Ergonomics of the thermal environment — Instruments for measuring and monitoring physical quantities - I.S.O. (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Holistic approach towards a sustainable urban renewal: Thermal comfort perspective of urban housing in Kigali, Rwanda - Irakoze, A.; Lee, K.; Kim, K.H. (Buildings, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Experimental study of the unconstrained melting of a phase change material for air-conditioning applications - Iskandar, Shamir H.; Cofré-Toledo, Jonathan; Cataño, Francisco A.; Ortega-Aguilera, Roberto; Vasco, Diego A. (International Journal of Refrigeration, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:no_pdf

A literature review of cross ventilation in buildings - Jiang, Zitao; Kobayashi, Tomohiro; Yamanaka, Toshio; Sandberg, Mats (Energy and Buildings, 2023)
There is a growing body of literature that recognizes that natural ventilation plays a vital role in indoor air quality, thermal comfort and building energy consumption. This paper systematically reviews the previously published research of the most efficient and typical natural ventilation type - cross ventilation, aiming to present the main research topics in contemporary research and provide an agenda for future studies. The methodologies, airflow pattern, ventilation models and influencing parameters of cross ventilation were comprehensively summarized and discussed. The chained analysis and data-driven methods are the potential approaches to study cross ventilation more efficiently. The comparisons of different ventilation models of cross ventilation help to better understand the basic mechanisms that drive the cross ventilation airflow.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:cross ventilation; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10990 Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Viruses; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

The impact of climate change on cognitive performance of children in English school stock: A simulation study - Jie, Dong; Schwartz, Yair; Korolija, Ivan; Mumovic, Dejan (Building and Environment, 2023)
Children in England spend around 30% of their time in schools to gain knowledge and skills. Climate change could impact schools’ thermal environments and children’s learning performance by impairing their cognitive ability. This study presents an evaluation approach to investigating and quantifying climate change’s impact on the cognitive performance of children across English school stocks. The study also evaluates the potential of possible strategies for mitigating the impacts of climate change. The results show that future climates are projected to increase cognitive performance loss of children in school archetypes representative of school stocks, with variations based on regional climate characteristics. Increasing ventilation rates proves to be an effective means of reducing cognitive performance loss, while its effectiveness diminishes as outdoor temperatures rise in the future. Thus, the introduction of air conditioning becomes a potentially more beneficial strategy, despite the associated increase in cooling energy demand. Moreover, higher ventilation rates in air-conditioned classrooms can further improve children’s cognitive performance. The use of cognitive performance loss as a Key Perfor mance Indicator (KPI) allows for better communication and understanding of climate change risks faced by schools among building and non-building experts. The proposed evaluation approach remains adjustable and can be continuously updated and enhanced as new insights from psychological research emerge.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; evidence_review_2

Windows of opportunities: orientation, sizing and pv-shading of the glazed area to reduce cooling energy demand in Sub-Sahara Africa - Kabanshi, A.; Choonya, G.; Ameen, A.; Liu, W.; Mulenga, E. (Energies, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

UK higher education sector's response to the war in Ukraine - Kushnir, Iryna; Milani, Zara; Mbah, Marcellus Forh (Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:topic:T10762 Mental Health of Refugees and Immigrants; oa:topic:T13086 The Sustainability and Future of Unrecognized Quasi-States; oa:topic:T14372 Impacts of Warfare on Environment and Food Security; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

UK higher education sector's response to the war in Ukraine - Kushnir, Iryna; Milani, Zara; Mbah, Marcellus Forh (Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023)
Keywords: C:Ukraine; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:topic:T10762 Mental Health of Refugees and Immigrants; oa:topic:T13086 The Sustainability and Future of Unrecognized Quasi-States; oa:topic:T14372 Impacts of Warfare on Environment and Food Security; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Mapping universities-communities partnerships in the delivery of the sustainable development goals - Leal Filho, Walter; Dibbern, Thais; Trevisan, Laís Viera; Cristofoletti, Evandro Coggo; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Matandirotya, Newton; Sierra, Javier; Shulla, Kalterina; Buttriss, Gary; Decosta, Patrick L. (Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:keyword:sustainable development goals; oa:sdg:17 Partnerships for the goals; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11806 Impact of Service-Learning in Higher Education; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Mapping universities-communities partnerships in the delivery of the sustainable development goals - Leal Filho, Walter; Dibbern, Thais; Trevisan, Laís Viera; Cristofoletti, Evandro Coggo; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Matandirotya, Newton; Sierra, Javier; Shulla, Kalterina; Buttriss, Gary; Decosta, Patrick L. (Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:keyword:sustainable development goals; oa:sdg:17 Partnerships for the goals; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11806 Impact of Service-Learning in Higher Education; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Mapping universities-communities partnerships in the delivery of the sustainable development goals - Leal Filho, Walter; Dibbern, Thais; Trevisan, Laís Viera; Cristofoletti, Evandro Coggo; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Matandirotya, Newton; Sierra, Javier; Shulla, Kalterina; Buttriss, Gary; Decosta, Patrick L. (Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:keyword:sustainable development goals; oa:sdg:17 Partnerships for the goals; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11806 Impact of Service-Learning in Higher Education; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Indoor exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated with solid fuel use in rural China - Li, Shiyin; Men, Yatai; Luo, Zhihan; Huang, Wenxuan; Xing, Ran; Sun, Chao; Shen, Guofeng (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:no_pdf

Energy retrofit of public office building through liquid desiccant assisted dedicated outdoor air system with fuel cell in Korea - Lim, Hansol; Cheon, Seong-Yong; Cho, Hye-Jin; Jeong, Jae-Weon; Su, Yuehong (Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:no_pdf

Post occupancy evaluation of ventilation coefficient desired for thermal comfort in educational facilities - Mba, E.J.; Okeke, F.O.; Ezema, E.C.; Oforji, P.I.; Ozigbo, C.A. (Journal of Human, Earth, and Future, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Community Health Education for Health Crisis Management: The Case of COVID-19 in Cameroon - Mbah, Marcellus; Bang, Henry; Ndi, Humphrey; Ndzo, Judwin Alieh (Community Health Equity Research & Policy, 2023)
The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led Cameroon’s government to implement public health measures aimed at preventing its spread. This paper investigates how community health education on the virus was being carried out, what gaps exist and what further action could be taken. A survey instrument was used to gather data among a total of 179 Cameroonians recruited via opportunistic and snowball sampling methods. According to our findings, gaps exist. These include the need for adequate community health education on COVID-19, maximising multilingualism and indigenous cultural assets and disbanding misconceptions on the pandemic, as well as stigmatisation. The paper culminates by underlining the significance of an integrated approach to confront the pandemic. This approach captures the need to frame but also firm up community health education architecture on COVID-19 that captures inputs from different stakeholders, including indigenous knowledge holders, for collective wellbeing.
Keywords: C:Cameroon; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:health crisis management; oa:sdg:3 Good health and well-being; oa:topic:T10410 Modeling the Dynamics of COVID-19 Pandemic; oa:topic:T10833 Factors Affecting Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance; oa:topic:T11581 Ebola Virus Research and Outbreaks; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Heat adaptation proposal - MEER (2023)
Keywords: evidence_review

Coaching ourselves: how peer-learning empowers managers and workers to achieve climate solutions - Molthan-Hill, Petra; Mintzberg, H.; Ibrahim, S. E.; Johnston, K.; LeNir, P.; Mbah, M.; Morsing, M.; Leigh, J. S. A. (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Coaching ourselves: how peer-learning empowers managers and workers to achieve climate solutions - Molthan-Hill, Petra; Mintzberg, H.; Ibrahim, S. E.; Johnston, K.; LeNir, P.; Mbah, M.; Morsing, M.; Leigh, J. S. A. (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Coaching ourselves: how peer-learning empowers managers and workers to achieve climate solutions - Molthan-Hill, Petra; Mintzberg, H.; Ibrahim, S. E.; Johnston, K.; LeNir, P.; Mbah, M.; Morsing, M.; Leigh, J. S. A. (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

An overview of implications and suggestions for reducing temperature rise in buildings located in the tropics - Munonye, C.; Ifebi, O.; Maduka, N.; Ngobili, M. (Research & Development, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Investigation of indoor air pollutants in different environmental settings and their health impact: a case study of Dehradun, India - Nandan, Abhishek; Mondal, Prasenjit; Kumar, Sandeep; Siddiqui, Nihal Anwar; Sinha, Shambhavi; Subramani, Sudalai; Singh, Akshi Kunwar; Raja, Sivashankar; Hussain, Chaudhery Mustansar (Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2023)
The air we breathe both indoors and in the external environment significantly affects human health and life. The legal systems across the globe, including the United Nations programs, have taken measures to protect the right to clean air as a basic human right. Urbanization and modern lifestyles have changed the dynamics of need and usage of products and allied activities. However, the scope of this study is focused on the investigation of indoor air quality (IAQ). This study is perhaps the first ever attempt to investigate the indoor air pollutant in different environmental setup based on building code specially for nonindustrial indoor environments, i.e., office buildings, public buildings (schools, hospitals, theatres, restaurants), and private dwellings in Dehradun, India. Air pollutants measured in this study include particulate matter (PM10), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and formaldehyde (HCHO). In order to identify the exposure level of indoor air pollutants on human health, chronic daily intake has been calculated. In residential building occupancies, the concentration of particulates is higher in indoor air, and the key sources are kitchen activities such as the operation of gas stoves for cooking. In educational buildings, significant pollutants present are CO2, formaldehyde, and respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM), predominantly due to characteristic available ventilation systems. Compared to other indoor occupancies, institutional buildings related to health science have significant sources of indoor pollutants generated from biomedical waste, medical equipment, and instruments.
Keywords: Air pollution; C:India; Chronic daily intake; Indoor air quality; Ventilation; _z:class:countries; _z:no_pdf; evidence_review_2

The indoor climate of hospitals in tropical countries: A systematic review - Nyembwe, J.-P.K.B.; Ogundiran, J.O.; Chenari, B.; Simões, N.A.V.; Silva, M. (Energies, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Comparative Assessment of The Thermal Comfort in Naturally Evolving Buildings in Hot and Dry Sahelian Climate: Case of The City of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso - Ouedraogo, A.L.S.-N.; Hema, C.; Neya, I.; Nshimiyimana, P.; Yamegueu, D.; Coulibaly, Y.; Kabore, M.; A. (Journal of Materials Science and Surface Engineering, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Short-Term Prediction for Indoor Temperature Control Using Artificial Neural Network - Park, Byung Kyu; Kim, Charn-Jung (Energies, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10320 Neural Network Fundamentals and Applications; oa:topic:T12093 Dynamic Modeling of Plant Form and Growth; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; selected_for:Predictive models for classroom conditions 2024

A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food - Pradhan, Prajal; Callaghan, Max; Hu, Yuanchao; Dahal, Kshitij; Hunecke, Claudia; Reußwig, Fritz; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Kropp, Jürgen P. (Global Food Security, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

What can the education sector do to adapt to the forthcoming impacts of climate change? - Proctor, Jamie (2023)
Practitioner experience and reflections on what can be done specifically within the education sector to adapt and reduce the negative impacts of climate change on education.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Attention to climate change only temporarily diverted by COVID-19 - Repke, Tim; Callaghan, Max; Lamb, William F.; Lück, Sarah; Müller-Hansen, Finn; Minx, Jan C. (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

To aspirate or not to aspirate – impact of active versus passive ventilation on urban heat (island) indicators - Ridder, K.; Maiheu, B.; Lauwaet, D. (Urban Climate, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Using mobile air quality station data to identify critical areas in the city of Rio de Janeiro regarding pollutant concentrations - Rodrigues, João Rogério Borges Amorim; Dantas, Guilherme; Siciliano, Bruno; Silva, Cleyton Martins Da; Arbilla, Graciela (Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais, 2023)
Recent studies have shown that tropospheric ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide are the urban air pollutants of major concern regarding human health effects. Monitoring air quality is a challenge in several cities, such as Rio de Janeiro, where the number of fixed-site air quality monitoring stations and their spatial distribution are insufficient to assess the extent of atmospheric pollutants. However, despite this lack of resources, the data obtained by mobile stations are a valuable means of determining which areas are experiencing critical air quality conditions, and provide key information for an air quality management program. The main purpose of this study was to conduct a critical analysis of data obtained by the Municipal Department of Environment and Climate (SMAC) mobile station in the period 2010–2018. Concentrations determined for particulate matter with a diameter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5), O3, NO2, SO2 and CO showed that PM2.5 and O3 are the pollutants of major concern, and that the north of the city has higher air quality indices for these compounds. In addition, the south-west district had relatively high ozone levels, probably owing to low concentrations of NO2 in a volatile organic compound (VOC)-limited ozone formation regime. These factors should be considered by the municipal government in future discussions of control strategies for managing the city’s air quality. This study also shows the value of mobile stations in making a preliminary survey of pollutant concentrations, mainly in countries with limited financial investment in air quality management.
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Critical Review of the Literature on Thermal Comfort in Educational Buildings: Study of the Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Romero, P.; Miranda, M.T.; Montero, I.; Sepúlveda, F.J.; Valero-Amaro, V. (Indoor Air, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Progress on climate action: a multilingual machine learning analysis of the global stocktake - Sietsma, Anne J.; Groenendijk, Rick W.; Biesbroek, Robbert (Climatic Change, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

The First Generation of Machine Learning Applications for Tracking Climate Change Adaptation - Sietsma, Anne Jelmar (University of Leeds, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Predicting indoor air temperature and thermal comfort in occupational settings using weather forecasts, indoor sensors, and artificial neural networks - Sulzer, Markus; Christen, Andreas; Matzarakis, Andreas (Building and Environment, 2023)
We present an approach to generate location-specific forecasts of indoor temperature (Ti) and thermal comfort and issue indoor heat warnings for occupational settings. Indoor forecasts are generated using standard outdoor weather forecasting products and an artificial neural network (ANN) trained on-site using local indoor measurements from a low-cost sensor system measuring Ti and indoor physiologically equivalent temperature (PETi). The outcomes are hourly indoor Ti and PET i forecasts. Different ANN-based forecast products using different predictors were concurrently tested at 121 workplaces in agricultural, industrial, storage, and office buildings using data for an entire annual cycle. A forecast was considered skillful when the Ti and PETi forecast was <2 K from actual measurements. The best-performing model used the predictors time of year, week, and day; solar position; and outdoor weather forecast variables to train and run an ANN to predict Ti or PETi. It had an annual average mean absolute forecast error of 0.87 K for Ti and 0.99 K for PET i over the next 24 h, with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.98 and 0.97, respectively. Overall, 91% of Ti forecasts and 88% of PET i forecasts were skillful. Indoor forecasts showed larger errors in the summer than in the winter. We conclude that combining indoor data with weather forecasts using ANNs could be implemented widely to provide locationspecific indoor weather forecasts to improve and localize heat and health warning systems.
Keywords: _important; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:indoor air temperature; oa:keyword:weather forecasts; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; selected_for:Predictive models for classroom conditions 2024

Enhancing environmental sustainability and green design: a guide for teacher colleges - TESP (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2

Indoor environmental quality, pupils’ health, and academic performance—A literature review - Toyinbo, O. (Buildings, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Education and climate change – What retrofits could make classroom environments more conducive to learning? - Toyinbo, Oluyemi; Villavicencio, Xuzel (2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://.opendeved.net/
Keywords: _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Exploration of Climate Change Awareness among Students at a South African Public University - Uwizeyimana, DE; Sekgobela, C (International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 2023)
This study aimed to explore climate change awareness among students at a South African public university. The quantitative research method was applied in this study. Due to Covid-19 protocol requirements, a semi-structured electronic questionnaire was used to collect data from students at one South African public university whose name is withheld due to confidentiality requirements. One of the main findings of this study is that most respondents from this particular South African public university are aware that climate change is indeed happening. However, most participants in this research needed to be made aware of the international conventions that deal with climate change or climate change. These findings call for intensifying climate change awareness among South African university students across all media outlets. The study recommends that climate change and climate change awareness and combatting strategies be part and parcel of social and economic development programmes at local, national, continental, and global levels. It is vital to ensure that all citizens in general, as well as university students who are likely to be future leaders of communities and countries, have access to scientifically proven evidence on climate change and its impacts from reliable sources, some of which are highlighted in this study.
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Influence of building attributes on thermal comfort in naturally ventilated hospital wards in the hot-humid tropics of southeast Nigeria - Uzuegbunam, F.O.; Aja, F.N.; Ibem, E.O. (International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

The “Improving Learning Through Classroom Experience” Study - Open Development & Education - Villavicencio Peralta,, Xuzel; Megogo Bokamba, Tania Elena (2023)
The Improvement Learning Through Classroom Experience (ILCE) is a programme that focuses on the relationship between natural conditions and school learning outcomes
Keywords: _publish; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Possible Retrofit Interventions for Classrooms (infographic) - Villavicencio Peralta, Xuzel; Toyinbo, Oluyemi (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

What retrofits could make classroom environments more conducive to learning? - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Toyinbo, Oluyemi (2023)
This slide deck relates to a presentation given by OpenDevEd at The Education and Development Forum in Oxford (UKFIET 2023), as part of the sub-theme “Conflict, crisis, climate, and migration”. This presentation was part of the symposium called Climate, environment and education outcomes – Preliminary findings and practical experience from East and West Africa.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Quantifying the influence of climate variability on armed conflict in Africa, 2000–2015 - Wang, Qian; Hao, Mengmeng; Helman, David; Ding, Fangyu; Jiang, Dong; Xie, Xiaolan; Chen, Shuai; Ma, Tian (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023)
Abstract Global climate change, expected to be one of the most severe challenges that human beings have ever encountered, has had far-reaching impacts on ecosystems and humans, among which the potentially increasing chance of violent conflict has raised attention recently. However, several years of research have produced no consensus regarding whether climate variability affects the risk of armed conflict and how it may affect conflict. In this study, we built a geographically disaggregated method to explore the relationship between climate variability from normal climate conditions and armed conflicts both on a local and regional scale. With the 10,993 conflict records acquired in 25 African countries over 16 years from 2000 to 2015, we estimated the effects of temperature and wet day variability on conflicts in agricultural and non-agricultural areas, respectively, on gridded 1° resolution. The results showed that deviations from the normal climate have a systematical impact on the risk of conflict: The risk of violence rises with increasing deviations from the temperature norms in both non-agricultural and agricultural areas. Regarding the rainfall variability, in non-agricultural areas, the risk of violence grows with increasing anomalous wet days, either more or fewer days than the annual average, while in agricultural areas, increases in violence risk only exhibit under the impact of fewer wet days than the annual average. We expect these findings would provide empirical support for policymakers and relevant organizations who need to prepare additional law enforcement and/or peacekeeping resources when climatic anomalies are detected.
Keywords: _z:class:countries

How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications - Wright, Sarah Judith; Sietsma, Anne; Korswagen, Stefanie; Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.; Biesbroek, Robbert (Regional Environmental Change, 2023)
Abstract Self-reporting is an important mechanism of the UNFCCC to collect information about what countries are doing to achieve their climate change mitigation and adaptation targets and how much progress has been made. Here we empirically test four hypotheses about what countries prioritise in their self-reporting through the National Communications. Using quantitative text analysis methods (structural topic modelling and keyness statistics), we analyse over 600 submissions (from 1994 to 2019) and find evidence that vulnerable countries highlight impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation rather than mitigation targets, whereas high-emitting countries tend to focus their messaging more on mitigation. Despite the Paris Agreement being considered a “watershed moment”, we find no statistically significant increase in focus on climate solutions post-Paris, and no significant increase in attention to adaptation. Our global assessment and the methods used offer a novel perspective to understand what gets framed as important by governments. Finally, we provide reflections on how self-reporting mechanisms can be used for global stocktaking of progress on climate action.
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Implementing natural ventilation and daylighting strategies for thermal comfort and energy efficiency in office buildings in Burkina Faso - Zoure, A.N.; Genovese, P.V. (Energy Reports, 2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

An Investigation of Thermal Comfort in Classrooms in the Tropical Savanna Climate - Mustapha, Tajudeen; Hassan, Ahmad; Abdul Nasir, Muhammad; Onubi, Hilary (Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 2022)
Studying the thermal environment in classrooms is essential due to its impact on students' health, teaching, learning, and productivity. In the Nigerian context, there is a general lack of thermal comfort studies, and none specifically relate to secondary school settings. This study aims to investigate students' perceptions of the indoor thermal environment and to determine the optimum temperature in naturally ventilated classrooms in the tropical savanna climate. Field investigations were conducted in free-running classrooms in Abuja to evaluate occupants' thermal comfort and perceptions. The study involves 901 pupils from 21 classrooms. Data were obtained through physical measurements of thermal comfort variables and a questionnaire survey on occupants' perceptions of the indoor thermal environment. The objective assessment indicated that 86% of the classrooms were inconsistent with the ASHRAE standard–55. Although 60% of the pupils were satisfied with their thermal environment, 78% preferred a cooler than neutral temperature. The result revealed a comfort temperature of 28.9 oC. The results extend the literature on thermal comfort in classrooms to the tropical savannah climate of the west African sub-region, which has received little attention in earlier research. The findings provide foundation data for developing a comfort standard for classrooms in the zone.
Keywords: evidence_review

Predicting Climate Change Related Extreme Natural Disasters Using Machine Learning in Zambia - Phiri, David; Chembe, Christopher (Zambia ICT Journal, 2022)
One of the most important concerns affecting humanity today is climate change that has led to increased frequency of natural disasters that threaten social and economic stability to populations. Zambia’s vulnerability to the threat of disasters remains high because the country still lacks an effective Early Warning System (EWS). This study recognises the need to evaluate various Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, that have been successfully implemented in disaster prediction, in order to develop a model for Zambia. Six ML algorithms, namely; Logistic Regression (LR), Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Gaussian Naive Bayes (GNB), Decision Tree (DT), and Support Vector Machine (SVM), have been compared from which the best performing is chosen. The historical climate data is obtained from the Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) while historical natural disasters data was obtained online because it is not locally available. The study results show that LR and SVM algorithms performed better than the others, both scoring 73.0% accuracy, respectively. LR is chosen to produce the final model because it has a shorter computational time compared to SVM. The model is then incorporated in a web service and android application for deployment. However, the high number of outliers, missing values and highly imbalanced classes affect the performance of the model. ML data cleaning and feature engineering techniques, such as Data Imputation and Oversampling Techniques, are applied but certain challenges still persist because these tools have their own flaws. Therefore, the model’s performance in a real-world data environment is likely to be affected.
Keywords: C:Zambia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10747 Community Resilience to Natural Disasters; oa:topic:T10930 Global Flood Risk Assessment and Management; oa:topic:T13650 Scientific Computing and Data Analysis with Python; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

An investigation of thermal comfort in classrooms in the tropical Savanna climate - Mustapha, Tajudeen Dele; Hassan, Ahmad Sanusi; Nasir, Muhammad Hafeez Abdul; Onubi, Hilary Omatule (Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 2022)
Studying the thermal environment in classrooms is essential due to its impact on students' health, teaching, learning, and productivity. In the Nigerian context, there is a general lack of thermal comfort studies, and none specifically relate to secondary school settings. This study aims to investigate students' perceptions of the indoor thermal environment and to determine the optimum temperature in naturally ventilated classrooms in the tropical savanna climate. Field investigations were conducted in free-running classrooms in Abuja to evaluate occupants' thermal comfort and perceptions. The study involves 901 pupils from 21 classrooms. Data were obtained through physical measurements of thermal comfort variables and a questionnaire survey on occupants' perceptions of the indoor thermal environment. The objective assessment indicated that 86% of the classrooms were inconsistent with the ASHRAE standard–55. Although 60% of the pupils were satisfied with their thermal environment, 78% preferred a cooler than neutral temperature. The result revealed a comfort temperature of 28.9 oC. The results extend the literature on thermal comfort in classrooms to the tropical savannah climate of the west African sub-region, which has received little attention in earlier research. The findings provide foundation data for developing a comfort standard for classrooms in the zone.
Keywords: C:Nigeria; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:thermal comfort; oa:keyword:tropical savanna climate; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education; thermal sensation

