scholarly journals Seen and heard: The youth as game-changing role-players in climate change and environmental consciousness – A South African perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques W. Beukes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South African ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Environmental Consciousness ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Role Players ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
African Youth ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Changing Role

The environmental crisis, ecological injustice and climate change are some of the biggest challenges to humanity and sustainable development worldwide. The youth are at the centre of the ecological (in)justice, environmental consciousness and climate change discourse. For the youth to participate and influence development with regard to the climate crisis in a favourable way, they must understand their role and the issues and challenges that they face in this regard.Contribution: The aim of this explorative article is twofold. It highlights the involvement of the South African youth in ecological matters. It also offers insights on why the youth can be regarded as game-changing role-players with regard to the climate crisis and being environmentally conscious.

scholarly journals Mother Earth, Mother Africa and Biblical Studies : Interpretations in the Context of Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Leshota ◽  
Ericka S. Dunbar ◽  
Musa W. Dube ◽  
Malebogo Kgalemang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
African Women ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Climate Crisis

Climate change and its global impact on all people, especially the marginalized communities, is widely recognized as the biggest crisis of our time. It is a context that invites all subjects and disciplines to bring their resources in diagnosing the problem and seeking the healing of the Earth. The African continent, especially its women, constitute the subalterns of global climate crisis. Can they speak? If they speak, can they be heard? Both the Earth and the Africa have been identified with the adjective “Mother.” This gender identity tells tales in patriarchal and imperial worlds that use the female gender to signal legitimation of oppression and exploitation. In this volume, African women theologians and their female-identifying colleagues, struggle with reading and interpreting religious texts in the context of environmental crisis that are threatening life on Earth. The chapters interrogate how biblical texts and African cultural resources imagine the Earth and our relationship with the Earth: Do these texts offer readers windows of hope for re-imagining liberating relationship with the Earth? How do they intersect with gender, race, empire, ethnicity, sexuality among others? Beginning with Genesis, journeying through Exodus, Ruth, Ecclesiastes and the Gospel of John, the authors seek to read in solidarity with the Earth, for the healing of the whole Earth community.

scholarly journals ECO-PESANTREN AS THE PANACEA FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: LESSONS FROM NURUL HARAMAIN NW LOMBOK ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Abdul Quddus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ecological Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Values ◽  
Climate Crisis

This paper examined the ecological concept and its implication at Nurul Haramain NW Lombok Islamic boarding school in response to the world climate crisis. Boarding schools have the potentials to bridge the environmental conservation initiative amid the secular science phenomena. This study employed a descriptive-explorative approach using a qualitative methodology. Thus, theoretically, this study was anchored in Mary Evelyn Tucker and Vasudha Narayan's theories of eco-theology in addressing the climate crisis. The findings showed that Nurul Haramain NW Lombok Islamic boarding school had implemented a sustainable lifestyle based on the ecological values in the Al-Quran and Hadith, in which Tuan Guru as the environmental conservation foreman.   Keywords: Eco-Pesantren, Climate Change, Environmental Crisis, Educational Theology, Eco Theology

scholarly journals Responding to the Climate Crisis: The Importance of Virtual Conferencing Post-Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilia Rissman ◽  
Cassandra Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Conference Attendance ◽  
Virtual Experiences ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
A Current ◽  
Behavior And Cognition

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in-person academic conferences to a halt. A current pressing question among researchers in our field is whether we should return to the pre-pandemic conference model when travel is safe again. We present evidence suggesting that the answer is no. We surveyed 489 researchers studying human behavior and cognition about their pre-pandemic conference attendance, what they value in conferencing, and their attitudes toward solutions for making conferences more sustainable. We found that researchers’ average carbon footprints from conference travel are unsustainable in light of recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We also found that researchers are positively inclined towards a variety of changes that would make conferences more sustainable. Given these results, it will be essential for future conference organizers to provide more sustainable and accessible options, including a virtual option for participation at every conference. For attendees to choose virtual formats, it will be important for conference organizers to provide virtual experiences that are as fulfilling as possible, changes which can also be applied to in-person conferencing. We envision a future of conferencing that is more productive, accessible, and environmentally conscious.

scholarly journals Climate Fiction and the Crisis of Imagination

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Chiara Xausa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
Climate Fiction ◽  
Climate Crisis

This article analyses the representation of environmental crisis and climate crisis in Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Indigenous Australian writer Alexis Wright. Building upon the groundbreaking work of environmental humanities scholars such as Heise (2008), Clark (2015), Trexler (2015) and Ghosh (2016), who have emphasised the main challenges faced by authors of climate fiction, it considers the novels as an entry point to address the climate-related crisis of culture – while acknowledging the problematic aspects of reading Indigenous texts as antidotes to the 'great derangement’ – and the danger of a singular Anthropocene narrative that silences the ‘unevenly universal’ (Nixon, 2011) responsibilities and vulnerabilities to environmental harm. Exploring themes such as environmental racism, ecological imperialism, and the slow violence of climate change, it suggests that Alexis Wright’s novels are of utmost importance for global conversations about the Anthropocene and its literary representations, as they bring the unevenness of environmental and climate crisis to visibility.

