Pilar Morales-Giner

1. Today, as climate change increasingly reshapes lived environments, it is becoming ever more essential to understand people's relation to place. Conceived as a social construct linking spaces and...

Background: Collegiate recreation (CR) programs present the opportunity to promote student success across campuses. Purpose: In this review, we focus on the relationship between engagement with CR and student success. Methodology/Approach: We conducted a scoping review of empirical studies published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and 2021 that examined the connection between CR and student success. We identified 3304 unduplicated studies to which we applied a screening process based on our selection criteria. Findings: A total of 82 articles were included for data extraction. Results reveal evidence of the multifaceted connections between CR engagement and six dimensions of student success: intrapersonal, academic, interpersonal, belonging/community, career, and institutional. Conclusions: Most of the evidence refers to “traditional” aspects of student success such as GPA and retention, often addressed through descriptive statistics. Implications: This review highlights a need for future research that employs innovative methodologies and explores more diverse populations. Moreover, we advocate for investigating the relationship between CR engagement and non-academic areas such as social, institutional, and career-related outcomes.

Wildfires can lead to drastic environmental changes that pose a threat to communities’ understandings of place. While previous research has explored the connections between environmental change and place attachment, less is known about the relationship between place meanings and environmental disasters in combination with other drivers of change such as demographic dynamics and climate change. The main goal of this article is to enhance understanding of how wildfire-related experiences impact place meanings. Through semi-structured interviews with communities who were affected by wildfires in rural Colorado, we clarify the neglected relationship between environmental disasters and place attachment and place meanings. Specifically, we identify how place meanings are channeled through different dimensions of place attachment, namely place affection and place awareness. By differentiating these two dimensions, we indicate practical possibilities for addressing climatic and environmental change, such as through community building, education on resource conservation, and wildfire–risk management.

The clothing industry has experienced global and sustained growth in the last decades due, among other factors, to the decentralisation of production in this sector and its consequent lowering of prices, but also to the effect of the unceasing demand that fashion generates. Simultaneously, the number of people employed in the textile sector has been growing in economically developing countries under precarious labour conditions. The objective of this study is to analyse the level of knowledge and awareness of the Spanish population about the working conditions in clothing manufacturing at production sites. To achieve this, we applied statistical analysis to data collected from a sample (n = 3000) of Spanish fashion consumers. The main results show a society with a high degree of concern for labour conditions in the textile sector, as well as for the environmental repercussions triggered by this type of production. Considering the differences based on socio-demographic variables, we find that women, older consumers, and respondents with higher education show a greater degree of concern about the working conditions in the clothing industry. Along the same lines, respondents who are ideologically left wing present a higher degree of concern than respondents from the extreme right.

Climate change-related migration has been addressed through many disciplines and perspectives. The broad consensus among experts is that, while there are links between climate change and migratory trends, climate-related migration is a multicausal phenomenon that varies from one context to another. This entry begins by outlining the key complexities around climate migration, i.e., difficulties around numbers, the different dimensions of migration and climate change. It then summarizes the concept of migration as an adaptation strategy to climate change-related challenges before discussing international policies that circumscribe climate change migration. The last section examines the evolution of research on this topic and highlights future avenues for research on climate migration.

There is an extensive literature on environmental governance, which refers to multi-stakeholder processes to arrive at collective decisions about how natural resources will be managed.

A clear consideration for designing strong climate policy is to account for the perception of the seriousness of climate change among citizens. In order to understand climate change perceptions in the European Union (EU), this study relies on Eurobarometer survey data to examine the impacts of place-based factors, including regional spaces and place attachment to supra-national spaces. The results indicate that regional differences and place attachment to the EU are strong predictors of climate change concern, net of the effects of other factors. These findings suggest that place-based indicators can serve as a useful analytical tool for the study of climate change public opinion. The study concludes by providing implications and suggestions for future research on climate change public opinion and climate policy.