APN: The Asia-Pacific Network For Global Change Research An intergovernmental network for the promotion of global environmental change research and links between science and policy making in the Asia-Pacific Region. http://www.apn.gr.jp/
OCN 310 - Global Environmental Change OCN/OEST/MET 310 global environmental change Focus Area ContemporaryEthical Issues Fall, 2002 MWF, 9301020AM Lecture Marine http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/courses_html/OCN310/
Extractions: Global environmental change is a subject area of considerable interest today. Change can be rapid and threatening; thus, the subject has forced itself before the world and its citizenry. It is now being addressed regularly by scientists, teachers, policymakers, economists, sociologists, lawyers, and the general public. The subject matter involves both the physiochemical and biological nature of change and the effects and consequences of natural and human-induced change for ecosystems, humans, and human infrastructures. The unifying theme of this course is consideration of both natural and human-induced environmental change, with emphasis on the latter. Earths ecosphere or exogenic systemthe Earth surface system of land, water, biota, air, ice, and sedimentshas always been in a dynamic state of change. Change is probably more characteristic of the planet than constancy.
Global Environmental Change (GB) global environmental change Please find more detailed informationon the programme at the global environmental change Web site. http://www.iclei.org/europe/economy/research/GEC.htm
Extractions: Global Environmental Change Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change The programme was structured into five broad topic areas: In its early stages, the programmes biggest concern was with major global environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity. Later, research increasingly focused on the implementation of sustainable development and smaller-scale measures and processes at local, national and regional levels - such as waste management, water pollution and air pollution. While many projects worked in the UK, studies were also carried out in developing countries, with particular emphasis on Africa.
Extractions: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Human beings are now making profound changes to the environment on a global scale by altering landscapes, the atmosphere, and the oceans. The science aimed at understanding these changes has grown from research, primarily in the physical sciences, aimed at understanding climate change towards a synthetic global change science that also incorporates ecological and social sciences. Global change science is focused on the accurate characterization of the vulnerability and resilience of natural and managed ecosystems and human society to global change. (Our Changing Planet: the FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program). Much of the research in this area is conducted under the auspices of the multi-agency U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Because there are major policy implications of this research, new mechanisms are needed to provide useful scientific products that contribute to the information needs of decisionmakers. The importance and popularity of this topic led to the formation of two concurrent and independent sections. Each section (A and B) developed its own set of recommendations.
Global Environmental Change global environmental change Fall 1999 ERTH4500; IENV-4500 Prof. Abrajano. Lecture1 Introduction, Scope of global environmental change. http://www.rpi.edu/~abrajt/GEC.html
Extractions: Lecture Notes and Library Reserves Administrative Info return to top of page Classes meet Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 to 11:50 AM in the Science Center building (SC 3W13). Prof. Abrajano will have office hours from 1-2 PM on Tuesday and Thursday in MRC-314. At other times, he is likely to be found in his lab, MRC-327. He can be reached by phone at x6036 (voice mail) or x 2354 (lab) and by email at abrajt@rpi.edu No TA for the course. Grades will be assigned on the basis of two exams (worth 25% each of the final grade), 3 written assignments (worth 5% each of the final grade), and a short paper (manuscript is worth 25% of the final grade) and oral presentation (to be presented in the final quarter of the semester and worth 10% of the final grade). An extra grade of up to 5 % will be awarded to all students that regularly participate in class discussions. Exams are tentatively scheduled for September 30 and November 4 Books and References
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The laboratory focuses on research and development related to waste management, environmental restoration, global environmental change, energy and national security. Includes information on business partnerships, facilities, news, publications, community involvement, jobs, education programs, and contact information. http://www.pnl.gov/
LUCC Newsletter 3 - Vulnerability And Global Environmental Change Vulnerability and global environmental change Exploring differences in our commonfuture (s) the meaning of vulnerability to global environmental change . http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be/LUCC/publications/luccnews/news3/coleen.html
Extractions: Human-induced changes in atmospheric composition, climate and land use broadly constitute global environmental change. One of the components of global environmental change is human dimensions including human-induced alteration of the biophysical systems and the consequent effect on human welfare (Parry, 1996). Vulnerability, a term often loosely bandied about in both the development literature and relief field, is a fundamental aspect of global environmental change. While the term vulnerability is used in a number of contexts (e.g. medical science and biophysical sciences) it is increasingly being viewed through the lens of the social sciences (Chambers, 1989; Liverman, 1990, 1992; Dow, 1992; Watts and Bohle, 1993; Blaikie et al ., 1994; Kasperson
Biological Invasions As Global Environmental Change SeptemberOctober 1996 Biological Invasions as global environmental change. PeterM. Vitousek, Carla M. D'Antonio, Lloyd L. Loope and Randy Westbrooks. Keywords. http://www.americanscientist.org/articles/96articles/Vitousek.html
Extractions: September-October 1996 September-October 1996 Biological Invasions as Global Environmental Change Peter M. Vitousek, Carla M. D'Antonio, Lloyd L. Loope and Randy Westbrooks exotic species, ecological change, biological extinction, biodiversity, disease vectors, forests, national parks, zebra mussel. When we think of human actions that cause global change we usually consider such activities as changes in land and water usage or the introduction of chemical pollutants into the atmosphere. These practices are believed to be altering climates and habitats across the globe. There is, however, another way in which humanity excels in disturbing the ecological balance of the planetthat is by introducing plant and animal species into new environments. Our authors have catalogued the dramatic effects of various plants and animals that have been introduced (accidently or intentionally) by human activity in the past 200 years or so. They conclude that this largely unrecognized disturbance of the planet's ecosystems may have consequences that are every bit as significant as humanity's alterations of the land, water and atmosphere. Caption : Invasive spread of the golden apple snail ( red ) threatens the rice crops of several countries in Southeast Asia. The snail was initially introduced to Taiwan from Argentina in 1980 as a potential source of protein. Within 10 years it had spread north to the Korean peninsula and south to Indonesia. Ironically, the snail not only consumes a significant proportion of the annual rice crop, it has failed to be a palatable source of protein in the Asian diet. The snail has proved to be a costly experiment in the redistribution of a species. (Adapted from R. L. Naylor, in press.)