Climate change and sustainable development perceptions of university students in Lahore, Pakistan - Nadeem, Obaidullah; Nawaz, Mariyum (International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2022)
The main aim of this study is to assess university students’ perceptions of climate change (CC) and sustainable development (SD). It also reviews existing curricula of various degree programs and obtains students’ opinion on how to integrate these concepts into the curricula and improve teaching methods and students’ learning. In total, 400 students from two of the oldest and renowned public sector higher education institutions (HEIs) in Lahore, Pakistan participated in this study. The results revealed that students have better perceptions of CC than of SD even though very few degree programs cover these concepts in their curriculum. Generally, the students perceived that human beings’ interference with the natural settings through their development actions is the main reason for climate change. They prefer environmental protection over economic growth. It is concluded that the integration of courses on CC and SD and promoting action-oriented case study research in the curriculum of the degree programs being offered by the HEIs can help improve learning. Hence, the HEIs of developing countries with similar socio-economic contexts need to do more to train our future generation of professionals to facilitate achieving the goal of sustainable development.
Keywords: C:Pakistan; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:keyword:sustainable development perceptions; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:import; openalex:yes

German Flood Deaths Highlight Climate Change Risks for People with Disabilities (2022)
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Improving Learning Through Classroom Experience in East Africa: Temperature, Lighting, and Sound Quality – Inception report - Haßler, Björn; Villavicencio Peralta, Xuzel Ana; Macharia, Grace; Toyinbo, Oluyemi; Nambatya, Mauricia; Mtebe, Joel; Schaffer, Jens; Wargocki, Pawel; Adam, Taskeen (Open Development & Education, 2022)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; C:Tanzania; _r:AddedByZotZen; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review; oa:keyword:classroom experience; oa:topic:T10162 Transformative Potential of Blended Learning in Education; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education; oa:topic:T13412 Impact of Interactive Whiteboards in Education; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Climate change and sustainability education in India and the place for arts-based practice: reflections from East Kolkata Wetlands - Jones, Verity; Mitra, Saptarshi; Gupta, Nobina (London Review of Education, 2022)
In 2019 India was ranked seventh most affected nation by climate change, yet 65 per cent of the Indian population had not heard of climate change. India’s revised National Education Policy mentions climate change and environmental issues as part of its work towards reaching the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. However, to date, climate education in India has tended to remain the responsibility of the secondary science teacher in many schools where resources are limited. Following calls for a more holistic and multidisciplinary approach – where students can link environmental issues with their lives – we reflect on three arts-based climate education exemplars with students from the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) (n = 150, 10–17-year-olds). We consider how these frame climate change and sustainable education as a collective learning experience, rather than as scientific concepts alone. We respond to Szczepankiewicz et al.’s model for climate education and propose that teacher training in the EKW context can be conceptualised through a three-stage, interconnected approach to pedagogy: building concepts, learning through hands-on activities and building communities is central. We suggest that these three generalisable tenets of student teacher practice should be explored in other areas of ecological fragility, as well as in spaces of economic insecurity.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:east kolkata wetlands; oa:keyword:sustainability education; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education; oa:topic:T12997 Experiential Education and Adventure Therapy; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Healthy indoor air is our fundamental need: the time to act is now - Morawska, Lidia; Marks, Guy B; Monty, Jason (Medical Journal of Australia, 2022)
A ccording to estimates by the World Health Organization, polluted outdoor air kills over 7 million people annually. In 2021, the WHO published new air quality guidelines to serve as the basis for setting or updating national ambient air quality standards. This document can also be the basis for setting national indoor air standards, as the recommended air pollution levels apply both to outdoor and indoor air. Will national jurisdictions update their indoor air quality (IAQ) standards? The shocking reality is that most countries, including Australia, do not have any IAQ standards or even plans to establish them. The handful of countries that have standards do not have the means and procedures to enforce them; therefore, they do not serve their purpose.
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Indoor air quality and learning: evidence from a large field study in primary schools - Palacios, Juan; Eichholtz, Piet; Kok, Nils; Duran, Nicolas (2022)
Governments devote a large share of public budgets to construct, repair, and modernize school facilities. However, evidence on whether investments in the physical state of schools translate into better student outcomes is scant. In this study, we report the results of a large field study on the implications of poor air quality inside classrooms − a key performance measure of school mechanical ventilation systems. We continuously monitor the air quality (i.e., CO2), together with a rich set of indoor environmental parameters in 216 classrooms in the Netherlands. We link indoor air quality conditions to the outcomes on semi-annual nationally standardized tests of 5,500 children, during a period of five school terms (from 2018 to 2020). Using a fixed-effects strategy, relying on within-pupil changes in air quality conditions and test results, we document that exposure to poor indoor air quality during the school term preceding a test is associated with significantly lower test results: a one standard deviation increase in the school-term average daily peak of CO2 leads to a 0.11 standard deviation decrease in subsequent test scores. The estimates based on plausibly exogenous variation driven by mechanical ventilation system breakdown events confirm the robustness of the results. Our results add to the ongoing debate on the determinants of student human capital accumulation, highlighting the role of school infrastructure in shaping learning outcomes.
Keywords: Academic Performance; C:Netherlands; Education; Human Capital; Indoor Air Quality; School Infrastructure; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:indoor air quality; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

An Occupant-Centric Control Strategy for Indoor Thermal Comfort, Air Quality and Energy Management - Wang, Zu; Calautit, John Kaiser; Tien, Paige Wenbin; Wei, Shuangyu; Zhang, Wuxia; Wu, Yupeng; Xia, Liang (2022)
Recently, Occupant-Centric Control (OCC) strategies have gained mounting interest. Previous studies made use of OCC strategies for adjusting the operation of heating/cooling systems, improving indoor thermal comfort and governing mechanical ventilation systems. However, a very limited number of studies have applied OCC strategies to natural ventilation systems. Further, the feasibility of establishing OCC strategies for controlling indoor thermal comfort, energy use and specifically air quality has received much less attention and investigation. This paper presented an Occupant-Centric Heating and Natural Ventilation Control (OCHNVC) strategy for enhancing indoor thermal comfort, building energy performance and indoor air quality. Firstly, real-time profiles of occupant behavior and window opening in a case study building were collected using artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cameras and deep vision algorithms. Secondly, shallow artificial-neural-networks predictive models were established for forecasting the responses of the studied building to different levels of occupant behavior and window opening behavior. Thirdly, an OCHNVC strategy tailored to the studied room was proposed and applied to the studied room. The strategy could lower heating energy consumption by between 0.6% and 29.0% and improve the level of indoor thermal comfort by between 0% and 58.8%, relative to a conventional control strategy. Moreover, the conventional window control strategy only maintained indoor CO2 concentrations below 1,000 ppm for 59.7% of the period that occupants were within the studied room, while the proposed controller could do so for 89.2% of the period. Future works shall focus on experimentally deploying the strategy to real buildings and evaluating its performance.
Keywords: Buildings; Deep learning; HVAC temperature setpoint control; Indoor air quality; Occupant-Centric control; Thermal comfort; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:not_duplicate; artificial intelligence; oa:keyword:indoor thermal comfort; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

An Occupant-Centric Control Strategy for Indoor Thermal Comfort, Air Quality and Energy Management - Wang, Zu; Calautit, John Kaiser; Tien, Paige Wenbin; Wei, Shuangyu; Zhang, Wuxia; Wu, Yupeng; Xia, Liang (2022)
Recently, Occupant-Centric Control (OCC) strategies have gained mounting interest. Previous studies made use of OCC strategies for adjusting the operation of heating/cooling systems, improving indoor thermal comfort and governing mechanical ventilation systems. However, a very limited number of studies have applied OCC strategies to natural ventilation systems. Further, the feasibility of establishing OCC strategies for controlling indoor thermal comfort, energy use and specifically air quality has received much less attention and investigation. This paper presented an Occupant-Centric Heating and Natural Ventilation Control (OCHNVC) strategy for enhancing indoor thermal comfort, building energy performance and indoor air quality. Firstly, real-time profiles of occupant behavior and window opening in a case study building were collected using artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cameras and deep vision algorithms. Secondly, shallow artificial-neural-networks predictive models were established for forecasting the responses of the studied building to different levels of occupant behavior and window opening behavior. Thirdly, an OCHNVC strategy tailored to the studied room was proposed and applied to the studied room. The strategy could lower heating energy consumption by between 0.6% and 29.0% and improve the level of indoor thermal comfort by between 0% and 58.8%, relative to a conventional control strategy. Moreover, the conventional window control strategy only maintained indoor CO2 concentrations below 1,000 ppm for 59.7% of the period that occupants were within the studied room, while the proposed controller could do so for 89.2% of the period. Future works shall focus on experimentally deploying the strategy to real buildings and evaluating its performance.
Keywords: Buildings; Deep learning; HVAC temperature setpoint control; Indoor air quality; Occupant-Centric control; Thermal comfort; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:not_duplicate; artificial intelligence; oa:keyword:indoor thermal comfort; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Analysis of input parameters for deep learning-based load prediction for office buildings in different climate zones using eXplainable Artificial Intelligence - Chung, Woong June; Liu, Chunde (Energy and Buildings, 2022)
Simplification of input variables can increase the applicability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in building load prediction. The most essential inputs for AI therefore need to be identified via a significance level test. In this study, the significance of the input parameters was evaluated using the standardized regression coefficient (SRC) and Explainable AI methods, i.e., Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME) and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP). To consider various types of office buildings operating under different climates, the constraints of the U.S. Department of Energy reference buildings with the Latin hypercube sampling were used to generate two thousand building models for each of five climate zones classified by the Köppen and Geiger system. The number and types of essential inputs for deep learning-based building load prediction were identified based on SRC, LIME, and SHAP. By comparison, the SHAP method gave the smallest number of essential inputs for accurate load prediction. In addition, the types of essential inputs varied with different climates. This study presented the potential elimination of weather sensors with time variables depending on the climate conditions. It would help building practitioners and non-experts to determine the essential inputs to build up a simple but accurate deep learning-based building system.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Building load predictions; Local interpretable model-agnostic explanations; Long Short-term memory networks; SHapley additive explanations; The köppen and geiger climate classification system; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:load prediction; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11052 Electricity Price and Load Forecasting Methods; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Primary school students and climate change–an interview study in Finland and Tanzania - Sjöblom, Pia; Wolff, Lili-Ann; Vuorenpää, Sari; Grahn, Rebecka (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022)
Climate change is a complex and wicked problem, which needs to be addressed through relevant climate change education. However, the preconditions for combatting climate change differ in different parts of the world, depending on physical, cultural and social circumstances. The diversity of circumstances also influences the implementation of climate change in education. Therefore, in this article we have chosen to examine climate change education (CCE) based on an interview study in two distinct school contexts. More specifically, the cases aim to explore Finnish and Tanzanian primary students' views on climate change. A hermeneutical approach guided the analysis, and a significant result was that most of the students understood the severity of climate change. Nevertheless, some misconceptions regarding both causes, consequences and mitigation of climate change were also obvious. In addition, the analysis revealed interesting variations in the students' reasoning, which relate to their different contexts. Unquestionably, the sample size in this study is limited, and further research is needed for a more detailed picture of Finnish and Tanzanian students’ views.
Keywords: C:Finland; C:Tanzania; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:climate change–an; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Implementation of Teacher Capacitation Programs to Integrate Climate Change Education: The Case Study of Geography Teaching in South African Secondary Schools - Mavuso, Mzuyanda Percival; Olawumi, Kayode Babatunde; Khalo, Xolani; Kafu-Quvane, Babalwa; Mzilikazi, Busiswa (International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2022)
Countries all over the world are experiencing the devastating havoc of climate change. Drastic efforts directed at integrating climate change education into the school curriculum in South African Secondary schools have been unsuccessful due to a lack of training support for teachers teaching Climate Change Education in secondary schools. The purpose of this paper was to explore the role of teacher capacitation programs in assisting Geography teacher to integrate climate change education in their lessons. Shulman’s Model of Pedagogical Reasoning served as theoretical lenses for the study. Five secondary schools out of twenty which participated in the five days’ training program conducted by one higher education institution were purposefully selected. Data for the study was generated through one-on-one semi-structured interviews conducted with five participating Geography teachers in the selected schools according to the geographical location and close proximity to the training provider. It emerged from the data that teachers were lacking content and pedagogical knowledge on Climate Change Education and this capacitation program assisted in bridging that gap. The study concludes that training programs were according to selected Geography teachers’ views responsible for the improved pedagogical practices in the classroom. It is therefore recommended that teacher professional development programs on Climate Change Education for Geography teachers be organized on a continuous basis.
Keywords: C:South Africa; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change education; oa:keyword:geography teaching; oa:keyword:teacher capacitation programs; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12904 Agricultural Education and School Gardening Research; oa:topic:T14482 Innovations in Education Technology and Pedagogy; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Review of low-cost sensors for indoor air quality: Features and applications - Ródenas García, Milagros; Spinazzé, Andrea; Branco, Pedro T.B.S.; Borghi, Francesca; Villena, Guillermo; Cattaneo, Andrea; Di Gilio, Alessia; Mihucz, Victor G.; Gómez Álvarez, Elena; Lopes, Sérgio Ivan; Bergmans, Benjamin; Orłowski, Cezary; et al. (Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 2022)
Humans spend the majority of their time indoors, where they are potentially exposed to hazardous pollutants. Within this context, over the past few years, there has been an upsurge of low-cost sensors (LCS) for the measurement of indoor air pollutants, motivated both by recent technological advances and by increased awareness of indoor air quality (IAQ) and its potential negative health impacts. Although not meeting the performance requirements for reference regulatory-equivalent monitoring indoors, LCS can provide informative measurements, offering an opportunity for high-resolution monitoring, emission source identification, exposure mitigation and managing IAQ and energy efficiency, among others. This article discusses the strengths and limitations that LCS offer for applications in the field of IAQ monitoring; it provides an overview of existing sensor technologies and gives recommendations for different indoor applications, considering their performance in the complex indoor environment and discussing future trends.
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Students establish micro-forest to conserve the environment (2022)
The Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) of Tanzania has joined hands with the Aga Khan Foundation Tanzania (AKF) and the Ismaili Civic’s joint climate resilience initiative by supporting the establishment of a micro-forest in efforts aimed to reduce carbon footprint and conserve the environment.
Keywords: C:Tanzania; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

The impact of climate change related extreme weather events on people with pre-existing disabilities and chronic conditions: a scoping review - Lindsay, Sally; Hsu, Shaelynn; Ragunathan, Sharmigaa; Lindsay, John B. (Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022)
Purpose People with disabilities experience a disproportionate impact of extreme weather events and there is a critical need to better understand the impact that climate change has for them. Most previous reviews focus on the risk of acquiring a new disability or injury after a climate-related event and not the impact on people with pre-existing disabilities or chronic conditions, which is the purpose of this study.Methods We conducted a scoping review while searching seven international databases that identified 45 studies meeting our inclusion criteria.Results The studies included in our review involved 2 337 199 participants with pre-existing disabilities and chronic conditions across 13 countries over a 20-year period. The findings demonstrated the following trends: (1) the impact on physical and mental health; (2) the impact on education and work; (3) barriers to accessing health and community services (i.e., lack of access to services, lack of knowledge about people with disabilities, communication challenges, lack of adequate housing); and (4) coping strategies (i.e., social supports and connecting to resources) and resilience.Conclusions Our findings highlight the critical need for rehabilitation clinicians and other service providers to explore opportunities to support their clients in preparing for climate-related emergencies.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Effects from Exposures to Human Bioeffluents and Carbon Dioxide - Zhang, Xiaojing; Mishra, Asit; Wargocki, Pawel (2022)
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Learning continuity in response to climate emergencies: preliminary insights on supporting learning continuity following the 2022 Pakistan floods - Mazari, Haani; Baloch, Imdad; Thinley, Sangay; Kaye, Tom; Perry, Freya (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: C:Pakistan; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Level of Awareness of Climate Change Concepts and Issues Among Pre-Service Chemistry Teachers at Mufulira College of Education in Zambia - TEBEKA, JOHN (Journal of Global Ecology and Environment, 2022)
The aim of this study was to investigate the level of awareness of climate change concepts and issues among the pre-service chemistry teachers at Mufulira College of Education in Zambia. The study was motivated by the need to enable teachers and learners address climate change challenges which are among the issues facing the world today. The study used a qualitative survey targeted at all the 334 pre-service chemistry teachers from Mufulira College of Education as at 2021 when the research was carried out. However, data was only collected from 303 participants who completed questionnaires, representing a response rate of over 90%. The survey explored the students’ awareness levels on the different causes of climate change, the impact of climate change on the environment and the students’ ability to recognize the different mitigation measures of climate change. The study established that on average 60% of the students could only go as far as recalling concepts and issues of climate change but could not critically explain how climate change was caused and why it was a threat to the environment. At the same time climate change issues and concepts did not form part of the priorities for assessment in the pre-service chemistry curriculum at the selected college. It is recommended that a policy is created that ensures that climate change issues and concepts are given the attention they deserve. There is need to urgently develop teaching and learning materials on climate change education for the pre-service chemistry education curriculum.
Keywords: C:Zambia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change concepts; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Experimental Investigation and Optimization of a Glazed Transpired Solar Collector - Teodosiu, Catalin Ioan; Sima, Catalin; Croitoru, Cristiana; Bode, Florin (Applied Sciences, 2022)
Solar air collectors are increasingly used nowadays due to their important potential in reducing the energy consumption of buildings. In this context, glazed transpired solar collectors (GTCs) represent an interesting solution, but this type of solar air collector is less studied. Consequently, the objective of this work is to thoroughly assess the performance of a GTC prototype under real long-term climatic conditions. First, the design of the GTC is optimized based on methodically experimental tests. The results show that the GTC configuration with a 30 mm air gap among the absorber and the glazing leads to improved heat transfer efficiency and superior global effectiveness, regardless of airflow rates through the solar air collector. This optimized GTC configuration is further studied by integration within the façade of a full-scale experimental building (container-type, light structure). Comparative experimental studies are then carried out concerning the heating energy consumption and ventilation load of the experimental building without/with GTC implemented in the ventilation system, under Bucharest real weather conditions. The data achieved indicate that the GTC prototype is capable of substantially reducing the ventilation load: up to 25% for low solar radiation (below 200 W/m2) and over 50% (achieving even 90%) for moderate solar radiation (between 250 and 380 W/m2). Finally, for high solar radiation (over 400 W/m2), the GTC outlet air temperature exceeds the interior temperature set-point (22 °C) of the experimental building.
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Reflecting on climate change education (CCE) initiatives for mitigation and adaptation in South Africa - Sibanda, Arorisoe; Manik, Sadhana (Environmental Education Research, 2022)
South Africa remains the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in Africa. As such despite the glowing government policy documents addressing climate change, efforts towards achieving the targets of the sustainable development goals (especially SDG 13) at grassroots level remain significant. We identified relevant published articles and grey literature on CCE. A thematic analysis of these publications focused on identifying the common CCE initiatives being actioned in SA. The major themes on CCE in respect of mitigation and adaption included: CCE initiatives promoted and articulated through the media, school community projects, the development of the school and higher education curricula for CCE, the development of associated teaching materials and guides. The findings revealed that despite the evidence of robust education initiatives for climate change mitigation and adaptation in published reports, there was greater emphasis on short term responses at the expense of long-term mitigation efforts.
Keywords: C:South Africa; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:climate change education; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Teaching about climate change: Possibilities and challenges in Australian adult literacy programs - Yasukawa, Keiko (Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022)
Abstract Australia's natural environment poses challenges for human inhabitants and will continue to pose novel challenges in an era of climate change. However, the resources that people can access to respond to climate change are diverse and unequally distributed. While this suggests a role for education, especially for those who are most socially and economically vulnerable, integrating climate change literacy into educational programs is not straightforward in all sectors. Studies have shown that increased standardization of curricula constrain teacher autonomy and pose dilemmas for teachers faced with tensions between curricular requirements and their professional judgment about appropriate pedagogy and curricula. This article considers the possibility of educational intervention for socially and economically disadvantaged adults with limited English language and literacy skills by investigating how a group of teachers in accredited literacy courses viewed their role in addressing climate change and environmental literacy in their literacy classes.
Keywords: C:Australia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12545 Education for Global Citizenship in a Globalized World; oa:topic:T14007 Place-Based Education in Rural Communities; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Teaching about climate change: Possibilities and challenges in Australian adult literacy programs - Yasukawa, Keiko (Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022)
Abstract Australia's natural environment poses challenges for human inhabitants and will continue to pose novel challenges in an era of climate change. However, the resources that people can access to respond to climate change are diverse and unequally distributed. While this suggests a role for education, especially for those who are most socially and economically vulnerable, integrating climate change literacy into educational programs is not straightforward in all sectors. Studies have shown that increased standardization of curricula constrain teacher autonomy and pose dilemmas for teachers faced with tensions between curricular requirements and their professional judgment about appropriate pedagogy and curricula. This article considers the possibility of educational intervention for socially and economically disadvantaged adults with limited English language and literacy skills by investigating how a group of teachers in accredited literacy courses viewed their role in addressing climate change and environmental literacy in their literacy classes.
Keywords: C:Australia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12545 Education for Global Citizenship in a Globalized World; oa:topic:T14007 Place-Based Education in Rural Communities; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Decolonizing Climate Change Education: Evidence from an Empirical Study in Ghana (Journal of Education and Practice, 2022)
Climate change education plays a significant role in the fight against climate change. Yet the knowledges of Indigenous Peoples who have been disproportionately impacted and are at the frontlines of climate change have not been given enough attention in climate change education. To enhance the capacity of communities to adapt to climate change, calls are increasing for climate change education to be decolonized. Contributing to this call, the researcher partnered with a rural community, Boania, in Northern Ghana to integrate Indigenous Ecological Knowledge into environmental and climate change education in a rural primary school. A community-based research approach and an Indigenous research methodology in the form of two-eyed seeing were adopted to guide the project. The purpose of the study was to decolonize environmental and climate change education by integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge into programs. It emerged that the consideration of holistic Indigenous epistemologies in climate change education re-emphasized our inseparability from non-humans and improved the children’s knowledge about the community’s local environment. Additionally, decolonizing the concept of climate change created the space for acknowledging community-led climate adaptation efforts. Broadly, the study provided a model for decolonizing climate change education in Ghana. Keywords:community-based research; climate change education; decolonization; Indigenous Ecological Knowledge; Indigenous epistemologies DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-32-06 Publication date: November 30 th 2022
Keywords: C:Ghana; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T14007 Place-Based Education in Rural Communities; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Retrofitting measures for climate resilience: Enhancing the solar performance of Malaysian school buildings with passive design concepts - Alwi, Najah Md; Flor, J-F; Anuar, Nur Hidayah Khairul; Mohamad, J; Hanafi, N N H; Muhammad, N H; Zain, M H K M; Nasir, M R M (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022)
Climate-sensitive school buildings can enhance students’ learning performance and reduce the building’s overall energy consumption. This paper reports on a post-occupancy study of contemporary school buildings in Malaysia, assessing problems of solar heat gain. The research aims to propose retrofitting measures based on passive design principles adapted specifically for the Malaysian tropical climate to strengthen the resilience of local school buildings in a global climate emergency. On-site measurements in two different schools provided the empirical basis for the design modifications. The monitoring procedure included site observations, extended temperature and humidity measurements, and daylight analysis. A virtual classroom model was generated based on the on-site measurements, and a parametric simulation study was conducted to evaluate the proposed retrofit measures’ effectiveness. The model variables were evaluated and compared to identify the passive design elements that significantly impact heat gains and thermal comfort. The results showed that increasing roof overhangs to 1500 mm for additional shading, sensitive selection of roof materials and colours of white-painted zinc roof, and reduction of window-to-wall ratio by 30% to the operable windows helps to reduce solar gains by 6% to improve comfort conditions within the classrooms. Overall, the study provided evidence of how passive solar building design would benefit the climate resilience of Malaysian schools.
Keywords: C:Malaysia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:climate resilience; oa:keyword:malaysian school buildings; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Retrofitting measures for climate resilience: Enhancing the solar performance of Malaysian school buildings with passive design concepts - Alwi, Najah Md; Flor, J-F; Anuar, Nur Hidayah Khairul; Mohamad, J; Hanafi, N N H; Muhammad, N H; Zain, M H K M; Nasir, M R M (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022)
Climate-sensitive school buildings can enhance students’ learning performance and reduce the building’s overall energy consumption. This paper reports on a post-occupancy study of contemporary school buildings in Malaysia, assessing problems of solar heat gain. The research aims to propose retrofitting measures based on passive design principles adapted specifically for the Malaysian tropical climate to strengthen the resilience of local school buildings in a global climate emergency. On-site measurements in two different schools provided the empirical basis for the design modifications. The monitoring procedure included site observations, extended temperature and humidity measurements, and daylight analysis. A virtual classroom model was generated based on the on-site measurements, and a parametric simulation study was conducted to evaluate the proposed retrofit measures’ effectiveness. The model variables were evaluated and compared to identify the passive design elements that significantly impact heat gains and thermal comfort. The results showed that increasing roof overhangs to 1500 mm for additional shading, sensitive selection of roof materials and colours of white-painted zinc roof, and reduction of window-to-wall ratio by 30% to the operable windows helps to reduce solar gains by 6% to improve comfort conditions within the classrooms. Overall, the study provided evidence of how passive solar building design would benefit the climate resilience of Malaysian schools.
Keywords: C:Malaysia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review; oa:keyword:climate resilience; oa:keyword:malaysian school buildings; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Representations of Humans, Climate Change, and Environmental Degradation in School Textbooks in Ghana and Malawi - Ress, Susanne; Kendall, Nancy; Friedson-Ridenour, Sophia; Ampofo, Yaa Oparebea (Comparative Education Review, 2022)
Youth in sub-Saharan Africa are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of climate change and environmental degradation. The interest in education for sustainable development (ESD) to support African youth in learning about and adapting to climate change is growing in response. This study examines the messages about human-earth relationships, environmental change, and responsibilities for mitigation that are presented in official grade 8 Ghana and Malawi textbooks. Utilizing a political ecology framework, it shows that the curricula normalize an anthropocentric earth view that disappears global power dynamic, neglects widespread commodification of scarce resources, fails to question the developmentalist dream of endless growth, and translates local ecological contexts into universal commodities. We discuss the need to develop educational theories and practices that account for the complexity and deep contextuality of human-earth relationship if we hope to help students around the world envision alternative ways more likely to ensure species survival.
Keywords: C:Ghana; C:Malawi; C:Mali; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

