Coral Reefs and Climate Change
The guide for education and awareness
The CoralWatch team has recently produced a new book “Coral Reefs and Climate Change: The guide for education and awareness”. This book explains the effects of climate change by using coral reefs as an example. Its aim is to inform, educate and enable people to begin to question the future that we are creating right now. It combines some of the latest scientific research with informative imagery to cover topics such as oceanography, coral reef biology, the issues of climate change and suggestions for ways forward. The book is not aimed at scientists but at educators, students, reef enthusiasts, professionals and interested people.
The book focuses on coral reefs, the astonishing abundance of life within them and the impacts of climate change on this beautiful environment. There is hope for reefs but we must act now. Coral reefs are being lost more than five times faster than the rainforest and it is up to us to prevent their continued degradation.
The book comes with a Coral Health Chart and an Activity CD containing: a workbook with 130 individual, classroom, lab and field activities, datasheets, a CoralWatch instructional video, further reading and education materials. The activities and extra resources allow you to explore what is happening and why, discover positive solutions and the steps we need to take immediately to safeguard reef systems worldwide.
Features
- Personal views from leading scientists
- Based on latest possible research
- Over 600 photos, illustrations, maps, conceptual models and graphs
- Not only the issues but also solutions
| Coral Reefs and Climate Change
The guide for education and awareness
Craig Reid, Justin Marshall, Dave Logan and Diana Kleine
256 pages, 205 x 260 mm
Publisher : CoralWatch, The University of Queensland, Brisbane (2009)
Paperback – ISBN 9780646523606 – AU $49.50 (includes $4.50 GST)
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This book has now been translated in Bahasa Indonesia and will be available soon Terumbu Karang dan Perubahan Iklim
Panduan Pendidikan dan Pembangunan Kesadartahuan
Adapted from the english by: Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kelautan dan Perikanan
Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan, Indonesia
272 pages, 205 x 260 mm
Publisher : CoralWatch, The University of Queensland, Brisbane (2009)
Paperback – ISBN 9780646556192 – AU $22.50
Read press releases Includes Coral Health Chart The Coral Health Chart is a flexible tool that allows you to contribute to a global reef database by monitoring coral health in the field or classroom by simply comparing the colour of a coral with the colours on the chart and recording the matching codes. The CD contains several hands-on activities you can complete even without access to the reef. To achieve better understanding of coral health, for instance, you can use the Virtual Reef poster with your Coral Health Chart. Includes Activity CD (english only)
- Workbook with 130 activities for the classroom, field or lab. It is useful for teachers; however is not just for schools, but for anyone wishing to explore the reef
- CoralWatch monitoring materials: data sheets, seminar, DIY kit, coral photos
- Education materials: conceptual models, reef life ID charts, virtual tools
- Project AWARE fact sheets
- Further reading materials: papers, manuals
- Download full contents page of the Activity CD as pdf
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A powerful tool for information, usable even without access to the reef!