scholarly journals Perceptions of Climate Change in Puerto Rico before and after Hurricane Maria

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 153-166
Author(s):  
Méndez-Tejeda Rafael ◽  
María Santos-Corrada ◽  
Mena Sandra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Before And After

Cuba, Puerto Rico, and climate change: shared challenges in agriculture, forestry, and opportunities for collaboration.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Fain ◽  
Kathleen McGinley ◽  
William Gould ◽  
Isabel K Parés ◽  
Grizelle Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Puerto Rico

scholarly journals Influencing Attitudes and Preferences Toward Climate Change using a Multi-Player, Transportation Themed Board Game

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Xiaoyi Kjorven
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Effective Combination ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Game Board

Traditional tabletop board games have soared in popularity in recent years, and used often as tools for education and entertainment. Board games are an especially engaging format for studying themes of collective-action problem solving. This study looks at one of the most complex collective-action problems of this generation, climate change, and evaluates how individual attitudes and preferences may be altered by playing a board game specifically designed to influence how people relate to an issue. The board game Wheels was introduced and taught to 18 participants, who engaged in five separate playtesting sessions where observation, survey and interview data were collected. The study evaluates participants' attitudes and preferences toward certain transportation and climate change topics before and after playing the game. The game showed promise in changing players' preferences toward certain modes of transportation - increasing preferences toward electric vehicles and cycling, and decreasing preference towards gas powered cars. These findings indicate that the effective combination of select climate change game mechanics in a highly personalized theme may produce an engaging and entertaining experience that has the potential to transcend the game board and impact players' outlook upon real life choices.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Floods Disaster on Soil Erosion Risk Based on the RUSLE-GloSEM Approach in Western Iran

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Akbari ◽  
Ehsan Neamatollahi ◽  
Hadi Memarian ◽  
Mohammad Alizadeh Noughani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Erosion Risk ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Global Soil ◽  
Major Floods ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Floods cause great damage to ecosystems and are among the main agents of soil erosion. Given the importance of soils for the functioning of ecosystems and development and improvement of bio-economic conditions, the risk and rate of soil erosion was assessed using the RUSLE model in Iran’s Lorestan province before and after a period of major floods in late 2018 and early 2019. Furthermore, soil erosion was calculated for current and future conditions based on the Global Soil Erosion Modeling Database (GloSEM). The results showed that agricultural development and land use change are the main causes of land degradation in the southern and central parts of the study area. The impact of floods was also significant since our evaluations showed that soil erosion increased from 4.12 t ha-1 yr-1 before the floods to 10.93 t ha-1 yr-1 afterwards. Field surveying using 64 ground control points determined that erodibility varies from 0.17 to 0.49% in the study area. Orchards, farms, rangelands and forests with moderate or low vegetation cover were the most vulnerable land uses to soil erosion. The GloSEM modeling results revealed that climate change is the main cause of change in the rate of soil erosion. Combined land use change-climate change simulation showed that soil erosion will increase considerably in the future under SSP1-RCP2.6, SSP2-RCP4.5, and SSP5-RCP8.5 scenarios. In the study area, both natural factors, i.e. climate change and human factors such as agricultural development, population growth, and overgrazing are the main drivers of soil erosion.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Paul Thompson ◽  
Ken Plummer ◽  
Neli Demireva
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Second World ◽  
Research World

This chapter looks at how far the pioneers had responded to the key social changes in their working lifetimes, and the extent to which they had addressed through fieldwork research what now seem to be crucial issues for our future. It also discusses the local traditional religious rituals documented by the anthropologists working abroad both before and after the Second World War. The chapter then shifts to elaborate on the issues of sexual diversity, environment, and climate change. It demonstrates the need and potential for other life-story researchers to explore the issues around social researchers and climate change by focusing on Michael Redclift. Ultimately, the chapter illustrates his life's work and both his commitment and his sense of marginalization in the British social research world. It also narrates his interests in the relationships between human society, the environment, nature, and climate change.

Downscaling future climate change projections over Puerto Rico using a non-hydrostatic atmospheric model

2018 ◽  
Vol 147 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Bhardwaj ◽  
Vasubandhu Misra ◽  
Akhilesh Mishra ◽  
Adrienne Wootten ◽  
Ryan Boyles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Atmospheric Model ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Projections

scholarly journals SUN-192 MISSED HEMODIALYSIS TREATMENTS AND MORTALITY IN PUERTO RICO BEFORE AND AFTER THE 2017 HURRICANES: A MEDIUM DIALYSIS ORGANIZATION EXPERIENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. S279-S280
Author(s):  
K. Norris ◽  
R. Harford ◽  
J. Flaque ◽  
Y. Rodriguez ◽  
M. Harford
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Before And After

scholarly journals The Impacts of Climate Change and Price Fluctuations to Income of Rubber Farmers at Burai Village Ogan Ilir

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Elly Rosana ◽  
Yulius Yulius ◽  
Thirtawati Thirtawati ◽  
Dewi Paramita
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Farming Families ◽  
The Village ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The objectives of this study to analyzing climate change on rubber productivity in Burai Village and differences in rubber farmers' income and family consumption patterns in Burai Village before and after falling rubber prices. This research was conducted from October to December 2017. This study was a survey research which took 30 samples from 160 rubber farming households using simple random sampling method. The results of this study indicate that climate change has an impact on the productivity of rubber farming in the village of Burai, where there was a decline in rubber productivity by 14.44 percent from 1,345.80 kg / ha in 2012 to 1,151.42 kg/ha in 2016, while farmers' income rubber in 2012 and 2016 decreased by 67.73 percent. The difference in income of rubber farming families in 2012 and 2016 was Rp 6,267,390.6 per year, meaning that there was a decrease of 11.78 percent. Large differences in consumption patterns before and after the decline in rubber prices by Rp 476,933.34 per year or an increase of 1.40 percent compared to 2012, in line with Engel's Theory which states that the smaller a person's income, the greater the income used for food consumption.

scholarly journals New Discourses on Energy Transition as an Opportunity for Reconciliation? Analyzing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Communications in Media and Policy Documents

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Carelle Mang-Benza ◽  
Jamie Baxter ◽  
Romayne Smith Fullerton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
News Media ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Before And After

This article examines energy issues articulated by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada and analyzes the energy transition as a locus of reconciliation therein. Using content and discourse analysis of policy documents, white papers, and news media articles, we draw attention to reconciliation and energy discourses before and after 2015, the year that marked the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) report and the Paris Agreement on climate change. We find a three-fold expansion of those discourses, which encompass issues of inclusion and exclusion, dependency, and autonomy, as well as colonial representations of Indigenous people, after 2015. We also find that non-Indigenous voices are more prominent in those conversations. We suggest that the prospects of mutual benefits could turn the energy transition into an opportunity to bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada. 

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