Expressed Willingness and Awareness of Students towards Climate Change in Lahore, Pakistan

Global climate change is one of the most significant threats to our generation, the fundamentals of the issue lie in the fact that the anthropogenic contribution of greenhouse gases is changing the global climate at a rapid rate causing immense warming trends and displaced cold weather. This study examined the awareness levels of college/university students on climate change and their willingness to mitigate the effects of climate change. 69 students from Lahore’s different public and private sector universities were asked to fill out a survey questionnaire form online and were questioned on their attitudes about climate change and their willingness to take action to mitigate its effects.

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Wind parks in post-crisis Greece: Neoliberalisation vis-à-vis green grabbing

Environment and Planning E Nature and Space ◽

10.1177/2514848619835156 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 274-303 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Zoi Christina Siamanta

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Structural Adjustment ◽

Global Climate ◽

Private Land ◽

Ecological Distribution ◽

Public And Private ◽

Private And Public ◽

Energy Companies

This article explores the growth of wind parks in post-crisis Greece in the convergence of the Greek economic crisis, the country’s structural adjustment and global climate change. It illuminates an ongoing process of nature’s neoliberalisation defined by specific measures and strategies. These have facilitated a wave of green grabbing (public and private land, financial and natural resources) in Greece by mostly transnational (energy) companies. Green grabbing is leading to unfavourable consequences for local shepherds and farmers, domestic and small business electricity consumers, conservation and local biodiversity, as well as to ecological distribution conflicts. Private wind parks in post-crisis Greece serve as a socioecological fix to the Greek economic crisis and climate change. The article finally argues that large private and public-private wind parks are far from innocent. Rather, hiding under green and economic growth/recovery credentials, they represent a vehicle for the reproduction and expansion of capitalism with important socioecological implications varying in each context necessitating urgent empirical exploration.

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Seeing Is Believing: Understanding & Aiding Human Responses to Global Climate Change

Daedalus ◽

10.1162/daed_a_01823 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 149 (4) ◽

pp. 139-150

Author(s):

Elke U. Weber

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Financial Risk ◽

Global Climate ◽

Academic Disciplines ◽

Institution Building ◽

Public And Private ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Public ◽

Human Perceptions ◽

Public And Private Sector

This essay traces my academic voyage from studying human perceptions of financial risk to the realization that the human response to climate change is a more fundamental and profound challenge. Along the way, I came to realize that different academic disciplines need to be recruited for two purposes: 1) to tell an accurate story about the motivations and processes by which environmental (and other) decisions get made by stakeholders that range from policy-makers in the public and private sector to the general public; and 2) to determine and implement effective and feasible ways of changing the physical, institutional, and social environment to help myopic decision-makers achieve long(er)-term objectives. I see my voyage as an exercise in applied hope, resisting the constraints that disciplines and academia try to place on scholars and helping others to do so as well, by both example and institution-building.

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