Climate change and costs: investigating students’ reasoning on nature and economic development
Climate change and costs: investigating students’ reasoning on nature and economic development
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气候变化和成本：调查学生对自然和经济发展的推理
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2012
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C. Lundholm
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Li Sternäng;C. Lundholm
环境保护与经济增长之间的紧张关系对未来的福祉至关重要，因此，必须了解青年人如何理解这些紧张关系。本研究的目的是探讨学生解决经济发展和减缓气候变化的困境，关于社会应对气候变化的挑战。这项研究是在中国的绿色学校进行的。绿色学校是一个国际性的长期方案，目的是增加学生对环境问题的知识，并将这些知识转化为积极的行动，以影响更广泛的社区。本研究采用半结构式访谈法，对北京地区绿色学校15-16岁的学生进行了三组（12名学生）的前后访谈。结果显示，学生们的讨论完全集中在经济增长和社会福利上。学生们似乎认为环境问题是不可避免的，自然是一个资源的“盒子”，为了维持甚至改善自然，经济发展是必要的。因此，经济发展与环境保护之间不存在两难问题。本文最后讨论了研究和教学气候变化的影响。
The tensions between environmental protection and economic growth are critical to future well-being, and it is therefore important to understand how young people conceptualize these tensions. The aim of the present study is to explore students’ solutions to the dilemma of economic development and mitigating climate change, with regard to societal responses to the challenge of climate change. The study was conducted in China’s Green Schools. Green School is an international long-term programme with the aim of increasing students’ knowledge of environmental issues, and transferring this knowledge into positive actions to affect the wider community. The data were obtained through semi-structured pre- and post-interviews with 15–16-year-old students in three groups (12 students) from Green Schools in the Beijing area. The results show that students’ discussions focused exclusively on economic growth and social welfare. Students seem to believe that environmental problems are inevitable, nature is a ‘box’ of resources, and economic development is necessary in order to sustain and even improve nature. Therefore, there is no dilemma between economic development and environmental protection. The paper ends with a discussion on research and implications for teaching climate change.