44 Environment and Geography
Open Geography
This website is a resource dedicated to providing high-quality and free online geography resources. There are several relevant textbooks for first-year Geography and Earth Sciences courses, particularly Introduction to Human Geography.
Includes: Several textbooks, mapping assignments, collection of online resources
Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective
This environmental science text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in environmental science, from ecosystems to sustainable development. A review is available.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, summaries
Environmental Biology
This world environmental biology text covers salient issues in the environment using a biological perspective. It covers introductory concepts in environmental biology, from climate change to ozone depletion. Reviews are available.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, summaries
Climate Toolkit
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.
Includes: Activities
Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet
This accessible, incisive, and timely collection of essays brings together a diverse set of expert voices to examine how the Earth’s environment has changed over this past half century, and what lies in store for our planet over the coming fifty years.
Physical Geography
This Lumen Learning covers some of the concepts of first-year physical geography with a balance of application and theory.
Includes: Summaries, examples, videos, and graphics
Introduction to Human Geography
This physical geography text has been positively-reviewed. It covers introductory concepts in human geography, from migration to agriculture. Reviews are available.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, summaries
Fundamentals of Human Geography
This volume is aimed at introducing undergraduate students to the field of human and cultural geography.
Includes: Interactive content
World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
This world geography text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in geography, from North American geography to African geography. Reviews are available.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, summaries
Geographic Information System Basics
This geographic information systems text has been positively-reviewed. It covers introductory concepts in GIS, from augmented maps to vector files. Reviews are available from BC Campus.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, summaries
Nature of Geographic Information
This world GIS text covers introductory concepts in GIS, from data and information geography to integrating geographic data. Reviews are available through the Open Textbook Library and BC Campus.
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, summaries
Introduction to Environmental Science, 2nd ed.
This course uses the basic principles of biology and earth science as a context for understanding environmental policies and resource management practices. Our planet is facing unprecedented environmental challenges, from oil spills to global climate change. In ENSC 1000, you will learn about the science behind these problems; preparing you to make an informed, invaluable contribution to Earth’s future. Reviews are available.
Includes: Study questions, terms lists
The Environment in the Age of the Internet
The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies. Edited by Heike Graf, its focus is on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, shedding light on how these groups tell their distinctive stories of “the environment.”
Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes
This volume provides important evidence and insights about the potential of forests to reducing global hunger and malnutrition, exploring the different roles of landscapes, and the governance approaches that are required for the equitable delivery of these benefits.
Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats: A Practitioner’s Guide
This book provides a framework that managers of natural resources can use to design monitoring programs that will benefit future generations by providing the information needed to make informed decisions.
Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation
This text is designed to introduce the reader to the essential concepts of sustainability. The content is intended to be useful for both a broad-based introductory class on sustainability and as a useful supplement to specialist courses which wish to review the sustainability dimensions of their areas of study.
Includes: Review questions, case studies
GIS & Data Visualization Workshops
This series of workshops for UM students and researchers cover GIS and data visualization topics.
Includes: Activities