A review of thermal comfort in primary schools and future challenges in machine learning based prediction for children - Lala, Betty; Hagishima, Aya (Buildings, 2022)
Children differ from adults in their physiology and cognitive ability. Thus, they are extremely vulnerable to classroom thermal comfort. However, very few reviews on the thermal comfort of primary school students are available. Further, children-focused surveys have not reviewed the state-of-the-art in thermal comfort prediction using machine learning (AI/ML). Consequently, there is a need for discussion on children-specific challenges in AI/ML-based prediction. This article bridges these research gaps. It presents a comprehensive review of thermal comfort studies in primary school classrooms since 1962. It considers both conventional (non-ML) studies and the recent AI/ML studies performed for children, classrooms, and primary students. It also underscores the importance of AI/ML prediction by analyzing adaptive opportunities for children/students in classrooms. Thereafter, a review of AI/ML-based prediction studies is presented. Through an AI/ML case-study, it demonstrates that model performance for children and adults differs markedly. Performance of classification models trained on ASHRAE-II database and a recent primary students’ dataset shows a 29% difference in thermal sensation and 86% difference in thermal preference, between adults and children. It then highlights three major children-specific AI/ML challenges, viz., “illogical votes”, “multiple comfort metrics”, and “extreme class imbalance”. Finally, it offers several technical solutions and discusses open problems.
Keywords: _important; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; children thermal comfort; class imbalance; classroom thermal environment; evidence_review_2; illogical votes; machine learning; oa:keyword:thermal comfort; oa:sdg:4 Quality education; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; primary school students; selected_for:Predictive models for classroom conditions 2024; thermal comfort

Sampling Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Consumer Products: A Review - Haug, Helen; Klein, Luise; Sauerwald, Tilman; Poelke, Birte; Beauchamp, Jonathan; Roloff, Alexander (Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 2022)
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are common constituents of many consumer products. Although many VOCs are generally considered harmless at low concentrations, some compound classes represent substances of concern in relation to human (inhalation) exposure and can elicit adverse health effects, especially when concentrations build up, such as in indoor settings. Determining VOC emissions from consumer products, such as toys, utensils or decorative articles, is of utmost importance to enable the assessment of inhalation exposure under real-world scenarios with respect to consumer safety. Due to the diverse sizes and shapes of such products, as well as their differing uses, a one-size-fits-all approach for measuring VOC emissions is not possible, thus, sampling procedures must be chosen carefully to best suit the sample under investigation. This review outlines the different sampling approaches for characterizing VOC emissions from consumer products, including headspace and emission test chamber methods. The advantages and disadvantages of each sampling technique are discussed in relation to their time and cost efficiency, as well as their suitability to realistically assess VOC inhalation exposures.
Keywords: Emission test chamber; VOCs; _z:class:countries; _z:no_pdf; headspace; indoor air quality; inhalation exposure

Published Research on the Human Health Implications of Climate Change from 2012-2019: a Cross-Sectional Study - Bartlett, Victoria; Gupta, Ravi; Wallach, John R.; Nyhan, Kate; Chen, Kai; Ross, Joseph S. (medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 2022)
Abstract Importance Climate change is one of the most pressing global public health issues and is increasingly gaining attention from governments and researchers as a critical policy and research focus. While research on the effects of climate change on human health has grown significantly over the past few decades, there remain known gaps in research on non-physical health topics, like mental health, and in research on low-income countries. Objective To better understand the current state of research on the human health effects of climate change, including exposures, health conditions, populations, areas of the world studied, funding sources, and publication characteristics, with a focus on topics that are relevant for vulnerable populations. Evidence Review We searched the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal, a curated bibliographic database of global peer-reviewed research and gray literature on the science of climate impact on human health, to identify peer-reviewed original research investigating the health effects of climate change published from 2012 to 2019. The database combines searches of multiple search engines including PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar and includes added-value expert tagging of climate change exposures and health impacts. We filtered our search by year published, limited to original research articles published in English. After identifying all original research articles, we selected a 5% random sample to manually perform a detailed characterization of research topics and publication information. Findings There were 7082 original research articles published between 2012 and 2019, and the number of articles increased by 23% annually. In our random sample of 348 articles, we found that there were several gaps in research topics that are particularly relevant to vulnerable populations, such as those in the Global South (159; 45.7%) and the elderly (55; 15.8%). Additionally, fewer first authors were from the Global South (110; 31.6%), which may in part explain why there is disproportionally less research focusing on these countries. Conclusions and Relevance Our results help elucidate gaps in research that, once addressed, may help us better understand and mitigate some of the most devastating effects of climate change on human health.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:citedBy; openalex:import; selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024; tagged

Global Disability Justice In Climate Disasters: Mobilizing People With Disabilities As Change Agents - Engelman, Alina; Craig, Leyla; Iles, Alastair (Health Affairs, 2022)
Disabled people are highly susceptible to climate change impacts and disasters, yet they often remain sidelined or largely invisible. Policy makers, humanitarian agencies, and governments need to address the climate-related vulnerabilities that disabled people encounter during acute events and in the course of more creeping forms of climate change. As deaf researchers, we call for integrating disability justice into climate and disaster preparedness policies and practices worldwide. A disability justice approach can embrace the strengths that disabled people bring to disaster planning and climate mitigation and advocacy efforts. In this article we present case studies from different global regions to illustrate how disability is overlooked in responding to climate-related health impacts and disaster planning. We also draw particular attention to mutual aid networks led by disabled people in adapting to climate-related health impacts. We then suggest questions to help policy makers and practitioners integrate disability justice into their work. Above all, disabled people, organizations, and service providers should take ownership over the process of developing policies and actions to better prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate disasters.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Resilience of persons with disabilities to climate induced landslide hazards in the vulnerable areas of Mount Elgon, Uganda - Ssennoga, Martin; Kisira, Yeeko; Mugagga, Frank; Nadhomi, Daniel (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022)
The resilience of persons with disabilities in landslide-prone areas is not well understood. Moreover, these disasters are persistent and this information is vital in enhancing socioeconomic transformation of the livelihoods of Persons with disabilities. We anchored the resilience of Persons with disabilities to landslide hazards on four factors, namely; risk exposure, socioeconomic capacity, the individual functioning capacity, and the individual's housing infrastructure. The objectives of the study were (i) to assess the level of resilience of Persons with disabilities to landslides and (ii) to explore the significant sociodemographic factors that underpin the resilience of Persons with disabilities to landslides. We used a cross-sectional design and snowball sampling to access the households respondents for interviews. The analysis included descriptive analysis and inferential statistics computed using in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 23 and Microsoft Excel version 2016. The geometric mean method was used to assess the level of resilience. The Chisquare and Kendals' Tau-b were used to ascertain the underpinning sociodemographic factors to the resilience of Persons with disabilities. Results revealed that the overall resilience was low. Sex, education level, and access to disaster training significantly controlled resilience among Persons with disabilities. We conclude that Persons with disabilities in landslideprone areas have low resilience and receive little attention with respect to rescue and recovery amidst these recurrent hazards in the area. There is a need to boost the resilience of Persons with disabilities, especially the housing infrastructure and functioning capacity taking into account their social networks to build the socioeconomic and preparedness wings of disaster resilience among Persons with disabilities.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Human temperature regulation under heat stress in health, disease, and injury - Cramer, Matthew N.; Gagnon, Daniel; Laitano, Orlando; Crandall, Craig G. (Physiological Reviews, 2022)
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Keywords: core temperature; environment; evidence_review; exercise; skin blood flow; sweating; vasodilation

Temperature and cardiovascular hospitalization in persons with and without disabilities: Invisible population in climate change discourse - Kim, Sera; Lee, Jong-Tae (Environmental health perspectives, 2022)
BACKGROUND AND AIM: The adverse health effects of non-optimal temperatures are disproportionately distributed in the population due to differential susceptibility and adaptive capacity to heat and cold. Although persons with disabilities (PwD) can be one of the susceptible populations, they have been neglected in the climate change discourse. This study aimed to investigate the association of ambient temperature with cardiovascular hospitalization in persons with and without disabilities. METHODS: This study used the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort established by South Korea. Using nationwide data from 2003 to 2013, we conducted a space-time-stratified case-crossover study using a conditional Poisson regression with a distributed lag nonlinear model to investigate the association between daily mean temperature and cardiovascular hospitalization. The extreme and moderate heat (99th and 95th temperature percentile, respectively) and cold (1st and 5th temperature percentile, respectively) effects on hospitalization over ten days were estimated using the minimum hospitalization temperature (MHT) as a reference. All analyses were conducted separately by the existence of a disability. RESULTS: A J-shaped association between temperature and cardiovascular hospitalization was found with the MHT at 22.2°C and 15.9°C in persons with and without disabilities, respectively. In persons without disabilities, the effects of hot temperatures were acute and lasted several days, while the effects of cold temperatures appeared after 2-3 days. In PwD, the effects of hot temperatures lasted up to 10 days, while the effects of cold temperatures appeared immediately with the following deficit in hospitalizations. The cumulative cold effects over ten days were higher in PwD than their non-disabled counterparts, although the cumulative heat effects did not show a significant difference. CONCLUSIONS: PwD were more susceptible to cold-related hospitalizations compared to their non-disabled counterpart. Precision adaptation strategies to heat and cold that considers susceptibility in PwD are needed. KEYWORDS: Temperature; Climate change; Health equity; Disability
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Using Machine Learning to Predict the Effect of Non-renewable Energy Sources on Climate Change in India - Sharma, Neha; De, Prithwis Kumar (2022)
Chapter 5 makes an attempt to predict trends in average land temperature due to CO2 emissions from all the non-renewable energy resources like “coal”, “oil”, “natural gas”, and “flaring”. The chapter illustrates the step-by-step process of time series analysis that is used to forecast temperature values. Predictions with the help of a machine learning model reveal that if no significant and immediate steps are implemented, emissions from these sources of energy will continue to rise in the near future at the current rate of consumption and production. The findings indicate that the average land temperature in India is predicted to rise by 0.2 degrees Celsius in the coming years.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:topic:T11052 Electricity Price and Load Forecasting Methods; oa:topic:T11276 Machine Learning Methods for Solar Radiation Forecasting; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Towards Resilient Agriculture to Hostile Climate Change in the Sahel Region: A Case Study of Machine Learning-Based Weather Prediction in Senegal - Nyasulu, Chimango; Diattara, Awa; Traoré, Assitan; Dème, Abdoulaye; Ba, Cheikh Oumar (Agriculture, 2022)
To ensure continued food security and economic development in Africa, it is very important to address and adapt to climate change. Excessive dependence on rainfed agricultural production makes Africa more vulnerable to climate change effects. Weather information and services are essential for farmers to more effectively survive the increasing occurrence of extreme weather events due to climate change. Weather information is important for resource management in agricultural production and helps farmers plan their farming activities in advance. Machine Learning is one of the technologies used in agriculture for weather forecasting and crop disease detection among others. The objective of this study is to develop Machine Learning-based models adapted to the context of daily weather forecasting for Rainfall, Relative Humidity, and Maximum and Minimum Temperature in Senegal. In this study, we made a comparison of ten Machine Learning Regressors with our Ensemble Model. These models were evaluated based on Mean Absolute Error, Mean Squared Error, Root Mean Squared Error and Coefficient of Determination. The results show that the Ensemble Model performs better than the ten base models. The Ensemble Model results for each parameter are as follows; Relative Humidity: Mean Absolute Error was 4.0126, Mean Squared Error was 29.9885, Root Mean Squared Error was 5.4428 and Coefficient of Determination was 0.9335. For Minimum Temperature: Mean Absolute Error was 0.7908, Mean Squared Error was 1.1329, Root Mean Squared Error was 1.0515 and Coefficient of Determination was 0.9018. For Maximum Temperature: Mean Absolute Error was 1.2515, Mean Squared Error was 2.8038, Root Mean Squared Error was 1.6591 and Coefficient of Determination was 0.8205. For Rainfall: Mean Absolute Error was 0.2142, Mean Squared Error was 0.1681, Root Mean Squared Error was 0.4100 and Coefficient of Determination was 0.7733. From the present study, it has been observed that the Ensemble Model is a feasible model to be used for Rainfall, Relative Humidity, and Maximum and Minimum Temperature forecasting.
Keywords: C:Senegal; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:resilient agriculture; oa:keyword:weather prediction; oa:sdg:2 Zero hunger; oa:topic:T11052 Electricity Price and Load Forecasting Methods; oa:topic:T11490 Hydrological Modeling using Machine Learning Methods; oa:topic:T13650 Scientific Computing and Data Analysis with Python; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Wearables for Measuring Health Effects of Climate Change–Induced Weather Extremes: Scoping Review - Koch, Mara; Matzke, Ina; Huhn, Sophie; Gunga, Hanns‐Christian; Maggioni, Martina Anna; Munga, Stephen; Obor, David; Sié, Ali; Boudo, Valentin; Bunker, Aditi; Dambach, Peter; Bärnighausen, Till; et al. (Jmir mhealth and uhealth, 2022)
Although climate change is one of the biggest global health threats, individual-level and short-term data on direct exposure and health impacts are still scarce. Wearable electronic devices (wearables) present a potential solution to this research gap. Wearables have become widely accepted in various areas of health research for ecological momentary assessment, and some studies have used wearables in the field of climate change and health. However, these studies vary in study design, demographics, and outcome variables, and existing research has not been mapped.In this review, we aimed to map existing research on wearables used to detect direct health impacts and individual exposure during climate change-induced weather extremes, such as heat waves or wildfires.We conducted a scoping review according to the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) framework and systematically searched 6 databases (PubMed [MEDLINE], IEEE Xplore, CINAHL [EBSCOhost], WoS, Scopus, Ovid [MEDLINE], and Google Scholar). The search yielded 1871 results. Abstracts and full texts were screened by 2 reviewers (MK and IM) independently using the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The inclusion criteria comprised studies published since 2010 that used off-the-shelf wearables that were neither invasive nor obtrusive to the user in the setting of climate change-related weather extremes. Data were charted using a structured form, and the study outcomes were narratively synthesized.The review included 55,284 study participants using wearables in 53 studies. Most studies were conducted in upper-middle-income and high-income countries (50/53, 94%) in urban environments (25/53, 47%) or in a climatic chamber (19/53, 36%) and assessed the health effects of heat exposure (52/53, 98%). The majority reported adverse health effects of heat exposure on sleep, physical activity, and heart rate. The remaining studies assessed occupational heat stress or compared individual- and area-level heat exposure. In total, 26% (14/53) of studies determined that all examined wearables were valid and reliable for measuring health parameters during heat exposure when compared with standard methods.Wearables have been used successfully in large-scale research to measure the health implications of climate change-related weather extremes. More research is needed in low-income countries and vulnerable populations with pre-existing conditions. In addition, further research could focus on the health impacts of other climate change-related conditions and the effectiveness of adaptation measures at the individual level to such weather extremes.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; evidence_review; openalex:citedBy; openalex:import; selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024; tagged

Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Adapted Classroom Climates Instrument for Malaysian Rural Schools Using PLS-SEM - Dolinting, Priscilla Petrus; Pang, Vincent (International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling, 2022)
The association between classroom climate qualitity and students’ academic achievement has been well researched. The relationship of a student to the classroom climate can be viewed from the seminal work of Moos (1974) in classifying the dimensions between individual relationship and the surrounding environment into “relationship”, “personal growth” as well as “systems maintenance and change”. Students’ perspective on their classroom climate can be used as a mechanism for classroom assessment to provide useful information regarding the strengths and weaknesses as well as an opportunity for teacher’s reflection in teaching practices. Hence, the main objective of this study is to produce empirical evidence of the validity and reliability of the item in Malay version of What is Happening in This Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire in the context of Malaysian rural secondary schools which is used to study students’ perceptions of their mathematics learning experiences in the classroom. PLS-SEM approach with aided by Smart PLS version 3.2.8 software was used to examine the internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity. The translated questionnaire was administered to 338 students of rural secondary schools in Sabah, Malaysia by using the multi-stage cluster sampling. Results showed a PLS-SEM measurement model with 48-items demonstrating good convergent and discriminant validity and reliability. This finding concluded that all items in the Malay version of WIHIC are valid and reliable to be used in future study. Lastly, the current study supports the use of WIHIC for educational practices improvement that could be beneficial to stakeholders such as teachers, administrators and policy makers.
Keywords: C:Malaysia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:adapted classroom climates instrument; oa:keyword:malaysian rural schools; oa:topic:T13873 Web-Based Learning Systems; oa:topic:T14182 E-Learning in Higher Education; openalex:import; openalex:yes

A low-cost air quality monitoring system based on Internet of Things for smart homes - Taştan, Mehmet (Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 2022)
Global climate change and COVID-19 have changed our social and business life. People spend most of their daily lives indoors. Low-cost devices can monitor indoor air quality (IAQ) and reduce health problems caused by air pollutants. This study proposes a real-time and low-cost air quality monitoring system for smart homes based on Internet of Things (IoT). The developed IoT-based monitoring system is portable and provides users with real-time data transfer about IAQ. During the COVID-19 period, air quality data were collected from the kitchen, bedroom and balcony of their home, where a family of 5 spend most of their time. As a result of the analyzes, it has been determined that indoor particulate matter is mainly caused by outdoor infiltration and cooking emissions, and the CO2 value can rise well above the permissible health limits in case of insufficient ventilation due to night sleep activity. The obtained results show that the developed measuring devices may be suitable for measurement-based indoor air quality management. In addition, the proposed low-cost measurement system compared to existing systems; It has advantages such as modularity, scalability, low cost, portability, easy installation and open-source technologies.
Keywords: _important; _z:class:countries

Assessment of coastal variations due to climate change using remote sensing and machine learning techniques: A case study from west coast of India - Pradeep, Jibin; Shaji, E.; S, Subeesh Chandran C; Ajas, H; Chandra, S.S. Vinod; Dev, S.G. Dhanil; Babu, D. S. Suresh (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2022)
Climate change and other environmental disturbances are causing sea level rise all over the world. Due to sea-level rise and other unprecedented atmospheric phenomena caused by climate change, Indian coasts are vulnerable to coastal erosion. The Kerala coast, at the southern tip of India's west coast, has experienced a sea change in the last decade. To address coastal variations, we investigate coastal erosion, coastal accretion, and shoreline changes (from 2006 to 2020) along this coast between Pozhiyoor and Anchuthengu (58 km). To monitor the status and predict changes along the coast, remote sensing, GIS, field checks, and machine learning tools were used. The data analysis reveals that the shoreline configuration, rate of beach accretion, and erosion have all changed significantly. When the rate of erosion in the 58-km-long coastal stretch was examined, it was discovered that approximately 42 km face acute erosion, 13 km face accretion, and approximately 3 km face neither accretion nor erosion and remain in equilibrium. According to the estimates, approximately 2.62 km2 of land has been eroded away from the shore over a 14-year period, while 0.7 km2 of land has been accreted. At locations where the influence of river discharge or groynes is minimal, the normal rate of accretion in the stretch is around 1–2 m/y. Nonetheless, the rate of accretion increased to 5–8 m/y where groynes or river mouths, or both, have a significant influence on shoreline stability. The normal rate of erosion in the stretch under consideration, however, is around 5 m/y. With a rate of 10.59 m/y, Pozhiyoor had the highest erosion rate. According to the data, the rate of erosion is faster between Pozhikkara and Veli. The increase in shoreline changes is primarily may be due to increased cyclone occurrences in the Arabian Sea, the formation of swell waves, changes in wave energy, and sea level rise due to climate change. The slow rate of sediment discharge by rivers, groyne construction, groyne spacing, groyne length, long shore currents, and preferential northward sediment transport all play a role in the formation and destruction of beaches along India's west coast. Using machine learning techniques, a prediction model for the year 2027 was created using data from the previous 14 years (2006–2020). According to the model, almost the entire stretch will experience severe erosion, with the rate remaining consistently high between Shanghumugham and Anchuthengu. As a result, soft and appropriate engineering solutions are required for coastal stability all along the beach, particularly at these two locations after a feasibilty study.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:coastal variations; oa:keyword:remote sensing; oa:sdg:14 Life below water; oa:topic:T10647 Coastal Dynamics and Climate Change Impacts; oa:topic:T10779 Importance of Mangrove Ecosystems in Coastal Protection; oa:topic:T11061 Dynamics of Ocean Surface Waves and Wind Interaction; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Progressive Trends in Implementing Climate Change Courses in Higher Education Curriculum at Symbiosis International University, Pune, India - Rao, Prakash; Patil, Yogesh P. (2022)
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:higher education curriculum; oa:keyword:implementing climate change courses; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Exploring Curriculum for the Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change: The Case of Planning Schools in India - Roy, Anil K.; Kaliyath, Ajith; Ghosh, Debjani (Environment and Urbanization ASIA, 2022)
This article explores the urban planning curriculum of the three selected planning schools in India. They are the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi; Department of City and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur; and the Faculty of Planning, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. It uses content analysis to understand the deepening of research, skill formation and the possible change in pedagogy due to growing concerns about climate change (CC) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the urban area. The concerned programme coordinators and heads of the departments have also been consulted to find out the general approach to integrating CC and DRR knowledge into their planning curricula. An account of research outreach of faculty members, student dissertations and institutional publication in the CC and DRR has also been presented to illustrate research outreach with the community. It has been found that these schools need to deepen further their engagement with the domain of CC and DRR.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:disaster risk reduction; oa:keyword:planning schools; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10439 Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture; oa:topic:T10747 Community Resilience to Natural Disasters; oa:topic:T10930 Global Flood Risk Assessment and Management; openalex:import; openalex:yes

