Alberta’s wildfires invite policymakers to recognize that given our global climate emergency, classrooms ought to be places to host “complicated conversations.”
Ministry officials will need to make a number of critical decisions when implementing early warning systems. We have outlined some of the major decisions below.
Imagining a disaster is scary. Contemplating death, disruption, and devastation can adversely affect our mental health. How could disaster game psychology make stopping disasters fun, effective, and inspiring?
This regional synthesis report aims to guide policy-makers through providing operational policy recommendations on how to ensure education is protected in Asia and the Pacific in the face of climate change and displacement.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
The number of internally displaced persons because of disasters globally has swollen from 23.7 million people in 2021 to 32,6 million people in 2022 according to the International Displacement Monitoring Center.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
This article reports on a decade of research undertaken by the author on the role of schools in disaster response and recovery across four different disaster types in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
A Fijian researcher hopes to use music and song to help school students better understand climate literacy, saying there are nursery rhymes, poems and dances which speak to natural disasters and indigenous knowledge around climate change.
In recent decades, South-East Europe has experienced extreme climatic disasters, followed by mass migration and mobility. Direct barriers to education arise from infrastructural damage to schools as well as school closures following extreme flooding.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
This regional synthesis report identifies common and divergent patterns of climate displacement as well as barriers to education for climate displaced persons in several countries in South-Eastern Europe.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
This document introduces UNESCO's global initiative to investigate the barriers to education posed by climate change directly, as well as climate-driven displacement, taking into account the policy implications thereon.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
