Schools, climate change and health promotion: a vital alliance

Boon, Helen; Brown, Lawrence H.; Clark, Brenton; Pagliano, Paul; Tsey, Komla; Usher, Kim

doi:10.1071/he11468

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“…The experience that students of any age might have during and in the aftermath of a natural disaster, such as a flood, fire or cyclone, can leave them traumatised and needing extended pastoral care at school. Teachers as members of a most important setting where children spend extended periods of time can have a huge influence in supporting them by enhancing their preparedness and their recovery after such events (Boon et al 2011). One way that can be done is through enhanced communications with parents to help families become familiar with the exigencies of climate change.…”

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Climate change ignorance: an unacceptable legacy

Boon

2014

Aust. Educ. Res.

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Climate change effects will be most acutely felt by future generations. Recent prior research has shown that school students' knowledge of climate change science is very limited in rural Australia. The purpose of this study was to assess the capacity of preservice teachers and parents to transmit climate change information and understanding to school students in a rural tropical part of Australia using Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory as a guiding theoretical framework. Samples consisted of parents of school-age children in northern Queensland (n = 267) and first year pre-service teachers (n = 199) attending a local university serving the same geographic region of Australia. Survey results gathered in the aftermath of cyclone Yasi highlighted gaps in pre-service teachers' knowledge of climate change science and parental concerns about climate change impacts and a mistrust of climate change communication. Findings suggested that home and school influences upon school aged students were unlikely to support students' understanding of climate change or to be able to empower them to adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts. Implications of these findings, which are potentially applicable to other rural and remote parts of the world, are discussed within the context of teacher training and climate science communication.

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Climate change ignorance: an unacceptable legacy

Boon

2014

Aust. Educ. Res.

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“…Among the disruptive effects of climate change, ecological changes are particularly feared and monitored, also because of their influence on many aspects of human life (Fritze et al 2008;Boon et al 2011;Keim 2011;Sauerborn and Ebi 2012;Schleussner et al 2016). Climate change can seriously affect species' habitat distribution especially if coupled with anthropogenic pressure (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2009).…”

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Detecting patterns of climate change in long-term forecasts of marine environmental parameters

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Ellenbroek

2018

International Journal of Digital Earth

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Forecasting environmental parameters in the distant future requires complex modelling and large computational resources. Due to the sensitivity and complexity of forecast models, long-term parameter forecasts (e.g. up to 2100) are uncommon and only produced by a few organisations, in heterogeneous formats and based on different assumptions of greenhouse gases emissions. However, data mining techniques can be used to coerce the data to a uniform time and spatial representation, which facilitates their use in many applications. In this paper, streams of big data coming from AquaMaps and NASA collections of 126 long-term forecasts of nine types of environmental parameters are processed through a cloud computing platform in order to (i) standardise and harmonise the data representations, (ii) produce intermediate scenarios and new informative parameters, and (iii) align all sets on a common time and spatial resolution. Time series crosscorrelation applied to these aligned datasets reveals patterns of climate change and similarities between parameter trends in 10 marine areas. Our results highlight that (i) the Mediterranean Sea may have a standalone 'response' to climate change with respect to other areas, (ii) the Poles are most representative of global forecasted change, and (iii) the trends are generally alarming for most oceans.

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