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Assignment 2_ The Importance of Local Context

This team assignment focuses on understanding local contexts in relation to climate change and its solutions. Students are required to analyze their chosen community's demographics, perceptions, and responses to climate change, and collaborate with their team to compile findings into a report. The assignment emphasizes the importance of equity and justice in discussions about climate change and includes specific questions to guide the research process.

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Assignment 2_ The Importance of Local Context

This team assignment focuses on understanding local contexts in relation to climate change and its solutions. Students are required to analyze their chosen community's demographics, perceptions, and responses to climate change, and collaborate with their team to compile findings into a report. The assignment emphasizes the importance of equity and justice in discussions about climate change and includes specific questions to guide the research process.

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Assignment 2: The importance of local context

DUE DATE: February 24, 2025

This is a TEAM assignment. Your instructor will assign teams and create them in the assignment
portal.

Sustainability Skills: reasoning analytically, collaborating effectively, engaging empathetically

While climate change is a global problem, much of the work will need to be done at a local level.
Implementing solutions will require a deep understanding of context. There are differences in
physical variables and things like infrastructure, of course. But social, political, cultural, economic,
and historical considerations may be even more important to a project’s success or failure. As a
starting point, this assignment will get you starting in understanding different local contexts with
regards to climate change and climate solutions.

For this assignment you will need to:


A. Individually think about the answers to questions 1-5 below for your own local context or
for a community near you. If you don’t have a clear sense of the answers yourself, ask 3
people in your chosen community (e.g. neighbors, colleagues) for their thoughts.
B. Connect with your team on a virtual call for 30-60 minutes to review each team members’
findings for questions 1-5, and then discuss questions 6-10.
C. Your instructor has created teams on the assignment page - find your team and then any
team member can submit, edit, or add to the team submission.
D. Work together to write a report on your findings and conclusions that includes
1. A high level summary of each team member’s responses to questions 1-5.
(Consider using a table to structure this)
2. Detailed responses to questions 6-10.

Each team member should answer the following questions with respect to a particular community
(e.g. neighborhood, town, region, or workplace) they are a part of or interested in. We encourage
you to pay particular attention to issues of equity and justice as you do so.
1. Define the community you will be considering. What are the demographics? What is the
geographic scope?
2. What do people in this community think about climate change? How often do they talk
about it? What social, political, cultural, economic, and historical considerations may have
shaped their worldviews and their opinions?
3. Where do people in this community learn about climate change? Is it covered in school, or
in the media, or somewhere else? How often do people in this community talk about
climate change?
4. Are the impacts of climate change already affecting this community? If so, how, and how
are people responding?
5. Identify a community organization that works closely with this community. What is their
position on and/or messaging about climate change?

Some examples of such organizations include community-based grassroots organizations,


nonprofits, workforce development organizations, local government, tribal/indigenous councils,
religious organizations, youth groups, community associations, cultural organizations, and/or
economic development organizations.

Across the communities represented by your team:


6. What is one similarity and one difference between the communities your team
researched?
7. Which factors do you think are most important in shaping people’s understanding and
beliefs about climate change?
8. Why do you think climate change is a more comfortable or less comfortable conversation
topic in different places?
9. What are some approaches that you might take if you wanted to convince more people
that we need to address climate change as rapidly as possible?
10. What might need to change to enable more communities to feel comfortable discussing
climate change?

Resources:
● Elemental Impact’s: Community Engagement Strategies for Climate Projects
● Citizen Support for Climate EU
● Climate Change in the Indian Mind (Yale)
● Monash University Climate Change Communication Research Hub (Australia)
● Nanyang Technical Institute Study on Climate Change (Singapore)
● Nature study: Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular
climate policy support by nearly half
● Princeton Article about US Climate Comms, “Fighting Climate Change is Wildly Popular,
but most Americans don’t know that other people feel the same way”
● Reuters Institute Survey
● Yale’s Climate Opinion Maps
● Yale’s “Global Warming Risk Perceptions in India” analysis
● Reuter’s Institute article: “How People Access News about Climate Change” by Simge Andı

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