GLUP-GLUP

Ana Belén Yuste
Ana Belén Yuste • 21 September 2022
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There is much evidence of the existence of a current climate change, among whose consequences is the rise in sea level. This increase will result in the disappearance of beaches, marshes and wetlands, coastal flooding, shoreline erosion, brackish water intrusion and significant economic damage.

Ebro Delta in 2050

Our hypothesis is based on the fact that getting information to the population instead of them having to look for it, and using something as widely used as a mobile phone, means that the message is transmitted to more people to create more effective environmental awareness.

This project aims to raise awareness among the population through the creation of the GLUP-GLUP mobile application, which generates a notification when the person is in an area that will be flooded by the sea in the year 2100. When you click on this notification, the app takes you to a web page designed to provide more information about climate change.

 

A mobile application has been created using "Android Studio". This program is based on a Java programming language, with which two types of files have been handled: files created for the visual aspect and files created to obtain the position and establish actions based on it. In the latter, the application has been programmed to be able to take the position of the individual based on its altitude, longitude and latitude through the location network. Once the app has been programmed to determine your position in real time, the action has been set: issue a notification if you are below sea level in 2100. Clicking on said notification takes you to a specific web page.

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A web page has been created using “Google Sites”, which offers information on what climate

change is, its causes, consequences and what we can do about it. For this, different sections

have been established, with links to different government pages, videos and interactive activities:  

https://sites.google.com/view/glup-glup/inicio?authuser=3

 

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The app has been distributed to people we know who live in coastal areas. They attest that it works correctly and they think it is a great idea to make the population aware of the climate change that we are suffering. They point out as a strong point that it works anywhere on the planet and not only in our country, since it is based on the position of each one in real time, including altitude, longitude and latitude. Also noteworthy is the attractive design and organization of information.

In order to analyze user behavior on the website, we have started to measure and analyze different events on the page thanks to the Google Tag Manage tool, the results of which are obtained from Google Analytics. In addition, to keep track of the number of downloads, "Bitly" has been used, a tool that tracks the clicks made on the download link of our application.

Number of clicks on the app.

 

With this application installed on your mobile, it is the information that looks for you instead of you looking for it. We carry the mobile phone with us most of the time; phone with which, according to studies, we spend an average of 4.8 hours a day. If you pass through an area that will be flooded by the sea in the near future, you will know in less than 24 hours and this will make you reflect, in addition to analyzing our habits to create environmental awareness.

We know that there are tools for detecting coastal risks, maps and graphs to try to make the population aware of the problems derived from the rise in sea level, but you do not access them unless you look for them directly for your own interest or because you find it in the news while surfing the internet.

As a main conclusion, we highlight the importance of bringing information to the population

through tools such as the mobile phone, essential today for multiple tasks, being, together with the house keys, the object that we all check to carry before leaving. If you want to effectively send a message to the population about the need to change our habits to care for and protect the planet, and also to ensure that it reaches the majority of people, a mobile application is an effective means of doing so.

The next step is to include multi-language translations in the app and on the web to encourage download and use around the world. In the same way, other types of notifications related to different consequences of climate change could be included, and not only with the rise in sea level. Likewise, it is intended to create the application compatible with the iOS operating system, since it currently only works on Android.

You can see the complete project here:  (Spanish)

Comments (2)

Anna DAVIES
Anna DAVIES

Congratulations - your students might be interested in our climate smart resources - currently only in English but we're looking for further funding to translate and explore replication of the Dublin based game in other locations https://climatesmart.ie/


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