By mapping the hyperlinking behavior of climate change stakeholders across the web in 1998, a study in the Journal of the Public Understanding of Science has given us historical insight into the beginnings of the climate change debate.
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Identity and Urban Spaces
Faced with the issue of climate change, urban planners have become increasingly concerned with the environmental sustainability of the spaces they design, beyond the creation of energy efficient landscapes.
Read MoreThe Catholic Church and the Polarization of Climate Change Belief
In 2015, Pope Francis released an encyclical which declared climate change action a catholic moral imperative of environmental stewardship, while aligning the disproportionate effects of climate change on poorer communities with catholic beliefs. Did this encyclical affect concerns among American Catholics about anthropogenic climate change?
Read MoreWho’s to Blame for Biodiversity Loss?
What needs to be done to protect biodiversity? A study in Nature (Maxwell et al. 2016) sets out to answer this question, as the issue of climate change continues to dominate both the media and policy discussions in addressing biodiversity loss mitigation efforts.
Read MoreOlympic Games Feel the Heat
What effect is climate change going to have on the fate of the Olympics? A 2016 study published in The Lancet examined the effect of future temperature, humidity, wind and radiation projections on the viability of hosts for future Olympic events.
Read MoreClimate Change Segmentation in Singapore
A nationally-representative census by researchers from the Nanyang Technological University has identified the different ways in which Singaporean citizens regard climate change, grouping them into three distinct segments: the concerned, the disengaged, and the passive.
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