Selected academic articles and books:
Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018. "Although climate change is arguably the most important global problem of the twenty-first century, this research project indicates that universities and colleges have failed to update the general education curriculum and ensure that all students are exposed to education about climate science and climate change."
Presentation by Dr. Martha Monroe, Professor of Environmental Education at the University of Florida, based on a review of 49 research papers that reported effective strategies for teaching about climate change.
Research study of how higher education institutions in 45 countries approach climate change education, showing it to be "highly variable." Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
Published in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
"This open access volume draws on a multidimensional model of educational change. The book reviews the field of climate change education and identifies some of the areas in which past efforts have fallen short in supporting effective pedagogical change at scale. It then formulates an approach to engage university students and faculty in partnering with schools and adult education institutions and directly contribute innovative curricula on climate change."
"A comprehensive climate curriculum would spend most of the time covering topics besides climate science. The model described [in this article] highlights various disciplines and a few key texts that can contribute to a well-rounded understanding of the complexities of the climate crisis and encourage efforts to change systems." Springer, 2022.
SFCC library ebook, published in 2018. "In playfully pessimistic and thought-provoking essays, author Andrew McMurry explores a vital but fundamentally perverse human practice: destroying our planet while imagining we are not."
By Susanne Moser and Ioan Fazey, published in Frontiers in Sustainability, April 2021. "The depth and extent of transformation that awaits society requires people skilled in coping emotionally and in effectively engaging the plethora of challenges ahead with agility, creativity, resolve, vision, and integrity."
OA article published in BMJ, 2023. "The purpose of this scoping review is to examine studies on the integration of climate change into the academic curriculum or continuing education of nurses so as to identify issues and opportunities related to this integration."
Report about an online course taught at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on the physical principles governing Earth’s climate and climate change within the broader context of societal impacts and global political considerations. Published in BAMS the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2020.
Research study showing how an intensive one year university course on climate change resulted in significantly reduced carbon emissions five years later. Published in PLOS, 2020.
By Fernando Reimers, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2020. First chapter of open access book Education and Climate Change: The Role of Universities https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030579265
Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017.
Published in the Journal of Geoscience Education, 2016
Teaching Climate change in the Anthropocene: And integrative approach. (Article) Anthropocene, June 2020
Presents an integrative approach to climate change education that focuses on humans as active and reflexive agents of large-scale systems change, incorporates economic, political, cultural, psychological, and emotional dimensions of the issue, and fosters active engagement with transformations to sustainability.
Environmental Research Letters, 2020. Proposes "an approach to climate communication and storytelling that builds people's agency for climate action by providing a wide variety of stories of people taking positive action on climate change."