Fostering Resilience in Climate change : Self-efficacy Approach
Fostering Resilience in Climate change : Self-efficacy Approach D. Dutta Roy, Ph.D. Psychology Research Unit INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, KOLKATA Climate change is the result of changes in the weather due to the increase in the earth’s average temperature. This is caused by increases in greenhouse gases from activities such as burning fossil fuels, land clearing and intensive agriculture. Climate change can be understood through climate change index. Climate change index • The International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) group suggests climate change index. • it gives an annual snapshot of how the planet's complex systems - the ice, the oceans, the land surface and the atmosphere - are changing. Ref: http://www.igbp.net/globalchange/climatechangeindex.html Climate is defined as the average weather patterns existing throughout several years over a large portion of Earth's surface. Usually, climate is m