[HTML][HTML] Impacts of tropical deforestation on local temperature and human well-being perceptions

NH Wolff, YJ Masuda, E Meijaard, JA Wells… - Global Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The combined effects of changes in climate and land cover expose millions of people to an
increased likelihood of heat illness. Impacts of heat stress on health have primarily been …

Land use and land cover in tropical forest: Global research

A Velastegui-Montoya, N Montalván-Burbano… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple
ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate …

[HTML][HTML] How are healthy, working populations affected by increasing temperatures in the tropics? Implications for climate change adaptation policies

YJ Masuda, B Castro, I Aggraeni, NH Wolff… - Global environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate change and land use change are increasing average and extreme temperatures.
Hotter temperatures can detrimentally affect workers' health and their economic productivity …

Learning in the forest: environmental perception of Brazilian teenagers

CC Profice, FE Grenno, AC Fandi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The idea of separation between person and nature, accentuated by current production and
consumption models, has generated unthinkable impacts, causing an unprecedented loss …

How do schoolchildren perceive litter? Overlooked in urban but not in natural environments

D De Veer, A Drouin, J Fischer, C González… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic litter is found in all environments, but perceptions of people about this
problem depend on the context. We examined the cognition and perception of litter in the …

“We Need to Do Something About This”: Children and Youth's Post‐Disaster Views on Climate Change and Environmental Crisis

C McDonald‐Harker, EM Bassi… - Sociological Inquiry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research is increasingly uncovering the many ways that individuals affected by disasters
change their environmental views in response to their direct experience of such catastrophic …

Integrating traditional knowledge when it appears to conflict with conservation: lessons from the discovery and protection of sitatunga in Ghana

JM McPherson, J Sammy, DJ Sheppard, JJ Mason… - Ecology and …, 2016 - JSTOR
Cultural traditions can conflict with modern conservation goals when they promote damage
to fragile environments or the harvest of imperiled species. We explore whether and how …

South to south learning in great ape conservation

N Schoneveld‐de Lange, E Meijaard… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite evidence that killing of Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in South‐East Asia
is a major threat to the species, few researchers and non‐governmental conservationists …

Through the eyes of children: Drawings as an evaluation tool for children's understanding about endangered Mexican primates

M Franquesa‐Soler… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study seeks to understand children's perceptions and knowledge of endangered
Mexican primates. The black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) is a charismatic species …

Biodiversity and citizenship in an argumentative socioscientific process

AC de Freitas, LA Do Nascimento, RG de Castro… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Socio-environmental issues become evident in countries with megadiversity. Brazil finds
itself in this context, adding to the fact that it has severe socioeconomic inequalities, of which …