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Education for the sustainable global citizen:what can we learn from Stoic philosophy and Freirean environmental pedagogies? [PDF]
Education sciences, 2018 In support of sustainable development, the United Nations launched its Global Education First Initiative with the aims of accelerating progress towards universal access to education and good quality learning whilst fostering global citizenship.
Carmona, Luis Gabriel +4 more
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A world together: Global citizen identification as a basis for prosociality in the face of COVID-19. [PDF]
Group Process Intergroup Relat, 2023 How do global citizens respond to a global health emergency? The present research examined the association between global citizen identification and prosociality using two cross-national datasets—the World Values Survey (Study 1, N = 93,338 from 60 ...
Wang Z +15 more
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Integrating Global Citizen Science Platforms to Enable Next-Generation Surveillance of Invasive and Vector Mosquitoes. [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary The mosquito is the deadliest animal on earth, transmitting diseases that cause nearly a million deaths and >700 million infections each year. Yet only relatively few mosquito species are “vectors” that transmit diseases.
Carney RM +13 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Robust inventories are vital for improving assessment of and response to deadly and costly landslide hazards. However, collecting landslide events in inventories is difficult at the global scale due to inconsistencies in or the absence of landslide ...
Caroline S Juang +2 more
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Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars from 2011 to 2022
Science, 2023 The artificial glow of the night sky is a form of light pollution; its global change over time is not well known. Developments in lighting technology complicate any measurement because of changes in lighting practice and emission spectra. We investigated
C. Kyba +3 more
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Global Change Biology, 2023 Citizen science initiatives have been increasingly used by researchers as a source of occurrence data to model the distribution of alien species. Since citizen science presence‐only data suffer from some fundamental issues, efforts have been made to ...
Mirko Di Febbraro +10 more
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A New European Settlement Map From Optical Remotely Sensed Data
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2016 An application of a general methodology for processing very high-resolution imagery to produce a European Settlement Map (ESM) in support of policy-makers is presented. The process mapped around 10 million km2 of the European continent.
Aneta Jadwiga Florczyk +6 more
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Blogging on the ice: Connecting audiences with climate-change sciences [PDF]
, 2013 Scientists working in Antarctica have recognized the need to counteract problems associated with mainstream media's treatment of the climate-change crisis.
Thorsen, Einar
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Assessment of the Added-Value of Sentinel-2 for Detecting Built-up Areas
Remote Sensing, 2016 Monitoring of the human-induced changes and the availability of reliable and methodologically consistent urban area maps are essential to support sustainable urban development on a global scale.
Martino Pesaresi +5 more
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Balancing Our Identities as Medical Students and Global Citizens in the Wake of COVID-19.
International Journal of Medical Students, 2020 As medical students, we felt the burden of COVID-19 in two distinct waves. The first wave brought with it a loss of opportunity and the immense sadness that came with the understanding that we would move forth without ever compensating for such ...
Ramesha Ali
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