Climate Education

Resources for your climate change curriculum

Climate change affects local communities. These tools and teaching resources support environmental and sustainability education.

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A complete system for climate change curriculum

Climate change affects everyone and is a key factor in many course topics. Geographic information system (GIS) technology allows you to quantify and communicate climate risk and vulnerability.

Students and researchers can access ArcGIS in the lab, the field, and at home to work on projects they are passionate about. Esri’s sustainability teaching resources help you provide them with the knowledge to create resiliency plans in their future workplaces.  

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Use GIS to address climate change impacts

  • Coastal flooding

    Much of the world's population is clustered along coastlines. GIS helps students examine flooding scenarios, monitor flood impacts, and find solutions to reduce risk in these communities.

  • Inland flooding

    A World Bank study found that 1.47 billion people around the world are at risk of facing inland floods. Discover data and methods to understand the problem and propose innovative solutions.  

  • Drought

    People's health is at risk, and regions are socially and economically challenged when water is scarce. GIS provides quantitative tools to help teach about changes in drought patterns over space and time.

  • Wildfire

    People increasingly live in wildfire-prone areas. Learn why regions are threatened by wildfires and how residents’ risk can be mitigated with these curricular resources, real-time feeds, and other data tools.

  • Extreme heat

    As temperatures continue to rise, extreme heat increasingly impacts entire communities, regions, and countries, especially vulnerable populations. Explore weather and climate data at scale to understand this issue and how to combat it.

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ArcGIS StoryMaps

Visualizing data to predict future coastal floods

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Old Dominion University, and Esri worked together to study impacts of sea level rise.

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Resources

  • Climate curriculum materials

    GIS for Climate Resilience
    ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World climate data
    ArcGIS Blog: Mapping Greenland ice sheet changes using CryoSat-2 altimetry data

  • Tools

    Esri Drought Aware
    Esri Wildfire Aware
    NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer
    Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Wildfire ArcGIS Hub

  • Community

    Science Blog Esri Community
    Oceans, Weather, and Climate GIS Forum
    Search for climate resources in Esri Community

  • Journal articles

    Remapping California's wildland urban interface
    Automated mapping process of frontal area and thermal potential indexes
    Climate and biodiversity change constrain the flow of cultural ecosystem services to people
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