Resources on Sustainability in Geoscience

College and University-affiliated:

Appalachian State University - Leveraging opportunities for campus sustainability: a case study of water resources (Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, 2009, v.5, no.2)

Cornell College - A Blueprint for Sustainability - Executive Summary

University of Alaska-Fairbanks - Resilience and Adaptation Program

Emory University - The Piedmont Project

Macalester College - Sustainability Office

University of Minnesota - National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics:

• Deltas: Sustainability Under Stress
• Streams - Research Overview
• Managing Sediment in the Minnesota River Basin (case study)

Columbia University:

• Center for International Earth Science Information Network
• The Earth Institute

Arizona State University: Global Institute of Sustainability

Utrecht University - Copernicus Institute

• Environmental Science Program
• Publications on Land Use, Environment, and Ecosystem Functioning

Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science:

• Hydrology of a Dynamic Earth - 2007 report

Professional and governmental organizations:

American Association for the Advancement of Science:

• Forum for Sustainability Science Programs
• Science Careers in Sustainability
• Survey of Sustainability Programs

American Quaternary Association - A Vision for Geomorphology and Quaternary Science

American Association of Geographers -My Community, Our Earth: "Geographic Learning for Sustainable Development"

American Geological Institute -Sustainable Development and the Use of Nonrenewable Resources (Geotimesarticle)

National Science Foundation:

• GEO Vision - 2009 report on sustainability in the geosciences

Geological Society of America:

• 2000 Presidential Address: Grand Challenges in Earth and Environmental Sciences: Science, Stewardship, and Service for the Twenty-First Century
• 2009 Presidential Address: O brave new world: Geoscientists in an emerging green economy
• Position Statement on Integrating Geoscience with Sustainable Land-Use Management

Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors

General Resources on sustainability:

Mineral Resources and Sustainability - 1996 report from the National Research Council Committee on Earth Resources

USDA: Sustainable Development

Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy - An open access e-journal for sustainable solutions

Water Innovation Centre from the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education:

Print Resources:

"Earth System Analysis for Sustainability" - MIT Press, 2006. More info available here.

"Sustainability of Energy and Water through the 21st Century " - Kansas Geological Survey and AAPG, 2002. Available here