A user guide to the CCAFS Gender and Climate Change Survey data

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Survey Data

Climate change: An increase in norms for inclusion predicts greater fit and commitment for women in STEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843022110354
Author(s):  
William Hall ◽  
Toni Schmader ◽  
Michelle Inness ◽  
Elizabeth Croft
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Workplace Culture ◽  
Longitudinal Analyses ◽  
Longitudinal Field ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Organizational Value ◽  
Policies And Practices

In male-dominated STEM fields, workplace culture is often cited as a factor for women’s attrition. In the present research, we used longitudinal field data to examine how changes in the perceived normative support for gender-inclusive policies and practices over 6 months relate to changes in women’s and men’s experiences of fit and commitment to their organization. Longitudinal analyses of survey data from a sample of 181 engineers revealed that increased perceptions of support for gender-inclusive policies and practices predicted increased organizational commitment only among women, an effect that was mediated by an increase in organizational value fit. Additional analyses suggest that perceptions of change in normative attitudes toward inclusive policies were more predictive of women’s organizational commitment than the awareness that the policies were in place or that one has personally benefitted from them. The implications of an inclusive workplace culture for supporting women’s retention in STEM are discussed.

scholarly journals Can Topographic Variation in Climate Buffer against Climate Change-Induced Population Declines in Northern Forest Birds?

Diversity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimo Virkkala ◽  
Juha Aalto ◽  
Risto K. Heikkinen ◽  
Ari Rajasärkkä ◽  
Saija Kuusela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Temperature Variation ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Local Temperature ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
Northern Forest ◽  
Bird Density ◽  
Topographic Variation

Increased attention is being paid to the ecological drivers and conservation measures which could mitigate climate change-induced pressures for species survival, potentially helping populations to remain in their present-day locations longer. One important buffering mechanism against climate change may be provided by the heterogeneity in topography and consequent local climate conditions. However, the buffering capacity of this topoclimate has so far been insufficiently studied based on empirical survey data across multiple sites and species. Here, we studied whether the fine-grained air temperature variation of protected areas (PAs) affects the population changes of declining northern forest bird species. Importantly to our study, in PAs harmful land use, such as logging, is not allowed, enabling the detection of the effects of temperature buffering, even at relatively moderate levels of topographic variation. Our survey data from 129 PAs located in the boreal zone in Finland show that the density of northern forest species was higher in topographically heterogeneous PAs than in topographically more homogeneous PAs. Moreover, local temperature variation had a significant effect on the density change of northern forest birds from 1981–1999 to 2000–2017, indicating that change in bird density was generally smaller in PAs with higher topographic variation. Thus, we found a clear buffering effect stemming from the local temperature variation of PAs in the population trends of northern forest birds.

scholarly journals Extinction in Eden: identifying the role of climate change in the decline of the koala in south-eastern NSW

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lunney ◽  
Eleanor Stalenberg ◽  
Truly Santika ◽  
Jonathan R. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Population Analysis ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Change Temperature

Context Reviews of climate change in Australia have identified that it is imposing additional stresses on biodiversity, which is already under threat from multiple human impacts. Aims The present study aimed to determine the contributions of several factors to the demise of the koala in the Eden region in south-eastern New South Wales and, in particular, to establish to what extent climate change may have exacerbated the decline. Methods The study built on several community-based koala surveys in the Eden region since 1986, verified through interviews with survey respondents. Historical records as far back as the late 19th century, wildlife databases and field-based surveys were used to independently validate the community survey data and form a reliable picture of changes in the Eden koala population. Analysis of the community survey data used a logistic model to assess the contribution of known threats to koalas, including habitat loss measured as changes in foliage projective cover, fire, increases in the human population and climate change in the form of changes in temperature and rainfall, to the regional decline of this species. Key results We found a marked, long-term shrinkage in the distribution of the koala across the Eden region. Our modelling demonstrated that a succession of multiple threats to koalas from land use (human population growth and habitat loss) and environmental change (temperature increase and drought) were significant contributors to this decline. Conclusions Climate change, particularly drought and rising temperatures, has been a hitherto hidden factor that has been a major driver of the decline of the koala in the Eden region. Implications Development of strategies to help fauna adapt to the changing climate is of paramount importance, particularly at a local scale.

