| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 180 pages) |
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Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment |
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Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Far-Reaching Impacts of Climate Change -- 1.2 Tackling Environmental Challenges -- 1.3 User's Guide -- References -- 2: Desertification -- 2.1 Environmental Issue -- 2.2 Background Information -- 2.2.1 The Problem -- 2.2.2 The Role of Climate Change -- 2.2.3 Solutions -- 2.2.4 Unit Challenge -- 2.2.5 The Scenario -- 2.2.6 Relevant Facts and Assumptions -- 2.2.7 Build Your Foundational Knowledge -- 2.2.8 Preparation Assessment Quiz -- 2.3 Desertification: Discovery -- 2.3.1 Independent Research |
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2.3.2 Literature Share: Reciprocal Instruction -- 2.3.3 Think-Compare-Share -- 2.3.4 Reflecting on Your Work -- 2.4 Desertification: Analysis -- 2.4.1 Rotating Stations -- 2.4.2 System Mapping -- 2.4.3 Reflecting on Your Work -- 2.5 Desertification: Solutions -- 2.5.1 Small Group Guided Worksheets -- 2.5.2 Additional Sources -- 2.5.3 Role Playing -- 2.5.4 Reflecting on Your Work -- 2.6 Desertification: Final Challenge -- References -- 3: Sea Turtle Conservation -- 3.1 Environmental Issue -- 3.2 Background Information -- 3.2.1 The Problem -- 3.2.2 The Role of Climate Change |
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3.2.3 Solutions -- 3.2.4 Unit Challenge -- 3.2.5 Relevant Facts and Assumptions -- 3.2.6 Build Your Foundational Knowledge -- 3.2.7 Preparation Assessment Quiz -- 3.3 Sea Turtles: Discovery -- 3.3.1 Independent Research -- 3.3.2 Literature Share: Reciprocal Instruction -- 3.3.3 Think-Compare-Share -- 3.3.4 Reflecting on Your Work -- 3.4 Sea Turtles: Analysis -- 3.4.1 Rotating Stations -- 3.4.2 System Mapping -- 3.4.3 Reflecting on Your Work -- 3.5 Sea Turtles: Solutions -- 3.5.1 Small Group Guided Worksheets -- 3.5.2 Additional Sources -- 3.5.3 Role Playing |
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3.5.4 Reflecting on Your Work -- 3.6 Sea Turtles: Final Challenge -- References -- 4: Biodiversity in the Puget Sound -- 4.1 Environmental Issue -- 4.2 Background Information -- 4.2.1 The Problem -- 4.2.2 The Role of Climate Change -- 4.2.3 Solutions -- 4.2.4 Unit Challenge -- 4.2.5 The Scenario -- 4.2.6 Relevant Facts and Assumptions -- 4.2.7 Build Your Foundational Knowledge -- 4.2.8 Preparation Assessment Quiz -- 4.3 Puget Sound: Discovery -- 4.3.1 Independent Research -- 4.3.2 Literature Share: Reciprocal Instruction -- 4.3.3 Think-Compare-Share |
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4.3.4 Reflecting on your Work -- 4.4 Puget Sound: Analysis -- 4.4.1 Rotating Stations -- 4.4.2 System Mapping -- 4.4.3 Reflecting on Your Work -- 4.5 Puget Sound: Solutions -- 4.5.1 Small Group Guided Worksheets -- 4.5.2 Additional Sources -- 4.5.3 Role Playing -- 4.5.4 Reflecting on Your Work -- 4.6 Puget Sound: Final Challenge -- References -- 5: Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone -- 5.1 Environmental Issue -- 5.2 Background Information -- 5.2.1 The Problem -- 5.2.2 The Role of Climate Change -- 5.2.3 Solutions -- 5.2.4 Unit Challenge -- 5.2.5 The Scenario |
| Summary |
This textbook provides an opportunity for undergraduate students studying the environment to work on addressing real-world environmental problems and practice the disciplinary and professional skills necessary to tackle complex issues. Each of the 12 units that comprise the heart of this workbook-style text focus on a specific environmental challenge directly or indirectly tied to climate change. Students are guided through activities that require them to review relevant environmental content knowledge, practice an array of learning outcome-based skills, evaluate potential solutions, and advocate for action. An important feature of the book is its problem-based approach, using climate change as a common lens through which to view an array of current environmental challenges. Showing students how they might apply their core knowledge and disciplinary skills to identify possible solutions demonstrates the utility of science to inform decision making and builds student competency in learning outcomes common across environmental academic programs. Designed to provide problem-area options to match student interests (from sea turtle conservation to climate migrants to urban heat islands), instructors can choose among units to best engage students, or work through units sequentially to scaffold instruction while building student capacity. Each unit contains activities that focus on: (1) Discovery, where students are guided through exploration to build their knowledge of the issue and prepare a formal Problem Statement; (2) Analysis, where students dig into relevant data and begin to evaluate potential solutions; and (3) Solutions, where students practice their problem solving, decision making and environmental communication skills. Environmental Problem Solving in an Age of Climate Change underscores the pervasive nature of climate change as a common factor in all environmental issues. The book demonstrates how sustainable solutions require the efforts of many people working on smaller, more tangible issues to tackle the grand challenge that climate change presents. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 28, 2024) |
| Subject |
Climate change mitigation.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McIntosh, Alan, author
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| ISBN |
9783031487620 |
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3031487621 |
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