Textbook and Study Guide - Purchase in Bookstore:

Skinner, Brian J. and Stephen C. Porter. 1999. The Blue Planet: an Introduction to Earth System Science. 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Optional - Study Guide for Skinner & Porter's The Blue Planet, by Michael A. Jordan, Wiley Publishers.

Wiley - GeoSystems Today: an Interactive Casebook.  Wiley Publishers.

Other Materials for research & background reading:

• Alvarez, L.W. 1983. Experimental Evidence that an Asteroid Impact led to the Extinction of many Species 65 Million Years Ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 80, 627-42. Washington, D.C.
• Alvarez, L.W., W. Alvarez, F. Asaro, and H.V. Michel. 1980. Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction. Science, 208 (june), 1095-1108.
• American Geophysical Union. 1989. Understanding Climate Change. Geophysical Monograph Series, Vol. 52.
• Arizpe, Lourdes, M. Priscilla Stone, and David C. Major. 1994. Population & Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
• Barry, Roger G., and Chorley, Richard J. 1992. Atmosphere, Weather and Climate. Routledge.
• Bjornerud, Marcia. 1995. Laboratory Manual. (For required text). Miami University, Ohio.
• Bolt, Bruce A. 1992. Earthquakes. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.
• Broecker, Wallace S. 1985. How to Build a Habitable Planet. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University. Eldigio Press, LDGO Box #2, Palisades, NY 10964.
• Brown, Lester R., and Wolf, Edward C. 1984. Soil Erosion: Quiet Crisis in the World Economy. Worldwatch Paper 60. Worldwatch Institute.
• Burton, Ian and Robert Kates, and Gilbert White. 1993. The Environment as Hazard. Guilford Press.
• Capra, Fritjof.. 1982. The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
• Christopherson, Robert W. 1995. Elemental Geosystems: A Foundation in Physical Geography. Prentice Hall.
• Commins, N.F. 1993. What if the Moon didn't Exist? Voyages to Earths that might have been. New York: Harper Collins.
• Craig, James R., Vaughan, David J., and Skinner, Brian J. 1988. Resources of the Earth. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Dawson, Alastair G. 1991. Ice Age Earth. Routledge.
• Duxbury, Alyn C., and Duxbury, Alison B. 1994. An Introduction to the World' s Oceans. Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown, 4th ed.
• Earth System Sciences Committee, NASA Advisory Council. 1988. Earth System Science, a Closer View. Office of Interdisciplinary Earth Studies, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
• Emiliani, Cesare. 1992. Planet Earth, Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Flavin, Christopher, and Nicholas Lenssen. 1994. Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution. Washington: Worldwatch Institute.
• Gore, Al. 1993. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. New York, New York: Plume.
• Goude, Andrew. 1993. The Nature of the Environment. (Third Edition). Blackwell Publishers.
• Gould, Stephen J. 1987. Time s Arrow, Time s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Gould, Stephen J. 1989. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Graedel, T.E., and Paul J. Crutzen. 1993. Atmospheric Change: An Earth Systems Perspective. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.
• Greely, Ronald. 1994. Planetary Landscapes. New York: Chapman & Hall.
• Gurney, R.J. and J.L. Foster, and C.L. Parkinson. 1993. Atlas of Satellite Observations related to Global Change. Cambridge University Press.
• Hansson, Lennart. 1992. Ecological Principles of Nature Conservation. Elsevier Applied Science.
• Harte, J. 1988. Consider a Spherical Cow - A Course in Environmental Problem-Solving. Mill Valley, California: University Science Books.
• Hartmann, Dennis. 1994. Global Physical Climatology. Academic Press.
• Hastings, H.M., and G. Sugihara, 1993. Fractals - A User's Guide for the Natural Sciences. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Hidore, John J., and Oliver, John E. 1993. Climatology: An Atmospheric Science. New York: Macmillan Publishing.
• Holland, Heinrich and Ulrich Peterson. 1995. Living Dangerously: The Earth, Its Resources, and the Environment. Princeton University Press
• Hunter, Malcolm. 1995. Fundamentals of Conservation Biology. Blackwell Science, Inc.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 1991. Climate Change: The IPCC Response Strategies. Island Press.
• Johnston, R.J., Peter J. Taylor, and Michael J. Watts. 1995. Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
• Laing, David. 1991. The Earth System: An Introduction to Earth Science. William C. Brown Publishers.
• Lazlo, E. 1972. The Systems View of the World. New York, New York: George Braziller, Inc.
• Leggett, Jeremy. 1990. Global Warming, The Greenhouse Report. Oxford University Press.
• Lorenz, E., 1963a. Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 20, 130-41.
• Lorenz, E., 1963b. The Mechanics of Vacillation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 20, 448-64.
• Lorenz, E., 1984. Irregularity: a Fundamental Property of the Atmosphere. Tellus, 36A, 98-110.
• Lorenz, E., 1994. The Essence of Chaos. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.
• Lovelock, J. 1972. Gaia as seen through the Atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment, 6, 579-580.
• Lovelock, J. 1979. Gaia, a New Look at Life on Earth. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
• Lovelock, J. 1983. Daisy World: a Cybernetic Proof of the Gaia Hypothesis. Coevolution Quarterly 38, 66-72.
• Lovelock, J. 1988. The Ages of Gaia. New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
• Lovelock, J. 1991. Healing Gaia - Practical Medicine for the Planet. New York, New York: Harmony Books.
• Mackenzie, Fred T. & Judith A. Mackenzie. 1995. Our Changing Planet: an Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change. Prentice Hall.
