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Charlotte Clark

Charlotte Clark

Associate Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Division of Environmental Social Systems
Environmental Social Systems
cclark@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708
9 Circuit Drive, 3106 Grainger Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL

Journal Article Environmental Education Research · January 1, 2022 Environmental education research often emphasizes the importance of community context, but conceptualization and measurement of environmental literacy has mostly occurred at the individual level, often focusing on individual behaviors. The environmental pr ... Full text Open Access Cite

Using a Delphi study to clarify the landscape and core outcomes in environmental education

Journal Article Environmental Education Research · March 3, 2020 When leaders in a field agree upon core outcomes for the field, connection, reinforcement, and a shared vision of change are synergistically strengthened. Even when the field is dynamic, theoretically wide-ranging, and dispersed, consensus around core outc ... Full text Cite

Synergy of the (Campus) commons: Integrating campus-based team projects in an introductory sustainability course

Journal Article Sustainability Switzerland · February 1, 2020 Faculty and staff at Duke have collaborated to teach a one-semester, introductory, undergraduate course on sustainability ten times over 12 years, including both theoretical and applied project-based content. This article describes the overall process and ... Full text Open Access Cite

Beyond the numbers: understanding how a diversity mentoring program welcomes students into a scientific community

Journal Article Ecosphere · February 1, 2020 Programs designed to broaden participation in science are often deemed “successful” based on quantitative evidence such as student participation rates, retention, and persistence. These numbers alone only explain that a program met its goals; they seldom c ... Full text Cite

Results from Screening Polyurethane Foam Based Consumer Products for Flame Retardant Chemicals: Assessing Impacts on the Change in the Furniture Flammability Standards.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · October 2016 Flame retardant (FR) chemicals have often been added to polyurethane foam to meet required state and federal flammability standards. However, some FRs (e.g., PBDEs and TDCIPP) are associated with health hazards and are now restricted from use in some regio ... Full text Open Access Cite

Writing to learn and learning to write across the disciplines: Peer-to-peer writing in introductory-level MOOCs.

Journal Article International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, · October 2014 Open Access Cite

An exploration of future trends in environmental education research

Journal Article Environmental Education Research · January 1, 2013 This article describes future trends in environmental education (EE) research based on a mixed-methods study where data were collected through a content analysis of peer-reviewed articles published in EE journals between 2005 and 2010; interviews with expe ... Full text Open Access Cite

The Synergy of the Commons: Learning and Collective Action in One Case Study Community

Chapter · 2007 I name collective action competence as the link between collective awareness and collective behavior change, and define it as the readiness of a group of people to behave towards a common goal based on a collective awareness, and a ... ... Cite

The pot and the pendulum

Journal Article Applied Environmental Education and Communication · January 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Control of breathing in Sherpas at low and high altitude

Journal Article Journal of Applied Physiology · September 1, 1980 Sherpas are well known for their physical performance at extreme altitudes, yet they are reported to have blunted ventilatory responses to acute hypoxia and relative hypoventilation in chronic hypoxia. To examine this paradox, we studied ventilatory contro ... Cite

Control of breathing in Sherpas at low and high altitude.

Journal Article Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology · September 1980 Sherpas are well known for their physical performance at extreme altitudes, yet they are reported to have blunted ventilatory responses to acute hypoxia and relative hypoventilation in chronic hypoxia. To examine this paradox, we studied ventilatory contro ... Full text Cite

Navigating Gender in EE Research

Conference This workshop is a space to (1) offer professional development and support for people who identify as women, (2) identify research needs and challenges related to gender in environmental education research, and (3) deepen feminist intersectional scholarshi ... Cite

Describing the Landscape of the Field of Environmental Education

Conference This interactive workshop asked participants to reflect on data from a Delphi panel that asked experts from all parts of the field of EE in North America to name the top outcomes that should emerge from the field of EE. ... Cite

Looking Toward the Blue Sky: Environmental education researchers' experiences, influences, and aspirations

Journal Article Applied Environmental Education and Communication: an international journal Open Access Cite