Results 31 to 40 of about 2,818 (221)

Climate justice and curriculum justice: Young people's accounts of schools' uneven responses to their climate justice activism

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The uneven ways in which climate change is taught (or not) within schools, and the uneven opportunities for students to experience justice‐oriented climate education, are curricular injustices. Recent systematic reviews of Climate Change Education literature note a depoliticising tendency in climate change education, with official curriculum ...
Eve Mayes, Dani Villafaña, Sophie Chiew, Netta Maiava, Natasha Abhayawickrama, Rachel Finneran   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The FLOod Probability Interpolation Tool (FLOPIT): Improving Spatial Flood Probability Quantification and Communication Through Higher Resolution Mapping [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Understanding flood probabilities is essential to making sound decisions about flood-risk management. Many people rely on flood probability maps to inform decisions about purchasing flood insurance, buying or selling real-estate, flood-proofing a house, or managing floodplain development.
arxiv  

Estimating ensemble likelihoods for the Sentinel-1 based Global Flood Monitoring product of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
The Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) system of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) addresses the challenges and impacts that are caused by flooding. The GFM system provides global, near-real time flood extent masks for each newly acquired Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image, as well as flood ...
arxiv  

Green fields, ugly ducklings and black swans: Aesthetic dimensions of ecological science

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite its relative infancy, ecological science plays a pre‐eminent role in current environmental decision‐making globally and has, over recent decades, permeated a broad range of academic disciplines. Developments in two areas of philosophical thought in particular, environmental aesthetics and the aesthetics of science, beg an exploration ...
Samantha J. Capon, Robyn Bartel, Sandy Boucher, Felicity Joseph, Anthony Lynch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Synergies and Trade‐Offs at the Forest‐Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Nexus—A Systematic Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forests play a critical role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet their contributions are often misunderstood and inadequately addressed in the scientific discourse. This study clarifies the intricate relationships between forests and the SDGs by examining the contextual factors that influence this interplay.
Dominic Ahrens, Simon Benedikter, Lukas Giessen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing media and information literacy in engineering design education: Learning to design technologies in the era of science denial and misinformation

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.
Abstract Engineering design entails making value‐laden judgments against ill‐defined, ambiguous, and/or competing sociotechnical criteria. In this article, we argue that such conditions make engineering designers particularly susceptible to the potentially deleterious effects of mis/disinformation in the processes and practices of engineering design ...
Greses Pérez, Trevion Henderson, Kristen B. Wendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

أثر المعتقدات الدينية الرافدينية في المعتقدات الدينية الفارسية القديمة أسطورة الطوفان أنموذجاً The influence of the Mesopotamia religious beliefs in the ancient Iranian religious beliefs The flood Epic a example

Journal Of Babylon Center For Humanities Studies, 2020
Religious ideas and beliefs often define the general structure of a person's behavior and influence his customs, traditions, predecessors, and his intellectual and spiritual construction style .These religious ideas and beliefs had a great and clear ...
حسين حسن العنزي Hussein Hassan Alanzi
doaj  

The Story of the Watchers as a Counter Narrative: Enochic Responses to the Authority of Mesopotamian Sages

Religions
The extant texts of Enochic Judaism present accounts about the early history of humankind, which use the motifs familiar from the ancient Mesopotamian historiography.
Amar Annus
doaj   +1 more source

Myths and Legends in High-Performance Computing [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
In this thought-provoking article, we discuss certain myths and legends that are folklore among members of the high-performance computing community. We gathered these myths from conversations at conferences and meetings, product advertisements, papers, and other communications such as tweets, blogs, and news articles within and beyond our community. We
arxiv  

Complaint culture: the non‐market economy and moral disappointment in a late‐socialist kibbutz La culture des réclamations : économie non marchande et déception morale dans un kibboutz aux derniers temps du socialisme

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent years, the kibbutz – a once‐idealized socialist commune in Israel – has become a common object of critique in Israeli popular culture. Many critiques focus on what can be described as the old kibbutz's ‘moral harshness’, highlighting the prevalence of informal surveillance, peer pressure, and public moralizing.
Omri Senderowicz
wiley   +1 more source