CHILDREN AND YOUTH AS AGENTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT IN SOUTH AFRICA

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Mankolo Lethoko
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Ipcc Report ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
African Youth

When the democratic government came into power in 1994 in South Africa, it faced formidable problems stemming from the structural and historical inequalities and imbalances created by apartheid. Among the challenges included climate change. The release of the 2013 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) report indicates that climate change is a reality and its effects globally are getting worse daily. However, South African youth have not been adequately educated about climate change through formal basic schooling so that they can act as change agents.This article argues that the curriculum has to include relevant and the most recent content on climate change so that children can become agents of climate change in their homes and communities. The article uses content analysis of the National Curriculum Statement (2012) to determine the relevance and currency of climate change content in the present basic schooling curriculum. The article also makes recommendations on how the present content can be revised and made relevant to South African schools.

scholarly journals Cultural beliefs of time orientation and social self-construal: Influences on climate change adaptation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aida C. Terblanche-Greeff ◽  
Jon-Vegard Dokken ◽  
Dewald Van Niekerk ◽  
Ruth A. Loubser
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South African ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Adaptive Behaviour ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
African Perspective

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges humankind faces and adaptive behaviour is an imperative response to such change. Culture and the resulting worldview are determinants of behaviour and eminent cultural beliefs are that of time orientation (TO) and social self-construal (SSC). To date, no research focuses on these beliefs from an indigenous South African perspective or the manner in which it may subsequently affect a community’s adaptation towards climate change. Q-methodology was used to study perspectives and beliefs in three peri-urban communities in South Africa and to investigate the interrelation between themes such as TO, SSC, climate change awareness and climate change causality. It became apparent that the communities are aware of climate change, yet little to no efforts are currently being made to adapt to climatic change. This absence of motivation to adapt may be attributed to limited risk perception and cultural beliefs of TO and SSC. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of cultural beliefs and its impact on climate change adaptation behaviour in the South African context. It is concluded that TO and SSC from an indigenous South African perspective influence community adaptation to climate change.

scholarly journals Climate change and occupational health: A South African perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (8) ◽  
pp. 586 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Kjellstrom ◽  
B Lemke ◽  
O Hyatt ◽  
M Otto
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
South African ◽  
African Perspective

scholarly journals Preparedness of banks to be compliant with the criteria for the advanced measurement approach: A South African perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2, Special issue) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Jacobus Young
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Operational Risk ◽  
Basel Accord ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Role Players ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
Measurement Approach ◽  
Insight Into

The New Basel Accord proposed qualitative and quantitative criteria for banks to use the Advanced Measurement Approach to calculate a capital charge for operational risk. The question now is how prepared are banks in South Africa? This article provides insight into relevant criteria, indicating the level of preparedness of banks for the Advanced Measurement Approach. An analysis based on results of a questionnaire, aimed at junior and middle management levels, indicated that banks are more compliant with qualitative than quantitative criteria. It also indicated a general lack of understanding of certain criteria. Should a bank want to implement the Advanced Measurement Approach, it is imperative that criteria be clear and that all role-players be knowledgeable about relevant systems and processes.

scholarly journals Pollination: Impact, role-players, interactions and study – A South African perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 113 (9/10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie Gous ◽  
Sandi Willows-Munro ◽  
Connal Eardley ◽  
Zacharias H. (Dirk) Swanevelder
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Structure And Morphology ◽  
Pollen Loads ◽  
Role Players ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Plant Pollinator

Plant–pollinator interactions are essential for maintaining both pollinator and plant communities in native and agricultural environments. Animal-instigated pollination can be complex. Plants are usually visited by a number of different animal species, which in turn may visit flowers of several plant species. Therefore, the identification of the pollen carried by flower visitors is an essential first step in pollination biology. The skill and time required to identify pollen based on structure and morphology has been a major stumbling block in this field. Advances in the genetic analysis of DNA, using DNA barcoding, extracted directly from pollen offers an innovative alternative to traditional methods of pollen identification. This technique, which is reviewed in detail, can be used on pollen loads sampled from bees in the field and from specimens in historic collections. Here the importance of pollination, the role-players involved, their management and the evolution of their interactions, behaviour and morphology are reviewed – with a special focus on South African bees.

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