Unit 1: Climate Change and Sea Level: Who Are the Stakeholders?
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
How are rising sea levels already influencing different regions? This unit offers case study examples for a coastal developing country (Bangladesh), a major coastal urban area (southern California), and an island ...

Module 4: Food and Water
Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College
In this module, students will be introduced to the connections between water and agriculture. The first part of the module (4.1) explores how water is essential for growing food and how water is embedded in all of ...

Food as the Foundation for Healthy Communities
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Cynthia Hewitt, Morehouse College; Akin Akinyemi, Florida State University; Cheryl Young, Heritage University; Bakari McClendon, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Dave Gosselin, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
The movement toward sustainable communities has brought into focus the centrality of food in our everyday lives and its myriad social, economic, and environmental connections. The purpose of this module, Food as ...

Unit 1: Use of Lead in the Environment and Health Impacts on Human Populations
Katrina Korfmacher (University of Rochester), Richard Gragg (Florida A&M University), Martha Richmond (Suffolk University), and Caryl Waggett (Allegheny College)
In Unit 1, students engage in discussion of the historical use and resulting distribution of lead throughout the human environment. Activity 1.1 introduces the systems dynamics linking geology, human use, and human ...

Lead in the Environment
Lead in the Environment Caryl Waggett (Allegheny College) Richard David Gragg III (Florida A&M University) Katrina Smith Korfmacher (University of Rochester) Martha Richmond (Suffolk University) Editor: David Gosselin (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
The Lead in the Environment module is designed to integrate multiple disciplines to inform solutions to the ongoing burden of childhood lead poisoning. This module addresses the systems dynamics of lead within the ...

Module 8.2: Future climate change, population growth, and water issues
Patrick Belmont, Utah State University
What does the future hold? How, when and where might the legacy of our past decisions cause us severe problems in the future? What new problems might we anticipate as a result of climate change and population ...

Module 10: Understanding and Assessing Coastal Vulnerability
David Retchless, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; Nathan Frey, Brown University; Li-San Hung, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; Brent Yarnal, Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St. Erie-Behrend Coll
This module provides an introduction to vulnerability, its three dimensions, and a standard vulnerability assessment tool. It addresses the following policy question: How can policy makers use the concept of ...

Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception
Kate Darby, Western Washington University; Lisa Phillips, Texas Tech University; Michael Phillips, Illinois Valley Community College; Anne Egger, Central Washington University
This module connects students' personal sensory experiences to environmental data collected and analyzed by geoscientists, cultural impacts documented by social scientists, and the communication of ...

Unit 6: Groundwater Availability and Resources
Ruth Hoff, Wittenberg University
In this unit, students address the issue of groundwater demands and environmental justice in the arid Southwest, a region with some of the largest percentages of Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. Students ...

Unit 4: The Water Wars of Cochabamba, Bolivia
Ruth Hoff, Wittenberg University
In this unit, students explore water privatization and freshwater access issues within the geophysical and cultural context of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Students identify topographical features that create rain shadows ...