04849nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-48762-0 DE-He213 20251030111425.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240213s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031487620 978-3-031-48762-0 10.1007/978-3-031-48762-0 doi GE1-350 RN bicssc SCI026000 bisacsh RN thema Pontius, Jennifer. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 70958 Environmental Problem Solving in an Age of Climate Change [electronic resource] : Volume One: Basic Tools and Techniques / by Jennifer Pontius, Alan McIntosh. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XV, 180 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, 2510-1315 Chapter 1-Foreword -- Chapter 2-Biodiversity -- Chapter 3-Oceans -- Chapter 4-Human population -- Chapter 5-Agriculture / soils -- Chapter 6-Biogeochemical cycles / water quality -- Chapter 7-Air pollution / environmental health -- Chapter 8-Terrestrial ecosystems -- Chapter 9-Waste management / sustainability -- Chapter 10-Energy / environmental policy -- Chapter 11-Urbanization / land use change / resource management -- Chapter 12-Epilogue. 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. . Environment. 65893 Sustainability. 57661 Biodiversity. 70778 Climatology. 62309 Biotic communities. 68627 Environmental Sciences. 61155 Sustainability. 57661 Biodiversity. 70778 Climate Sciences. 67755 Ecosystems. 68632 McIntosh, Alan. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 70959 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031487613 Printed edition: 9783031487637 Printed edition: 9783031487644 Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, 2510-1315 70960 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48762-0 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE 57606 57606