Interactions between Climate Science and Education

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Interactions between Climate Science and Education”, which will be published by Climate.

During the last 10 years we have witnessed alarming climate records and numerous examples of how climate change affects our societies. We need to investigate from a multidisciplinary perspective how it affects the social system and expose evidence of these interactions.

Although a large number of studies are advancing in this direction, we believe that there is a need to address the correlations between climate and education.

Education is a fundamental right, but educational systems, their infrastructure, students and school communities are and will be affected by the climate crisis. A recent study exposes the correlation between heat exposure and the rate of skill formation, and it shows that the rate of learning decreases as the number of hot days grows. The camp fire of 2018 in California resulted in the loss of more than 80 lives, but it also destroyed schools and students’ homes, and due to the smoke, many schools had to be closed, subsequently impacting 1.1 million students. Hurricane Maria of 2017 destroyed a large portion of the scholar infrastructure in Puerto Rico, and children were moved to different states in the USA, significantly impacting the lives of the students and their families. These are examples of how climate is affecting education in a fundamental way.

While the importance of education as a fundamental tool to increase awareness and preparedness is well recognized and studied, we need to investigate further the impact of climate on education.

This issue will focus on studies regarding how to use earth, atmospheric and climate sciences to improve climate change education and how climate change is impacting the educational systems and their communities around the world.

Dr. Enzo Ferrari
Dr. Fernando Martínez-Abad
Dr. Camilo Ruiz
Guest Editors

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