Andreas Schmidt, Ana Ivanova, Mike S. Schäfer
Joel B. Smith, Stephen H. Schneider, Michael Oppenheimer, Gary Yohe et al.
Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [United Nations (1992) http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf. Accessed February 9, 2009] commits signatory nations to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that "would prevent dangero...
William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Jillian W. Gregg et al.
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Md Iqbal Kabir, Md Bayzidur Rahman, Wayne Smith, Mirza Afreen Fatima Lusha et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change (CC). A basic understanding of public perception on vulnerability, attitude and the risk in relation to CC and health will provide strategic directions for government policy, adaptation strategies and development of com...
Md Kamrul Hasan, Lalit Kumar
How farmers perceive climate change has an influence on how they adapt to climate change. Climate change perception and vulnerability were assessed based on the household survey information collected from randomly selected 118 farmers of Kalapara subdistrict in Bangladesh. This paper identified the ...
Md. Aminul Haque, Shelby Yamamoto, Ahmad Azam Malik, Rainer Sauerborn
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world concerning the adverse effects of climate change (CC). However, little is known about the perception of CC from the community, which is important for developing adaptation strategies. METHODS: The study w...
Simone Rödder, Mike S. Schäfer
The article employs the mediatization concept to analyze the relationship of science and the mass media. It draws on theoretical considerations from the sociology of science to distinguish and empirically investigate two dimensions of mediatization: changes in media coverage of science on the one ha...
Bernadette C. Hayes, Vicki Tariq
Despite a lack of empirical verification, research analysts and populist commentators have long assumed that a key factor in explaining anti-scientific attitudes among women is their greater disinterest and ignorance of scientific developments. Using nationally representative Anglo-American data fro...
Sarah Riggs Stapleton
In this paper, I present evidence for framing climate change education around social justice. More specifically, I provide empirical support for framing climate change education around intragenerational climate justice, and argue that this frame can influence youth in industrialized, wealthy nations...
Robin Curry, John Barry, Andew McClenaghan
Q methodology was used to enable the identification of discourses among stakeholders to the environmental and resource dimensions of sustainability policies and to gain an understanding of the usefulness of Q methodology in informing sustainability policy development. The application of Q methodolog...
Shah Md Atiqul Haq, Khandaker Jafor Ahmed
Md. Siddikur Rahman, Hans J. Overgaard, Chamsai Pientong, Mayfong Mayxay et al.
BACKGROUND: Dengue is linked with climate change in tropical and sub-tropical countries including the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) and Thailand. Knowledge about these issues and preventive measures can affect the incidence and outbreak risk of dengue. Therefore, the present study was cond...
Syed Shabab Wahid, Wameq A. Raza, Iffat Mahmud, Brandon A. Kohrt
BACKGROUND: Climate change has major implications for common mental disorders including depression and anxiety in vulnerable nations such as Bangladesh. However, knowledge gaps exist around national estimations of depression and anxiety, and the associations between the prevalence of these disorders...
Md Shahzalal, Azizul Hassan
Sustainable development is a big challenge for developing countries, due to lack of effective communication about sustainability to the rural population. This paper aims at building a theoretically and statistically sound model to communicate sustainability more effectively in rural areas in order t...
Md. Aminul Haque, Aji Budi, Ahmad Azam Malik, Shelby Yamamoto et al.
BACKGROUND: Among the many challenges faced by the people of Bangladesh, the effects of climate change are discernibly threatening, impacting on human settlement, agricultural production, economic development, and human health. Bangladesh is a low-income country with limited resources; its vulnerabi...