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Acknowledgments

RC and LF are supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal): grants SFRH/BPD/110348/2015 and SFRH/BPD/79933/2011 (POCH funds from ESF and MCTES), respectively, and Contrato-Programa to RC (NT of the DL 57/2016 altered by Law 57/2017). The Biodiversity Workshops were developed within the framework of the program “CES vai à Escola” (“CES goes to School”; https://www.ces.uc.pt/extensao/cesvaiaescola/?id_lingua=2), funded by CES-UC via FCT (UID/SOC/50012/2013).

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Campos, R., Fernandes, L. (2019). Health Education for Awareness and Behavioral Change and Influence. In: Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Azeiteiro, U., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69627-0_99-1

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