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Undergraduate Understanding of Climate Change: The Influences of College Major and Environmental Group Membership on Survey Knowledge Scores
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This article found that students frequently confuse climate change with other environmental issues, and that a substantial majority of students do not have an understanding of climate change that closely matches the scientific model, and these misconceptions extend to their understanding of mitigation actions.Abstract:
A survey covering the scientific and social aspects of climate change was administered to examine U.S. undergraduate student mental models, and compare knowledge between groups based on major and environmental group membership. A Knowledge Score (scale 0–35, mean score = 17.84) was generated for respondents at two, central East Coast, U.S. universities (n = 465). Elements of student mental models examined include environmental issue confusion, skepticism, and self-reported understanding. This study finds that students frequently confuse climate change with other environmental issues, and that a substantial majority of students do not have an understanding of climate change that closely matches the scientific model. These misconceptions extend to their understanding of mitigation actions. Environmental group membership is shown to be a greater determinant of climate change knowledge than enrollment in a science major.read more
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Environmental Degradation, ICT and Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how information and communication technology (ICT) complements carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to influence inclusive human development in forty-four Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012.
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Enhancing ICT for environmental sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how increasing ICT penetration in sub-Saharan Africa can contribute towards environmental sustainability by decreasing CO2 emissions, based on the Generalised Method of Moments and forty-four countries for the period 2000-2012.
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Testing the relationships between energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and economic growth in 24 African countries: a panel ARDL approach
TL;DR: Examining the nexus between energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and economic growth in 24 African countries using a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach finds there is a long-run relationship between EC, CE, and GDP, and causality from EC to GDP is not strong, which supports the conservative hypothesis.
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ICT, openness and CO2 emissions in Africa.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how information and communication technology (ICT) complements globalisation in order to influence CO2 emissions in 44 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000-2012.
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