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Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions
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Climate change is an urgent problem. Because it is causing new weather extremes and fatal catastrophes, climate change is better termed climate disruption. Bending the curve to flatten the upward trajectory of pollution emissions responsible for climate disruption is essential in order to protect billions of people from this global threat. Education is a key part of the solution.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
eScholarship
Author:
Max Auffhammer
Roger Aines
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Date Added:
09/04/2019
Climate Justice in Your Classroom
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As the inequitable impacts of climate change become more evident and destructive, it is essential for climate and environmental justice, as well as methods of civic engagement, to be taught at a high-level to college-level students. This book provides real examples of how professors at the University of Washington integrated these critical issues into their teachings, both in targeted lessons and as throughlines across an entire course. These samples of how environmental and climate justice have been successfully integrated into higher-level education can serve as both a record of the UW's progress towards centering JEDI at the heart of all students, and as a model for future instructors to use as they work to incorporate more aspects of justice and engagement into their own material.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Washington
Author:
Affiliates of the UW Program on Climate Change
Date Added:
06/28/2023
Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action - Version 2.0
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The Climate Toolkit is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it contains a collection of activities that make use of readily available on-line resources developed by research groups and public agencies. These include web-based climate models, climate data archives, interactive atlases, policy papers, and “solution” catalogs. Unlike a standard textbook, it is designed to help readers do their own climate research and devise their own perspective rather than providing them with a script to assimilate and repeat.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Portland State University
Author:
Frank Granshaw
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Commercial Solar Electric Systems
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AE 868 examines the theories and design practices of solar electric systems in the context of utility and commercial-scale applications. An important goal of the course is to equip solar professionals with skills to follow the impact of hardware trends in industry on feasibility, design, and the commissioning of such systems. Students will learn how to design solar electric systems as well as the processes required for permitting, construction, and commissioning. Topics include conceptual design of solar electric systems, solar electric technologies, inverter and power management technologies, design theory and economic analysis tools, system design processes for grid-tied and off-grid systems, integration of energy storage and demand response systems, construction project management, permitting, safety and commissioning, system monitoring, and maintenance.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Atmospheric Science
Business and Communication
Communication
Engineering
Physical Science
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Full Course
Provider:
Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Author:
Mohamed Amer Chaaban
Date Added:
10/26/2021
Community Resilience to Climate Change: Theory, Research and Practice
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This reader is an Open Educational Resource, meant to accompany a graduate or higher-level undergraduate university course in climate change resilience, adaptation, and/or planning. While the material is geared toward students in urban and regional planning, it may also be of interest to students of urban studies, public health, geography, political science, sociology, risk management, and others.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Portland State University
Author:
Dana E. Hellman
Vivek Shandas
Date Added:
05/28/2020
Earth Surface Processes in the Critical Zone
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Rapid changes at Earth's surface, largely in response to human activity, have led to the realization that fundamental questions remain to be answered regarding the natural functioning of the Critical Zone, the thin veneer at Earth's surface where the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere interact. EARTH 530 will introduce you to the basics necessary for understanding Earth surface processes in the Critical Zone through an integration of various scientific disciplines. Those who successfully complete EARTH 530 will be able to apply their knowledge of fundamental concepts of Earth surface processes to understanding outstanding fundamental questions in Critical Zone science and how their lives are intimately linked to Critical Zone health.

Subject:
Applied Science
Atmospheric Science
Chemistry
Environmental Science
Geology
Hydrology
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (http
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Author:
Tim White
Date Added:
06/17/2020
Earth in the Future
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Our planet is becoming hot. In fact, Earth may be warming faster than ever before. This warming will challenge society throughout the 21st century. How do we cope with rising seas? How will we prepare for more intense hurricanes? How will we adapt to debilitating droughts and heat waves? Scientists are striving to improve predictions of how the environment will change and how it will impact humans. Earth in the Future: Predicting Climate Change and Its Impacts Over the Next Century is designed to provide the state of the art of climate science, the impact of warming on humans, as well as ways we can adapt. Every student will understand the challenges and opportunities of living in the 21st century.

Subject:
Applied Science
Atmospheric Science
Biology
Environmental Science
Geology
Hydrology
Life Science
Oceanography
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (http
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Author:
David Bice
Tim Bralower
Date Added:
06/17/2020
Environmental Issues
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This first-year undergraduate open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues from both biological and social science perspectives.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Ecology
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform
Author:
Andrew Frank
Date Added:
06/02/2020
Introduction to Climate Science - 1st Edition
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This book describes how Earth's climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical sciences that build the foundations of our current understanding of global climate change such as radiation, Earth's energy balance, the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. Both natural and human causes for climate change are discussed. Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are summarized. Ethical and economical aspects of human-caused climate change and solutions are presented.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
Andreas Schmittner
Date Added:
01/06/2020
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
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Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action.

Composed of twenty-eight essays—a combination of new and republished texts—the anthology is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ‘big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies.

This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Open Book Publishers
Author:
Sian Sullivan
Steffen Böhm
Date Added:
02/23/2022
Teach the Earth
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Teach the Earth is a portal to thousands of open educational resources from dozens of earth education websites. Teach the Earth supports teaching and learning about the Earth by providing online resources for educators in the geosciences and related fields. Resources include classroom activities, course descriptions and syllabi, information about pedagogical strategies, topical collections, and more.

Topics include atmospheric science, biogeoscience, climate change, earthquakes, ecology, energy, environmental geology, environmental science, geochemistry, geodesy, geomorphology, geophysics, GIS/remote sensing, hydrology/hydrogeology, minerals and mineralogy, oceanography, paleontology, petrology, planetary science, plate tectonics, rock cycle, sedimentary geology, soil, structural geology, water, and volcanoes.

Subject:
Applied Science
Atmospheric Science
Ecology
Environmental Science
Geology
Geoscience
Hydrology
Life Science
Oceanography
Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Syllabus
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Date Added:
08/14/2020
Telling Stories to Save the World: Climate Change in Narrative Film
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Explores the history and impact of the “Cli-Fi Film,” or Climate Fiction Film, a sub-genre of narrative cinema that depicts, on some level, the effects of climate change on the Earth and its inhabitants.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Atmospheric Science
Career and Technical Education
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Performing Arts
Physical Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Judith Sebesta
Date Added:
06/28/2023