No Teacher is an Island: A case study on the enablers and barriers for effective school-based teacher professional development in Sierra Leone - Lurvink, Anne-Fleur; Bangura, Zainab; Fortune, Alhaji; George, Alex H.; Godwin, Katie; Mason-Sesay, Miriam; Moseray, David; Tholley, Ibrahim; Turay, Emmanuel B.; Haßler, Björn (OpenDevEd, 2022)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _bjoern_cv; _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; evidence_review

State of the Climate in 2021 - Blunden, Jessica; Boyer, Timothy P. (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2022)
Abstract Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the State of the Climate in 2021 is a low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking here . Please be patient as it may take a few minutes for the high-resolution file to download.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:cites; openalex:import

Methods, data sources and applications of the Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Poverty context: A review - López-Vargas, Ascensión; Ledezma-Espino, Agapito; Sanchis-de-Miguel, Araceli (Energy and Buildings, 2022)
Energy Poverty (EP) is a widespread problem in Europe. EP detection is hampered by a lack of data and global metrics. Recently, innovative approaches using Artificial Intelligent (AI) techniques have been increasingly applied for the EP alleviation. In this work, studies focused on the application of AI on EP were studied. It was identified that there is not a high number of works that apply AI to fight against EP (considering this problem as a multidimensional phenomenon). Artificial Neural Networks-based algorithms and Decision Trees were the most used algorithms in the reviewed literature focused on EP alleviation. However, several AI applications focused on partial aspects of the EP or on areas intimately related to EP (low-income, high-energy price and low-energy efficiency of buildings) that allow the characterization of the problem in an efficient way have been published in recent years; the last 7 years published literature have been reviewed in this work. It was found that Neural Networks algorithms were the most used models for low-income, energy price and poor energy efficiency characterizations. Support Vector Machines-based algorithms were the most popular AI method applied on energy consumption related problems. Deep learning was the most popular technique for detecting energy billing irregularities and unpaid energy bills.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Energy poverty; Fuel poverty; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:energy poverty context; oa:topic:T10603 Demand Response in Smart Grids; oa:topic:T11336 Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries; oa:topic:T13429 Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Grids; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Trained Climate Change Educators: Are Secondary School Pupils Getting Quality Climate Change Education? Views from Teachers and Pupils in Lusaka, Zambia - Mubanga, Kabwe Harnadih; Mazyopa, Kelly; Chirwa, B. B.; Musonda-Mubanga, Annie; Kayumba, Rebecca (European Journal of Development Studies, 2022)
Zambia like many other countries has not been spared from the destructive impacts of climate change. Climate change awareness creation is pivotal to adaptation and mitigation strategies. Effective dissemination of knowledge among the citizens during formal school years and later on in teacher training programs is crucial to that end. This paper investigates the quality of climate change education that students receive in secondary schools as well as the adequacy of the content taught from the teachers’ and pupils’ perspectives. It further investigated teachers’ and pupils’ opinions on the effects of embracing compulsory climate change education in secondary schools and teacher training colleges and universities. It is based on responses from secondary school students and teachers in Lusaka District. A descriptive survey design utilizing a structured questionnaire was administered to 152 randomly selected respondents drawn from 8 secondary schools within Lusaka. Data analysis involved chi-square tests and thematic analysis of respondents’ qualitative responses. Results also show that the level of climate change knowledge among secondary school teachers in Lusaka was not significantly low (χ2 = 9.488, n = 152, df = 4). Factors such as tertiary level qualification and teaching subject combination emerged as some of the major reasons for varying degrees of climate change knowledge among teachers and pupils respectively. It was recommended that the Ministry of Education should undertake climate change capacity building among teachers through the introduction of compulsory climate change training programs for all teachers at the college or university level, as well as comprehensive and compulsory climate change subject training at secondary school. Curriculum formulation agencies such Curriculum Development Centre and the Ministry of Education should work with teachers and university lecturers to come up with a detailed but easy-to-understand climate change curriculum content.
Keywords: C:Zambia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:climate change educators; oa:keyword:quality climate change education; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Climate change resilient agricultural practices: A learning experience from indigenous communities over India - Aich, Amitava; Dey, Dipayan; Roy, Arindam (PLOS sustainability and transformation, 2022)
The impact of climate change on agricultural practices is raising question marks on future food security of billions of people in tropical and subtropical regions. Recently introduced, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) techniques encourage the practices of sustainable agriculture, increasing adaptive capacity and resilience to shocks at multiple levels. However, it is extremely difficult to develop a single framework for climate change resilient agricultural practices for different agrarian production landscape. Agriculture accounts for nearly 30% of Indian gross domestic product (GDP) and provide livelihood of nearly two-thirds of the population of the country. Due to the major dependency on rain-fed irrigation, Indian agriculture is vulnerable to rainfall anomaly, pest invasion, and extreme climate events. Due to their close relationship with environment and resources, indigenous people are considered as one of the most vulnerable community affected by the changing climate. In the milieu of the climate emergency, multiple indigenous tribes from different agroecological zones over India have been selected in the present study to explore the adaptive potential of indigenous traditional knowledge (ITK)-based agricultural practices against climate change. The selected tribes are inhabitants of Eastern Himalaya (Apatani), Western Himalaya (Lahaulas), Eastern Ghat (Dongria-Gondh), and Western Ghat (Irular) representing rainforest, cold desert, moist upland, and rain shadow landscape, respectively. The effect of climate change over the respective regions was identified using different Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario, and agricultural practices resilient to climate change were quantified. Primary results indicated moderate to extreme susceptibility and preparedness of the tribes against climate change due to the exceptionally adaptive ITK-based agricultural practices. A brief policy has been prepared where knowledge exchange and technology transfer among the indigenous tribes have been suggested to achieve complete climate change resiliency.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:indigenous communities; oa:keyword:resilient agricultural practices; oa:sdg:2 Zero hunger; oa:topic:T10439 Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture; oa:topic:T12093 Dynamic Modeling of Plant Form and Growth; oa:topic:T12253 Urban Agriculture and Community Development; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Modelling hydrological responses under climate change using machine learning algorithms – semi-arid river basin of peninsular India - Naidu, G. Sireesha; Pratik, M.; Rehana, S. (2022)
Evolutionary algorithms and allied fields are getting more visibility as well as familiarity due to their numerous flexibilities such as handling high-dimensional non-linear problems and more. This book will help budding researchers to formulate their research problems, and comprises 10 chapters: three on optimization, five on machine learning algorithms, one on Internet of Things, and one on remote sensing.In Focus–a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:topic:T10330 Hydrological Modeling and Water Resource Management; oa:topic:T10930 Global Flood Risk Assessment and Management; oa:topic:T11490 Hydrological Modeling using Machine Learning Methods; openalex:import; openalex:yes

A Narrative Literature Review of Natural Language Processing Applied to the Occupational Exposome - Schoene, Annika Marie; Basinas, Ioannis; Tongeren, Martie van; Ananiadou, Sophia (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022)
The evolution of the Exposome concept revolutionised the research in exposure assessment and epidemiology by introducing the need for a more holistic approach on the exploration of the relationship between the environment and disease. At the same time, further and more dramatic changes have also occurred on the working environment, adding to the already existing dynamic nature of it. Natural Language Processing (NLP) refers to a collection of methods for identifying, reading, extracting and untimely transforming large collections of language. In this work, we aim to give an overview of how NLP has successfully been applied thus far in Exposome research.We conduct a literature search on PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science for scientific articles published between 2011 and 2021. We use both quantitative and qualitative methods to screen papers and provide insights into the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We outline our approach for article selection and provide an overview of our findings. This is followed by a more detailed insight into selected articles.Overall, 6420 articles were screened for the suitability of this review, where we review 37 articles in depth. Finally, we discuss future avenues of research and outline challenges in existing work.Our results show that (i) there has been an increase in articles published that focus on applying NLP to exposure and epidemiology research, (ii) most work uses existing NLP tools and (iii) traditional machine learning is the most popular approach.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:citedBy; openalex:import; selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024; tagged

Education for Sustainable Development: A Study on the Attitude and Concerns on Climate Change Issues among Elementary School Teachers of Odisha, India - Mohapatra, Shashwoti; Mallik, Kapileswar; Satapathy, M. K. (Asian journal of education and social studies, 2022)
From fatal heat waves and cruel droughts to devastating floods and fast depleting water tables, climate change is the greatest destructor in the current time creating a threat to all living organisms including human being. Teachers being the agents of social change have an important role to play in moulding the behaviour of children to cope with the climate change stress. The present study was carried out with 462 (222 pre-service and 240 in-service) elementary school teachers taking a Likert type five point attitude scale with 30 items having six dimensions viz., science of climate change, causes of climate change, impacts of climate change, mitigation, national initiatives and policies and politics of climate change.
From the study, it was noted that though both pre-service and in-service teachers had favourable attitude towards climate change issues, pre-service teachers had higher level of concern than in-service teachers as reflected from their attitude scores. Dimension wise pre-service and in-service teachers had favourable attitude towards science of climate change, causes of climate change, impacts of climate change and mitigation, and negative attitude towards national initiatives and policies and politics of climate change. Urban teachers were more favourable than rural teachers in first four dimensions studied.
However, among in-service teachers rural teachers were more concerned on issues such as impacts of climate change and causes of climate change than on science of climate change, mitigation, national initiatives, policies and politics of climate change. Among pre-service teachers, there was no significant difference in the attitude scores between science and arts teachers, and male and female teachers. However, urban teachers had more favourable attitude than rural teachers. Among in-service teachers, there was significant difference in the attitude scores as far as subject (science/arts) and residence (urban/rural) are concerned. Rural in-service teachers had more favourable attitude than urban teachers.
The correlation between knowledge and attitude showed a positive relationship which reflected that with increase in knowledge there was increase in concern. The relationship between age and attitude showed that with increase in teacher’s age concern for climate change increased.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change issues; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:import; openalex:yes

PersonalisedComfort: a personalised thermal comfort model to predict thermal sensation votes for smart building residents - Rehman, Saif Ur; Javed, Abdul Rehman; Khan, Mohib Ullah; Nazar Awan, Mubashar; Farukh, Adees; Hussien, Aseel (Enterprise Information Systems, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:personalisedcomfort thermal personalisedcomfort model; oa:keyword:smart building residents; oa:keyword:thermal sensation votes; oa:sdg:11 Sustainable cities and communities; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10603 Demand Response in Smart Grids; oa:topic:T12120 Low-Cost Air Quality Monitoring Systems; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Inter-Organizational Bench-Learning to Respond to Climate Change and Reduce Trade-Offs in Urban Drinking Water Supply: The Case of Grade 2B Municipalities in Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia - Debela, Bacha Kebede (SAGE Open, 2022)
Most studies on drinking water supply seem to focus on efficiency analysis and have failed to analyze effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and trade-offs in performance management. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Free Disposal Hull (FDH) novel reference technologies, we analyzed the efficiency, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness, and the social, economic and ecological performance (TBL elements) of 29 municipalities in drinking water supply, in Oromia National Regional State. The results from 42 (efficiency), 173 (effectiveness), and 37 (cost-effectiveness) DEA and FDH models on production model criterion and TBL elements reveal that performance of many municipalities was weak, and the municipalities encountered trade-offs on the production model criterion and TBL elements. We argue that inter-organizational bench-learning can improve performance, reduce trade-offs, and respond to the effect of climate change on the drinking water supply. To this end, we argue for the need to map peers for inter-organizational bench-learning. We identified five inter-organizational bench-learning strategies and drew implications. The article contributes to performance management literature and the debate on sustainable development.
Keywords: C:Ethiopia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:urban drinking water supply; oa:topic:T10357 Efficiency Analysis in Production and Resource Allocation; oa:topic:T10596 Maternal and Child Nutrition in Developing Countries; oa:topic:T10969 Optimal Operation of Water Resources Systems; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

A review on occupancy prediction through machine learning for enhancing energy efficiency, air quality and thermal comfort in the built environment - Zhang, Wuxia; Wu, Yupeng; Calautit, John Kaiser (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022)
The occupants' presence, activities, and behaviour can significantly impact the building's performance and energy efficiency. Currently, heating, ventilation, and airconditioning (HVAC) systems are often run based on assumed occupancy levels and fixed schedules, or manually set by occupants based on their comfort needs. However, the unpredictability and variability of occupancy patterns can lead to over/under the conditioning of space when using such approaches, affecting indoor air quality and comfort. As a result, machine learning-based models and methodologies are progressively being used to forecast occupancy behaviour and routines in buildings, which may subsequently be used to aid in the design and operation of building systems. The present work reviews recent studies employing machine learning methods to predict occupancy behaviour and patterns, with a special focus on its related applications and benefits to building systems, improving energy efficiency, indoor air quality and thermal comfort. The review provides insight into the workflow of a machine learning-based occupancy prediction model, including data collection, prediction, and validation. An organised evaluation of the applicability or suitability of the different data collection methods, machine learning algorithms, and validation methods was carried out.
Keywords: Building model simulation; Energy efficiency; Machine learning; Occupancy detection; Occupancy prediction; Thermal comfort; _important; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:occupancy prediction; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; oa:topic:T12120 Low-Cost Air Quality Monitoring Systems; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; selected_for:Predictive models for classroom conditions 2024

A review on occupancy prediction through machine learning for enhancing energy efficiency, air quality and thermal comfort in the built environment - Zhang, Wuxia; Wu, Yupeng; Calautit, John Kaiser (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022)
The occupants' presence, activities, and behaviour can significantly impact the building's performance and energy efficiency. Currently, heating, ventilation, and airconditioning (HVAC) systems are often run based on assumed occupancy levels and fixed schedules, or manually set by occupants based on their comfort needs. However, the unpredictability and variability of occupancy patterns can lead to over/under the conditioning of space when using such approaches, affecting indoor air quality and comfort. As a result, machine learning-based models and methodologies are progressively being used to forecast occupancy behaviour and routines in buildings, which may subsequently be used to aid in the design and operation of building systems. The present work reviews recent studies employing machine learning methods to predict occupancy behaviour and patterns, with a special focus on its related applications and benefits to building systems, improving energy efficiency, indoor air quality and thermal comfort. The review provides insight into the workflow of a machine learning-based occupancy prediction model, including data collection, prediction, and validation. An organised evaluation of the applicability or suitability of the different data collection methods, machine learning algorithms, and validation methods was carried out.
Keywords: Building model simulation; Energy efficiency; Machine learning; Occupancy detection; Occupancy prediction; Thermal comfort; _important; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:occupancy prediction; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; oa:topic:T12120 Low-Cost Air Quality Monitoring Systems; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; selected_for:Predictive models for classroom conditions 2024

Time series-based deep learning model for personal thermal comfort prediction - Chennapragada, Aniruddh; Periyakoil, Divya; Das, Hari Prasanna; Spanos, Costas J. (e-Energy '22: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, 2022)
Personal thermal comfort models are crucial for the future of human-in-the-loop HVAC control in energy-efficient buildings. Individual comfort models, compared to average population responses, can provide the personalization required for successful control. In this work, we frame the thermal preference prediction task as a multivariate, multi-class classification problem and use deep learning and time-series-based approach for thermal preference prediction. We combine l1 regularization with a Regularized Long Short-Term Memory network (R-LSTM) to leverage the attentional mechanisms of such a model while counteracting overfitting. We run experiments on fourteen different subjects and find promising accuracy, F1 and AUC results, outperforming state-of-the-art machine learning approaches applied for the same task.
Keywords: LSTM; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11019 Image Enhancement Techniques; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; thermal comfort prediction; time-series models

Time series-based deep learning model for personal thermal comfort prediction - Chennapragada, Aniruddh; Periyakoil, Divya; Das, Hari Prasanna; Spanos, Costas J. (e-Energy '22: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, 2022)
Personal thermal comfort models are crucial for the future of human-in-the-loop HVAC control in energy-efficient buildings. Individual comfort models, compared to average population responses, can provide the personalization required for successful control. In this work, we frame the thermal preference prediction task as a multivariate, multi-class classification problem and use deep learning and time-series-based approach for thermal preference prediction. We combine l1 regularization with a Regularized Long Short-Term Memory network (R-LSTM) to leverage the attentional mechanisms of such a model while counteracting overfitting. We run experiments on fourteen different subjects and find promising accuracy, F1 and AUC results, outperforming state-of-the-art machine learning approaches applied for the same task.
Keywords: LSTM; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11019 Image Enhancement Techniques; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; thermal comfort prediction; time-series models

Nigerian teachers' self‐reported climate science literacy and expressed training needs on climate change concepts: Prospects of job‐embedded situative professional development - Eze, Emmanuel; Nwagu, Eric K. N.; Onuoha, Joseph C. (Science Education, 2022)
Abstract The assessment of Nigerian teachers' climate science literacy and training needs on climate change concepts (i.e., causes, impacts, and solutions) are absent. This study relates teachers' climate science literacy and their expressed training needs in other climate change concepts and places teachers in groups. Following a descriptive survey design, 410 teachers were randomly sampled from 8338 public secondary school teachers in Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria. A researcher‐developed instrument passing validity and reliability tests was used for this study. We implemented frequencies, mean, t test, ANOVA, k ‐means cluster analyses, and Pearson's correlation for the analyses of collected data and tested all hypotheses at a p < 0.05 level of significance. Teachers reported low to moderate climate science literacy and expressed high training needs on climate change concepts. Lower climate science literacy was related to higher expressed training needs. Four groups of teachers ensued from our cluster analyses. Sadly, teachers who possess little or less climate science literacy and expressed less or no training needs in climate change causes, impacts, and solutions constitute over half of the respondents of this study (53.90%). These are mostly science teachers. This situation, if unreversed, may lead to the transfer of misconceptions and inaccurate information on climate change to students. Our findings support the prospects of school−university partnerships, coaching, mentoring, study groups, and co‐teaching for job‐embedded situative approaches to teachers' professional development (PD) to replace an endless wait for inadequate and irregular training opportunities from the government. Questions about the climate science literacy of teacher educators also arise.
Keywords: C:Nigeria; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:climate change concepts; oa:keyword:climate science literacy; oa:keyword:nigerian teachers; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10072 Enhancing Science Education through Inquiry and Argumentation; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Overcrowded Classrooms: Effect on Teaching and Learning Process in Public Secondary Schools in Ilemela Municipality, Tanzania - Likuru, Laurian; Mwila, Prospery (Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies, 2022)
With parents, teachers, and policymakers, reducing class size is a favoured education policy approach. Cursory studies had suggested that overcrowded classroom results in relatively modest in students’ academic achievement. Underpinned by the Social Cognitive Theory, this study assessed how overcrowded classrooms affect the teaching and learning process in Ilemela Municipality, Mwanza -Tanzania. The study adopted a mixed research approach and convergent parallel research design. The sample consisted of 110 respondents including 1 MSEO, 1 Quality Assurance, 8 heads of school 40 teachers and 60 students. Structured questionnaires and interview guide were used as research instruments. Data were analysed through descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. The synthesis of the findings revealed that classrooms in Ilemela municipality are overcrowded –against the access bargain of 45 students per class; students exceeded 90 within a single stream. On the basis of the findings it was concluded that overcrowded classrooms has an effect on the teaching and learning process, since it limits the application and implementation of competence based curriculum and supportive classroom management practices which aid effectiveness of teaching and learning process. The study recommends that there is a need to enforce the policy on classroom size and to construct more classroom school so as to remedy the situation.
Keywords: evidence_review

