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Climate change is an urgent global issue, characterized by rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and extreme weather events. Writing a thesis on this topic requires a clear and concise statement that guides the reader through the significance, focus, and scope of your study. In this piece, we will explore various examples of good and bad thesis statements related to climate change to guide students in crafting compelling research proposals.
Good Examples
Focused Approach: “This thesis will analyze the impact of climate change on the intensity and frequency of hurricanes, using data from the last three decades.” Lack of Focus: “Climate change affects weather patterns.”
The good statement is specific, indicating a focus on hurricanes and providing a time frame. In contrast, the bad statement is too vague, covering a broad topic without any specific angle.
Clear Stance: “Implementing carbon taxes is an effective strategy for governments to incentivize companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” Not So Clear: “Carbon taxes might be good for the environment.”
The good statement takes a clear position in favor of carbon taxes, while the bad statement is indecisive, not providing a clear standpoint.
Researchable and Measurable: “The thesis explores the correlation between the rise in global temperatures and the increase in the extinction rates of North American mammal species.” Dull: “Global warming is harmful to animals.”
The good statement is researchable and measurable, with clear variables and a focused geographic location, while the bad statement is generic and lacks specificity.
Bad Examples
Overly Broad: “Climate change is a global problem that needs to be addressed.”
This statement, while true, is overly broad and doesn’t propose a specific area of focus, making it inadequate for guiding a research study.
Lack of Clear Argument: “Climate change has some negative and positive effects.”
This statement doesn’t take a clear stance or highlight specific effects, making it weak and uninformative.
Unoriginal and Unengaging: “Climate change is real.”
While the statement is factual, it doesn’t present an original argument or engage the reader with a specific area of climate change research.
Crafting a compelling thesis statement on climate change is crucial for directing your research and presenting a clear, focused, and arguable position. A good thesis statement should be specific, take a clear stance, and be researchable and measurable. Avoid overly broad, unclear, unoriginal, or unengaging statements that do not provide clear direction or focus for your research. Utilizing the examples provided, students can navigate the intricate process of developing thesis statements that are not only academically rigorous but also intriguing and relevant to the pressing issue of climate change.
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- AN ACCUMULATION OF CATASTROPHE: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WILDFIRE IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES Dockstader, Sue ( University of Oregon , 2024-03-25 ) This dissertation is an environmental sociological study of wildland fire in what is now the western United States. It examines wildfire management from roughly the 1900s to the present time employing a Marxist historical ...
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- PALEOTEMPERATURE, VEGETATION CHANGE, FIRE HISTORY, AND LAKE PRODUCTIVITY FOR THE LAST 14,500 YEARS AT GOLD LAKE, PACIFIC NORTHWEST, USA Baig, Jamila ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) The postglacial history of vegetation, wildfire, and climate in the Cascade Range (Oregon) is only partly understood. This study uses high-resolution analysis from a 13-meter, 14,500-year sediment core from Gold Lake to ...
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Our goal is to have net zero-arbon buildings by 2024 and to be a net zero-carbon institution by 2030.
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- Review UCL buildings for climate change resilience and implement adaptation measures
- Research into enhancing video conferencing for large events
- Sourcing renewable energy providers for gas to enable a zero-carbon heating supply
- Research on academic travel reduction initiatives
- Research on UCL’s new Climate Accountability Scheme (combining a carbon price with behavioural nudges) to incentivise climate action by departments.
- Reducing the climate impact of UCL’s hospitality
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Our goal is to reduce waste per person by 20% and to become a single-use plastic-free campus by 2024.
- How to eliminate plastic across UCL
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Consumers are becoming more aware of sustainability considerations in food production and consumption. In addition to the traditional dietary and nutritional requirements, consumers are seeking labels and certifications to know where and how food is made, what it is made from, its carbon footprint and sustainability credentials. UCL would like to investigate what information we should supply, how this should be displayed, communicated and marketed, to allow our communities to make informed decisions and promote a flexitarian diet. It is anticipated this would require the following activity:
- Developing questionnaires for opinions on carbon footprinting, carbon pricing and other sustainability information they want to know about, to inform point-of-sale purchasing choices in outlets.
- Comparing marketing of food as “vegan” or “plant-based” and the impacts on consumer’s perceptions.
- Investigating the notion of “label fatigue “where consumers are overwhelmed by information on packaging, and the impact of the project on this.
- Baselining data on food choices.
- Developing a labelling system for packaging/ refectory display boards – using data and survey responses.
- Trialling the labelling system.
- Surveying responses.
- Recording food choices and comparing to baseline, to identify behavioural change.
Living lab on biodiversity
Our aim is to create 10,0000m2 of extra biodiverse space by 2024 – equivalent to more than one and a half football pitches as well as increasing health and wellbeing for the Bloomsbury community.
Research topics include:
- Research on different types of green infrastructure e.g. green walls, roofs, community gardens, and where UCL could implement them.
- Research on biodiversity and wildlife across UCL’s estate.
- Research on air pollution levels across UCL’s estate
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Step 1: choose your topic.
- Take a look at the sustainability research topics list to see if they interest you.
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- If you have alternative research topic ideas for a sustainable living lab dissertation or project please contact us.
Step 2: Discuss with your department
- Speak with your supervisor or someone in your department about undertaking a living lab dissertation and refining your topic.
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- One of the principles of the Living Lab Project is to make available any additional data you generate for others to build on, so the work can keep ‘living’
- Once your dissertation is completed, we require a concise 2-3 page briefing or presentation on your findings so that we can implement your ideas onto campus or future students and staff can build on your research. Living Lab projects usually spark plenty of ideas for further research, including aspects you were not able to cover during the project.
