Biodiversity Loss in the Age of the Sixth Mass Extinction was co-authored by undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) while exploring issues of extinction and conservation of biodiversity. The book highlights key interests and insights of current students in their quest to create a better world.

Environmental, Social, Local

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Climate Lessons was co-authored by first-year undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute while exploring the influences of Earth systems and human systems on climate change and the communities at most risk. The book highlights key interests and insights of current students in their quest to create a better world. Cover: Kris Krüg, World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth - Cochabamba, Bolivia, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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Climate Lessons was co-authored by first-year undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute while exploring the influences of Earth systems and human systems on climate change and the communities at most risk. The book highlights key interests and insights of current students in their quest to create a better world.

Cover: Kris Krüg, World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth – Cochabamba, Bolivia, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Word Count: 47609

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Anthropogenic climate change is one of the, if not the most, pressing issues of our times. The problems that it causes range across many social and environmental domains from habitat and species loss and displacement to the more human and social concerns and issues of access to water, sea level rise that affects coastal communities, to economic degradation as a result of the aforementioned and other connected issues such as increased frequency of storms, droughts, wildfires, and the like. We also know that the affects of climate change are not distributed evenly across populations- that many will and do feel the negative effects of this slow developing problem earlier and more intensely than others based on where they are located both geographically and within economic and other socio-cultural hierarchies. We also know that recently, there is a marked effort to begin to move away from simply decrying the horrors of climate change to a continued recognition of those horrors as they exist now and into the future alongside attempts to begin to come to terms with the changing climate and to rethink the ways that our social and environmental relations and communities are organized with an eye toward both adapting to these changes and mitigating further damage. There is, however, much work to be done. This book was co-authored by undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute while exploring the influences of Earth systems and human systems on climate change and the communities at most risk in an interdisciplinary project-based first year course. This course attempts to bring together knowledge of the science of ecological and climate systems and their changing status with knowledge of the social and communal structures within which these systems are embedded and through which they have been influenced. The book highlights key interests and insights of current students in their quest to think through these issues and to create a better world.

Current Challenges in Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 1 is the third book created by undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts (USA). The series examines the causes and consequences of global biodiversity loss and species extinction.What's new? This open text format promotes the adaptation of materials. After all, biodiversity loss and conservation efforts are rapidly changing, and this information must be updated to stay relevant and accessible.Citation: Bakermans, M.H., L. Hanly, and W. San Martín, Eds. 2023. Current Challenges in Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA. https://doi.org/10.55900/n3bqx5fpThis book is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0..

Edited by Marja Bakermans, Mickaela Gunnison, and William San Martin

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Extinction Stories was co-authored by undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute while exploring issues of extinction and conservation of biodiversity. The book highlights key interests and insights of current students in their quest to create a better world. Cover image: Elph painting on May Lane, JAM Project, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Extinction Stories was co-authored by undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute while exploring issues of extinction and conservation of biodiversity. The book highlights key interests and insights of current students in their quest to create a better world.

Cover image: Elph painting on May Lane, JAM Project, CC BY-SA 2.0

Word Count: 77875

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