{"title":"Social learning and climate change adaptation in Thailand","authors":"Witchuda Srang-iam","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-80-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-80-EN","url":null,"abstract":"The Community Climate Center in Thailand aims to bridge the awareness gap between local people, especially farmers, and experts such as climate scientists, helping them to understand each other’s view of the weather and how it is changing. The results include better farming practices, and more understanding by scientists of how climate information is appreciated and used.","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128271834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental attitudes and demographics","authors":"N. Johnstone, Ysé Serret-Itzicsohn, Z. Brown","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-59-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-59-EN","url":null,"abstract":"An OECD survey, carried out every three years, assesses the effects of environmental policy on people’s attitudes and behaviour concerning the environment.","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"37 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131197666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The need for indigenous knowledge in adaptation to climate change in Nigeria","authors":"G. Odok","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-83-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-83-EN","url":null,"abstract":"Most solutions dealing with climate change in rural Nigeria are biased in favour of a modern or Western worldview. Local indigenous knowledge of forest management and of adaptation to climate change is seen as irrelevant.","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134162996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the IPCC a learning organisation","authors":"S. Beck","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-75-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-75-EN","url":null,"abstract":"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides the scientific basis for climate policies globally, and has raised political and public awareness of climate change. An independent evaluation in 2010 resulted in changes to IPCC procedures, processes and governance structure. But what has it learned, and how can it maintain political relevance and scientific integrity in the face of intense political pressure and an evolving, multidisciplinary scientific field?","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131535433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Individual and collective behaviour change","authors":"E. Weber","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-49-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-49-EN","url":null,"abstract":"Negative consequences normally lead people to change their behaviour, but the timelag between behavioural cause and many environmental impacts makes it hard for people to see the connection. Other barriers to change include lack of a fear response and habits. To promote change, new behavioural routines need to be established using default options and social imitation. Existing goal conflicts need to be minimised by better communication of the co-benefits of environmental goals. Since many people in developing countries aspire to a western lifestyle that adversely affects the global environment, different models of human happiness need to be explored.","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130540941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social sciences at the crossroads: Global environmental change in Latin America and the Caribbean","authors":"J. Postigo, G. B. Wells, Pablo Chacón Cancino","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-19-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-19-EN","url":null,"abstract":"Global environmental change in Latin America and the Caribbean ranges from urbanisation to deforestation and melting glaciers. The understanding of relations between nature and society in this context requires coupled human–environmental frameworks across spatial and temporal scales. Transdisciplinarity and co-production of knowledge from the social to the natural sciences and to traditional knowledge will result in more effective solutions.","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132326285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global environmental change and the social sciences in eastern and southern Africa","authors":"P. Chanie","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-27-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-27-EN","url":null,"abstract":"The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) reports on the global environmental and climate change challenges facing this region such as land degradation, deforestation, soil erosion, and declining soil fertility. But is social science research doing enough and does it have the capacity to help the region cope more effectively with these challenges?","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115532068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social science research on global environmental change in the Asia-Pacific region","authors":"Jack Beaton","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-31-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-31-EN","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the many problems which global environmental change poses for the Asia-Pacific region, the social sciences have been slow to develop research on the issues it raises. New ways of working are starting to emerge, however, partly driven by the awareness that many Asia-Pacific populations are highly vulnerable to climate change, as the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASSREC) reports.","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114200629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Silbereisen, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Kan Zhang
{"title":"Vulnerable and resilient children after disasters and gene–environment interplay","authors":"R. Silbereisen, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Kan Zhang","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-39-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-39-EN","url":null,"abstract":"The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that disaster doubles the occurrence of mental distress. Yet certain children show huge resilience, despite losing their homes and parents, while others suffer enormous mental distress. Gene–environment interdependence plays a crucial role in children’s different reactions: experience of disasters is genetically influenced, and may influence the rest of a victim’s life.","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122117257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basic statistics on the production of social science research","authors":"Issc","doi":"10.1787/9789264203419-113-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-113-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194484,"journal":{"name":"World Social Science Report","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129369098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}