Universities on Fire : Higher Education in the Climate Crisis /

"Scientists agree that we are on the precipice of a global climate crisis. How will it transform colleges and universities? In 2019, intense fires in the San Francisco Bay Area closed universities and drove afflicted people to shelter at other campuses. At the same time, extraordinary fires rav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Alexander, Bryan, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Environmental sciences > Study and teaching.
Environmental education.
Communication in the environmental sciences.
Climatic changes > Study and teaching.
Climatic changes.
ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design.
EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Academia wades into the Anthropocene
  • Part 1: Universities on Fire, Under Water
  • 1. Uprooting the campus
  • 2. Doing research in the Anthropocene
  • 3. Teaching to the end of the world
  • Part 2: The World, The College, and the Global Emergency
  • 4. Town gown
  • 5. The world
  • Part 3: Choices for Universities in a World on Fire
  • 6. Best and worst case
  • 7. What is to be done
  • Notes
  • Index.

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