How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change?
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Resumo: | Impacts of climate change are increasingly felt in our daily lives. Although scepticism is still found among certain social groups, most lay discourses show awareness of the current environmental challenges. In order to move forward and develop action plans to mitigate and adapt to climate change, young people are an important voice to be heard. This research article tackles questions pertaining to the relation between climate change communication, education and social perception of science, exploring social and cultural representations of climate change through the discourses of young people. Fieldwork involved eight focus groups conducted in Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Spain with a total of 50 higher education students of Experimental/Natural Sciences and Engineering, and of Social Sciences and Humanities. Discussions were organized around 16 images referring to the causes, consequences and responses to climate change. Without significant differences between knowledge areas or countries, findings point to awareness of multiple types of responses to climate change, even though students’ analyses were more grounded on common culture than on solid scientific evidence and language. Adaptation strategies were more rarely mentioned than mitigation actions. A strong emphasis was put on barriers to response implementation. Moderate optimism regarding some possible responses was impaired by distrust regarding the political and economic systems leading to calls for transformation at multiple levels. |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change?Climate changeSocial representationsHigher EducationFocus groupsComparative studiesCiências Sociais::Ciências da ComunicaçãoImpacts of climate change are increasingly felt in our daily lives. Although scepticism is still found among certain social groups, most lay discourses show awareness of the current environmental challenges. In order to move forward and develop action plans to mitigate and adapt to climate change, young people are an important voice to be heard. This research article tackles questions pertaining to the relation between climate change communication, education and social perception of science, exploring social and cultural representations of climate change through the discourses of young people. Fieldwork involved eight focus groups conducted in Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Spain with a total of 50 higher education students of Experimental/Natural Sciences and Engineering, and of Social Sciences and Humanities. Discussions were organized around 16 images referring to the causes, consequences and responses to climate change. Without significant differences between knowledge areas or countries, findings point to awareness of multiple types of responses to climate change, even though students’ analyses were more grounded on common culture than on solid scientific evidence and language. Adaptation strategies were more rarely mentioned than mitigation actions. A strong emphasis was put on barriers to response implementation. Moderate optimism regarding some possible responses was impaired by distrust regarding the political and economic systems leading to calls for transformation at multiple levels.MINECO -Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad(EDU2012-33456)info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionCommon Ground Research NetworksUniversidade do MinhoVargas-Callejas, GermánBarba-Núñez, MaríaCarvalho, AnabelaVicente-Mariño, MiguelArto-Blanco, MónicaMeira-Cartea, Pablo Ángel20182018-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/55375eng1835-715610.18848/1835-7156/CGP/v10i02/1-19info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:48:36Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/55375Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:46:53.586507Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? Vargas-Callejas, Germán Climate change Social representations Higher Education Focus groups Comparative studies Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? |
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How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? |
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Vargas-Callejas, Germán |
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Vargas-Callejas, Germán Barba-Núñez, María Carvalho, Anabela Vicente-Mariño, Miguel Arto-Blanco, Mónica Meira-Cartea, Pablo Ángel |
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Barba-Núñez, María Carvalho, Anabela Vicente-Mariño, Miguel Arto-Blanco, Mónica Meira-Cartea, Pablo Ángel |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Vargas-Callejas, Germán Barba-Núñez, María Carvalho, Anabela Vicente-Mariño, Miguel Arto-Blanco, Mónica Meira-Cartea, Pablo Ángel |
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Climate change Social representations Higher Education Focus groups Comparative studies Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação |
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Climate change Social representations Higher Education Focus groups Comparative studies Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação |
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Impacts of climate change are increasingly felt in our daily lives. Although scepticism is still found among certain social groups, most lay discourses show awareness of the current environmental challenges. In order to move forward and develop action plans to mitigate and adapt to climate change, young people are an important voice to be heard. This research article tackles questions pertaining to the relation between climate change communication, education and social perception of science, exploring social and cultural representations of climate change through the discourses of young people. Fieldwork involved eight focus groups conducted in Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Spain with a total of 50 higher education students of Experimental/Natural Sciences and Engineering, and of Social Sciences and Humanities. Discussions were organized around 16 images referring to the causes, consequences and responses to climate change. Without significant differences between knowledge areas or countries, findings point to awareness of multiple types of responses to climate change, even though students’ analyses were more grounded on common culture than on solid scientific evidence and language. Adaptation strategies were more rarely mentioned than mitigation actions. A strong emphasis was put on barriers to response implementation. Moderate optimism regarding some possible responses was impaired by distrust regarding the political and economic systems leading to calls for transformation at multiple levels. |
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