• McKinney, Michael L. and Robert M. Schoch. 1996. Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions. West Publishing Co.
• Margulis, L., and D. Sagan. 1988. A Garden of Microbial Delights - A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World. Boston, Massachusetts: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
• Margulis, Lynn, and Olendzenski, Lorraine, eds. 1992. Environmental Evolution: Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• McNeely, Jeffrey A. 1990. Conserving the World's Biological Diversity. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute.
• Meyer, V.J., and R.E. Armstrong, 1990. What every 17-year old should know about Planet Earth: The Report of a Conference of Educators and Geoscientists. Science Education, 72(2), 155-165.
• Moores, E.M., ed. 1990. Shaping the Earth: Tectonics of Continents and Oceans. Scientific American Readings. New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.
• Mungall, Constance, and Digby J. McLaren, eds. 1990. Planet Under Stress: The Challenge of Global Change. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
• National Research Council. 1991. Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press.
• National Research Council. 1992. Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions. National Research Council.
• National Research Council. 1992, Committee on Status and Research Objectives in the Solid-Earth Sciences. 1993. Solid-Earth Sciences and Society. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
• Nisbet, E.G. 1991. Leaving Eden: To Protect and Manage the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Nuhfer, Edward B., Proctor, Richard J., and Moser, Paul H. 1993. The Citizen s Guide to Geologic Hazards. The American Institute of Professional Geologists.
• Peixoto, J. and A. Oort. 1992. Physics of Climate. American Institute of Physics.
• Primack, Richard B. 1993. Essentials of Conservation Biology. Sinauer Associates.
• Roberts, Neil. 1994. The Changing Global Environment. Blackwell Publishers.
• Ryan, John C. 1992. Life Support: Conserving Biological Diversity. Worldwatch Paper 108. Worldwatch Institute.
• Schlesinger, W.H. 1991. Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
• Schneider, S.H., and P.J. Boston. 1991. Scientists on Gaia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• Scientific American. 1990. Managing Planet Earth: Readings from Scientific American. New York: W.H. Freeman.
• Shonle, J.I. 1975. Environmental Applications of General Physics. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
• Silver, Cheryl Simon. 1992. One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment. National Academy Press.
• Simarsky, L. T. 1992. Volcanism and Climate Change. American Geophysical Union Special Report.
• Skinner, Brian J. and Stephen C. Porter. 1995. The Blue Planet: an Introduction to Earth System Science. John Wiley & Sons.
• Skinner, Brian, J. 1986. Earth Resources. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Somerville, Richard C.J. 1996. The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Stevens, Payson R., and Kelley, Kevin W. 1992. Embracing Earth: New Views of our Changing Planet. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
• Summerfield, Michael A. 1991. Global Geomorphology. Longman Scientific.
• Tilling, Robert I. 1988. How Volcanoes Work. American Geophysical Union.
• Tolba, Mostafa K., El-Kholy, Osama A., El-Hinnawi, E., Holdgate, M.W., McMichael, D.F. and Munn, R.E., eds. 1992. The World Environment 1972-1992: Two Decades of Challenge. London: Chapman & Hall (United Nations Environment Programmed).
• Trenberth, Kevin. 1992. Climate System Modeling. Cambridge University Press.
• Turco, Richard. 1996. Earth Under Siege--From Air Pollution to Global Change. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
• Turner II, B.L. et al. 1990. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years. Cambridge University Press.
• Turner II, B.L, and William Myer. 1994. Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Unviersity Press.
• Turcotte, D.L. 1992. Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics. Cambridge, UK: University Press.
• Watson, A.J., and J.E. Lovelock. 1983. Biological Homeostasis of the Global Environment: the Parable of Daisyworld. Tellus, 35B, 284-289.
• White, Rodney R.. 1993. North-South, and the Environmental Crisis. University of Toronto Press.
• Weinberg, G.M. 1975. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking. New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Weinberg, G.M. and D. Weinberg. 1988. General Principles of Systems Design. New York, New York: Dorset House Publishing.
• Westbroek, P. 1991. Life as a Geological Force. New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
• World Resources Institute. 1994. World Resources--a Guide to the Global Environment: People and the Environment. World Resources Institute.
• World Resources Institute. 1996. World Resources 1996-1997: A guide to the Global Environment--The Urban Environment. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute.
• Wright, Thomas L., and Pierson, T.C. 1992. Living with Volcanoes. US Geological Survey Circular 1073, US Geological Survey, Box 25424, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225.
• Wyman, Richard L., ed. 1991. Global Climate Change and Life on Earth. New York: Chapman & Hall.
• Youngquist, W. 1990. Mineral Resources and the Destinies of Nations. Portland, OR: National Book Company.
• Zeilik, Michael. 1994. Conceptual Astronomy. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Zepp, Richard G., ed. 1994. Climate-Biosphere Interactions: Biogenic Emissions and Environmental Effects of Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons