scholarly journals Public Awareness: What Climate Change Scientists Should Consider

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8369
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Connected Network ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Valuable Addition ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

In this Opinion, the importance of public awareness to design solutions to mitigate climate change issues is highlighted. A large-scale acknowledgment of the climate change consequences has great potential to build social momentum. Momentum, in turn, builds motivation and demand, which can be leveraged to develop a multi-scale strategy to tackle the issue. The pursuit of public awareness is a valuable addition to the scientific approach to addressing climate change issues. The Opinion is concluded by providing strategies on how to effectively raise public awareness on climate change-related topics through an integrated, well-connected network of mavens (e.g., scientists) and connectors (e.g., social media influencers).

Can we improve soil properties and plant biomass using rock powder as soil amendment?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Reifschneider ◽  
Vinzenz Franz Eichinger ◽  
Evelin Pihlap ◽  
Noelia Garcia-Franco ◽  
Anna Kühnel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Plant Biomass ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
Rock Powder ◽  
Overburden Material ◽  
Neutral Soil ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

<p>The application of rock powder is an option to improve soil fertility while valorising the overburden material produced by industries. The “enhanced weathering” of silicate rock has also gained recent interest in the scientific community for its potential to mitigate climate change. However, the effect of rock powder on the soil physical properties remains unclear, especially under climate change (e.g., increasing drought events). Prior to any large scale application of rock powder, it is crucial to disentangle the potential effects of rock powder application on its environment. In a mesocosm experiment, we explored the effect of three rock powders on plant biomass, soil aggregation and organic carbon (OC) allocation within aggregates, in two soils with clayey and sandy textures, under regular watering or severe drought conditions. We demonstrate that the rock powder was the third factor after drought and soil texture significantly affecting the plant growth, resulting in a significant plant biomass decrease ranging from - 13 % to - 42 % compared with the control. We mainly attribute this effect to the increase of the already neutral soil pH, along with the release of excessive heavy metal amounts at a toxic range for the plant. Yet, we found that adding rock powder to the soil resulted in an increase of the relative amount of microaggregates in the soil by up to + 70 %, along with a re-distribution of OC within the fine fractions of the soil (up to + 32 % of OC in < 250 µm fractions). The new mineral-mineral and organo-mineral interactions promoted by the rock powder addition could potentially favour OC persistence in soil on the long term. With our results, we insist on the potential risks for plant growth associated to the application of rock powder when not handled properly. In addition to the current enthusiasm around the capacity of rock powder to enhance carbon sequestration in the inorganic form, we also encourage scientists to focus their research on its effect on soil structure properties and OC storage.</p>

Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk. By Kerry Whiteside. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 198p. $50.00 cloth, $21.00 paper.

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Scott Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Desert Regions ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Theoretical Risk

Here are two challenges that the world has had to face in 2008: 1) Construction of the Large Hadron Collider was recently completed. Experiments using this machine will yield new knowledge of a fundamental kind. There is also a theoretical risk, believed to be vanishingly small but not zero, that the machine could create a black hole capable of destroying the Earth. Should the machine be turned on? 2) Fertilizing “desert” regions of the oceans with iron is expected to stimulate phytoplankton growth, sucking carbon dioxide into the oceans and thus helping to mitigate climate change. It might also alter vital ocean ecosystems. To know the full consequences of ocean fertilization, large-scale experiments are needed. Should they be allowed?

scholarly journals Mapping climate discourse to climate opinion: An approach for augmenting surveys with social media to enhance understandings of climate opinion in the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0245319
Author(s):  
Jackson Bennett ◽  
Benjamin Rachunok ◽  
Roger Flage ◽  
Roshanak Nateghi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Policy Framing ◽  
Critical Issues

Surveys are commonly used to quantify public opinions of climate change and to inform sustainability policies. However, conducting large-scale population-based surveys is often a difficult task due to time and resource constraints. This paper outlines a machine learning framework—grounded in statistical learning theory and natural language processing—to augment climate change opinion surveys with social media data. The proposed framework maps social media discourse to climate opinion surveys, allowing for discerning the regionally distinct topics and themes that contribute to climate opinions. The analysis reveals significant regional variation in the emergent social media topics associated with climate opinions. Furthermore, significant correlation is identified between social media discourse and climate attitude. However, the dependencies between topic discussion and climate opinion are not always intuitive and often require augmenting the analysis with a topic’s most frequent n-grams and most representative tweets to effectively interpret the relationship. Finally, the paper concludes with a discussion of how these results can be used in the policy framing process to quickly and effectively understand constituents’ opinions on critical issues.

