This paper reports on a collaboration between advocacy organisation, Sweltering Cities, artists and researchers who developed a multi-site research project that provided South West Sydney residents an opportunity to engage in drama and poetry workshops that gave voice to their lived experience of rising surface temperatures, as well as their desire for environmental protection and climate action. The research featured in this paper contributes to previous research that finds aesthetic modes of engagement to be powerful with regard to ecological awareness, capable of being a positive motivator of small shifts in thinking which are a precursor to climate action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
This study aimed to determine the status of higher education students' awareness about Climate Change and Environmental Conservation. The research was quantitative and used survey questionnaire for data collection. The participants were 350 higher education students selected purposively from 5 universities in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study employed a correlational design and found that there is a positive moderate relationship (r = 0.567) between students' Status of Awareness (SAW) and Climate Change and Environmental Conservation (CCaEC). The work also used regression analysis to determine how the independent variable affects the dependent variable, and the output was R² = 0.322. The hypothesis testing revealed that Students' Awareness of climate change significantly impacted environmental conservation (p-value = 0.000). The Commission for Higher Education in Somalia should therefore develop an environmental protection plan, according to the researchers' recommendations. This approach will not be implemented until people's awareness in the field of education is raised. By implementing the research's suggestions, it is hoped that the findings of this study will increase higher education institutions' involvement in environmental preservation to protect the Somalia's fragile degraded environmental resources. The findings will also offer a policy direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]