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From values to climate action

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Psychology, 2021
To mitigate anthropogenic climate change, it is important to know what motivates individuals to support and take climate action. Values reflect universal, general, desirable goals which guide individuals' preferences and actions. Stronger biospheric values (caring about the environment), in particular, predict stronger engagement in climate action ...
Thijs Bouman   +2 more
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Gender and climate action [PDF]

open access: yesPopulation and Environment, 2020
It is well-known that men and women differ in their views regarding the severity of climate change, but do they also differ in their support for climate policy and in undertaking climate action? Previous evidence on this question is inconsistent, but unique survey data from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency enable us to answer it in the ...
Elert, Niklas, Lundin, Erik
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Climate Action for (My) Children [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
AbstractHow do we motivate cooperation across the generations—between parents and children? Here we study voluntary climate action (VCA), which is costly to today’s decision-makers but essential to enable sustainable living for future generations. We predict that “offspring observability” is critical: parents will be more likely to invest in VCA when ...
Helena Fornwagner, Oliver P. Hauser
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Climate warriors down under: Contextualising Australia’s youth climate justice movement

open access: yesnpj Climate Action, 2023
This perspective brings together published peer reviewed primary research on youth climate activism in Australia and provides context of the political and social landscapes in which young people are taking climate action.
M. Hohenhaus   +3 more
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A call to climate action [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2019
The science is clear, students are striking, and publics around the globe are demanding a new level of leadership to tackle the climate crisis before it is too late. Climate extremes are inflicting serious economic losses on nations, and climate-driven issues such as sea-level rise, regional aridification, food shortages, disease spread, and massive ...
Jonathan T, Overpeck, Cecilia, Conde
openaire   +2 more sources

Structured decision making to navigate trade‐offs between multiple conservation values in threatened grasslands

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2023
Managing biodiversity often requires making difficult trade‐offs, especially when threatened species and ecosystems overlap in their distributions, and management actions to promote their persistence varies between them.
T. J. Regan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community-based water demand management: socio-technical strategies for improving water security in Australian Indigenous communities

open access: yesEnvironmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2023
Sustainable water management in remote Australian communities is a delicate balance between sufficient and acceptable supply options and appropriate and effective demand approaches.
C D Beal   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mature and old-growth forests contribute to large-scale conservation targets in the conterminous United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Mature and old-growth forests (MOG) of the conterminous United States collectively support exceptional levels of biodiversity but have declined substantially from logging and development.
Dominick A. DellaSala   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

High throughput screening of fungal phytopathogens caught in Australian forestry insect surveillance traps

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
Post-border surveillance for forestry’s high priority pests and pathogens is conducted routinely through established programs focused on the main points-of-entry and across the major plantation growing regions.
Conrad Trollip   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Big data for climate action or climate action for big data? [PDF]

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2021
Under the banner of “data for good,” companies in the technology, finance, and retail sectors supply their proprietary datasets to development agencies, NGOs, and intergovernmental organizations to help solve an array of social problems. We focus on the activities and implications of the Data for Climate Action campaign, a set of public–private ...
Maria I Espinoza, Melissa Aronczyk
openaire   +2 more sources

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