{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100612"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100612","attributes":{"code":"FT250100612","administering-organisation":"The University of New South Wales","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of New South Wales","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-03-12","anticipated-end-date":"2030-03-11","grant-summary":"Environmental Communication for Whales, Dolphins, and Restorative Futures. This project aims to uncover the communication dimensions of globally popular whale and dolphin watching to advance effective strategies for sustainability awareness. It expects to produce vital insights into why nature tourism often falls short of its potential to increase environmental understanding. Using comparative multi-sited ethnographic methods, it will generate new knowledge about environmental discourses and modes of identification that allow threats to species and ecosystems to be normalised or overcome. Outcomes will be amplified through national best-practice guidelines and interdisciplinary researcher and industry, government, and stakeholder engagement to deliver significant environmental, social, and economic benefits.","funding-current":1314708.00,"funding-at-announcement":1286884,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Tema","familyName":"Milstein","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-4954-7045 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Tema","familyName":"Milstein","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-4954-7045 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The University of New South Wales","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of New South Wales","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4701","name":"Communication and Media Studies","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"470103","name":"Environmental Communication","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"470209","name":"Environment and Culture","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"130303","name":"Environmental Ethics","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"180507","name":"Rehabilitation Or Conservation of Marine Environments","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"190203","name":"Environmental Education and Awareness","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Iceland","New Zealand","United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"As Australia’s biodiversity loss worsens, ineffective communication about environmental issues leads to wasted opportunities and resources, to the detriment of the country’s environment, economy, and society.\n\nThis Australia-focused study delivers significant benefit by providing new insight into environmental communication practices and strategies that fail or succeed in improving ecological understanding and actions.\n\nThis project promises broad benefits for conservation stakeholders. By engaging with scholars, it will generate important new data, frameworks, and avenues of inquiry to support conservation efforts across disciplines. Engaging with policymakers and Environmental Non-Government Organisations (ENGOs) will support effective communication design, with end users in mind. Engaging the nature tourism industry ensures this rapidly growing segment of the $166B tourism economy harnesses critical knowledge for Australia’s environmental and economic gain. As the first of its kind, this international comparative study positions Australia as a global leader in environmental action.\n\nWith extensive consultations, practical industry guidelines, media outreach, and stakeholder engagement, it aims to enhance conservation capacity and the long-term viability of the $1.6B ecotourism economy, aligned with Australian policy (Nature Positive Plan 2023, EPBC 2000) to help shape restorative relations with nature."}}}