Climate change knowledge, concerns and experiences in secondary school learners in South Africa - Kutywayo, Alison; Chersich, Matthew; Naidoo, Nicolette; Scorgie, Fiona; Bottoman, Likho; Mullick, Saiqa (Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2022)
Climate change poses a major threat to the future of today's youth. Globally, young people are at the forefront of climate change activism. Their ability to engage, however, depends on the level of knowledge of climate change and concern about the topic. We sought to examine levels of knowledge and concerns about climate change among youth in South Africa, and their experiences of heat exposure. Ten questions on climate change knowledge, concerns and experiences were nested within a cross-sectional survey conducted in a cluster randomised trial among 924 secondary school learners in 14 public schools in low-income Western Cape areas. Learners' mean age was 15.8 years and they were predominately female. While 72.0% of respondents knew that climate change leads to higher temperatures, only 59.7% agreed that human activity is responsible for climate change, and 58.0% believed that climate change affects human health. Two thirds (68.7%) said that climate change is a serious issue and 65.9% indicated action is needed for prevention. Few learners indicated climate change events had affected them, although many reported difficulties concentrating during hot weather (72.9%). Female learners had lower knowledge levels than male learners, but more frequent heat-related symptoms. Learners scoring high on knowledge questions expressed the most concern about climate change and had the highest heat impacts. Many youth seem unaware that climate change threatens their future. Heat-related symptoms are common, likely undermining educational performance, especially as temperatures escalate. More is needed to mainstream climate change into South African school curricula.
Keywords: C:South Africa; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:secondary school learners; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Climate change knowledge, concerns and experiences in secondary school learners in South Africa - Kutywayo, Alison; Chersich, Matthew; Naidoo, Nicolette; Scorgie, Fiona; Bottoman, Likho; Mullick, Saiqa (Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2022)
Climate change poses a major threat to the future of today's youth. Globally, young people are at the forefront of climate change activism. Their ability to engage, however, depends on the level of knowledge of climate change and concern about the topic. We sought to examine levels of knowledge and concerns about climate change among youth in South Africa, and their experiences of heat exposure. Ten questions on climate change knowledge, concerns and experiences were nested within a cross-sectional survey conducted in a cluster randomised trial among 924 secondary school learners in 14 public schools in low-income Western Cape areas. Learners' mean age was 15.8 years and they were predominately female. While 72.0% of respondents knew that climate change leads to higher temperatures, only 59.7% agreed that human activity is responsible for climate change, and 58.0% believed that climate change affects human health. Two thirds (68.7%) said that climate change is a serious issue and 65.9% indicated action is needed for prevention. Few learners indicated climate change events had affected them, although many reported difficulties concentrating during hot weather (72.9%). Female learners had lower knowledge levels than male learners, but more frequent heat-related symptoms. Learners scoring high on knowledge questions expressed the most concern about climate change and had the highest heat impacts. Many youth seem unaware that climate change threatens their future. Heat-related symptoms are common, likely undermining educational performance, especially as temperatures escalate. More is needed to mainstream climate change into South African school curricula.
Keywords: C:South Africa; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:secondary school learners; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Indoor Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Thermal Behaviors of Students in Primary Schools Located in the Humid Subtropical Climate of India - Lala, Betty; Murtyas, Solli; Hagishima, Aya (Sustainability, 2022)
This study investigated children’s perceptions and adaptive behaviors related to indoor thermal conditions of classrooms in primary schools with no air-conditioning systems during both summer and winter in Dehradun City, Uttarakhand, India. Responses were collected from 5297 school children aged 6–13 years. During the measurement periods, 100% and 94% of the samples were obtained under conditions outside an 80% thermally acceptable comfort range in winter and summer, respectively. The analysis using receiver operating characteristics suggested that the students had the least sensitivity to the temperature variation for all scales of the thermal sensation vote (TSV). Approximately 95.1% of students were “very satisfied”, “satisfied”, or “slightly satisfied” with the thermal conditions under the condition of “extreme caution” or “danger” of heat risk. In contrast, adaptive thermal behaviors, such as adjusting clothing insulation ensembles, opening or closing classroom windows and doors, and utilizing ceiling fans, were found to be the most affordable options for optimizing indoor thermal comfort. Children’s reports of thermal sensations and thermal satisfaction did not correspond to the actual physical environment. This draws attention to the adequacy of applying widely used methods of TSV-based identification of the thermal comfort range in classrooms for children, especially in hot environments. The findings of this study are expected to serve as an evidence-based reference for local governments and authorities to take appropriate measures to mitigate heat risks for schoolchildren in the future.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:thermal comfort; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Indoor heat measurement data from low-income households in rural and urban South Asia - Tasgaonkar, Premsagar; Zade, Dipak; Ehsan, Sana; Gorti, Ganesh; Mamnun, Nabir; Siderius, Christian; Singh, Tanya (Scientific Data, 2022)
Rising temperatures are causing distress across the world, and for those most vulnerable, it is a silent killer. Information about indoor air temperature in residential dwellings is of interest for a range of reasons, such as health, thermal comfort and coping practices. However, there have been only few studies that measure indoor heat exposure, and contrast these to outdoor temperatures in rural-urban areas, of which none are in South Asia. We aim to close this knowledge gap with our indoor and outdoor heat measurement dataset, covering five low-income sites in South Asia. Two sites are in rural areas (Maharashtra, India), while three sites focus on urban areas (Dhaka, Delhi and Faisalabad). Data are based on 206 indoor temperature data loggers and complemented by data from five outdoor automated weather stations. The data-set can be used to examine temperature and humidity variation in low-socioeconomic status households in rural and urban areas and to better understand factors aggravating heat stress. This is important to plan and implement actions for combating heat stress.
Keywords: C:India; Environmental impact; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:indoor heat measurement data; oa:sdg:1 No poverty; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Indoor heat measurement data from low-income households in rural and urban South Asia - Tasgaonkar, Premsagar; Zade, Dipak; Ehsan, Sana; Gorti, Ganesh; Mamnun, Nabir; Siderius, Christian; Singh, Tanya (Scientific Data, 2022)
Rising temperatures are causing distress across the world, and for those most vulnerable, it is a silent killer. Information about indoor air temperature in residential dwellings is of interest for a range of reasons, such as health, thermal comfort and coping practices. However, there have been only few studies that measure indoor heat exposure, and contrast these to outdoor temperatures in rural-urban areas, of which none are in South Asia. We aim to close this knowledge gap with our indoor and outdoor heat measurement dataset, covering five low-income sites in South Asia. Two sites are in rural areas (Maharashtra, India), while three sites focus on urban areas (Dhaka, Delhi and Faisalabad). Data are based on 206 indoor temperature data loggers and complemented by data from five outdoor automated weather stations. The data-set can be used to examine temperature and humidity variation in low-socioeconomic status households in rural and urban areas and to better understand factors aggravating heat stress. This is important to plan and implement actions for combating heat stress.
Keywords: C:India; Environmental impact; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; evidence_review; oa:keyword:indoor heat measurement data; oa:sdg:1 No poverty; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Should we paint all classroom roofs white to improve learning in Tanzania? - EdTech Hub, EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: C:Tanzania; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Should we paint all classroom roofs white to improve learning in Tanzania? - EdTech Hub, EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: evidence_review

Teachers' Perceptions About Climate Change: A Comparative Study of Public and Private Schools and Colleges in Bangladesh - Ahmed, Mahfuzuddin; Ahmed, Khandaker Jafor; Chowdhury, Mohammed Thanvir Ahmed; Haq, Shah Md Atiqul (Frontiers in climate, 2022)
This study examines school and college teachers' perceptions about climate change, taking into account academic backgrounds and experiences with the impacts of climate change. The study included 95 teachers from three schools and colleges (two private and one public) in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh. The results show that most teachers have heard about climate change and understand what it means. Most also perceive that temperatures in Bangladesh are rising or fluctuating and that rainfall is falling or fluctuating. The chi-squared test shows that teachers' perceptions about climate change depend on whether their educational institution is private or public and whether they believe their home locality is at risk of extreme weather events (EWE). Binary and multinomial logistic regressions were used to specifically examine the impact of teachers' academic backgrounds and their previous experiences with extreme weather events on their perceptions about climate change. The results of the binary logistic regression show that educational institution type and the teaching levels (SSC: Secondary School Certificate or HSC: Higher Secondary School Certificate; or both levels) in which the teacher teaches are two significant predictors of teachers' perceptions about temperature change. The multinomial logistic regression analysis of perceptions about changes in precipitation shows that there is a statistically significant effect for factors including type of educational institution, bachelor-level study area, hometown vulnerable to EWEs, and environmental or climate-change-related courses taken.
Keywords: C:Bangladesh; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11488 Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Climate change and Australian general practice vocational education: a cross-sectional study - Wild, Katherine; Tapley, Amanda; Fielding, Alison; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Ball, Jean; Horton, Graeme; Blashki, Grant; Davey, Andrew; Driel, Mieke van; Turner, Alexandria; FitzGerald, Kristen; Spike, Neil; et al. (Family Practice, 2022)
Climate change is a rapidly progressing threat to global health and well-being. For general practitioners (GPs) currently in training, the effects of climate change on public health will shape their future professional practice We aimed to establish the prevalence and associations of Australian GP registrars' (trainees') perceptions of climate change as it relates to public health, education, and workplaces.A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study of GP registrars of three Australian training organizations. The questionnaire assessed attitudes regarding adverse health effects of climate change (over the next 10-20 years), and agreement with statements on (i) integrating health impacts of climate change into GP vocational training, and (ii) GPs' role in making general practices environmentally sustainable.Of 879 registrars who participated (response rate 91%), 50.4% (95% CI 46.8%, 54.0%) perceived a large or very large future health effect of climate change on their patients, and 61.8% (95% CI 58.6%, 65.0%) agreed that climate health impacts should be integrated within their education programme. 77.8% (95% CI 74.9%, 80.4%) agreed that GPs should have a leadership role in their practices' environmental sustainability. Multivariable associations of these attitudes included female gender, training region, and (for the latter two outcomes) perceptions of future impact of climate change on patient health.GP registrars are motivated to receive climate health education and engage in environmentally sustainable practice. This may primarily reflect concern for future practice and patient care.
Keywords: C:Australia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:vocational education; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; oa:topic:T12947 Salutogenesis and Sense of Coherence in Health; oa:topic:T13555 Strategies to Reduce Low-Value Health Care Services; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Climate change and Australian general practice vocational education: a cross-sectional study - Wild, Katherine; Tapley, Amanda; Fielding, Alison; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Ball, Jean; Horton, Graeme; Blashki, Grant; Davey, Andrew; Driel, Mieke van; Turner, Alexandria; FitzGerald, Kristen; Spike, Neil; et al. (Family Practice, 2022)
Climate change is a rapidly progressing threat to global health and well-being. For general practitioners (GPs) currently in training, the effects of climate change on public health will shape their future professional practice We aimed to establish the prevalence and associations of Australian GP registrars' (trainees') perceptions of climate change as it relates to public health, education, and workplaces.A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study of GP registrars of three Australian training organizations. The questionnaire assessed attitudes regarding adverse health effects of climate change (over the next 10-20 years), and agreement with statements on (i) integrating health impacts of climate change into GP vocational training, and (ii) GPs' role in making general practices environmentally sustainable.Of 879 registrars who participated (response rate 91%), 50.4% (95% CI 46.8%, 54.0%) perceived a large or very large future health effect of climate change on their patients, and 61.8% (95% CI 58.6%, 65.0%) agreed that climate health impacts should be integrated within their education programme. 77.8% (95% CI 74.9%, 80.4%) agreed that GPs should have a leadership role in their practices' environmental sustainability. Multivariable associations of these attitudes included female gender, training region, and (for the latter two outcomes) perceptions of future impact of climate change on patient health.GP registrars are motivated to receive climate health education and engage in environmentally sustainable practice. This may primarily reflect concern for future practice and patient care.
Keywords: C:Australia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:vocational education; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; oa:topic:T12947 Salutogenesis and Sense of Coherence in Health; oa:topic:T13555 Strategies to Reduce Low-Value Health Care Services; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Modeling the impact of indoor relative humidity on the airborne transmission of several respiratory viruses risk using a modified Wells-Riley model - Aganovic, Amar; Bi, Yang; Bi, Yang; Cao, Guangyu; Kurnitski, Jarek; Wargocki, Pawel (CLIMA 2022 conference, 2022)
There is good evidence supporting the airborne transmission of many respiratory viruses (measles, influenza A, human rhinovirus and the novel SARS-CoV-2). Relative humidity (RH) is an important factor in understanding airborne transmission as it may impact both airborne survival, inactivation by biological decay, and the gravitational settling of the virusladen droplets. This study aimed to estimate and compare the impact of indoor relative humidity on the airborne infection risk caused by these viruses using a novel modified version of the Wells-Riley model. To gain insights into the mechanisms by which relative humidity might impact airborne transmission infection risk, we modeled the size distribution and dynamics of airborne viruses emitted from a speaking person in a typical residential setting over a relative humidity (RH) range of 20–80% at a temperature of 20-21 °C. Besides the size transformation of virus-containing droplets due to evaporation and then removal by gravitational settling, the modified model also considers the removal mechanism by ventilation. The direction and magnitude of RH impact depended on the respiratory virus. Measles showed a highly significant RH impact that was as strong as the ventilation impact, as the infection risk was roughly the same at RH of 13.5 % and 6 ACH compared to a higher RH of 70 % and 0.5 ACH. For other viruses, ventilation dominated over RH. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, a very high RH of 83.5% was needed to reduce the infection risk. For rhinovirus, however, the high RH of 80% increased the infection risk. Within the acceptable range of RH of 20-50% indoors, our modeling showed that RH had practically no impact for SARS-CoV-2 and rhinovirus, while the upper RH significantly reduced the infection risk of influenza A at the lowest ventilation rate of 0.5 ACH. This relative impact of RH on infection risk became very weak at higher ventilation rates of 2-6 ACH independently of the virus types (except measles). In conclusion, we showed that in wellventilated rooms, RH range of 20-50% did not affect the airborne risk of influenza A, SARSCoV-2, and rhinovirus.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Development of the TAIL rating scheme for indoor environmental quality in schools - Tran, Minh-Tien; Wei, Wenjuan; Dassonville, Claire; Mandin, Corinne; Wargocki, Pawel; Hequet, Valérie (CLIMA 2022 conference, 2022)
The TAIL rating scheme was developed to assess indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in offices and hotels undergoing deep renovation and was recently extended by the PredicTAIL method allowing prediction of IEQ through modeling. TAIL provides the methodology for rating the quality of the thermal, acoustic, and luminous environments, the indoor air quality, and the overall quality of the indoor environment. The present work is an extension of the use of TAIL rating scheme for school classrooms to provide necessary information for effective actions and mitigation measures to improve classroom IEQ. The TAIL was invented by examining the literature and certification schemes to identify the parameters that characterize IEQ in offices and hotels; 12 parameters were selected. A similarly pragmatic approach is followed when developing the TAIL for schools. The literature published after 2010 was surveyed to identify papers presenting measurements of IEQ in classrooms in Europe, the USA, and Australia; 75 papers were identified. Besides the 12 parameters already included in TAIL, the studies also used other parameters to characterize classroom IEQ. These parameters will be evaluated for their importance for the teaching, learning, and well-being of pupils, as well as measuring complexity, among others. Based on this assessment, the relevant parameters will be selected for inclusion in the TAIL rating for schools. The selection will be assisted using the measurements from the extensive campaign organized by the Indoor Air Quality Observatory in 308 schools and 602 classrooms in France; some of these data will be used to assess the efficacy of the TAIL for schools indicator. The relationships between the newly developed TAIL for schools, the teacher’s perceptions of indoor environmental quality, and detailed building characteristics will be studied.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:Australia; C:France; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2

Effects of airing behaviours on bedroom air pollutants during sleep - Liao, Chenxi; Fan, Xiaojun; Petrova Bivolarova, Mariya; Mainka, Anna; Sekhar, Chandra; Laverge, Jelle; Lan, Li; Akimoto, Mizuho; Wargocki, Pawel (CLIMA 2022 conference, 2022)
Higher ventilation rates were verified to have a positive impact on indoor air quality and therefore benefit sleep quality. However, how does ventilation influence bedroom air quality if the outdoor air quality is poor? Whilst ventilation helps to reduce indoor pollution it inadvertently brings outdoor pollution indoors, such as NO2, which is from vehicular emission. In this study, we collected the info of window and door status during sleep and measured carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) among 38 bedrooms while occupants were sleeping during nights. Meanwhile, the air change rate (ACR) was calculated. The experiments were conducted in the heating season (September to December 2020) in the capital region of Denmark. The median values were 981.8 ppm (mean CO2 level during sleep), 0.6 h-1 (ACR), 3.4 µg·m−3 (NO2), 166.2 µg·m−3 (VOCs), 11.0 µg·m-3 (PM10) and 2.8 µg·m-3 (PM2.5). CO2 levels were positively correlated with VOCs levels, whereas negatively correlated with NO2 levels in bedrooms. ACR was also negatively correlated with VOCs. CO2 levels were significantly higher whereas NO2 levels were lower with both window and door closed compared to them with either window or door open. With higher ventilation rates, while occupants would be less exposed to indoor pollution of VOCs, they would be increasingly exposed to NO2. Future studies of bedroom ventilation and sleep quality should consider outdoor air quality.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:Denmark; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Quality of life and acoustic comfort in educational environments of curitiba, Brazil - Levandoski, Gustavo; Zannin, Paulo Henrique Trombetta (Journal of Voice, 2022)
Background It is believed that poor classroom acoustics leads to lower levels of student learning and exposes teachers vocal folds to greater physical wear and tear. Objective This study sought to compare the quality of life by World Health Organization (whoqol-bref) questionnaire of 61 teachers working at schools with different acoustic conditions. Methods This paper reports on a descriptive exploratory study aimed at ascertaining the following: (1) outdoor sound pressure levels in the immediate surroundings of two primary schools; (2) background noise levels inside classrooms; (3) reverberation times in classrooms; (4) the teacher's perception of noise in the work environment; (5) the teacher's vocal intensity in the classroom; and (6) the teacher's perceived quality of life. Results It was found that the quality of life of teachers, as well as the major causes of acoustic discomfort, do not stem from a source outside the classroom, halls, and physical education classes. Instead, they originate inside the classroom and are caused by students during school hours; the teachers’ vocal intensity exceeds the limits of tolerability both in schools that provide acoustic comfort and in those that do not. Conclusions The basic conditions required to ensure the health of the participants in this study during their workday were found to be unsatisfactory.
Keywords: C:Brazil; Quality of life; Reverberation time; Sound pressure levels; Teachers; Vocal intensity; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:acoustic comfort; oa:sdg:1 No poverty; oa:topic:T10283 Impact of Hearing Loss on Cognitive Function; oa:topic:T11692 Effects of Noise Pollution on Health and Well-being; oa:topic:T11824 Global Burden of Child Injury Prevention; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Building energy prediction using artificial neural networks: A literature survey - Lu, Chujie; Li, Sihui; Lu, Zhengjun (Energy and Buildings, 2022)
Building Energy prediction has emerged as an active research area due to its potential in improving energy efficiency in building energy management systems. Essentially, building energy prediction belongs to the time series forecasting or regression problem, and data-driven methods have drawn more attention recently due to their powerful ability to model complex relationships without expert knowledge. Among those methods, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be one of the most suitable and potential approaches with the rapid development of deep learning. This survey focuses on the studies using ANNs for building energy prediction and provides a bibliometric analysis by selecting 324 related publications in the recent five years. This survey is the first review article to summarize the details and applications of twelve ANN architectures in building energy prediction. Moreover, we discuss three open issues and main challenges in building energy prediction using ANNs regarding choosing ANN architecture, improving prediction performance, and dealing with the lack of building energy data. This survey aims at giving researchers a comprehensive introduction to ANNs for building energy prediction and investigating the future research directions when they attempt to implement ANNs to predict building energy demand or consumption.
Keywords: Artificial neural networks; Building energy prediction; Deep learning; Smart buildings; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:energy prediction; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11052 Electricity Price and Load Forecasting Methods; oa:topic:T11344 Traffic Flow Prediction and Forecasting; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Occupancy behaviour and patterns: Impact on energy consumption of high-rise households in southeast China - Zhang, Wuxia; Calautit, John Kaiser (Smart Energy, 2022)
With the rapid urbanization in China, energy consumption and corresponding carbon emissions in residential buildings are growing. Because occupant behaviour plays a significant role in building energy performance and occupant comfort, understanding the crucial links between occupant lifestyles and energy use is the key. Most studies on the relationship between occupancy behaviour and energy usage have been conducted in public or commercial buildings. Because data is difficult to obtain and key information about existing houses is required, research on high rise residential buildings is limited. To acquire information on thermal satisfaction, residential equipment ownership and usage habits and attitude to smart meters, this paper conducted a comprehensive survey of 112 metropolitan families living in a typical booming city. A case study high-rise residential building is modelled in a building energy simulation tool. The result is compared with the actual energy bill acquired from occupants or smart meters to better understand the energy usage in this area. The results showed that a large variation in energy use could exist in different households, which is influenced by several factors such as occupancy patterns and habits, as observed in the survey. At the same time, it shows the challenge of predicting the energy use of such a building with varying internal heat gains, set points and window opening behaviours across the different households.
Keywords: C:China; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:energy consumption; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11692 Effects of Noise Pollution on Health and Well-being; oa:topic:T11963 Impact of Nighttime Light Data on Various Fields; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Integrating Climate Change and Smart Agriculture Contents into Nigerian School Curriculum - Ahmed, Abdullahi Hussein; Ibrahim, Ochapa; Agunbiade, Mahmud Wasilah (Indonesian Journal of Curriculum and Educational Technology Studies, 2022)
The importance of the agricultural sector to the Nigerian economy is highly invaluable, although, it is highly responsive and vulnerable to climate change. Climate change has caused decline and volatility in agricultural production, thereby exacerbating food insecurity and hunger in countries such as Nigeria. Most of the Nigerian farmers are rainfed and conservative towards technological change, this calls for the need to develop curriculum contents on smart agriculture for youth who will steer agricultural activities in the nearest future. This study adopts Stufflebeam’s (Content-Input-Process-Product) curriculum content creation process to develop content on climate change and smart agriculture for incorporation into the senior school agricultural science curriculum in Nigeria. The contents were developed using the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations outlined climate-smart agricultural practices as suggested in themes 1 and 2 of the curriculum
Abstrak
Sektor pertanian sangat penting bagi perekonomian Nigeria, meskipun sangat responsif dan rentan terhadap perubahan iklim. Perubahan iklim telah menyebabkan penurunan dan ketidakstabilan dalam produksi pertanian, sehingga memperburuk kerawanan pangan dan kelaparan di negara-negara seperti Nigeria. Sebagian besar petani Nigeria menggarap pertanian tadah hujan dan konservatif terhadap perubahan teknologi. Kondisi tersebut meniscayakan perlunya mengembangkan konten kurikulum pertanian cerdas (smart agriculture content) untuk pemuda yang akan mengarahkan kegiatan pertanian dalam waktu terdekat. Studi ini mengadopsi model Stufflebeam (Content-Input-Process-Product) dalam proses pembuatan konten kurikulum untuk mengembangkan materi tentang perubahan iklim dan pertanian cerdas untuk dimasukkan dalam kurikulum ilmu pertanian sekolah menengah di Nigeria. Konten dikembangkan mengacu pada Organisasi Pangan dan Pertanian Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa yang menguraikan praktik pertanian cerdas iklim sebagai tema 1 dan 2 yang disarankan dari kurikulum
Keywords: C:Nigeria; C:Peru; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:nigerian school curriculum; oa:keyword:smart agriculture; oa:keyword:smart agriculture contents; oa:topic:T12904 Agricultural Education and School Gardening Research; oa:topic:T13930 Global Trends in Education and Technology; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Integrating Climate Change and Smart Agriculture Contents into Nigerian School Curriculum - Ahmed, Abdullahi Hussein; Ibrahim, Ochapa; Agunbiade, Mahmud Wasilah (Indonesian Journal of Curriculum and Educational Technology Studies, 2022)
The importance of the agricultural sector to the Nigerian economy is highly invaluable, although, it is highly responsive and vulnerable to climate change. Climate change has caused decline and volatility in agricultural production, thereby exacerbating food insecurity and hunger in countries such as Nigeria. Most of the Nigerian farmers are rainfed and conservative towards technological change, this calls for the need to develop curriculum contents on smart agriculture for youth who will steer agricultural activities in the nearest future. This study adopts Stufflebeam’s (Content-Input-Process-Product) curriculum content creation process to develop content on climate change and smart agriculture for incorporation into the senior school agricultural science curriculum in Nigeria. The contents were developed using the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations outlined climate-smart agricultural practices as suggested in themes 1 and 2 of the curriculum
Abstrak
Sektor pertanian sangat penting bagi perekonomian Nigeria, meskipun sangat responsif dan rentan terhadap perubahan iklim. Perubahan iklim telah menyebabkan penurunan dan ketidakstabilan dalam produksi pertanian, sehingga memperburuk kerawanan pangan dan kelaparan di negara-negara seperti Nigeria. Sebagian besar petani Nigeria menggarap pertanian tadah hujan dan konservatif terhadap perubahan teknologi. Kondisi tersebut meniscayakan perlunya mengembangkan konten kurikulum pertanian cerdas (smart agriculture content) untuk pemuda yang akan mengarahkan kegiatan pertanian dalam waktu terdekat. Studi ini mengadopsi model Stufflebeam (Content-Input-Process-Product) dalam proses pembuatan konten kurikulum untuk mengembangkan materi tentang perubahan iklim dan pertanian cerdas untuk dimasukkan dalam kurikulum ilmu pertanian sekolah menengah di Nigeria. Konten dikembangkan mengacu pada Organisasi Pangan dan Pertanian Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa yang menguraikan praktik pertanian cerdas iklim sebagai tema 1 dan 2 yang disarankan dari kurikulum
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:nigerian school curriculum; oa:keyword:smart agriculture; oa:keyword:smart agriculture contents; oa:topic:T12904 Agricultural Education and School Gardening Research; oa:topic:T13930 Global Trends in Education and Technology; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Effects of Ceiling Fans on the Thermal Comfort of Students in Learning Environments of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria - Ali, Sani Muhammad; D. Martinson, Brett; Al-Maiyah, Sura (BIMA JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (2536-6041), 2022)
It is well known that thermal comfort is influenced by major physical parameters; air and radiant temperatures, humidity, and air speed in combination with personal attributes; clothing insulation and activity level. Although temperature is conventionally considered in adaptive thermal comfort model, as the most important physical parameter where cooling is involved, moderate air speed can enhance thermal comfort during higher temperatures. Through convective and evaporative cooling, ceiling fans cool people by causing sweat from the occupant’s body to evaporate. The northern part of Nigeria, being in the tropics, is known for higher temperature regimes for most part of the year. The use of air conditioning to achieve thermal comfort is not sustainable, for economic reasons and the lack of stable electrical energy. Therefore, a majority of naturally ventilated spaces could be kept thermally comfortable with the control of ceiling fans and operable windows. As part of a research work on learning environments in a Northern Nigerian university, this study reports on the effects of ceiling fans on the thermal comfort perception of the students in two lecture theatres. Air speed, air and radiant temperatures, relative humidity were measured, concurrently comfort surveys were undertaken in the spaces, from which activity levels and clothing insulations were obtained. Adaptive thermal comfort standards, ASHRAE 55 and EN 15251, state that thermal comfort can be maintained as air temperature rises with the use of ceiling fans operating at moderate speed. The results show that reductions of 31% and 22% in overheating from the two lecture theatres were realised, as a result of ceiling fans usage, measured by the degree hour’s exceedance indicator. These results were further corroborated by the students’ acceptance of thermal conditions of the lecture theatres at temperatures above Tmax.

Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation - Ajaps, Sandra; Forh Mbah, Marcellus (Environmental Education Research, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:critical pedagogy; oa:keyword:environmental conservation; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12997 Experiential Education and Adventure Therapy; oa:topic:T14007 Place-Based Education in Rural Communities; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Design and implementation of 3-D printed radiation shields for environmental sensors - Botero-Valencia, J.S.; Mejia-Herrera, M; Pearce, J.M.; Botero-Valencia, J. S.; Mejia-Herrera, M.; Pearce, Joshua M. (HardwareX, 2022)
Keywords: 3-D printing; Additive manufacturing; Climatic variables; Environmental monitoring; Environmental sensing; Environmental variables; Internet of Things (IoT); Open hardware; Radiation shield; Sensing; Smart agriculture; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; low cost; oa:keyword:radiation shields; oa:topic:T10783 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Protecting human health in a time of climate change: how Cochrane should respond - Thomson, Denise; Cumpston, Miranda; Delgado-Figueroa, Netzahualpilli; Ebi, Kristie L.; Haddaway, Neal R.; Heijden, Maarten van der; Heyn, Patricia; Lokotola, Christian L.; Meerpohl, Joerg J; Metzendorf, Maria‐Inti; Parker, Eva Rawlings; Phalkey, Revati; et al. (The Cochrane library, 2022)
Image credit: Axel Fassio / CIFOR There is an urgent need to respond to climate change's multiple intersecting impacts on human health. Health journals around the world recently published a joint call for immediate action by governments and health professionals.[1] Researchers and methodologists also have an important contribution to make, by producing and synthesizing evidence relevant to climate‐health impacts. In particular, we argue that Cochrane needs to mobilize its expertise in high‐quality evidence syntheses to prioritize the production of reviews needed by global decision makers. This will involve working closely with stakeholders to ensure that both topics and methods are aligned to the task of strengthening health resilience to oncoming climate shocks. Health‐system decision makers need to be ready to monitor, anticipate, manage and adapt to a wide range of climate‐related health risks.[2] The increasing frequency, intensity and duration of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires, have extensive effects on both physical and mental health.[3, 4, 5] Other impacts include alterations to patterns of food‐, water‐ and vector‐borne diseases; changes to food production that increase risks of malnutrition; emergence of multi‐drug‐resistant infectious diseases and acceleration of drug resistance in existing infectious diseases; breakdown of ecosystem services; and the mental health impacts of climate‐related disasters and disruptions to traditional ways of life.[6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] Climate‐health issues are multi‐system problems, with complex outcomes stemming from the interaction of hazards, exposures, pre‐existing vulnerabilities, and capacity.[13, 14] Targeted responses must be focused on improving methods for risk quantification, especially cascading and overlapping exposures, and strengthening climate resilience and environmental sustainability of health systems. This can be accomplished by understanding the magnitude and pattern of climate‐related health risks, at various spatio‐temporal scales; identifying adaptation strategies that will ameliorate impacts;[2, 15] and establishing mitigation strategies that will reduce the environmental impacts of health systems themselves.[16, 17] Although the climate‐health research base is growing rapidly, the current literature is dominated by impact studies, with relatively few studies focusing on human response to climate change, climate adaptation and climate mitigation for human health.[18, 19] Synthesizing this research, to identify what works, why, for whom and in what circumstances, will be vital for guiding policy and practice decisions.[20, 21] Syntheses can also help identify what doesn't work and the associated harms of interventions that may also provide some benefits, thereby attenuating the risks of unintended consequences and locking in effects of maladaptation; increasing efficiency of healthcare spending; and helping to identify gaps in current knowledge.[22] This is no small challenge. The body of relevant evidence – both published research and grey literature – is extensive and multidisciplinary, transcending the traditional boundaries of health research.[20] Cochrane has already identified climate change as a key issue in its strategic plans in the coming years. It is now time to translate that high‐level awareness into action. Internally, it is our responsibility to maintain an understanding of the organization's carbon footprint and to develop a plan to reach net zero.[23] It must also be an organizational priority to contribute research efforts towards understanding the health effects of adaptation and climate mitigation interventions. Specifically, Cochrane can help meet decision makers’ needs in the following ways: supporting the identification and prioritization of important and unaddressed research questions for evidence syntheses; producing, in conjunction with stakeholders, new living reviews that address key questions; evaluating new methods and supporting the development and implementation of these where appropriate; supporting the engagement of diverse and vulnerable communities at all levels; working with other organizations to improve the efficiency of knowledge production and usage, and reducing research waste.[24] To accomplish these goals, some foundational work must occur. In order to produce the actionable, policy‐relevant syntheses that decision makers will need, the health evidence synthesis community must broaden its definition of evidence to include mechanistic understanding, theory, data, projections of how risks could evolve over spatial and temporal scales, and expert judgement.[20] The nature of climate change as a multi‐disciplinary topic with hard‐to‐define system boundaries means that search strategies will yield very large numbers of hits with low precision, making the tasks of screening, data extraction and analysis highly resource‐intensive. Technologies like machine learning and linked evidence ecosystems could be a vital means of dealing with these broader evidence bases.[19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25] For effective syntheses, we need to improve existing methods, while repurposing some from other fields and sometimes developing new ones. Improving evidence synthesis for public health interventions, such as considering effectiveness from a population perspective and incorporating non‐randomized, economic and qualitative evidence, as well as equity considerations, can be relevant to work on complex climate‐health topics.[26, 27, 28] This includes innovation of methods to incorporate modelling studies into synthesis where direct evidence is not available.[29] As well, review authors should be encouraged to conduct analyses that incorporate not just changing exposures, but also changing contexts, such as demographics, economic growth, urbanization, etc, and consequently author teams will need to encompass the range of disciplines that bring the competency to do this kind of work.[14, 15] Those producing health‐related evidence syntheses have much to learn from other synthesis traditions, such as those in the environmental science community. This will help to avoid duplication and waste; to explore questions that intersect across health, the environment and other sectors of policy; and to learn from their work in novel methods not yet considered in Cochrane Reviews, such as synthesis across multiple lines and types of evidence relevant to the health impacts of environmental risks and exposure.[20, 30] It will be important to establish and strengthen relationships with other climate‐orientated evidence synthesis organizations, such as the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence and the Campbell Collaboration's Climate Solutions Coordinating Group. It is worth noting that synthesis that supports decision making can be facilitated by enhancing the research base of primary studies. Designing and implementing climate‐resilient health policies and programmes will involve evaluation of a range of potential future scenarios in a range of geographic settings.[13, 31] This work would be facilitated by researchers developing consensus guidelines around the design, conduct and reporting of climate health‐impact projections.[28] Such guidelines, particularly if incorporated into editorial standards, should support higher‐quality research, and should facilitate synthesis by leading to less heterogeneity between studies, which can increase possibilities for meta‐analysis.[28, 32] It would also be valuable to have more studies on how climate‐relevant interventions are implemented, as success of an intervention is affected by the strategies for addressing aspects of the context into which it is introduced and (ideally) sustained.[14, 33, 34, 35] Cochrane could also support decision makers by identifying existing Cochrane Reviews that address climate‐sensitive health impacts, but are not necessarily explicitly stated by authors to be relevant to climate change.[36, 37] When the COVID‐19 pandemic hit, Cochrane mobilized to produce syntheses needed for global decision making in an unprecedented and rapidly evolving health emergency. Climate change is also a health crisis, and the evidence synthesis community must respond to decision‐making needs with equivalent vigour. We must optimize, and where appropriate, repurpose methods to synthesize available evidence and speed the generation of relevant new evidence to support decision making. Throughout, ongoing engagement with stakeholders and decision makers will be important to ensure that Cochrane is focusing its resources where they are most needed. As we witness changes to the climate now, we do so knowing that the future will likely look nothing like the present. It is time for Cochrane to bring our expertise to the work of informing the decision making needed to avert or mitigate the ongoing health effects of global climate change.
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Discourses of climate change education: The case of geography textbooks for secondary and higher secondary education in South Africa and Norway - Trædal, Leif Tore; Eidsvik, Erlend; Manik, Sadhana (Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2022)
The purpose of the article, which is a comparative study, is to explore climate change discourses in South African and Norwegian geography textbooks by addressing the following questions: What policy discourses of climate change can be identified in the textbooks? How is the climate change content of geography textbooks influenced by predominant discourses in society? The authors assert that problems and solutions to climate change in textbooks are influenced by dominant discourses of climate change in society. Despite expecting to find a strong emphasis on ecological modernization and a win-win discourse in the Norwegian context, and perhaps a stronger focus on civic environmentalism and global injustice in the South African context, their findings reflected that for both countries, textbooks predominantly leaned towards belief in international agreements and green governmentality. Some emphasis was placed on ecological modernization, particularly in South Africa, while civic environmentalism and global injustice perspectives were marginal and lacked context. The overlapping nature of perspectives identified in the textbooks also demonstrated the complexity of identifying problems and solutions connected to climate change. The authors conclude that political ecology can offer a consistent didactical framework to examine the diversity of interests, perspectives and ‘stories’ about climate change at different scales.
Keywords: C:Norway; C:South Africa; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:climate change education; oa:keyword:geography textbooks; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12343 Geography Education and Spatial Thinking; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

‘It is unbelievable’: Francis Kéré becomes first black architect to win the Pritzker prize - Wainwright, Oliver; @ollywainwright (The Guardian, 2022)
Burkinabe architect takes the profession’s highest honour, having made his name with schools and medical facilities in Africa, built by local communities with minimal resources
Keywords: Africa; Architecture; Art and design; Awards and prizes; Burkina Faso; Culture; World news; _z:class:countries

Generative spaces of climate change adaptation: Focus on disability inclusion - Humalisto, Niko (2022)
Climate change increases livelihood vulnerability and exposure to risks around the globe, but these impacts are not equally distributed among different people and places.Among the disadvantaged are persons with disabilities but their inclusion in projects and planning for climate change adaptation is low.Nepal is a challenging but typical context in the global South, where persons with disabilities have limited capacities to demand their basic rights, from secure livelihoods to sanitation, to be respected.Concurrently, (localised) institutions might not have the capacity to protect their constitutional rights.Consequently, while Nepalese policy encourages disability inclusion in adaptation planning, doing so in practice faces manifold political, cultural and social barriers.This chapter examines the conditions for inclusive adaptation based on ethnographic data from development projects run by seven Nepalese NGOs.The results show that democratic governance needs to be enhanced, and that the accountability of state institutions must co-evolve with the resilient livelihood opportunities for persons with disabilities.Inclusive adaptation hinges on creating trade-offs and positive feedback loops by generating opportunities for communal participation, refining evidence for circulation, and enabling scalar linkages between stakeholders and duty-bearers.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

A critical review on occupant behaviour modelling for building performance simulation of naturally ventilated school buildings and potential changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic - Franceschini, Paula Brumer; Neves, Leticia Oliveira (2022)
Occupant behaviour (OB) is one of the main causes of the energy performance gap between buildings’ performance prediction versus reality, since, due to its uncertainty and unpredictability, it is often oversimplified in the building performance simulation (BPS). Hence, previous studies developed OB models, mainly in the residential and office contexts, in order to predict and represent human behaviour in BPS. Yet, school buildings are different from other typologies due to contextual factors (e.g., occupants’ age, different daily timetables and group rules) and are in a unique position to promote energy efficiency for tomorrow’s citizens. Assessing OB in schools can lead to an improvement of the indoor environment, especially in naturally ventilated buildings, where window operation behaviour directly impacts on the air change rates and, consequently, on the indoor air quality. This study addresses the knowledge gap on OB modelling for naturally ventilated (NV) and mixed-mode (MM) school buildings. The reviewed papers were organized in three main themes, namely (i) OB models for BPS of NV and MM buildings, (ii) OB research studies in NV and MM school buildings and (iii) potential changes on OB in school buildings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis focused on three phases of the OB modelling framework: data collection (pre-processing), model development (processing) and model implementation (post-processing). Important research gaps are identified, such as the reduced number of studies that cover the three phases of the modelling framework within the school buildings context and the need to better investigate the teachers’ behaviour and collective actions as important OB drivers in classrooms. Future research topics are also identified, such as which are the potential changes on actions’ drivers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in NV classrooms and to what extent they will be durable or ephemeral.
Keywords: Behaviour model; Building performance simulation; COVID-19; Natural ventilation; Occupant behaviour; School buildings; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Buildings’ internal heat gains prediction using artificial intelligence methods - Liang, Rui; Ding, Wangfei; Zandi, Yousef; Rahimi, Abouzar; Pourkhorshidi, Sara; Khadimallah, Mohamed Amine (Energy and Buildings, 2022)
A large part of energy consumption in homes, offices and commercial spaces is related to Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) devices. The effective parameter on the consumption of HVAC systems is internal heat gains that arise from occupants, electric equipment and lighting. In order to reduce the energy consumption of these systems, internal heat gains should be predicted accurately. Since there are few investigations performed on the prediction of internal heat gains, in this paper, three predictive models, namely multiple regression model, Levenberg–Marquardt back-propagation (LM-BP) model and similar days method based on combined weights, have been deployed. By assessing the influential factors on internal heat gains, fundamental theories, structures, equations and parameters of these models are thoroughly proposed. To examine the prediction techniques, an office building in China was considered. It was found that all the proposed models have high accuracy; however, the LM-BP neural network showed the most precision among other models with RMSE = 15.59, MAE = 10.16 and MAPE = 6.35. This model had a higher agreement with the actual internal heat gains compared to the predetermined working programs in the ASHRAE standard 90.1. The proposed models used in this study can lead to providing a theoretical base for scholars and engineers to improve the predictive control of HVAC systems, which plays an important role in enhancing thermal comfort, saving energy of residential buildings.
Keywords: Building; C:China; Internal heat gains; LM-BP neural network model; Office; Similar day model; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:internal heat gains prediction; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

A Sanitation Argument for Clean Indoor Air: Meeting a Requisite for Safe Public Spaces - Leonardi, Anthony; Mishra, Asit (Frontiers in Public Health, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

The effects of ventilation and temperature on sleep quality and next-day work performance: pilot measurements in a climate chamber - Fan, Xiaojun; Shao, Huiqi; Sakamoto, Mitsuharu; Kuga, Kazuki; Lan, Li; Wyon, David P.; Ito, Kazuhide; Bivolarova, Mariya P.; Liao, Chenxi; Wargocki, Pawel (Building and Environment, 2022)
Ten healthy young adults slept one by one in a specially designed and constructed sleep capsule located in a climate chamber at two temperatures (24 °C and 28 °C) and two ventilation rates that ensured that the resulting CO2 concentrations were 800 and 1700 ppm. Subjectively rated sleep quality was reduced at 28 °C and reduced ventilation, while sleep onset latency was longer under these conditions. Sleep efficiency was lower at 28 °C. Subjectively rated fatigue and sleepiness decreased after sleeping under all conditions but less so after sleeping at 28 °C. The subjects indicated that their work performance improved after sleeping at 24 °C but not when ventilation was reduced and the temperature increased. Both objectively measured and subjectively rated work performance was worse after sleeping in the condition with increased temperature. The subjects felt warmer at 28 °C although the thermal environment was still rated as acceptable but the air in the capsule was rated stuffier, the acceptability of the air quality decreased and the rated odour intensity increased at this condition. The wrist skin temperature was always higher at 28 °C with reduced ventilation but only during the sleep onset latency period. The subjects felt slightly warm and rated the air stuffier when ventilation was reduced. The present results, albeit from a small exploratory pilot study, show that increased temperature and reduced ventilation both have negative effects on sleep quality, which may have consequences for next-day work performance. These pilot experiment results require validation due to the low number of subjects.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; Next-day work performance; Physiological responses; Sleep quality; Temperature; Ventilation; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:sleep quality; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; oa:topic:T11373 Effects of Sleep Deprivation and Fatigue on Performance; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Analysis of various climate change parameters in India using machine learning - Wamanse, Rutvij; Patil, Tushuli (arXiv (Cornell University), 2022)
Climate change in India is one of the most alarming problems faced by our community. Due to adverse and sudden changes in climate in past few years, mankind is at threat. Various impacts of climate change include extreme heat, changing rainfall patterns, droughts, groundwater, glacier melt, sea-level rise, and many more. Machine Learning can be used to analyze and predict the graph of change using previous data and thus design a model which in the future can furthermore be used to catalyze impactful work of climate change and take steps in the direction to help India fight against the upcoming climate changes. In this paper, we have analyzed 17 climate change parameters about India. We have applied linear regression, exponential regression, and polynomial regression to the parameters and evaluated the results. Using the designed model, we will predict these parameters for the years 2025,2030, 2035. These predicted values will thus help our community to prevent and take actions against the adverse and hazardous effects on mankind. We have designed and created this model which provides accurate results regarding all 17 parameters. The predicted values will therefore help India to be well equipped against climate change. This data when made available to the people of India will help create awareness among them and will help us save our country from the haphazard effects of climate change.
Keywords: C:India; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:various climate change parameters; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T11052 Electricity Price and Load Forecasting Methods; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Climate Change, Ageing and Disability: Life Experience of Being Old, Disabled and Affected by Climate-Induced Disasters in China (2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Covid-19: An urgent call for global "vaccines-plus" action - Greenhalgh, T; Griffin, Stephen; Gurdasani, D; Hamdy, A; Katzourakis, A; McKee, M; Michie, Susan; Pagel, C; Roberts, A; Yates, K; Alwan, Nisreen; Agius, R; et al. (BMJ: British Medical Journal, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Using satellite data and deep learning to estimate educational outcomes in data-sparse environments - Runfola, D.; Stefanidis, A.; Baier, H. (Remote Sensing Letters, 2022)
The lack of systematic measurements of socioeconomic factors on a worldwide scale remains a significant challenge to our understanding of human well-being. A growing body of literature suggests that some of these measurement gaps can be filled using remote sensing, imputing human conditions on the ground based on the ways in which social groups have modified – or, not – their physical environment. In this article, we contribute to this growing body of literature by presenting a case study estimating school test scores based solely on publicly available imagery in both the Philippines (2010, 2014) and Brazil (2016). We contrast single image convolutional neural network (CNN) approaches to multisource ensembles and find predictive accuracy for individual schools across years and regions ranging from 76% to 80%. Finally, we discuss broader considerations related to the operational use of CNN-based approaches for measuring socioeconomic factors, and provide open source computer code for community use.

