Introducing Project-Based Climate Education in Moroccan Universities via a New Air Quality Monitoring Network in Rabat

EasyChair Preprint 10445

Abstract

Morocco’s economy has recently seen an unprecedented growth, which made the country emerge into the 5th strongest economy of the African continent. As other countries at the same stage of development, Morocco is also undergoing rapid urbanization, which results in increased anthropogenic air-pollution levels. The geographical location of the country makes it vulnerable to both short and long-term impacts of climate change. Despite the elevated risk and vulnerability, the current air pollution and climate change monitoring strategy of the country needs improvement. The present paper introduces a novel strategy to improve the air quality monitoring system in the capital combined with developing a project-based climate education curriculum, and promises to raise public awareness to the risks related to air pollution and climate change. The sustainability of the project is guaranteed by the low cost of instruments and the educational aspect which ensures that future experts are well-trained for the maintenance of the system that we propose to install.

Keyphrases: air pollution, climate change, environmental education

@booklet{EasyChair:10445,
  author    = {Maria Lbadaoui-Darvas and Abdeljalil Lbadaoui and Najoua Labjar and Souad El Hajjaji and Athanasios Nenes and Satoshi Takahama and Arindam Roy},
  title     = {Introducing Project-Based Climate Education in Moroccan Universities via a New Air Quality Monitoring Network in Rabat},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 10445},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}