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The societal impact of meaningful social interactions during online focus groups 在线焦点小组期间有意义的社交互动的社会影响

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100096

Connor Smith

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Societal impact of death anxiety and mental health among nurses in India 印度护士的死亡焦虑和心理健康对社会的影响

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100095

Monika Srivastava , Anindita Ghosh

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The valuation of marine reserves: Linking ecological, economic, social, and political aspects 海洋保护区的估值：将生态、经济、社会和政治方面联系起来

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100094

Zoe Qu

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Educational sustainability initiatives in higher education: An integrative approach to urban areas in northwestern Portugal 高等教育中的教育可持续性倡议：葡萄牙西北部城市地区的综合方法

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100093

Hélder Silva Lopes

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Equitable education and social impacts: Examining the learning theories that influence educators' pedagogical practices 公平教育和社会影响：研究影响教育工作者教学实践的学习理论

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100091

Rosmawijah Jawawi , Jainatul Halida Jaidin , Roslinawati Roslan , Sheikh Lukman Sheikh Abd Hamid , Daniel Asamoah , Masitah Shahrill

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Unpacking the complex relationships between agricultural investments and biodiversity in Ghana 解读加纳农业投资与生物多样性之间的复杂关系

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100092

Abdul-Hanan Abdallah

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Teaching and learning to support climate-neutral transitions: Exploring opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary design courses 支持气候中立过渡的教学：探索跨学科设计课程的机遇与挑战

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100090

Robin A. Chang , Nikoo Mohajermoghari , Wang Yu , Agnieszka Wendland

{"title":"Teaching and learning to support climate-neutral transitions: Exploring opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary design courses","authors":"Robin A. Chang , Nikoo Mohajermoghari , Wang Yu , Agnieszka Wendland","doi":"10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Students’ individual and collective learning processes in interdisciplinary teaching and learning activities that integrate prototype-oriented courses present an opportunity for further exploration. This is particularly relevant given the broader need for capacity-building to support climate-neutral transitions. This contribution draws on an exploratory workshop-in-workshop (WiW) approach to understand and evaluate students learning experiences in an experimental and interdisciplinary design course setting. This experience was embedded in the ENHANCE Alliance, a European network cooperation to innovate research and education in science and technology. The inductive analysis and results from the WiW approach draw upon surveys, group discussions, mapping exercises, and reflections with students. These indicate strong appreciation for problem-based and prototype-oriented teaching along with learning experiences as a part of their individually differentiated but collectively shared learning trajectories. The final insights acknowledge the method as an effective way to enhance instructor-student relationship dynamics and interdisciplinary opportunities. Future improvements to the interdisciplinary design format are discussed and highlight students' desires for open and safe learning environments that are more transdisciplinary in nature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101167,"journal":{"name":"Societal Impacts","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100090"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142658387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Young voices, significant influence: Lowering the voting age and young people’s readiness for voting 年轻的声音，重要的影响：降低投票年龄与年轻人的投票意愿

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100086

Joekryno Joni, Siti Nor Amalina Ahmad Tajuddin, Khairul Azam Bahari

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An assessment of economic loss associated with cataract vision impairment for sustainable development in Borno state, Nigeria 评估与白内障视力损伤相关的经济损失，促进尼日利亚博尔诺州的可持续发展

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100089

Ibrahim Kabiru Maji , Shuaibu Muhammad , Salisu Ibrahim Waziri , Muhammad Mansur Rabiu , Muhammad Yusuf , Lawali Muhammad , Harir Adamu Isah , Maryam Bala Adamu , Ummukulthum Ibrahim Alkali

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The Neotropical Biodiversity Mapping Initiative: Transforming Venezuelan biodiversity monitoring and capacity building 新热带生物多样性绘图倡议：委内瑞拉生物多样性监测和能力建设的变革

Societal Impacts Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100088

José R. Ferrer-Paris, Ada Sánchez-Mercado

{"title":"The Neotropical Biodiversity Mapping Initiative: Transforming Venezuelan biodiversity monitoring and capacity building","authors":"José R. Ferrer-Paris, Ada Sánchez-Mercado","doi":"10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tropical Latin America is home to an enormous share of the world's biodiversity. Despite its immense natural wealth, the region faces a significant deficit of reliable biodiversity data and lacks the local capacity necessary to collect such data. The Neotropical Biodiversity Mapping Initiative (NeoMaps or NeoMapas) is a long-term biodiversity monitoring program. NeoMaps has not only addressed these gaps in biodiversity data in one of the megadiverse tropical countries, Venezuela, but has also emerged as a model for efficiently surveying biodiversity while strengthening the local capacity needed to conduct these surveys. After three nationwide systematic surveys and international field courses in 2006, 2009, and 2010, NeoMaps assembled an invertebrate collection and biodiversity database with over 170,000 records of occurrence and abundance for birds, dung beetles, and butterflies. NeoMaps activities lead to direct outcomes by reducing biodiversity knowledge gaps for three taxonomic groups and training more than 60 conservationists from Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Spain. NeoMaps had a broader impact on national capacity building programs, and made important contributions for improving, sharing and applying national biodiversity knowledge.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101167,"journal":{"name":"Societal Impacts","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100088"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142530057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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