Braaksma, Bente Kato (2023) The bidirectional relationships between girls' education and climate change. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
In this paper the associations between girl’s education and planetary health, and their complexities, was investigated, as well as how this knowledge is transferred into the real world. This was done through the conduction of a literature review in combination with a website analysis. Bidirectional relationships were found between girls’ education and three planetary health related terms, namely; population growth, natural hazards & climate leadership and participation. Based on these, the conclusion has been drawn that girls’ education has the ability to help mitigate the effects of climate change. First, as enabling girls (longer) access to education is associated with lower population growth, as well as forming a strong foundation for climate resilience, adaptation and mitigation. Secondly, as girls’ education is considered to be the most important economic and social factor associated with diminishing vulnerabilities to natural hazards. And thirdly, because girls’ education helps to mitigate the effects of climate change through the encouragement of empowerment and participation of girls, which consequently supports collective action on climate change impacts. Moreover, by examining the online environments of six international organizations, it became clear that multiple organizations, in varying degrees, paid attention to and undertook action on all three bidirectional relationships and their complexity that were established in the literature review.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Gallo, V. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2023 09:28 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 09:28 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/249 |
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