Resilience.Earth

Ben van der Pluijm

University of Michigan

"Contributing to the important debates concerning global environmental change, Earth resources, planetary stewardship and societal adaptation strategies."

This site is always under development. Material from the former Global Change website is included and modified as appropriate.

Focus	Supporting Material
Introduction	Activity: The Challenges We Face
Methods	Activity: Systems Thinking and Feedback Loops
The Setting
Geologic (or Deep) Time	Vignette: Planet Earth-Time, Origin, Evolution
Habitable Planet	Vignette: Planet Earth-Time, Origin, Evolution Activity: The Ecological Footprint Activity: My Food, My Water
Human Population and Demographics	Vignette: Human Population Vignette: Population Growth Activity: Population Growth and Global Society
Resilience and Sustainability	Activity: The Resilience Documentary Project
The Needs
Food	Vignette: World's Food and Fisheries Vignette: Land Use Vignette: Deforestation Activity: Food Security
Water	Vignette: Global Water Vignette: World's Fresh Water Supply Activity: Water
Air	Vignette: Atmosphere and Oceans
Energy Resources	Vignette: Energy Resources and Use Activity: Energy Resources-Data Analysis
Climate Change and Impacts	Vignette: Greenhouse Gases and Earth’s Energy Balance Vignette: Climates of the Past and Present Vignette: Future Climate and Impacts Activity: Watch and discuss National Geographic's documentary "Before the Flood" (2016) At: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90CkXVF-Q8M or https://archive.org/details/youtube-90CkXVF-Q8M Activity: Climate Analysis from Vostok Ice Core Data
Mineral Resources	Vignette (USGS): Do We Take Minerals for Granted?
The Challenges
Geologic Hazards	Vignette: Active Earth Activity: Earthquake Recurrence and Probability
Hydrologic Hazards
Atmospheric Hazards
Hazards and Risk
Economics and Equity
Human Era: the Anthropocene	Reading (Earth's Future): Hello Anthropocene, Goodbye Holocene Podcast (Michigan Radio): Move aside Holocene
Additional Topics
Origin of Life	Reading (BBC): How did life begin?
Deforestation	Vignette (NPR's Look At This): Rain forest was here

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