More Than Just Climate Change: The Search for Eco-socially Just Change Education in Canada - Blenkinsop, Sean; Ho, Yi Chien Jade (2022)
Keywords: C:Canada; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12997 Experiential Education and Adventure Therapy; oa:topic:T14007 Place-Based Education in Rural Communities; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Chapter 3 - Typical environmental challenges - Emetere, Moses Eterigho (Numerical Methods in Environmental Data Analysis, 2022)
In this chapter, various environmental conditions or parameters that have wide extensive intricacy in environmental science are considered although the parameters are not all of the parameters that exist in environmental science. This chapter is expected to introduce a concept that would lead to selected environmental cases for the suceeding chapters.
Keywords: Challenges; Conditions; Environment; Model; evidence_review

Adaptive model for thermal comfort of students in secondary schools in the tropical city of Makassar - Hamzah, Baharuddin; Mulyadi, Rosady; Ishak, Muhammad Taufik (AIP Conference Proceedings, 2022)
This research aimed to examine the thermal comfort performance of students in naturally ventilated secondary schools’ classrooms in Makassar. The analysis compared the thermal balance and the adaptive model. The study analyzed data gathered from surveys conducted at eight secondary schools and local weather stations. The data consists of the measured indoor thermal environment of 48 classrooms. The personal data, users’ perceptions, and adaptive behaviors of 1,594 students were recorded in the questionnaire sheets. The questionnaire also recorded the thermal perception of students about the thermal environments of classrooms. In terms of thermal sensation, the study found that the neutral temperature estimated by PMV was overestimated the neutral temperature developed by actual votes of students. The PMV model estimated the neutral temperature of students at 23.0 °C which was about 7 °C lower than the neutral temperature calculated using the students’ actual thermal sensation votes (30.2 °C). This was a very big discrepancy between the predicted and the actual. The adaptive thermal comfort model produces more appropriate results than the PMV model. The modified Humphrey’s model predicted more close neutral temperature to the actual one which was 29.1 °C. Students adapt to the thermal environment through several activities. This adaptation makes students remain comfortable even in the hot thermal environment.
Keywords: _C:Indonesia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:thermal comfort; oa:sdg:11 Sustainable cities and communities; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education

Including Sustainable Architectural Design in the Teaching Pedagogy: A District Adapted to the Desert Climate of the Oasis of Nafta–Tunisia - Jouini, Nour El Houda; Kharrat, Fakher; Chaabani, Mouldi; Zair, Kaouther (2022)
Nafta is an oasis located in the governorate of Tozeur in the South of Tunisia. The unique natural and built environment it offers has been degrading due to climate change, pollution, and overexploitation. Additionally, the new residential districts are unsuitable for the desert climate of the area. Not only do they fail to provide thermal comfort, especially during the heat waves, but also they contain non-eco-friendly materials such as concrete. However, we notice that the vernacular architecture respects the climate context and can serve as a reference. Teaching second-grade architecture students, we tried to include this in our pedagogy method to raise awareness about the matter. This paper presents the project of a sustainable district in Nafta conducted with the students during a workshop. The study shows that urban morphology and the building design can significantly influence the energy efficiency and the ecological footprint of the district. It also reveals that the vernacular architecture can be a reference to rebuilt contemporary eco-friendly cities.
Keywords: C:Tunisia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:sustainable architectural design; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T11371 Urban Wind Environment and Air Quality Modeling; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Disaster and Climate Change-Induced Displacement of Persons with Disabilities: A Human Rights Perspective - Kälin, Walter (2022)
Disasters and adverse effects of climate change may significantly exacerbate pre-existing vulnerabilities of persons with disabilities. This is particularly true if such persons are displaced within their country or across borders. The systematic promotion and mainstreaming of disability-inclusive and rights-based approaches to disaster risk management and climate action are crucial to mitigate these challenges. The human rights of persons with disabilities which remain applicable during disasters and the principles of non-discrimination and equality of opportunity, participation and inclusion, accessibility, and reasonable accommodation help in shaping disability-inclusive measures to prevent displacement as well as the provision of protection and assistance during displacement. Finally, including persons with disabilities in programs and projects on durable solutions and ensuring their participation in decisions aimed at ending their displacement are crucial to avoid replicating and rebuilding barriers and ensuring their full and effective participation in society.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

Adopting Indigenous Knowledge Systems to Enhance Peace Education Programs for Climate Change and Adaptation in Zimbabwe - Moyo-Nyoni, Ntombizakhe (2022)
In Zimbabwe, like many parts of the world, climate change has triggered the occurrence of conflicts, which exacerbates social, economic and political instabilities. In response to the global climate crisis, United Nations established Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13) in 2015, which advocates for taking action against climate change. The Zimbabwean government established its climate change policy in 2016, by drawing heavily on the thirteenth Sustainable Development Goal. Enshrined in SDG 13, is a call to incorporate various knowledge systems underpinned by its unique epistemology to tackle climate change. Thus, this chapter seeks to explore the use of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in adapting to climate change. The IKS will be tested in the Lusulu ward, Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe (“Lusulu”). Primary data was sourced from focus group discussions and individual interviews. Findings revealed that the Lusulu community utilizes indigenous practices to safeguard their environment, such as the conservation of trees and the use of natural strategies such as crop rotation and use of organic matter to replenish the land. Furthermore, with regards to relationships damaged by climate changes, the indigenes apply non-violent techniques such as negotiations, mediations and consultations, which hinge on indigenous systems. The main goal of this chapter is to trigger conversations among policymakers, peace educators and civic society organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa, on the role which IKS can play in the handling of conflicts linked to climate change and, consequently, the proper facilitation of SDG 13.
Keywords: C:Zimbabwe; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:indigenous knowledge; oa:keyword:indigenous knowledge systems; oa:keyword:peace education programs; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10439 Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture; oa:topic:T12467 Rangeland Degradation and Pastoral Livelihoods; oa:topic:T12635 Struggle for National Identity in Zimbabwean History; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Towards an Integrated Approach to Climate Change Education in Tanzania: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems - Mugabe, Paschal Arsein; Mbah, Marcellus; Apollo, Abigael; Mbah, Marcellus F. (Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development, 2022)
There have been many efforts globally toward fighting climate change; including international agreements, conferences, research, policies, forums, etc. In addition to these efforts, climate change education has recently emerged as an essential capacity-building tool to curb the climate crisis. However, development practitioners from the Global South have cited limitations with climate change education due to the dominance of Eurocentric epistemologies over indigenous knowledge (IK) approaches. This study therefore advocates for the integration of indigenous knowledge into climate change education in Tanzania for achieving a sustainable environment. Seventy documents, including peer-reviewed papers, reports from corporate institutions, policy briefs, proceedings and other grey literature were reviewed. We establish that IK systems are not integrated into CCE in Tanzania. However, we find opportunities for integration due to the evidence of the existing CCE efforts and potential complementary indigenous practices. By identifying, documenting, and validating indigenous knowledge and merging this knowledge with scientific insights, the fostering of an integrated approach to combat the enduring effects of climate change can be evidenced.
Keywords: C:Tanzania; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:climate change education; oa:keyword:indigenous knowledge systems; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12656 Impact of Climate Change on Human Migration; oa:topic:T13839 Volunteer Tourism and Global Development Impacts; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Climate change and the right to health of people with disabilities - Stein, Penelope J. S.; Stein, Michael Ashley (The Lancet Global Health, 2022)
Climate change is directly and disproportionately threatening the right to health of people with disabilities due to higher ambient temperatures, elevated air pollutants, and increasing exposure to extreme weather events that include heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. Strikingly, the global mortality rate of people with disabilities in natural disasters is up to four times higher than people without disabilities due to a scarcity of inclusive planning, accessible information, early warning systems, transportation, and discriminatory attitudes within institutions and among individuals.1Izutsu T Disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and humanitarian action: an urgent global imperative.https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/Final-Disability-inclusive-disaster.pdfDate: Nov 29, 2019Date accessed: November 19, 2021Google Scholar Disasters also disrupt access to health-care services, medications, oxygen, haemodialysis, personal care assistance, and medical devices. Heat extremes are linked with elevated emergency room visits, hospital admittance, and mortality for individuals with mental health, cardiorespiratory, and other disabilities; pre-existing psychosocial disabilities triples the risk of death during heatwaves.2Bouchama A Dehbi M Mohamed G Matthies F Shoukri M Menne B Prognostic factors in heatwave-related deaths: a meta-analysis.Arch Intern Med. 2007; 167: 2170-2176Crossref PubMed Scopus (311) Google Scholar High ambient temperatures also negatively affect the health of individuals whose disabilities are affected by temperature sensitivity or thermoregulation, including multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries. Likewise, numerous medications, including diuretics and antidepressants, can affect the thermoregulation of people with mental and physical disabilities.3Ebi KL Capon A Berry P et al.Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks.Lancet. 2021; 398: 698-708Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (81) Google Scholar More broadly, climate change increases the risk of undernutrition, water insecurity, stress-related psychiatric disorders, and alters the geographical distribution of infectious diseases.Climate change exacerbates existing inequalities with indirect disproportionate effects on people with disabilities due to their lack of access to health-care services and increased exposure to social determinants of health such as poverty, and lack of access to education, employment, or adequate housing. Often individuals with disabilities experience intersecting forms of multiple discrimination from belonging to specific groups including women, Indigenous people, children, racial minorities, and older people. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights and intensifies these inequalities.4Shakespeare T Ndagire F Seketi QE Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic.Lancet. 2021; 397: 1331-1333Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (44) Google Scholar Ironically, those with disabilities most at risk from climate change have contributed the least to greenhouse gases, including the 800 million people with disabilities living in low-income countries.5UN Department of Economic and Social AffairsFactsheet on persons with disabilities.https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/resources/factsheet-on-persons-with-disabilities.htmlDate accessed: November 25, 2021Google Scholar Accordingly, climate vulnerability and the right to health of people with disabilities is being increasingly acknowledged, including within the Paris Agreement.The threat of climate change to people with disabilities' right to health urgently necessitates that governments reduce greenhouse gas emissions. States failing to comply with the Paris Agreement obligations or excluding disability from climate change mitigation and adaption efforts, are violating human rights obligations, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.6Stein MA Stein PJ Weiss D Lang R Health care and the UN Disability Rights Convention.Lancet. 2009; 374: 1796-1798Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (34) Google Scholar In 2021, an individual with temperature-dependent multiple sclerosis, Uhthoff's syndrome, filed a law suit against the Austrian government alleging that a failure to set effective climate protection measures violated his human rights.7Mex M v Austria. European Court on Human Rights; Strasbourg, France; March 25, 2021.Google ScholarClimate change adaptation provides a global opportunity to increase health equality for people with disabilities as required by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, using the human rights principles of participation, inclusion, empowerment, non-discrimination, and accessibility. Attaining climate resilient health equality will require empowering people with disabilities and their organisations to represent their needs and identify solutions in equitable participatory planning and implementation processes, verified by disability indicators and intersectional analyses. Governments should include disability organisations as stakeholders to ensure disability-inclusive health adaption planning. Disability indicators and disaggregated data are crucial for the development of disability-inclusive policies.8The Lancet Global HealthDisability: measurement matters.Lancet Glob Health. 2021; 9e1028Summary Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (3) Google Scholar Health-care facilities must be accessible, including post-disaster; laudably, the World Bank has committed to inclusive post-disaster reconstruction. A UN Framework Convention on Climate Change disability constituency and disability action plan, both absent from COP26, would facilitate disability leadership in climate change action.Health-care professionals, throughout their education, should receive training on the effects of climate change on the health of individuals with disabilities and disability cultural competency. Clinical trials inclusive of people with disabilities are required to determine how medications affect body temperature regulation at high temperatures. Enabling people with disabilities to enter health-care professions and collaborate in development and disaster risk reduction can provide untapped knowledge on disability discrimination and adaptation. Future research is crucially needed on the effect of climate change mitigation and adaption measures, and targeted disability-inclusive approaches, on the health of people with disabilities—particularly in low-income and middle-income countries—to foster best practices for enhancing climate resilience. Climate change is directly and disproportionately threatening the right to health of people with disabilities due to higher ambient temperatures, elevated air pollutants, and increasing exposure to extreme weather events that include heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. Strikingly, the global mortality rate of people with disabilities in natural disasters is up to four times higher than people without disabilities due to a scarcity of inclusive planning, accessible information, early warning systems, transportation, and discriminatory attitudes within institutions and among individuals.1Izutsu T Disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and humanitarian action: an urgent global imperative.https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2020/03/Final-Disability-inclusive-disaster.pdfDate: Nov 29, 2019Date accessed: November 19, 2021Google Scholar Disasters also disrupt access to health-care services, medications, oxygen, haemodialysis, personal care assistance, and medical devices. Heat extremes are linked with elevated emergency room visits, hospital admittance, and mortality for individuals with mental health, cardiorespiratory, and other disabilities; pre-existing psychosocial disabilities triples the risk of death during heatwaves.2Bouchama A Dehbi M Mohamed G Matthies F Shoukri M Menne B Prognostic factors in heatwave-related deaths: a meta-analysis.Arch Intern Med. 2007; 167: 2170-2176Crossref PubMed Scopus (311) Google Scholar High ambient temperatures also negatively affect the health of individuals whose disabilities are affected by temperature sensitivity or thermoregulation, including multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries. Likewise, numerous medications, including diuretics and antidepressants, can affect the thermoregulation of people with mental and physical disabilities.3Ebi KL Capon A Berry P et al.Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks.Lancet. 2021; 398: 698-708Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (81) Google Scholar More broadly, climate change increases the risk of undernutrition, water insecurity, stress-related psychiatric disorders, and alters the geographical distribution of infectious diseases. Climate change exacerbates existing inequalities with indirect disproportionate effects on people with disabilities due to their lack of access to health-care services and increased exposure to social determinants of health such as poverty, and lack of access to education, employment, or adequate housing. Often individuals with disabilities experience intersecting forms of multiple discrimination from belonging to specific groups including women, Indigenous people, children, racial minorities, and older people. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights and intensifies these inequalities.4Shakespeare T Ndagire F Seketi QE Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic.Lancet. 2021; 397: 1331-1333Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (44) Google Scholar Ironically, those with disabilities most at risk from climate change have contributed the least to greenhouse gases, including the 800 million people with disabilities living in low-income countries.5UN Department of Economic and Social AffairsFactsheet on persons with disabilities.https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/resources/factsheet-on-persons-with-disabilities.htmlDate accessed: November 25, 2021Google Scholar Accordingly, climate vulnerability and the right to health of people with disabilities is being increasingly acknowledged, including within the Paris Agreement. The threat of climate change to people with disabilities' right to health urgently necessitates that governments reduce greenhouse gas emissions. States failing to comply with the Paris Agreement obligations or excluding disability from climate change mitigation and adaption efforts, are violating human rights obligations, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.6Stein MA Stein PJ Weiss D Lang R Health care and the UN Disability Rights Convention.Lancet. 2009; 374: 1796-1798Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (34) Google Scholar In 2021, an individual with temperature-dependent multiple sclerosis, Uhthoff's syndrome, filed a law suit against the Austrian government alleging that a failure to set effective climate protection measures violated his human rights.7Mex M v Austria. European Court on Human Rights; Strasbourg, France; March 25, 2021.Google Scholar Climate change adaptation provides a global opportunity to increase health equality for people with disabilities as required by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, using the human rights principles of participation, inclusion, empowerment, non-discrimination, and accessibility. Attaining climate resilient health equality will require empowering people with disabilities and their organisations to represent their needs and identify solutions in equitable participatory planning and implementation processes, verified by disability indicators and intersectional analyses. Governments should include disability organisations as stakeholders to ensure disability-inclusive health adaption planning. Disability indicators and disaggregated data are crucial for the development of disability-inclusive policies.8The Lancet Global HealthDisability: measurement matters.Lancet Glob Health. 2021; 9e1028Summary Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (3) Google Scholar Health-care facilities must be accessible, including post-disaster; laudably, the World Bank has committed to inclusive post-disaster reconstruction. A UN Framework Convention on Climate Change disability constituency and disability action plan, both absent from COP26, would facilitate disability leadership in climate change action. Health-care professionals, throughout their education, should receive training on the effects of climate change on the health of individuals with disabilities and disability cultural competency. Clinical trials inclusive of people with disabilities are required to determine how medications affect body temperature regulation at high temperatures. Enabling people with disabilities to enter health-care professions and collaborate in development and disaster risk reduction can provide untapped knowledge on disability discrimination and adaptation. Future research is crucially needed on the effect of climate change mitigation and adaption measures, and targeted disability-inclusive approaches, on the health of people with disabilities—particularly in low-income and middle-income countries—to foster best practices for enhancing climate resilience. We declare no competing interests.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; openalex:import; openalex:yes

An Occupant-Centric Control Strategy for Indoor Thermal Comfort, Air Quality and Energy Management - WANG, ZU; Calautit, John Kaiser; Tien, Paige; Wei, Shuangyu; Zhang, Wuxia; Wu, Yupeng; Xia, Liang (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; _z:not_duplicate; oa:keyword:indoor thermal comfort; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

The significance of disadvantaged crop species to improve food systems and security in the changing climate: Learning from Motheo District, South Africa - Zuma-Netshiukhwi, G. (International Journal of Agriculture and Nutrition, 2022)
Emerging evidence indorse shifts in food production, reduction in yield due to climate variability and change. An increase in food production is a requirement to respond to the demands of the growing population worldwide. As many studies focus on underutilised and/or neglected crops. The questions are, underutilised by who? Or neglected by who? These are the indigenous ancient crop species utilised from generations to generations, which are used by most in rural areas mostly across all African countries. These crop species are utilised for consumption and medicinal purposes within localities, needs to be acknowledged, supported and not grouped as food for the “poor” or “weeds”. Besides, its promotion as a food of choice is the best climate change adaptation strategy. A huge variety of crops avails rather than relying on few crop species. Utilisation of selected few crops leaves the abundance of genetic resources for food security and nutrition. Focusing on the promotion of disadvantaged crops would provide a diversified agricultural system and food resources. Such crop species play an integral role for income generation and nutritional balance. The crop species have a great prospective to enhance crop diversity, food variety and nutrition. Field management systems plays a significant role on when to introduce weeding control mechanisms, when to harvest and which types of these crops to expect per season. With the use of transdisciplinary research approach, we provide a list of disadvantaged crop species and evidence to improve food and nutrition security, increase agricultural diversification, minimise environmental and its physiological response show resilience in the changing climate.
Keywords: C:South Africa; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; oa:keyword:disadvantaged crop species; oa:topic:T10367 Agricultural Innovation and Livelihood Diversification; oa:topic:T12403 Nutritional and Functional Potential of Ancient Grains; openalex:import; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; ⛔ No DOI found

Performance optimization of natural ventilation in classrooms to minimize the probability of viral infection and reduce draught risk - Fageha, Mohammed K.; Alaidroos, Alaa (Sustainability, 2022)
This paper presents a detailed analysis to optimize natural ventilation performance in educational buildings to minimize the probability of viral infection (POI) and avoid draught discomfort. A whole building energy simulation tool has been coupled with the Wells–Riley equation to predict the probability of infection and Fanger’s draught equation to estimate the draught risk for classroom environments. Several parameters have been investigated, including window opening fraction (WOF), volume-to-student ratio, number of source patients, and exposure time. The analysis confirmed a dual effect of space volume on the POI where the POI can be increased or decreased simultaneously when the space volume is increased. Therefore, the WOF/(Volume/Student) ratio is introduced, and an optimization analysis is performed to determine the optimum ratio that delivers the lowest POI. The results showed that a WOF/(Volume/Student) ratio between 0.1 and 0.17 is recommended to guarantee low values of POI for a standard Volume/Student ratio of 6 m3. Even though high ventilation rates are required to prevent viral infection, it will certainly increase the draught risk. Therefore, optimal ventilation rates are required to maintain low POI and minimum draught risk, which can be achieved by optimum design of windows and implementing control systems for window operations to minimize turbulence effects and reduce the possibility of draught discomfort.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; airborne viral infection; draught risk; educational buildings; indoor air quality; natural ventilation; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Performance optimization of natural ventilation in classrooms to minimize the probability of viral infection and reduce draught risk - Fageha, Mohammed K.; Alaidroos, Alaa (Sustainability, 2022)
This paper presents a detailed analysis to optimize natural ventilation performance in educational buildings to minimize the probability of viral infection (POI) and avoid draught discomfort. A whole building energy simulation tool has been coupled with the Wells–Riley equation to predict the probability of infection and Fanger’s draught equation to estimate the draught risk for classroom environments. Several parameters have been investigated, including window opening fraction (WOF), volume-to-student ratio, number of source patients, and exposure time. The analysis confirmed a dual effect of space volume on the POI where the POI can be increased or decreased simultaneously when the space volume is increased. Therefore, the WOF/(Volume/Student) ratio is introduced, and an optimization analysis is performed to determine the optimum ratio that delivers the lowest POI. The results showed that a WOF/(Volume/Student) ratio between 0.1 and 0.17 is recommended to guarantee low values of POI for a standard Volume/Student ratio of 6 m3. Even though high ventilation rates are required to prevent viral infection, it will certainly increase the draught risk. Therefore, optimal ventilation rates are required to maintain low POI and minimum draught risk, which can be achieved by optimum design of windows and implementing control systems for window operations to minimize turbulence effects and reduce the possibility of draught discomfort.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; airborne viral infection; draught risk; educational buildings; indoor air quality; natural ventilation; oa:keyword:natural ventilation; oa:sdg:7 Affordable and clean energy; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10990 Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Viruses; oa:topic:T11692 Effects of Noise Pollution on Health and Well-being; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Validation of Designbuilder Simulation Accuracy Using Field Measured Data of Indoor Air Temperature in a Classroom Building - Abba, Habu Yusuf; Majid, Roshida Abdul; Ahmed, Muhammad Hamdan; Gbenga, Olutobi (Management, 2022)
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; ⛔ No DOI found

Combined effects of ventilation rates and indoor temperatures on cognitive performance of female higher education students in a hot climate - Ahmed, Riham; Mumovic, Dejan; Bagkeris, Emmanouil; Ucci, Marcella (Indoor air, 2022)
Impairment in mental functions attributed to the effects of indoor air quality and thermal conditions has received considerable attention in the past decade, particularly for educational buildings where students’ cognitive performance is essential to foster learning. This study explores the combined effects of indoor temperatures and CO2 levels as markers for ventilation rates on cognitive performance among female students (16–23 years old) in Saudi Arabia. The longitudinal experiments involved nine conditions combining three CO2 concentration levels (achieved via changes in ventilation) and three temperature levels involving 499 participants, all exposed to the nine conditions. The study implemented a computer-based cognitive performance battery with “9Button” keyboards. Univariable and multivariable multilevel regression models explored the association of indoor temperature and CO2 levels (as markers for ventilation rates) with cognitive performance after adjusting for potential confounders. Potential benefits were found on speed and accuracy of tasks of cognitive perfor- mance when indoor temperature was set between 20 and 23ºC and at CO2 levels of 600 ppm compared to higher temperatures and poorer ventilation rates and that both ventilation and thermal environmental control are important and need to be improved for achieving optimum learning conditions. Nevertheless, the results are relevant for short-term exposures lasting no more than 2 h.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:Saudi Arabia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11002 Indoor Air Quality and Health Effects; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Effects of thermal sensation and acclimatization on cognitive performance of adult female students in Saudi Arabia using multivariable-multilevel statistical modeling - Ahmed, Riham; Ucci, Marcella; Mumovic, Dejan; Bagkeris, Emmanouil (Indoor air, 2022)
In the hot climate of Saudi Arabia, people living year-round in air-conditioned spaces are likely to develop high expectations for homogeneity and cool temperatures, becoming potentially more sensitive if thermal conditions deviate from the comfort zone they expect. This paper presents the results from a field intervention investigating the association between participants’ thermal sensations with cognitive performance in a female university in Saudi Arabia. The climatic context plays a key role in choosing Saudi Arabia, whereas the total reliance on air-conditioners (AC) for cooling is believed to have significant effects on occupants’ perceptions of the comfort temperature. Results reveal discrepancies in the actual thermal sensations between the Saudi and non-Saudi participants which affected their performances. “Cool” and “Slightly Cool” sensations versus neutral were associated with significant lower percentage of errors and significant higher speed for all participants independently of any association with ethnicity and acclimatization. The estimates remained significant even after adjusting for ethnicity and the number of years spent in the country and the set temperature of AC at home. Implications of the study suggest a preference for staying cool when working independently of acclimatization status. Practical Implications. This study confirms that there is a strong association between indoor temperature, thermal sensations, and cognitive performance in young adult female students. The practical implications of this research highlight that findings from previous studies may not be applicable to climates such as Saudi Arabia, where the pervasive presence of air-conditioning is not only affecting occupants’ preferences for cooler temperatures, but may also impact on their cognitive performance at lower temperatures, compared with other climatic regions.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:Saudi Arabia; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review; oa:keyword:thermal sensation; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11692 Effects of Noise Pollution on Health and Well-being; oa:topic:T12950 Learning Environments in Education; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Deconstructing Community-Based Research for Sustainable Development: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Holders - Ajaps, Sandra; Mbah, Marcellus F. (Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development, 2022)
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Cooking Aerosol - Amouei Torkmahalleh, Mehdi (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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Engaging local youths in humanitarian response is not a matter of if but how - Apollo, Abigael; Mbah, Marcellus Forh (Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2022)
Abstract Despite being critical responders in humanitarian crises, local youths are continually left out of the humanitarian action agenda. This paper used a qualitative methodology to investigate local youths’ role in humanitarian response and their impacts and assessed how humanitarian actors influence the effectiveness of youth engagement. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with local youths who participated in the Ebola response in Sierra Leone. Findings showed that young people are significantly contributing to crises response. However, they lack an enabling environment and support system to convert their skills into valuable humanitarian resources efficiently. Therefore, despite the rhetoric that many reports and policies reflect, this study establishes that the realities of youth engagement in humanitarian activities are often misunderstood and controlled for the self-interest of different actors other than youths themselves. It advocates for a renewed focus and support for young people’s skills as  paramount for effective humanitarian response and building back resilient communities after emergencies. Besides, engaging local youths in tackling crises empowers them with transferable skills and stimulates their passion for participating in development issues within their communities.
Keywords: C:Sierra Leone; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:humanitarian response; oa:keyword:local youths; oa:topic:T10747 Community Resilience to Natural Disasters; oa:topic:T11556 Impact of Child Labor Interventions; oa:topic:T11581 Ebola Virus Research and Outbreaks; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Engaging local youths in humanitarian response is not a matter of if but how - Apollo, Abigael; Mbah, Marcellus Forh (Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2022)
Abstract Despite being critical responders in humanitarian crises, local youths are continually left out of the humanitarian action agenda. This paper used a qualitative methodology to investigate local youths’ role in humanitarian response and their impacts and assessed how humanitarian actors influence the effectiveness of youth engagement. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with local youths who participated in the Ebola response in Sierra Leone. Findings showed that young people are significantly contributing to crises response. However, they lack an enabling environment and support system to convert their skills into valuable humanitarian resources efficiently. Therefore, despite the rhetoric that many reports and policies reflect, this study establishes that the realities of youth engagement in humanitarian activities are often misunderstood and controlled for the self-interest of different actors other than youths themselves. It advocates for a renewed focus and support for young people’s skills as  paramount for effective humanitarian response and building back resilient communities after emergencies. Besides, engaging local youths in tackling crises empowers them with transferable skills and stimulates their passion for participating in development issues within their communities.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:humanitarian response; oa:keyword:local youths; oa:topic:T10747 Community Resilience to Natural Disasters; oa:topic:T11556 Impact of Child Labor Interventions; oa:topic:T11581 Ebola Virus Research and Outbreaks; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Education, anthropogenic environmental change and sustainable development: A rudimentary framework and reflections on proposed causal pathways for positive change in low and lower middle-income countries - Bangay, Colin (Development Policy Review, 2022)
The article seeks to support policy-makers in considering the role of education in response to the climate–environment emergency. It argues for a holistic framing of education's response, incorporating both climate and environment. While recognizing the imperative of global action, it emphasizes the need for national/local education systems approaches that reflect the distinct and localized challenges and responsibilities pertinent to high-income countries (HICs) and low- and lower-middle income counties (L&LMICs). Purpose After presenting an overview of climate–environmental issues and education the article offers a rudimentary framework categorizing education responses to anthropogenic environmental change (AEC). Methods and approach The article brings together findings from education, demography, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and environmental studies. Findings The key findings are: (1) that education provision in L&LMICs is already being affected by environmental change; (2) the causal links between education and positive environmental impacts are weakly evidenced; (3) the bulk of literature is preoccupied with global climate change and CO2 emissions to the detriment of localized environmental considerations; and (4) that education should be viewed more as a “force multiplier”—alongside areas such as health, reproductive rights, social justice, and livelihoods. Policy implications The article argues that to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7—whereby education systems of all nations equip students for sustainable development—there is a need for a more geographically specific understanding of the drivers of both climate change and environmental degradation. Differentiated education reform responses are required which reflect both responsibility for carbon emissions and vulnerability to climate and environmental impacts. In HICs this would suggest a greater focus on mitigation (reduction of carbon emissions) and in L&LMICs on adaptation (responding to AEC).
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; climate; demography; education; environment; oa:keyword:anthropogenic environmental change; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11336 Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries; oa:topic:T12656 Impact of Climate Change on Human Migration; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; system; ⛔ No DOI found

