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Abstracts
Résumé
Les éducateurs et agents de communication en matière de changements climatiques font face à de nombreux défis. Les concepts scientifiques reliés au climat sont souvent mal interprétés. Les citoyens estiment que les changements climatiques auront peu d’impacts sur leur propre vie. Ils perçoivent peu les changements graduels dans leur environnement. Les comportements de surconsommation rapportent pouvoir, plaisir et reconnaissance. Plusieurs personnes, déconnectées du milieu naturel, ont tendance à prendre des décisions émotives et à résoudre rapidement les problèmes environnementaux. À partir des travaux de recherche dans le domaine, des stratégies de communication et d’éducation sont proposées pour favoriser chez les apprenants une meilleure compréhension des changements climatiques, leur communiquer l’urgence d’agir, les motiver à adopter des comportements d’atténuation et les rendre aptes à implanter des mesures d’adaptation.
Mots-clés:
- éducation aux changements climatiques,
- communication,
- développement de compétences,
- atténuation,
- adaptation
Abstracts
Educating and communicating about climate change is challenging. Climate change scientific concepts are often misunderstood. People believe that climate change will have few impacts on their own life. People have difficulty to perceive gradual environmental changes. Overconsumption brings people power, pleasure and recognition. People, disconnected from nature, tend to make emotional decisions and to quickly solve environmental problems. Drawn from research, climate change communication and education strategies are presented for helping learners to better understand climate change, communicating the urgency to act, motivating the adoption of mitigation behaviours and reinforcing people’s skills for implementing adaptations.
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Appendices
Biographies
Diane Pruneau, professeure en éducation relative à l’environnement, s’intéresse au développement de compétences liées au développement durable, à l’éducation aux changements climatiques et aux villes durables.
Mélanie Demers, étudiante à la Maîtrise en éducation, étudie les impacts d’une éducation au futur sur les connaissances, attitudes et compétences des jeunes en lien avec les changements climatiques.
Abdellatif Khattabi, professeur en économie de l’environnement, dirige le projet ACCMA, qui a pour but de favoriser l’implantation, par les citoyens et décideurs marocains, de mesures d’adaptation aux changements climatiques.
Note
La vulnérabilité est le degré selon lequel une communauté est fragilisée par rapport aux effets néfastes des changements climatiques (Smit et Wandel, 2006).
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