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Good Examples. Focused Approach: "This thesis will analyze the impact of climate change on the intensity and frequency of hurricanes, using data from the last three decades.". Lack of Focus: "Climate change affects weather patterns.". The good statement is specific, indicating a focus on hurricanes and providing a time frame.
the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. Overcrowded living conditions, inaccessibility to safe infrastructure and poor health conditions make the urban poor highly vulnerable to climate change impacts (Baker, 2011c). Climate change can change the pattern of diseases, mortality, human settlements, food, water, and sanitation.
Thesis Advisor: Adam T. Thomas, Ph.D. ABSTRACT Increased emissions of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases (GHG) have exacerbated the effects of climate change and have led to intensified weather events and a steady rise in the average global temperature. Countries sought to outline an aggressive agenda for combatting
This dissertation includes three self-contained and interrelated papers on climate change mitigation, building energy efficiency, and urban form. Paper 1: Urban form and household electricity consumption: a multilevel study While urban form affects building energy consumption, the pathways, direction and magnitude of the effect are disputed in ...
ubiquitous. Therefore, this dissertation deals with the comprehensive topic of climate change and air pollution and their effects on public health. The first chapter examines the effect of temperature on mortality in 148 cities in the U.S. from 1973 through 2006. We focused on the timing of exposure to unseasonal temperature and
In this thesis, climate change activism is defined as taking concrete actions to advocate for a change in human behavior so that everyone can have a safe climate. These actions are mainly aimed toward directly reducing fossil fuel use and other . 2 . sources of atmospheric carbon, but also may be aimed at larger environmental and ...
A major challenge in understanding and implementing nature-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation is that of scalability. Climate change is a global problem, requiring multi-jurisdictional and multinational governance, yet many of the examples of NbS concern proof of concept studies over relatively small spatial scales.
2013. Communication of environmental and climate change issues on social network sites, the scientists perspective: case study of digital practices of researchers engaged in environmental and climate change issues in the Environmental School, University of East Anglia. Marunye, Joalene. 2009.
Climate Change Adaptation Preparedness in Developing Countries: A Study of 21 Countries and Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Studies in Akwa Ibom and Lagos States in Nigeria ... This thesis presents two research studies on climate change adaptation preparedness in developing countries. In the first study, the policies and programs of 21 ...
John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellowship Working Paper 2 Research Highlights ... As climate change accelerates, extreme meteorological events such as coastal floods and storm surges have been occurring both more frequently, and with greater intensity (Rosenzweig et al., 2011). According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ...
their main interests. For example, if you are interested in human-caused climate change the history becomes a "process by connecting the dots among more than a thousand of the most 1 C. E. P. Brooks, Climate through the Ages - A Study of the Climatic Factors and Their Variations, (London, UK: Ernest Benn Limited, 1926), 430-2.
climate change, adaptation and mitigation. Adaptation refers to adjusting to the expected level of climate change in order to reduce harm from inevitable consequences. Mitigation refers to reducing emissions to limit future climate change, for example, through renewable energy adoption, transition to a low carbon economy, and applying
UBC Theses & Dissertations. Across UBC, faculty and students contribute to research on climate change. See below for recent theses on a few select topics, and search cIRcle, UBC's open access repository, for publications, theses/dissertation, and presentations to find more. RSS feed searching the UBC Theses and Dissertations Collection for ...
Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. In the past, it has been defined mainly in environmental and economic terms. For example, climate change was described as an 1 Jelmer Mommers, Thanks to this Landmark ourt Ruling, limate hange is Now Inseparable from Human Rights, _ The Correspondent, December 20, 2019, 1-2.
Unsettled Ecologies: Alienated Species, Indigenous Restoration, and U.S. Empire in a Time of Climate Chaos. Fink, Lisa (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10) This dissertation traces environmental thinking about invasive species from Western-colonial, diasporic settlers of color, and Indigenous perspectives within U.S. settler colonialism.
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of climate change and to communicate this technical knowledge to policy makers and the general public. This dissertation contributes to both of these goals. Chapter 1 of the dissertation uses housing market data to estimate the welfare costs of shoreline loss along coastal beaches in Florida. In this chapter, I develop a forward-
Thesis Topics. The dissertation projects of the DK (in the first phase from 2014 to 2018) contribute to finding answers to three questions: How do we understand and deal with climate change uncertainties in the natural and social sciences as well as from the perspective of normative theories? What are critical thresholds of environmental ...
Step 1: Choose your topic. Take a look at the sustainability research topics list to see if they interest you. If you require data on energy, travel, procurement, UCL's sustainability engagement programmes or water please email Sustainable UCL to request this. If you have alternative research topic ideas for a sustainable living lab ...
the effect of the UHI by 0.4°C at night and increasing the urban cool island by 0.8°C during the day. With climate change, the number of hot days and nights doubled in urban and rural areas in 2041-2050 as compared to 1991-2000. The number of hot nights was higher in urban areas and with urban growth.
dissertation on climate change and sustainable development: are local and international laws sufficient enough to help curb/reduce climate change moi university. Skip to document. ... Terrorism-Sample - Copy; Finance Anlysis for MBH Corp - Copy; Finance Anlysis for Morgan Sindall Group; Mba chuong 3 student 7437;
As climate change happens, people are devising new ways of survival. Humans adapt to their surroundings by modifying the natural environment to fulfill their requirements. They develop artificial ...