Research Study on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-214
Author(s):  
Navchaa Tugjamba ◽  
Batchuluun Yembuu ◽  
Amarbayasgalan Gantumur ◽  
Uranchimeg Gezel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Coverage Level ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Content Coverage ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The paper consists of two main sections. The first section reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development and analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. The second part assessed the coverage level of climate change education for sustainability in national educational standards, curricula and textbooks in Mongolia. To evaluate the coverage level, the team defined the concepts and coverage of Climate change education (CCE), Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and Education for sustainable development (ESD) and developed the indicators to analyze CCE/DRR/ESD content coverage on the curricula and textbooks.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE DESIGN SOLUTIONS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Indeesh Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Pallab Paul, Ph.D.
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Green Construction ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Operational Aspect

Sustainable design is the operational aspect of creating an eco-effective and eco-efficient world. The purpose is to solve large-scale global problems like climate change, poverty and wars through micro and macro processes of individual, local and international efforts at problem-solving. It encompasses all aspects of green construction inclusive of productive and consumptive dimensions at the industrial and community level.

Policy Provisions and Teachers' Needs on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

2017 ◽  
pp. 271-283
Author(s):  
Navchaa Tugjamba ◽  
Batchuluun Yembuu ◽  
Amarbayasgalan Gantumur ◽  
Uranchimeg Getsel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The present research team reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development. To strengthen public awareness of climate change and sustainable development, teachers at all level must play an important role. The team analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. Education policy recommendations and the possibilities for teacher training were defined.

scholarly journals Raising Awareness of Indonesia's Climate Change Mitigation by Social Media Campaign

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Juan Malik Frederick Turpyn ◽  
Anggaraksa Adiwitya
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Discussion Document ◽  
Change Mitigation

Climate change is a big concern that must be realized because it has become a problem in various sectors both at the international, regional, national and local levels. The occurrence of climate change will certainly also affect the occurrence of extreme weather and disasters - disasters that are not wanted by the public at large. However, the level of public awareness of the bad climate change is still fairly low due to the lack of knowledge about climate change. People can play a role in dealing with climate change, and be actors in mitigating these changes. The use of public communication can increase public awareness and participation in adaptation and mitigation actions on climate change can be realized in many ways, one of which is campaigning to the public. The purpose of this research is to find out how the implementation of social media campaigns in raising awareness of Indonesia's climate change mitigation in the future. The research method that will be used is qualitative with data collection techniques used is Focus Group Discussion, document studies and observations on the intended social media accounts. Researchers did simple research by creating social media accounts to conduct campaigns on the SDGs' points on climate change. The result of this research is the implementation of social media campaigns in raising awareness of Climate Change Mitigation in Indonesia raises various positive aspects ranging from changes in people's lifestyles and presenting good awareness.

scholarly journals Environmental awareness: The case of climate change

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shlomo Weber ◽  
Hans Wiesmeth
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Economic Wealth ◽  
Contribution Game ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Global Reduction

The extent of provision of a public good often relies on social awareness and public support for it. This applies, in particular, to global reduction of greenhouse gases and its relevance for mitigating climate change. We examine the concept of “public awareness” by introducing a formal model that analyzes efforts to mitigate climate change in a setting with heterogeneous countries. In the theoretical part we examine the Nash equilibrium of the contribution game. The effects of awareness and economic parameters on mitigation efforts can be disentangled, raising the possibility of linking awareness of climate change with economic wealth. The second part provides some empirical observations and offers the rankings of countries regarding awareness for climate change, as well as an empirical relationship between awareness and economic wealth.

scholarly journals Relationships among man, environment and sediment transport

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Mahé ◽  
Hafzullah Aksoy ◽  
Yao Télesphore Brou ◽  
Mohamed Meddi ◽  
Eric Roose
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sediment Transport ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Large River ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Rainfall Runoff ◽  
Multi Scale

In the Mediterranean the environment is under pressure from agricultural and urban development, changes in agricultural practices and international markets, and climate change. Moreover, many studies show a steady increase in the agro-pastoral pressure and land degradation and their impacts on water resources and soil, and ultimately the lives of local people. But few studies address these issues across the inclusive scale of large river basins. The conference held at Tipaza in Algeria, from which come several papers published in the Journal of Water Science in 2013, was intended to reflect on the topics, methods and tools available to study the relationships among humans, the environment and sediment transport at this large scale, with the result expected to improve the potential for dialogue between researchers and developers who make decisions for regional macro surfaces. The topics discussed at the conference that appear in the articles published here concern the factors responsible for the variability of sediment transport: climate change and anthropogenic changes, such as agricultural activity and water projects; relationships between land-cover/land-use, rainfall-runoff processes and sediment transport; modeling of sediment transport; and the interest of a multi-scale approach, predominantly a spatial one, for addressing the geographical realities of large basins and scale transfer issues, particularly in Mediterranean and semi-arid areas.

Research Study on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

2022 ◽  
pp. 1004-1026
Author(s):  
Navchaa Tugjamba ◽  
Batchuluun Yembuu ◽  
Amarbayasgalan Gantumur ◽  
Uranchimeg Gezel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Coverage Level ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Content Coverage ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The paper consists of two main sections. The first section reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development and analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. The second part assessed the coverage level of climate change education for sustainability in national educational standards, curricula and textbooks in Mongolia. To evaluate the coverage level, the team defined the concepts and coverage of Climate change education (CCE), Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and Education for sustainable development (ESD) and developed the indicators to analyze CCE/DRR/ESD content coverage on the curricula and textbooks.

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