scholarly journals Finnish Students’ Knowledge of Climate Change Mitigation and Its Connection to Hope

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilkka Ratinen ◽  
Satu Uusiautti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Change Mitigation

Climate change is a global concern, and the need to address it is urgent. Therefore, climate change education has been developed in recent years. Meaning making, coping strategies, and solution-oriented climate education tasks enable and maintain hope for positive results with regard to climate change. However, there is still uncertainty as to how students’ knowledge of climate change mitigation measures affects their attitudes. In the present study, elementary and secondary students in Finland (n = 950) responded to an online questionnaire. A principal component analysis, a hierarchical regression analysis, a correlation coefficients, a t-test, and a Kruskal-Wallis analysis of variance were used for the analysis to understand what kind of hope students had towards climate change and how their knowledge and optimism regarding climate change affected their hope. The data revealed that the students had a relatively high constructive hope rather than denial hope when it comes to climate change. Additionally, this hope was not built on a minimisation of climate change. The results indicated that the significant predictors for climate change mitigation were gender, climate change knowledge, and constructive hope. A typology of student positions with regard to climate change is introduced as conclusions.

scholarly journals Students’ Knowledge of Climate Change, Mitigation and Adaptation in the Context of Constructive Hope

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Ilkka Ratinen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
High Level ◽  
General Climate ◽  
Change Mitigation

Humanity is living in a climate emergency where climate change should be significantly mitigated; additionally, greater efforts should be made to adapt to it. To date, relatively little research has been carried out on young people’s skills in terms of them mitigating and, in particular, adapting to the changes caused by climate change. The complex climate change issues of mitigation and adaptation are conceptually difficult for children because climate change is not directly evidenced in their daily lives. This study focuses on looking at mitigation and adaptation from the perspective of children. Meaning-making coping strategies enable the maintenance of constructive hope regarding climate change. In the present study, elementary and secondary students (n = 950) responded to an online questionnaire. Statistical methods were used to gather data on how students’ general knowledge of climate change and their mitigation and adaptation knowledge predicted their constructive hope regarding climate change. This study reveals that the students had a relatively high level of constructive hope and that general climate change knowledge predicted students’ constructive hope well.

Economic and environmental evaluation of climate change mitigation measures in the waste sector of developing countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 234-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Dedinec ◽  
Natasa Markovska ◽  
Igor Ristovski ◽  
Gjogi Velevski ◽  
Verica Taseska Gjorgjievska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Environmental Evaluation ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Waste Sector

A Corporate Understanding of Biblical Salvation and Its Application to Climate Change Mitigation Measures

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 379-400
Author(s):  
Sungho Choi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Redemptive History ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article deals with a theological approach to the issue of climate change and examines some of the misconceptions found within Christianity with regards the environment. These distortions of understanding can be traced back to the way in which salvation is articulated and perceived. In the circumstances it becomes a pressing public task to consider the key biblical conceptions of salvation. Of critical significance is how the salvific tradition is understood to be corporate rather than individualistic. That is so right from the beginning of Israel’s redemptive history and carries through the biblical material to include God’s redemptive work in Christ which is itself extended through to the rest of creation. The current mitigation measures (and their limitations) with regards to climate change are critically evaluated alongside these salvific claims.

scholarly journals The water impacts of climate change mitigation measures

2014 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Wallis ◽  
Michael B. Ward ◽  
Jamie Pittock ◽  
Karen Hussey ◽  
Howard Bamsey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

scholarly journals Towards an Integrative Psychological Model for Climate Change Mitigation Behavior among Managers in the Tourism Industry

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-127
Author(s):  
D. N. Kinyanjui
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Change Mitigation

The aims of the current paper are to provide an extensive review of the theoretical and empirical evidence on which current climate change mitigation efforts are based and to advance a new model of the determinants of mitigation behavior. The study was based on the review of relevant literature. The model specifically demonstrates the interplay between human values, attitude, knowledge, emotions and social norms as determinants of broad and greater levels of mitigation behaviours. The model is complemented by adding age and sex as confounders. It indicates the possible interrelationships between these factors with their joint effects being emphasized. The model addresses a concern that most business-level climate change policies ought to be integrative, but are unfortunately, not. Detailed knowledge of psychological determinants is useful for policy makers to provide favorable conditions in support of business level climate change mitigation measures and how it can be used to measure and compare the impacts of the determinants so as to generate more applicable mitigation measures in  optimizing climate change policies now and in the future.

scholarly journals Developing a Set of Criteria for Prioritising GHG Emission Reduction Measures in Metallurgical Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Truong Tran ◽  
Tran THANH HA ◽  
Le THANH NGHI ◽  
Nguyen NHU HUNG ◽  
Do THI THANH NGA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Mitigation Options ◽  
Metallurgical Sector ◽  
Change Mitigation

Prioritizing climate change mitigation measures could help to identify most feasible or most nationally appropriated mitigation actions. This process can also provide important inputs for the development of national climate change strategies or policies. The paper applies Delphi method to prioritize criteria for potential climate change mitigation technology in the metallurgical sector in Vietnam. The consultation process has been done with ten experts in only two cycle to reach Kendall (W) value over 0.5. Then, 11 out of 21 criteria have been selected for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in prioritizing mitigation options in iron and steel, lead, zinc, tin and aluminium productions. Mitigation options with highest scores will be proposed for mitigation target of the metallurgical sector which could be inputs for NDC of industrial sector. The selected criteria include 01 indicator in emission reduction (GPT1), 01 indicator in environmental impacts (MT1), 01 indicators in social impacts (XH3), 02 indicators in economic impacts (KT1, KT2), 02 indicators in sustainable development impacts (PTBV1, PTBV2) and 04 indicators in MRV (MRV1, MRV2, MRV3, MRV4).

Pametna i socijalno odgovorna energetska tranzicija u regionima sa intenzivnom eksploatacijom uglja

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Jasmina Mandić Lukić ◽  
◽  
Đorđina Milovanović ◽  
Maja Stipić ◽  
Sanja Petrović Bećirović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Law ◽  
Change Mitigation

Faced with forthcoming international obligations related to climate change mitigation measures, primarily planned to be reflected through the Law and Action Plan on Low Carbon Development Strategy, as well as the Law on Climate Change, all of which are currently being defined and adopted, Serbia is increasingly facing a need to switch its coal-fired facilities to alternative, environmentally more acceptable options. The related measures will have to be implemented much sooner than initially planned. Knowing that 80% of national GHG emissions originate from the energy sector, as well as that the dominant portion of those emissions results from the use of locally available coal, it is clear that the most efficient climate change mitigation measure would be a switch to alternative fuel options. However, having in mind that such an energy transition process is coupled with significant technological, environmental, economic, social, and other difficulties, the EU has initiated several projects, and one of them is TRACER, launched under the Horizon 2020 program, that strives to shed light on the best research and innovation strategies facilitating easier transition to the sustainable, low carbon energy system. The project addresses actions across nine coal-intensive European regions, including Kolubara Region in Serbia. The paper presents technological, environmental, and social challenges in the transition process, with an emphasis on the Kolubara region, and a proposal for the energy transition in Serbia respecting R&I strategies and Smart Specialization.

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