Course Content
Atmosphere: Climate and Society
ILLUSTRATED LECTURES
Access to Safe Water
Learning Modules, World Bank Group
ACE On-Line Young Person's Guide: Global Climate Change Atmosphere, Climate, and Environment (ACE) Information Program, Atmospheric Resource Information Center, Manchester Metropolitan University
Climate Change Information Kit
United Nations Environment Programme
Early Warning Signs of Global Warming
Union of Concerned Scientists
Exploring the Dynamics of Earth Systems: The Human Population System
David Bice, Department of Geology, Carleton College
Global Warming and the Solar Greenhouse
John C. Canivan, JC Solar Homes
In Hot Water: A Snapshot of the Northwest's Changing Climate
Patrick Mazza, Climate Solutions, Earth Island Institute
Introduction to Global Change
Tim Killeen, University of Michigan
IMAGE BANKS, VIDEOS, AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES
Earth Update: Climate and Society
Carolyn Sumners, Houston Museum of Natural Science
Human Populations
Kent Kirkby, Paul Morin, et al., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota
NewsOne Video
ABC News
EXERCISES AND LABS
Case Studies in Environmental Journalism
Kim Anne Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Steven S. Ross, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region Curriculum Guide
Union of Concerned Scientists
Curriculum Guide for the Climate Impacts Map
Union of Concerned Scientists
Did El Niño Impact San Joaquin County Agriculture? (A GIS/ArcView Project)
Gene Pearson, Department of Geology and Geography, University of the Pacific
Dynamic Earth
Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana, California)
Global-Change Labs: Water Resources and Groundwater (Exercise # 10)
David Hodell and Ray G. Thomas, University of Florida
Land and People: Finding a Balance
The Learning Web, United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Soil Investigation (A GLOBE Learning Investigation) (PDF)
The GLOBE Program
Stream Floods
Warren D. Huff, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati
RESEARCH & POLICY
Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate Protection Initiative
World Resources Institute
Consequences, 1(1) 1995 - 5(2) 1999
EPA's State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kit
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon
Michael Goulding et al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
Global Climate Change
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Local Climate Change Outreach Kit
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Metro East Coast Climate Impacts Assessment Workshop
Earth Institute, Columbia University
Natural Resources: The Sustainability Challenge
Global Dialogue on Sustainable Developments
Pricing the Planet
Peter H. May and Ronaldo Serôa da Motta (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability (selected sections)
R. T. Watson et al. (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Salvaging the Kyoto Climate Change Negotiations
Warwick J. McKibben and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Brookings Institute
Societal Aspects of Weather
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Valuing the Future
Geoffrey Heal (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)
Washington Summit on Protection of the World's Climate
Climate Institute