Bushfires, COVID-19 and Young People’s Climate Action in Australia

Australia’s summer bushfires of 2020–2021 were catastrophic, negatively impacting people, and the natural environment. This climate change-related event exacerbated the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health. Young people are a priority population whose health and livelihoods are signif...

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Autores principales: Gunasiri, Hasini, Wang, Yifan, Capetola, Teresa, Henderson-Wilson, Claire, Patrick, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9169437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35666335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10393-022-01595-7
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description Australia’s summer bushfires of 2020–2021 were catastrophic, negatively impacting people, and the natural environment. This climate change-related event exacerbated the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health. Young people are a priority population whose health and livelihoods are significantly impacted by these events. At the same time, young people are active agents for climate action. This exploratory mixed-method study draws on descriptive analyses of survey data (n = 46) and thematic analyses of interview data (n = 6) which demonstrated that some young people, whilst concerned about existential and real impacts of climate change, use contact with nature to cope and as motivation for taking climate actions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10393-022-01595-7.
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spelling pubmed-91694372022-06-07 Bushfires, COVID-19 and Young People’s Climate Action in Australia Gunasiri, Hasini Wang, Yifan Capetola, Teresa Henderson-Wilson, Claire Patrick, Rebecca Ecohealth Short Communication Australia’s summer bushfires of 2020–2021 were catastrophic, negatively impacting people, and the natural environment. This climate change-related event exacerbated the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health. Young people are a priority population whose health and livelihoods are significantly impacted by these events. At the same time, young people are active agents for climate action. This exploratory mixed-method study draws on descriptive analyses of survey data (n = 46) and thematic analyses of interview data (n = 6) which demonstrated that some young people, whilst concerned about existential and real impacts of climate change, use contact with nature to cope and as motivation for taking climate actions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10393-022-01595-7. Springer US 2022-06-06 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9169437/ /pubmed/35666335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10393-022-01595-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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