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Learning and Climate Change Adaptation: Moving towards Resilience in an Era of Escalating Instability

Learning and Climate Change Adaptation: Moving towards Resilience in an Era of Escalating Instability

Lynn A. Wilson
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781466687646|ISBN10: 1466687649|EISBN13: 9781466687653
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8764-6.ch013
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Wilson, Lynn A. "Learning and Climate Change Adaptation: Moving towards Resilience in an Era of Escalating Instability." Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental Education, edited by Lynn Wilson and Carolyn Stevenson, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 244-268. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8764-6.ch013

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Wilson, L. A. (2016). Learning and Climate Change Adaptation: Moving towards Resilience in an Era of Escalating Instability. In L. Wilson & C. Stevenson (Eds.), Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental Education (pp. 244-268). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8764-6.ch013

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Wilson, Lynn A. "Learning and Climate Change Adaptation: Moving towards Resilience in an Era of Escalating Instability." In Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental Education, edited by Lynn Wilson and Carolyn Stevenson, 244-268. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8764-6.ch013

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Abstract

Youth play an ever-increasing role as counter-cyclical agents that can be mobilized for developing and implementing adaptation responses to build resilience in communities under stress from climate change. Organizations with a coupled research and educational focus are well situated to partner with formal and informal educational institutions to create valuable opportunities for simultaneous learning and practice for youth and their communities in building resilience to climate change. In this chapter, the author argues that climate-knowledgeable and empowered youth are positioned to show new, resilient behavior as critical environmental and social thresholds are approached. Using human health as a gauge for sustainable action, the study by NGO SeaTrust Institute that is analyzed in this chapter shows potentially effective learning approaches, programs and systems for engaging youth as transformational agents to catalyze community leadership for climate change adaptation in an age of escalating environmental and social instability.

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