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datestamp: 2016-10-26 12:46:07
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type: article
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creators_name: Sauerborn, Rainer
title: Why should health be a central argument in climate negotiations? Can a MOOC help to bring the message across?
subjects: ddc-300
subjects: ddc-610
divisions: i-912800
abstract: There are four key messages from health for climate negotiations. Two positive ones include (i) health as a motivator for action and policy and (ii) huge health co-benefits to be included in the cost-benefit trade-offs of climate negotiations. Two warning messages: (iii) there are health-based absolute limits of adaptations and (iv) hotter average temperatures will cut work productivity of farmers and other outdoor workers as well as workers in non-air conditioned factories in poor countries. This paper will examine how massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been used in the run-up to this COP to disseminate these four messages to the audience of high-level policy-makers. This required a departure from the classic MOOC format in several ways: duration, focus on decision-making rationale, policy-relevant messages presented in big brush, leaving “traceable accounts” to evidence in two layers of resources provided: essential and “deep dive”.
date: 2016
publisher: BioMed Central; Presses de l'EHESP
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 1653447451
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-220000
language: eng
bibsort: SAUERBORNRWHYSHOULDH2016
full_text_status: public
publication: Public Health Reviews
volume: 37
number: 18
place_of_pub: London; Rennes
pagerange: 1-4
issn: 2107-6952
citation:   Sauerborn, Rainer  (2016) Why should health be a central argument in climate negotiations? Can a MOOC help to bring the message across?  Public Health Reviews, 37 (18).  pp. 1-4.  ISSN 2107-6952     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22000/1/40985_2016_Article_30.pdf