Agriculture, climate change and technical efficiency: The case of sub-Saharan Africa - Bannor, Frank (University of Johannesburg, 2022)
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Occupant Emissions and Chemistry - Bekö, Gabriel; Wargocki, Pawel; Duffy, Emer (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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The Effects of Air Temperature to the Cognitive Performance of Grade Five Pupils - Bigueja, Myrna C.; Tabardillo, Rosemarie A.; Amoroso, Sheila E.; Tabardillo, Joselito D. (2022)
High temperature makes the children uneasy during classroom activities. This study examines the effect of air temperature to children‟s cognitive performance. The school profile was determined such as: the total number of teachers, number of enrollees, land area (sq.m.), number of buildings and number of trees was determined to support the analysis of the data collected. The respondents were the Top thirty (30) Grade V pupils from public city elementary school in the Bicol Region. The pen-and-paper test was administered using the standardized test question in Science V of forty (40) items. The examination was done in the room without ventilation at 9:00 O‟clock to 11 O‟clock in the morning. Outdoor and indoor air temperature was recorded. The temperature recorded in the seven Public Central City Elementary Schools ranged from 240C to 310C. The recorded temperature indicates that the air contains particulates or pollutants like CO2 resulting in high temperature. Future work is required to establish evidence based guidelines for average temperatures and CO2 levels in classrooms. Findings suggest that high ventilation rates and low temperatures are required to provide optimum health outcomes and learning conditions. Natural Ventilation is also recommended through planting more trees in school vicinity to provide fresher air.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:Philippines; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; ⛔ No DOI found

Indoor Air Quality in Offices - Cattaneo, Andrea; Spinazzè, Andrea; Cavallo, Domenico M. (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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Localising knowledge systems - Chipindi, Ferdinand Mwaka; Johnson, Ane Turner; Mbah, Marcellus Forh (Decolonising African Higher Education, 2022)
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Integrated artificial neural network prediction model of indoor environmental quality in a school building - Cho, Ji Hyeon; Moon, Jin Woo (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022)
Keywords: _important; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:indoor environmental quality; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10766 Urban Heat Islands and Mitigation Strategies; oa:topic:T12120 Low-Cost Air Quality Monitoring Systems; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; selected_for:Predictive models for classroom conditions 2024

Integrated Phase Change Material windcatcher system for hybrid cooling and ventilation in tropical building - Eso, Olamide; Darkwa, Jo; Calautit, John (World Energy Storage Conference, 2022)
This study presents a novel solar fan-assisted multi-directional windcatcher (MDW) with encapsulated phase change material tubes (E-PCMT) for tropical buildings. The ventilation, cooling, and thermal storage performance of the integrated ventilative cooling system is investigated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Ansys Fluent software under tropical climate conditions. A parametric geometric analysis of three different E-PCMT configurations with melting temperatures at 28oC was conducted to assess the thermal storage performance at different air velocities. The impact of the optimised EPCMT when incorporated inside the air stream of the MDW was further studied. To overcome air flow resistance caused by the obstruction by EPCM-T inside the air streams, the windcatcher airflow is assisted by a wall-mounted axial solar fan that is activated when outdoor air velocity is less than 2m/s. The results based on a typical tropical location showed that the system was able to achieve a consistent and stable air temperature drop of up to 2.64oC over a 4-6-hour. Even at an outdoor air velocity of 1.88m/s, the novel integrated system, in addition to its cooling performance was still able to achieve a supply air velocity rate of 0.16 - 0.57 m/s, meeting the ventilation rates required for indoor comfort.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; ⛔ No DOI found

Integrated Phase Change Material windcatcher system for hybrid cooling and ventilation in tropical building - Eso, Olamide; Darkwa, Jo; Calautit, John (World Energy Storage Conference, 2022)
This study presents a novel solar fan-assisted multi-directional windcatcher (MDW) with encapsulated phase change material tubes (E-PCMT) for tropical buildings. The ventilation, cooling, and thermal storage performance of the integrated ventilative cooling system is investigated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Ansys Fluent software under tropical climate conditions. A parametric geometric analysis of three different E-PCMT configurations with melting temperatures at 28oC was conducted to assess the thermal storage performance at different air velocities. The impact of the optimised EPCMT when incorporated inside the air stream of the MDW was further studied. To overcome air flow resistance caused by the obstruction by EPCM-T inside the air streams, the windcatcher airflow is assisted by a wall-mounted axial solar fan that is activated when outdoor air velocity is less than 2m/s. The results based on a typical tropical location showed that the system was able to achieve a consistent and stable air temperature drop of up to 2.64oC over a 4-6-hour. Even at an outdoor air velocity of 1.88m/s, the novel integrated system, in addition to its cooling performance was still able to achieve a supply air velocity rate of 0.16 - 0.57 m/s, meeting the ventilation rates required for indoor comfort.
Keywords: evidence_review; ⛔ No DOI found

Secondary education provision and impacts of low secondary uptake on wider societal outcomes - Fitzpatrick, R. (Institute of Development Studies, 2022)
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Improving Resilience, Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change Through Education in Low- and Lower-middle Income Countries - Fitzpatrick, Rachael; West, Helen (Institute of Development Studies, 2022)
Climate resilience is the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or disturbances related to climate (C2ES, 2022). Mitigation focuses on reducing the human impacts contributing to climate change (Burton, 2007, cited in Rousell & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, 2020). Adaptation is about increasing people’s adaptive capacity, reducing the vulnerability of communities and managing risks (Anderson, 2012). Anderson further defines adaptation as not just being able to adapt from one stable climate to another but having the skills to adapt to uncertainty and make informed decisions in a changing environment. While ‘climate change’ is the term used throughout these briefs, it should be read as a shorthand for a more inclusive approach, which also captures associated environmental degradation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned, in their latest report, that global surface temperatures will continue to increase until 2050 (IPCC, 2021, p. 17). This will take place regardless of human intervention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report also warns that the traditional technocratic approaches are insufficient to tackle the challenge of climate change, and that greater focus on the structural causes is needed. High- and upper-middle-income countries have been persistently shown to be the biggest contributors to the global carbon dioxide emissions, with lower income countries facing the most disruptive climate hazards, with Africa countries particularly vulnerable (CDP, 2020; IPCC, 2021). The vulnerability of low-income contexts exacerbates this risk, as there is often insufficient infrastructure and resources to ensure resilience to climate hazards (IPCC, 2021). For decades, advocates of climate change education have been highlighting the potential of education to help mitigate against climate change, and support adaptation efforts. However, implementation has been patchy, with inconsistent approaches and a lack of evidence to help determine the most effective way forward.This paper is divided into three sections, drawing together evidence on the key aspects of system reform,green and resilient infrastructure and Curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and teacher development.
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Forging a university-aided indigenous community education: Village elders and social development in a secondary city of Cameroon - Fonchingong, Charles Che; Mbah, Marcellus (Universities, Society and Development: African Perspectives of University Community Engagement in Secondary Cities, 2022)
Keywords: C:Cameroon; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; ⛔ No DOI found

Carbon-smart schools mitigate climate change and improve learning - Forbes, Catriona (2022)
Recent studies confirm the extent to which improvements in classroom condition can positively impact children’s ability to learn. With so many classrooms needed, there is an opportunity to both improve the design of schools and instigate a change in attitude towards carbon-smart construction.
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Carbon-smart schools mitigate climate change and improve learning - Forbes, Catriona (2022)
Recent studies confirm the extent to which improvements in classroom condition can positively impact children’s ability to learn. With so many classrooms needed, there is an opportunity to both improve the design of schools and instigate a change in attitude towards carbon-smart construction.
Keywords: evidence_review

Addressing the climate, environment, and biodiversity crises in and through girls’ education - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024

Comprehensive School Safety Framework 2022-2030: for Child Rights and Resilience in the Education Sector - GADRRRES (2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2

Fragranced Consumer Products as Sources - Goodman, Nigel; Nematollahi, Neda (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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The role of education in addressing climate change - GPE Secretariat (2022)
In this blog series, experts and thought leaders present their views on how essential education is to addressing climate change.
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Disease Burden of Indoor Air Pollution - Hänninen, Otto; Mandin, Corinne; Liu, Wei; Liu, Ningrui; Zhao, Zhuohui; Zhang, Yinping (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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Introduction to Particles in Indoor Air - Hopke, Philip K.; Liu, Cong (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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Africa - I.P.C.C. (Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2022)
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Optimization of building envelopes using indigenous materials to achieve thermal comfort and affordable housing in Abuja, Nigeria - Jegede, O.E.; Taki, A. (International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 2022)
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Evaluation of thermal comfort and air quality of low-income housing in Kampala City, Uganda - Kajjoba, D.; Kasedde, H.; Olupot, P.W.; Lwanyaga, J.D. (Energy and Built Environment, 2022)
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Indoor Air Quality in the Context of Climate Change - Kinney, Patrick L. (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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An explorative study on the potential of green roofs providing thermal comfort conditions for indoor spaces in Kumasi - Koranteng, C.; Nyame-Tawiah, D.; Gyimah, K.A.; Simons, B. (Ghana. Open House International, 2022)
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Cognitive performance was reduced by higher air temperature even when thermal comfort was maintained over the 24–28°C range - Lan, Li; Tang, Jieyu; Wargocki, Pawel; Wyon, David P; Lian, Zhiwei (Indoor Air, 2022)
This study managed to create thermal comfort conditions at three temperatures (24°C-T24, 26°C-T26, and 28°C-T28) by adjusting clothing and air velocity. Thirty- six subjects (18 males and 18 females) were exposed to each of the three conditions for 4.5 h in a design balanced for order of presentation of conditions. During each exposure, they rated the physical environment, their comfort, the intensity of acute subclinical health symptoms, and their mental load, and they performed a number of cognitive tasks. Their physiological reactions were monitored. The subjects rated T24 to be comfortably cool, T26 to be comfortably neutral, and T28 to be comfortably warm. Their self-estimated performance did not differ between conditions but 12 of 14 objective metrics of cognitive performance decreased significantly at the elevated temperatures: compared with T24, their average cognitive performance decreased by 10% at T26 and by 6% at T28. At the elevated temperatures, their parasympathetic nervous system activity (as indicated by PNN50) and their arterial blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2) were both lower, which would be expected to result in reduced cognitive performance. The subjects also rated their acute subclinical health symptoms as more intense and their workload as higher at the elevated temperatures. These results suggest that where cognitive performance is the priority, it is wise to ensure a comfortably cool environment. The present study also supports the use of fans or natural ventilation to reduce the need for mechanical cooling.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:China; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review; oa:keyword:cognitive performance; oa:keyword:higher air temperature; oa:keyword:thermal comfort; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T11109 Physiological Responses to Heat Stress in Humans; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Investigating the relation between electroencephalogram, thermal comfort, and cognitive performance in neutral to hot indoor environment - Lang, Xiaoyue; Wargocki, Pawel; Liu, Weiwei (Indoor Air, 2022)
The relation between electroencephalogram signals, thermal comfort, and cognitive performance in neutral to hot indoor environment was investigated. The experiments were carried out at four temperatures: 26ºC, 30ºC, 33ºC, and 37ºC, and two relative humidity levels: 50% and 70%. Thirty-two subjects were exposed for 175 min. The electroencephalogram signals were measured for 30 min 25 min after the onset of exposure while the recruited subjects performed neurobehavioral tests and rated their thermal comfort. The relative power of electroencephalogram signals has a significant correlation with thermal comfort and performance of neurobehavioral tests. The ratings of acceptability of thermal environment and thermal comfort, the speed, accuracy, and PI of completing the tests are negatively correlated with the relative power of δ-band, but positively correlated with θ-band, α-band, and β-band. The ratings of thermal sensation have a better correlation with the above four bands, but the correlation trend is opposite. A linear relation was found between electroencephalogram signals and the speed. The results showed that the relative power of P7 channel located in the occipital lobe is the most suitable as a single electroencephalogram channel to reflect joint thermal comfort and cognitive performance at high temperatures, especially its α-band.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:China; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; acceptability of thermal environment; cognitive performance; electroencephalogram; oa:keyword:electroencephalogram; oa:keyword:thermal comfort; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10977 Biomedical Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy; oa:topic:T11109 Physiological Responses to Heat Stress in Humans; occipital lobe; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; thermal comfort; thermal sensation

Household Air Pollution in Rural Area - Luo, Zhihan; Shen, Guofeng (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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Influence of Ventilation on Indoor Air Quality - Lv, Mengqiang; Liu, Sumei; Cao, Qing; Zhang, Tengfei; Liu, Junjie (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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IAQ in Commercial Air Transportation - Mayer, Florian; Fox, Richard; Space, David; Bezold, Andreas; Wargocki, Pawel (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
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Forging a university-aided indigenous community education - Mbah, M.; Fonchingong, C. C. (Sun Press, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; _z:no_pdf; ⛔ No DOI found

Decolonisation of Research Methodologies for Sustainable Development in Indigenous Settings - Mbah, Marcellus F.; Bailey, Megan (Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development, 2022)
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Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development - Mbah, Marcellus F.; Leal Filho, Walter; Ajaps, Sandra (Springer Nature, 2022)
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Policies and practices of climate change education in South Asia: towards a support framework for an impactful climate change adaptation - Mbah, Marcellus F.; Shingruf, Ayesha; Molthan-Hill, Petra (Climate Action, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:climate change education; oa:keyword:impactful climate change adaptation; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12656 Impact of Climate Change on Human Migration; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Policies and practices of climate change education in South Asia: towards a support framework for an impactful climate change adaptation - Mbah, Marcellus F.; Shingruf, Ayesha; Molthan-Hill, Petra (Climate Action, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:climate change; oa:keyword:climate change education; oa:keyword:impactful climate change adaptation; oa:sdg:13 Climate action; oa:topic:T10119 Sustainability Transitions and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T12656 Impact of Climate Change on Human Migration; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Envisioning the Indigenised university for sustainable development - Mbah, Marcellus Forh; Ajaps, Sandra; Johnson, Ane Turner; Yaffa, Sidat (International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:indigenised university; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11806 Impact of Service-Learning in Higher Education; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Envisioning the Indigenised university for sustainable development - Mbah, Marcellus Forh; Ajaps, Sandra; Johnson, Ane Turner; Yaffa, Sidat (International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:indigenised university; oa:keyword:sustainable development; oa:topic:T10898 Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior; oa:topic:T11806 Impact of Service-Learning in Higher Education; oa:topic:T11835 Sustainability Education in Higher Education Institutions; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

How can “community voices” from qualitative research illuminate our understanding of the implementation of the SDGs? A scoping review - Mbah, Marcellus Forh; East, Linda A. (Sustainability, 2022)
In 2015, the United Nations committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to drive global development policy and practice. Six years into the implementation of the 15-year agenda, the SDGs are subject to extensive monitoring and research at the national, regional, and global levels using quantitative data sets. In contrast, this scoping review considered the contribution of qualitative research studies published in 2021, utilizing data collected from local, place-based community participants. Qualitative research with community participants connects global policy with place-based experience, thus potentially offering a valuable perspective on SDG implementation. Searches were carried out using the Scopus database to identify studies that explicitly linked their aims and objectives to the SDGs. Fifty-four papers met the criteria for inclusion in the review and were charted, mapped, and analysed. For the majority of studies, data collection was carried out in lower-middle income and low-income countries. The “voices” of community participants highlight tensions and challenges affecting the implementation of the SDGs. Reviewing this body of research as a whole identified opportunities to strengthen future qualitative research that will further illuminate progress towards the SDGs.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:community voices”; oa:keyword:qualitative research illuminate; oa:sdg:10 Reduced inequalities; oa:topic:T10596 Maternal and Child Nutrition in Developing Countries; oa:topic:T12227 Sustainability Assessment and Impact Evaluation; oa:topic:T14464 Analysis of Impact Investing in Finance and Social Policy; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

How can “community voices” from qualitative research illuminate our understanding of the implementation of the SDGs? A scoping review - Mbah, Marcellus Forh; East, Linda A. (Sustainability, 2022)
In 2015, the United Nations committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to drive global development policy and practice. Six years into the implementation of the 15-year agenda, the SDGs are subject to extensive monitoring and research at the national, regional, and global levels using quantitative data sets. In contrast, this scoping review considered the contribution of qualitative research studies published in 2021, utilizing data collected from local, place-based community participants. Qualitative research with community participants connects global policy with place-based experience, thus potentially offering a valuable perspective on SDG implementation. Searches were carried out using the Scopus database to identify studies that explicitly linked their aims and objectives to the SDGs. Fifty-four papers met the criteria for inclusion in the review and were charted, mapped, and analysed. For the majority of studies, data collection was carried out in lower-middle income and low-income countries. The “voices” of community participants highlight tensions and challenges affecting the implementation of the SDGs. Reviewing this body of research as a whole identified opportunities to strengthen future qualitative research that will further illuminate progress towards the SDGs.
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; oa:keyword:community voices”; oa:keyword:qualitative research illuminate; oa:sdg:10 Reduced inequalities; oa:topic:T10596 Maternal and Child Nutrition in Developing Countries; oa:topic:T12227 Sustainability Assessment and Impact Evaluation; oa:topic:T14464 Analysis of Impact Investing in Finance and Social Policy; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

Government budget for 2022-2023 - MOF (2022)
Keywords: evidence_review

Climate Change Education at Universities: Relevance and Strategies for Every Discipline - Molthan-Hill, Petra; Blaj-Ward, Lia; Mbah, Marcellus Forh; Ledley, Tamara Shapiro (Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Encouraging natural ventilation to improve indoor environmental conditions at schools. Case studies in the north of Spain before and during COVID - Monge-Barrio, Aurora; Bes-Rastrollo, Maira; Dorregaray-Oyaregui, Sara; González-Martínez, Purificación; Martin-Calvo, Nerea; López-Hernández, Dolores; Arriazu-Ramos, Ainhoa; Sánchez-Ostiz, Ana (Energy and Buildings, 2022)
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; C:Spain; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; evidence_review_2; oa:keyword:indoor environmental conditions; oa:keyword:natural ventilation; oa:sdg:1 No poverty; oa:topic:T10121 Building Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Optimization; oa:topic:T10990 Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Viruses; oa:topic:T11244 Impact of Climate Change on Human Health; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes

WHO Health Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality and National Recommendations/Standards - Morawska, Lidia; Huang, Wei (Handbook of Indoor Air Quality, 2022)
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Tanzania Weather & Climate - Natural habitat adventures (2022)
Tanzania has a generally comfortable climate year-round. Browse this month by month break down of weather and climate in Tanzania.
Keywords: C:Tanzania; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Comparative cost advantages of Interlocking Stabilised Soil Blocks and Sandcrete Blocks for building construction in South-West Nigeria - Obafemi, A. Ibitoye; Oluwole, Alagbe; Oladipupo, Dare-Abel (2022)
Interlocking stabilized soil blocks (ISSBS) is undoubtedly one of the contemporary buildingmaterials used for building construction works in developing countries. The ISSBs is gaining fast recognition as frontline alternative to Sandcrete blocks for affordable housing development in Nigeria. However, despite the positive reports of United Nations upholding ISSB as an affordable building material for low cost housing in developing African nations, the patronage of ISSBs is low-slung when compared to the conventional Sandcrete blocks (SBs). This study explored the comparative cost advantages of Interlocking stabilized soil blocks and Sandcreteblocks for building construction in Southwestern Nigeria with the view of promoting it’s usage for affordable housing development. The objectives were; to identify the most common types of Interlocking stabilised soil blocks and Sandcrete blocks used for building construction works in southwestern Nigeria; to analyze the cost of ISSBS for building walling system; to compare the cost of building walling systems with Interlocking stabilized soil blocks and Sandcrete blocks in Southwestern Nigeria. Existing literature on the use of Interlocking stabilised soil blocks (ISSBs) were reviewed. Using qualitative research approaches where Interviews and documentaries was phenomenal; the cost comparativeness of ISSBs and SBs in this study was analyzed using Empirical data’s obtained from local construction markets and ISSBs promoters. Findings revealed the cost of ISSBs is relatively cheaper than Sandcrete blocks due to the mortar-less walling systems; the eradication of wall rendering and drastic reduction in the use of cement, concrete, reinforcement and industrial materials. The study recommended that more agencies should be established. Promoters of ISSBs should invests heavily on awareness and sensitization of the populace on the significance of adoption ISSBs for building construction.
Keywords: evidence_review