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Climate Change and Health Related Challenges as a Trigger for Educational Opportunities to Foster Social Knowledge and Action

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Abstract

The potential consequences of climate change to our health and wellbeing pose relevant questions and real challenges need to be tackled. These real challenges can be used as strong triggers to initiate action-oriented learning processes.

With the aim of identifying these outcomes, we propose a chapter focused in those educational responses that are being developed to promote a generational transformation which can enhance social knowledge and bonding, having an empowering impact over communities, leading to their transformation and improvement.

This chapter includes interesting initiatives and international trends that are worth disseminating. We have organised them by category and topic. These projects are described in order to identify their structure, function and impacts. Our purpose is to summarize the main socio-environmental education trends that are being developed and the impacts that they are having in different communities and areas, focusing on experiences that involve, not only formal education agents, but also informal education, NGOs and communities, and above all Service Based Learning Methodologies.

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  1. SBRlab: Social and Business Research Laboratory, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

    David Dueñas i Cid

  2. Instytut Studiów Społecznych, Center of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    David Dueñas i Cid

  3. Research Group on Science and Environment Education, Institute of Educational Research, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Lídia Ochoa i Cañigueral

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Correspondence to David Dueñas i Cid or Lídia Ochoa i Cañigueral .

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, Sect., Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. CFE University of Coimbra, Universidade Aberta and, Porto, Portugal

    Ulisses M. Azeiteiro

  3. Universidade Aberta, Porto, Portugal

    Fátima Alves

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Dueñas i Cid, D., Ochoa i Cañigueral, L. (2016). Climate Change and Health Related Challenges as a Trigger for Educational Opportunities to Foster Social Knowledge and Action. In: Leal Filho, W., Azeiteiro, U., Alves, F. (eds) Climate Change and Health. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24660-4_17

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