Climate Change, Conflict, and Children

Akresh, Richard

doi:10.1353/foc.2016.0003

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“…Children are also more susceptible to the indirect effects of climate change, such as food shortages, intergroup conflict, economic dislocation, and forced migration (Akresh, ). Particularly for younger children, dependency on adults can lead to health and psychosocial consequences related to the impacts of climate change on parents’ well‐being, family functioning, and economic status (Clayton et al, ).…”

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Responding to the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Children and Youth

Sanson

Hoorn²,

Burke³

2019

Child Dev Perspectives

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Climate change poses an urgent threat to future generations. Children are more susceptible to its effects than adults, with immediate and lifelong impacts on their physical and mental health. In addition to having direct experiences of climate impacts, children and youth respond psychologically in troubling ways to their awareness of the climate crisis. Children’s and youth’s needs for support vary across contexts. Climate impacts are generally greater in the developing world (despite the fact that people there are less responsible for causing the crisis), where capacity to prepare for and adapt to the effects is weaker. Hence, we need urgent action on both mitigating climate change and adapting to its impacts. In doing this work, we must acknowledge and build the agency and engagement of children and youth, which also builds resiliency and hope. Although many programs are encouraging, they fail to reach all children in need and are limited in terms of evaluation. Experts in child development can help fill these gaps. In the developed world, few studies address how to support young people in face of their feelings regarding climate change. Listening and providing opportunities for active engagement are among the ways adults can help young people cope, and build a sense of efficacy and a capacity to tackle the crisis and adapt to climate impacts. The upsurge in school strikes for climate action demonstrates young people’s deep concerns about their future and their determination to prevent a climate catastrophe. The climate change crisis raises questions about how professionals committed to the well‐being of the next generation should respond—business as usual is no longer an option, and many valuable ways exist to help ensure that children can thrive on a livable planet.

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Section: How Does Climate Change Affect Children and Youth?mentioning

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Responding to the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Children and Youth

Sanson

Hoorn²,

Burke³

2019

Child Dev Perspectives

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“…Our finding that women's education suffered while men's did not is consistent with lower weight being placed on girls' education. Recent research argues that factors that can tilt the gendered impacts one way or the other include the specifics of the conflict, pre-war differences in education levels by gender, and labor market and educational opportunities in the absence of war (Buvinić et al, 2014;Akresh, 2016 Policy Remediation. Between 1976 and 1981, starting six years after the end of the war, Nigeria launched a nation-wide expansion in primary schooling known as the Universal Primary Education program.…”

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First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War

Akresh

Bhalotra

Leone

et al. 2017

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“…We focus on climatic conditions in utero and during early childhood, given the strong evidence that exposure to adverse environmental, political, and socioeconomic conditions during this period negatively impacts long-term human capital outcomes including educational attainment and earnings (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22). We concentrate on the tropics because of the region's high levels of biophysical and social vulnerability to climate change.…”

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Climate change and educational attainment in the global tropics

Randell

Gray

2019

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Climate change may negatively impact education among children via exposure to extreme temperature and precipitation conditions. We link census data from 29 countries across the global tropics to high-resolution gridded climate data to understand how climatic conditions experienced in utero and during early childhood affect educational attainment at ages 12 to 16. We show that exposure to higher-than-average temperatures during the prenatal and early-life period is associated with fewer years of schooling in Southeast Asia. In this region, a child who experiences temperatures 2 SDs above average is predicted to attain 1.5 fewer years of schooling than one who experiences average temperatures. In addition, early-life rainfall is positively correlated with attainment in West and Central Africa as well as Southeast Asia, and negatively correlated with attainment in Central America and the Caribbean. While we expected that children from the most educated households would be buffered from these effects, we discover that they tend to experience the greatest educational penalties when exposed to hotter early-life conditions and, in some regions, to drier conditions. For example, among the most educated households in West and Central Africa, predicted schooling is 1.8 years lower for children who experience early-life rainfall 2 SDs below average versus 2 SDs above average, while the difference is just 0.8 years for children from the least educated households. These results suggest that development and educational gains in the tropics could be undermined by climate change, even for better-off households.

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Climate Change, Conflict, and Children

Cited by 57 publications

References 79 publications

Responding to the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Children and Youth

Responding to the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Children and Youth

First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War

Climate change and educational attainment in the global tropics

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