Geog3330

Geography 3330 - University of Utah

Urban Environmental Geography

send email to: Genevieve Atwood

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Supplemental Resources

After Class Coaching

INTRO TO EARTHSYSTEMS and URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY

GEOSPHERE

HYDROSPHERE

ATMOSPHERE

BIOSPHERE

ANTHROSHPERE

ISSUES

SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES also of use for Geog/Envst5810

Under construction. Links to left are disfunctional... below are some links helpful for Spring Semester 2010..

FOR YEAR 2010 -- I link to Wikipedia and to Encyclopedia Britanica when I want information for the lab assignments -- or just to give a better lecture... or I just "google" a few key words. Here's info from an extraordinarily helpful librarian at Marriott Library on how to link to Encyclopedia Britanica... and other sources. ... Very helpful... both the sources and how to access them.

From Barbara Cox, Marriott Library.

We have Encyclopedia Britanica online http://www.search.eb.com/

Also... a set of dictionaries from Oxford University Press that includes environmental volumes http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html?authstatuscode=200

Companion Encyclopedia of Geography http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=40339

another one which might work for your global systems class is Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0122270908

Most of these are listed in our database list. How to access the database list?

Use drop-down menu "Select Database by Type"

Students need to be on campus when they access these or logon to campus network using one of the methods listed at "Off campus access" on our home page. http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.

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Note.. that url was so long I had to break it in two parts... so paste it as the address.

Let me know how it goes.

LINKS for year 2010 - ATLAS - map collections that may provide info about the communities you're studying.

LINK to atlasses for countries other than USA LINK this may include topography, hydrology, etc.

For 2010 -- consider checking out a text from Marriott Library to serve as a reference for some of the science that is behind your Encounter Geosystems labs. Christopherson's Elemental Geosystems is on reserve, 6th edition, 2010. I don't know what earlier editions the library has. Texts that date from 2000 AD, even from 1995, with titles such as Physical Geography, Earth Systems, Dynamic Earth... will be just fine for your purposes. Look up a couple titles, head to the stacks, look at what's there, check it out for the semester... and you'll have yourself another resource for understanding why and how cities are impacted and impact Earth systems.

Cunningham and Cunningham, 2004 is good on biology and stresses inquiry.

Fred T. Mackenzie, 2003. Our Changing Earth, an Introduction to Earth system science and global environmental change, 580 pages.

Ernst (ed), 2000. Earth Systems, and Skinner et al, 1999, The Blue Planet are good introductory texts.

PLEASE share suggestions for resource materials for this class including e-links. I'm particularly interested in websites with clear explanations of air pollution, water pollution, and Western U.S. storm patterns.

LINKS: How to read critically.

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