine ecosystem restoration at a policy level. The success of such programs relies on an understanding of the nature of public support for marine restoration. This article examines such support through a survey of the attitudes of the general public in Norway and Italy. The results show that among both populations, there is broad support for restoration despite a lack of awareness of marine restoration activity. Differences in responses to the attitudinal questions across countries were tested using standard statistical independence tests and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. Results show significant differences between samples in attitudes toward the completion of restoration and attitudes toward how restoration should be funded. Examining within-group variation, for both samples, regression analysis indicates that a mixture of socioeconomic and context-specific variables are significant predictors of awareness and attitudes toward restoration, while environmental awareness is a positive and significant indicator of attitude toward restoration.

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调查社会对海洋生态系统恢复的态度

在全球范围内，人类的直接和间接影响已导致海洋生态系统的广泛退化。由此造成的栖息地和海洋生物多样性的丧失，导致政策层面对海洋生态系统恢复的推动力增加。此类计划的成功取决于对公众支持海洋恢复的性质的理解。本文通过对挪威和意大利公众态度的调查来检验这种支持。结果表明，尽管缺乏对海洋恢复活动的认识，但在这两个人群中，对恢复的广泛支持。使用标准统计独立性测试和多组验证性因素分析测试了各国对态度问题的反应差异。结果表明，样本对修复完成的态度和对修复应该如何资助的态度存在显着差异。检查组内变异，对于两个样本，回归分析表明社会经济和特定环境变量的混合是对恢复意识和态度的重要预测因子，而环境意识是对恢复态度的积极和重要指标。