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Climate Change and Democratic Education

, 2023
This chapter analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of democracies over nondemocracies when it comes to responding adequately to climate change in order to reflect on their implications for democratic education, understood as an ideal of education in which those educated come to a personal, informed awareness of the nature of political reality and a
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Seventh Oregon climate assessment

Consistent with its charge under Oregon House Bill 3543, the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) conducts a biennial assessment of the state of climate change science, including biological, physical, and social science, as it relates to ...
Fleishman, Erica, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute   +1 more
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Assessment of mortality risks due to a strong cold spell in 2022 in China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundWith the intensification of global climate warming, extreme low temperature events such as cold spells have become an increasingly significant threat to public health. Few studies have examined the relationship between cold spells and mortality
Wanci Wang, Yuxia Ma, Pengpeng Qin, Zongrui Liu, Yuhan Zhao, Haoran Jiao   +5 more
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Assessing climate literacy in secondary schools: development and validation of an interdisciplinary competence test

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionA key goal of Climate Change Education (CCE) in schools is promoting climate literacy in students, that is, equipping them with the skills needed to engage in climate-related discourse and actions in an informed way.
Monika Martin, Magdalena Stadler, Josef Künsting, Martin Schwichow, Roman Asshoff, Ute Bender, Franziska Birke, Astrid Carrapatoso, Anne-Marie Grundmeier, Christian Höger, Stephan Schuler, Jennifer Stemmann, Werner Rieß   +12 more
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Estimation of health risk and economic loss attributable to PM2.5 and O3 pollution in Jilin Province, China

Scientific Reports, 2023
Ambient pollutants, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3), pose significant risks to both public health and economic development.
Yuxia Ma, Yifan Zhang, Wanci Wang, Pengpeng Qin, Heping Li, Haoran Jiao, Jing Wei   +6 more
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Climate change education on different countries [PDF]

Prosperitas, 2021
The problem of global climate change is becoming more serious every year. This phenomenon leads to irreversible destructive consequences, but, unfortunately, people are still not fully aware of this. The main objective of the study was to find out whether the younger generation has sufficient information about the problem and whether the education ...
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Summer Extreme Dust Activity in the Taklimakan Desert Regulated by the South Asian High

Remote Sensing, 2023
Summer dust aerosol in the Taklimakan Desert (TD) affects not only the albedo of the snow and ice sheets on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) but also air quality and precipitation in the downstream areas. In this study, the summer extreme dust activity in the TD
Chengyun Wang, Tianhe Wang, Ying Han, Yuanzhu Dong, Shanjuan He, Jingyi Tang   +5 more
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Fostering teacher agency in school-based climate change education in England, UK [PDF]

Drawing on conceptualisations of teacher agency through the ecological approach, and in the context of recent policy activity, we explored primary and secondary school teachers’ experiences of agency in relation to climate change education in England ...
Dunlop, Lynda, Rushton, Elizabeth, Atkinson, Lucy   +2 more
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Mechanism of non-appearance of hiatus in Tibetan Plateau

Scientific Reports, 2017
In the recent decade, hiatus is the hottest issue in the community of climate change. As the area of great importance, the Tibetan Plateau (TP), however, did not appear to have any warming stoppage in the hiatus period.
Jieru Ma, Xiaodan Guan, Ruixia Guo, Zewen Gan, Yongkun Xie   +4 more
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A Comparison of Wintertime Atmospheric Boundary Layer Heights Determined by Tethered Balloon Soundings and Lidar at the Site of SACOL

Remote Sensing, 2021
High-precision and -resolution atmospheric boundary layer height (BLH) has received increasing attention in air pollution research in recent years.
Min Zhang, Pengfei Tian, Huiyu Zeng, Ligong Wang, Jiening Liang, Xianjie Cao, Lei Zhang   +6 more
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