Author: Amy Liao
Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions (Veerabhadran, Aines and Auffhammer, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA)
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 …
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 …
Introduction to Climate Science. 1st Edition (Schmittner, 2018) (CC BY-NC-SA)Read More »
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 …
Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action (Granshaw, 2020) (CC BY-NC)Read More »
The intent of this textbook is to update and build upon the body of knowledge that exists within the geographic discipline. Unless otherwise noted within each chapter of the textbook, this body of work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)Note: The version by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Services is unpublished as of 12/31/24. The link goes to the version by Saylor Academy, an exact copy. World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization is designed for students to experience and study as much of the …
Accessed June 2021. Part of the Open Geography eTextbook Collection. This eTextbook is freely available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. All content will be mobile-friendly for smartphone and tablet use and could be used in face-to-face, flipped, blended/hybrid, or online teaching environments.
See site for information regarding ancillaries. Accessed June 2021. Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach is a free eText designed for students enrolled in survey courses in Human/Cultural Geography or US Geography. This textbook is used by students at California State University, Northridge, and by students at several dozen other colleges and universities. Some …
Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach (Graves, 2020) (CC BY-NC)Read More »
Physical Geography Lab Manual (Ray et al., 2020) (CC BY-NC 4.0) – Google DocsManual for Physical Geography, Lab Course – Canvas CommonsManual for Physical Geography, Lab Course – Word Doc This peer-reviewed lab manual includes twenty lab exercises designed for California community college students.
Accessed June 2021. This lab manual is intended to be used in introductory physical geography lab courses. It is tailored to the Antelope Valley College program, but can be adapted for use elsewhere. Certain labs reference The Essential World Atlas, and Physical Geography, both published by Oxford University Press. Other textbooks can be substituted as …
Physical Geography Lab Manual (Pesses, Welsh, and Adams, 2017) (CC BY 4.0) Read More »