Research, part of a Special Feature on Education and Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters Effects of Educational Attainment on Climate Risk Vulnerability
By E. Striessnig, Wolfgang Lutz, Anthony G. Patt. 2013
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In the context of still uncertain specific effects of climate change in specific locations, this paper examines whether education significantly increases coping capacity with regard to particular climatic changes, and whether it improves the resilience of people to climate risks in general. Our hypothesis is that investment in universal primary and secondary education around the world is the most effective strategy for preparing to cope with the still uncertain dangers associated with future climate. The empirical evidence presented for a cross-country time series of factors associated with past natural disaster fatalities since 1980 in 125 countries confirms this overriding importance of education in reducing impacts. We also present new projections of populations by age, sex, and level of educational attainment to 2050, thus providing an appropriate tool for anticipating societies' future adaptive capacities based on alternative education scenarios associated with different policies.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Perceived Self-Efficacy and Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Cambodia (2015, background): “Indeed, findings elsewhere highlight the importance of education in climate change adaptation [48,49], and the need to incorporate education as a climate change strategy policy.”
- The human core of the shared socioeconomic pathways: Population scenarios by age, sex and level of education for all countries to 2100 (2017, background): “…dominating role of education as an empowering factor that tends to reduce vulnerability and enhance the adaptive capacity to the negative consequences of climate change (Frankenberg et al., 2013; Helgeson et al., 2013; KC, 2013; Sharma et al., 2013; Striessnig et al., 2013; Wamsler et al., 2012).”
- Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on Education and Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters Is Education a Key to Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and hence Unavoidable Climate Change? (2014, methodology): “…role of female education in reducing vulnerability: from increasing disaster preparedness (Muttarak and Pothisiri 2013), minimizing malaria risk (Siri 2014), lowering disasterrelated mortality (Striessnig et al. 2013), to reducing disaster risk and enhancing adaptive capacity (Wamsler et al. 2012).”