*Climate Change in Ethiopia: Implication on Human Capital in Rural Community - Case Study… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98993*

Further, although 57 million primary school-aged children worldwide (majority were in developing nations) remained out of school in 2015, in 2016, the United Nations released a set of more ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs), one of which aims to achieve universal primary and secondary attainment by 2030 [14]. If climate change undermines educational attainment, this may have a compounding effect on underdevelopment that magnifies the direct impacts of climate change over subsequent times. On the other hand climate change affects human health and production capability through multiple and interactive paths. Climate change threatens [15], the health of people and communities by affecting their resilience and increasing their exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity at all. On top of this, social determinants of health, such as those related to socioeconomic factors and health disparities, may amplify, or otherwise influence climaterelated health effects, particularly when these factors simultaneously occur or close in time or space. All in all, climate change impact on human capital has been conceptualized by the interactive paths as depicted hereunder (**Figure 1**).

Although this theorized impacts of climate change on human capital stock and its capability, there is critical scientific studies' gap generally at a national level in Ethiopia and specifically at a local level of the study area. This study therefore investigated the impacts of precipitation and temperature anomalies on the health and education of rural community. By doing so, as it is the first insight by its content and substituents, in addition to indicating the point of support oriented interventions to various civic and private institutions, it informs policy makings at local, regional and national levels. In addition, it could serve as reference to academia.

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*Conceptualizing pathways of climate change impacts on human capital in rural community.*
