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DOI	10.1038/s41893-020-0512-y
	The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks
	O’Neill B.C.; Jiang L.; Kc S.; Fuchs R.; Pachauri S.; Laidlaw E.K.; Zhang T.; Zhou W.; Ren X.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	520
结束页码	528
卷号	3 期号:7
英文摘要	Increased educational attainment is a sustainable development priority and has been posited to have benefits for other social and environmental issues, including climate change. However, links between education and climate change risks can involve both synergies and trade-offs, and the balance of these effects remains ambiguous. Increases in educational attainment could lead to faster economic growth and therefore higher emissions, more climate change and higher risks. At the same time, improved attainment would be associated with faster fertility decline in many countries, slower population growth and therefore lower emissions, and would also be likely to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts. We employ a multiregion, multisector model of the world economy, driven with country-specific projections of future population by level of education, to test the net effect of education on emissions and on the Human Development Index (HDI), an indicator that correlates with adaptive capacity to climate impacts. We find that improved educational attainment is associated with a modest net increase in emissions but substantial improvement in the HDI values in developing country regions. Avoiding stalled progress in educational attainment and achieving gains at least consistent with historical trends is especially important in reducing future vulnerability. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate models; Developing countries; Economic analysis; Economic and social effects; Population statistics; Sustainable development; Adaptive capacity; Climate change risks; Educational attainments; Historical trends; Human development index; Level of educations; Population growth; Social and environmental; Climate change
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163382
作者单位	Josef Korbel School of International Studies and Pardee Center for International Futures, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States; Asian Demographic Research Institute, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China; Population Council, New York, NY, United States; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; Statistics Austria, Vienna, Austria; Institute of Population and Development Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	O’Neill B.C.,Jiang L.,Kc S.,et al. The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks[J],2020,3(7).
APA	O’Neill B.C..,Jiang L..,Kc S..,Fuchs R..,Pachauri S..,...&Ren X..(2020).The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks.Nature Sustainability,3(7).
MLA	O’Neill B.C.,et al."The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks".Nature Sustainability 3.7(2020).