Present And Future Of Modeling Global Environmental Change Integrating Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors in Modeling Impacts of GlobalEnvironmental Change G. Fischer Present and Future of Modeling Global http://www.terrapub.co.jp/e-library/toyota/
_Æ«Zp¤z[y[W Researches strategies to ensure stable food supplies under global environmental change. http://ss.niaes.affrc.go.jp/
Global Environmental Change Sharing global environmental change Sharing by Mary Jane Bell LyonsDecatur NortheastHigh School, NE. Go to NIGEC Educational Outreach. Go to NESEN. http://nesen.unl.edu/lessons/envirchange/glsharing.html
Extractions: Global Environmental Change Sharing by Mary Jane Bell Lyons-Decatur Northeast High School, NE Go to NIGEC Educational Outreach Go to NESEN GRADE LEVEL: 9TH Science (Suitable for Middle School-Secondary) KEY CONCEPTS: Global Environmental Change from more than one perspective. Sharing of information by more than one section of science. The students had completed the study of climate in a weather textbook. This exercise could also be used in a social studies classroom. The lesson could be used as an introduction to the study of weather and climate. The research on the lesson was outlined in class and students were in the library as a group while I attended a school conference. The substitute teacher monitored the group and the library staff knew the expectations. The greatest difficulty seemed to be to get students to correctly document their sources. MATERIALS: Notebook or unlined paper. Large sheet of paper to post results after reports are written. Access to media materials.
GCRIO - College And University Global Change Courses The course descriptions, syllabi, and course home pages listed below demonstratethe range of global environmental change studies available at colleges and http://www.gcrio.org/edu/highered.html
Extractions: The course descriptions, syllabi, and course home pages listed below demonstrate the range of global environmental change studies available at colleges and universities. If you know of an online course that should be listed, please contact the GCRIO at help@gcrio.org Bethel College and Seminary Boston University California State University Long Beach Columbia University Cornell University Emporia State University Flinders University (Australia) Florida State University Harvard University ESPP 90f: Global Change and Human Health H0703.0/EH278A,B: Human Health and Global Environmental Change
GECHSUCI NEW! GECHS Professional Report global environmental change and Human SecurityConceptual and Theoretical Issues is now available online. NEW! http://www.gechs.uci.edu/
Extractions: Featured Links GECHS Project Homepage IHDP Website GECHS-UCI was established in 1999 to explore the ways in which environmental change affects the lives and welfare of individuals and groups around the world, especially in developing countries. learn more... News and Events Next GECHS-UCI Research Team Meeting Friday April 4th at 1:00 pm in 343 MPAA Bldg (the parking lot building). UPDATE! Professor Richard Matthew has been featured in Today@UCI as part of a "Special media experts advisory: Conflict between the United States and Iraq." Click here to learn more. UPDATE! We are pleased to announce that Human Security and the Mine Ban Treaty has been accepted for publication by SUNY Press. We expect the volume to be published in November of 2003. UPDATED!
Global Environmental Change global environmental change A NEW WORLD VIEW, Back to Contents.One of the most ambitious projects of its kind, the Department's http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/news/esreport99/global.htm
Extractions: One of the most ambitious projects of its kind, the Department's Global Environmental Change Program (GECP) was founded in 1996 using seed money provided by the University's Board of Visitors. The GECP now has a $1.5 million annual budget funded by the federal government. GECP researchers study the large-scale dynamics of the Earth's surface and both monitor and mathematically model these dynamics as they proceed under current and altered environmental conditions. Directed by W.W. Corcoran Professor Hank Shugart Some examples: In April 1998, GECP hosted two scientists from Africa for a course in web site design and Internet applications for science. Not only did they learn how to make web sites, they returned to Africa with a web site for their project to present to the Minister of the Environment of the Central African Republic. In response to a request from Vice President Al Gore and the Office of Science and Technology, GECP, in conjunction with the NASA EOS-AM Data Visualization Team, created a Global Fire Atlas web site (
Geography 102 Geog. 102 global environmental change Winter 2000, 900950 Mon, Wed, Fri, 207 Chapman Department of Geography, University of Oregon http://geography.uoregon.edu/bartlein/geog102/
GEOG 143 -- Global Environmental Change global environmental change Geography 143 Spring 200111001150 MWF, 129 Grayson Hall, plus 1 lab/wk. http://geography.uoregon.edu/bartlein/geog143/
