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Anthropogenic climate change is a serious global environmental issue that threatens food and water security, energy production, and human health and wellbeing, ultimately jeopardizing the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A good understanding of climate change is essential for societies to adapt to or mitigate it. Yet, studies reveal that most people have limited knowledge, misconceptions and misunderstanding about climate change. Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to...

This paper aims to develop long-term adaptation strategies for the existing Canadian school buildings under extreme current and future climates using a developed methodology based on global and local sensitivity analysis and Multi-Objective Optimization Genetic Algorithm. The calibrated simulation model based on indoor and outdoor measured temperature for a school of interest is used to evaluate the optimization strategies. This paper aims to search for the optimum school building design...

Despite the critical need for urban planners to address climate change, there is a limited understanding of planning professionals’ perceptions of their climate change competency. This paper reports results from a survey of Australian urban planning professionals, identifying their perceived climate change knowledge, skills, competencies, and everyday practice. The urban planning professionals surveyed had high levels of perceived climate change knowledge, but only a small number incorporate...

Despite the critical need for urban planners to address climate change, there is a limited understanding of planning professionals’ perceptions of their climate change competency. This paper reports results from a survey of Australian urban planning professionals, identifying their perceived climate change knowledge, skills, competencies, and everyday practice. The urban planning professionals surveyed had high levels of perceived climate change knowledge, but only a small number incorporate...

Abstract Aim To assess knowledge, perception, and practices regarding climate change (CC) among university students and to investigate the relationships between knowledge levels and reported practices in response to CC. Subject and methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 768 undergraduate students from the practical and theoretical faculties of Al-Azhar University for Girls in Cairo. Results Most (82.6%) students had heard the term CC and believed it affected their communities....

Thermal comfort in learning environments influences the student’s focus and learning productivity. This study aims to evaluate and compare the adaptive thermal comfort of schoolchildren and their teachers in naturally ventilated primary schools in some selected cities in Imo State Nigeria. To achieve these objectives, the study analyzed the data collected from 330 pupils and 44 teachers in six surveyed classrooms in two types of classroom buildings. The recorded data in the surveyed...

Climate change is an area that is currently in dire need of a wide range of publicity especially among teachers in secondary schools. This is because teachers’ awareness of Climate Change may result to multiplier effects where families and communities benefit when students share what they have learned especially in relation to causes, adaptation and mitigation. The study was therefore carried out to assess the extent of climate change awareness among secondary school teachers in Ebonyi...

Environmental degradation and carbon emissions have become a major global concern. This has forced policymakers to consider strategic and long-term contingencies to increase carbon sequestration capacity and mitigate the effects of climate change. Soil organic carbon (SOC) provides a reliable long-lasting mechanism to ameliorate climate change and regulate carbon fluxes. However, unanticipated rates of climate change coupled with the dynamic nature of land-use transformation threatens...

Environmental degradation and carbon emissions have become a major global concern. This has forced policymakers to consider strategic and long-term contingencies to increase carbon sequestration capacity and mitigate the effects of climate change. Soil organic carbon (SOC) provides a reliable long-lasting mechanism to ameliorate climate change and regulate carbon fluxes. However, unanticipated rates of climate change coupled with the dynamic nature of land-use transformation threatens...

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is used to indicate the meteorological drought situation - a negative (or positive) value of SPI would imply a dry (or wet) condition in a region over a period. The climate system is an excellent example of a complex system since there is an interplay and inter-relation of several climate variables. It is not always easy to identify the factors that may influence the SPI, or their inter-relations (including feedback loops). Here, we aim to study the...

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is used to indicate the meteorological drought situation - a negative (or positive) value of SPI would imply a dry (or wet) condition in a region over a period. The climate system is an excellent example of a complex system since there is an interplay and inter-relation of several climate variables. It is not always easy to identify the factors that may influence the SPI, or their inter-relations (including feedback loops). Here, we aim to study the...

Climate change is high on the science and policy agenda of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), requiring context-specific adaptation. Studies on endogenous cultural institutions (ECIs) in climate adaptation are fragmented, impeding policy orientation. This suggests the need for complementary evidence on ECIs to inform adaptation practice. Through a sample of 158 households in rural Cameroon, we contribute to bridge this gap, by: (1) exploring socio-political factors shaping peasant farmers’ compliance...

The study examined the training needs on climate change adaptation measures in crop and livestock production among field extension workers in the Southeast agro-ecological zone of Nigeria. Specifically, the study identified trainings on climate change adaptation in crop and livestock production received by field extension staff, training needs on climate change adaptation on livestock and crop production among the workers and the constraints faced by the workers in disseminating climate...

This paper aims to develop long-term adaptation strategies for the existing Canadian school buildings under extreme current and future climates using a developed methodology based on global and local sensitivity analysis and Multi-Objective Optimization Genetic Algorithm. The calibrated simulation model based on indoor and outdoor measured temperature for a school of interest is used to evaluate the optimization strategies. This paper aims to search for the optimum school building design...

Teaching has been identified as one of a highly stressful jobs. As known, this job is linked to development of neuropsychiatric. However, there is a little background about the assessment of these problems among Moroccan teachers. This study aims to measure the prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression among 150 newly recruited contractual primary teachers in KHEMISSET city using three international scales. The perceived stress scale (PSS) for stress, the hospital anxiety and depression...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore teaching methods showing the impact of climate change on the environment and human health. This study used a qualitative research design to explore potential climate change teaching strategies because climate change not only negatively impacts the environment, but also negatively impacts human health. The chapter will examine instructional strategies for teaching learners in Grades 10 to 12 about climate change using appropriate examples from the...

The current climate emergency concerns and the COVID-19 pandemic demand urgent action to maintain healthy indoor environments in energy efficient ways. Promoting good indoor environments, in particular, increasing ventilation levels, has been a prominent strategy to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission indoors. However, this strategy could be detrimental to thermal comfort, particularly during the heating season in buildings located in temperate climate zones. This paper presents...