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Education on Climate Risks and their Implications for Health
- Source :
- Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- The paper presents a descriptive study that analyzes the relationship between science and common culture in the social representations of problems arising from climate change, stressing the importance of promoting adequate communication and education on climate risks and their implications for health. The global climate change on Earth due to natural and anthropogenic causes that occurs at different time scales is a matter of controversy among scientists, policy makers and especially among ordinary citizens who are informed, generally, for the most common means of communication, creating a common culture in relation to this aspect that reveals very interesting facts about what is meant and is known for Climate Change and the consequences that such knowledge can lead to mitigate or otherwise increase. The construction of the common culture on climate change and the problems that entails is comprised of different construction way scientific element; so that knowledge of the common culture on Climate Change can improve education and communication about the threat of it to health. The study was conducted from the selection of a significant sample of 512 university students taking as independent variables the branch of knowledge and the course. Has been used as a tool for data collection a questionnaire with 45 questions of closed type, of which the first 32 questions are made with the intention of assessing students' knowledge regarding Climate Change and the remaining 13 questions are related personal and subjective aspects This paper is part of the research RESCLIMA project supported by the Ministry of Economy & Competitiveness, Government of Spain (EDU2015-63572-P) SI
- Subjects :
- Data collection
Literacy Climate
060106 history of social sciences
business.industry
Political economy of climate change
05 social sciences
Global warming
050301 education
Climate change
Sample (statistics)
06 humanities and the arts
Public relations
Climate Risk and Health
Environmental education
Environmental Education
0601 history and archaeology
General Materials Science
Sociology
Element (criminal law)
Social science
Descriptive research
business
0503 education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18770428
- Volume :
- 237
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f3455a198fecb76e3a20dd444bb88677
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.015