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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813190303321

Titolo

Future Earth : advancing civic understanding of the anthropocene / / Diana Dalbotten, Gillian Roehrig, Patrick Hamilton, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : American Geophysical Union : , : Wiley, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-85419-5

1-118-85428-4

1-118-85426-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Collana

Geophysical Monograph Series ; ; 230

Classificazione

SCI019000

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Geological time

Global environmental change

Communication in science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  Future Earth--Advancing Civic Understanding of the Anthropocene Acknowledgements Preface Patrick Hamilton Chapter 1. Welcome to the Anthropocene Patrick Hamilton Chapter 2. The Anthropocene and the Framework for K-12 Science Education Fred N. Finley Chapter 3. Teacher Professional Development in the Anthropocene Devarati Bhattacharya, Gillian Roehrig, Anne Kern, and Mindy Howard Chapter 4. Climate Literacy and Scientific Reasoning Shiyu Liu, Keisha Varma, and Gillian Roehrig Chapter 5. Evaluation and Assessment of Civic Understanding of Planet Earth Julie C. Libarkin Chapter 6. Community-Driven Research in the Anthropocene Rajul Pandya Chapter 7. Geoscience Alliance: Building Capacity to Use Science for Sovereignty in Native Communities Nievita Bueno Watts, Wendy Smythe, Emily Geraghty Ward, Diana Dalbotten, Vanessa Green, Merv Tano, and Antony Berthelote Chapter 8. New Voices: The Role of Undergraduate Geoscience Research in Supporting Alternative Perspectives on the Anthropocene Diana Dalbotten, Rebecca Haaker-Santos, and Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer Chapter 9. Shaping the Public



Dialogue on Climate Change William Spitzer Chapter 10. Opportunities for Communicating Ocean Acidification to Visitors at Informal Science Education Institutions Douglas Meyer and Bill Mott Chapter 11. City-wide Collaborations for Urban Climate Education Steven Snyder, Rita Mukherjee Hoffstadt, Lauren B. Allen, Kevin Crowley, Daniel Bader, and Radley Horton Chapter 12. On Bridging the Journalism/Science Divide Bud Ward .

Sommario/riassunto

"Future Earth is a valuable practical guide for scientists from all disciplines including geoscientists, museum curators, science educators, and public policy makers"--