Surplus production, variability, and climate change in the great sardine and anchovy fisheries

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 1891-1903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry D Jacobson ◽  
Jose A.A De Oliveira ◽  
Manuel Barange ◽  
Miguel A Cisneros-Mata ◽  
Roberto Félix-Uraga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Production Rates ◽  
Surplus Production ◽  
Production Variability ◽  
Stock Biomass ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Long Time

We used fishery and survey data to calculate annual surplus production (ASP) and instantaneous surplus production rates (ISPR) for eight anchovy and nine sardine stocks. In addition, we calculated ASP per unit spawning area for six anchovy and six sardine stocks. Median ASP was highest for stocks with highest median biomass (mostly anchovies), and ASP was typically about 16% of stock biomass. ASP was often negative, more frequently for anchovies (36% of years) than for sardines (17% of years). ISPR was less variable for sardines and autocorrelated for longer-lived stocks (mostly sardines). Strong biomass increases tended to be preceded by short, abrupt increases in ISPR, and declines were pronounced when catches exceeded ASP for 5 years or more. The longest "runs" of positive and negative production were 21 and 4 years for sardine off Japan, 10 and 3 years for sardine off California, 8 and 2 years for anchovy off Peru, and 4 and 3 years for anchovy off California. ISPR is more sensitive to environmental changes than catch, biomass, or ASP and appear to be better for identifying environmentally induced regime shifts. Long time series show evidence of density-dependent effects on ASP in anchovies and sardines, but environmentally induced variation appears to dominate.

Postsecular Catholicism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
The Church

Amid increased secularization, there is new appreciation for the relevance of moderate religion, such as Catholicism, in redirecting the ethical commitments of contemporary society. The postsecular affirmation of the mutual significance of religious and secular resources provides the Church with a renewed opportunity for engagement with public societal issues and for institutional revitalization among Catholics. It requires, however, a dialogue between doctrinal ideas and the increasingly secularized experiences and expectations of Catholics, as well as others. This book examines how the Church negotiates this task. Anchored in the context of American Catholicism, it aims to help the reader understand why Catholicism continues to have relevance, notwithstanding its multiple tensions. Critical here is recognition of the fact that the Church is not a monolithic entity but, instead, is characterized by, and allows, a dynamic interpretive diversity among laity, bishops, and the Vatican. The book presents case analyses and survey data showing how the crosscutting pull of religious and secular currents plays out across a number of contentious societal and intra-Church issues. Among the topics examined are economic inequality, climate change, gay sexuality, divorce and remarriage, women’s ordination, and religious freedom. This inquiry demonstrates the strategies and processes by which tradition and change, authority and autonomy, and doctrinal ideas and secular realities are held together in Catholicism.

scholarly journals Media definitely do matter: Brexit, immigration, climate change and beyond

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 827-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil T Gavin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Principal Role ◽  
The Media

The notion that the media’s principal role regarding public opinion is reinforcement of pre-existing attitudes – and that this idea is relative inconsequential politically – is pervasive, across many political and social science sub-disciplines, and in non-academic commentary. This article comprehensively challenges the evidential and theoretical underpinnings of this thesis, drawing on a wealth of contemporary survey data and media coverage research, across a range of issues, including climate change, Brexit, immigration, the economy and benefit fraud. It also argues that ‘reinforcement’ is an important and consequential power, and that the processes involved have significant implications for public misperception of salient political issues. It makes the case that the media create attitudinal uncertainty, and can have pervasive but subtle influences on political attitudes, particularly when there are persistent patterns of coverage across a range of media. But also that in contexts like particularly close political contests, such influences can be decidedly consequential.

scholarly journals Survey data on climate change adaptation and barriers to adoption among smallholder farmers in Nepal

Data in Brief ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107620
Author(s):  
Prahlad Lamichhane ◽  
Kelly K. Miller ◽  
Michalis Hadjikakou ◽  
Brett A. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Barriers To Adoption
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