Open Educational Resources for SVCs BASAM Program: Related Topics

The following environmental science sources contribute to the learning of environmental science.  They cover environmental science topics and the science behind ecosystems and the larger-scale environment. 

Environmental science covers many aspects concerning climate, different natural cycles, and climate change.  This includes current issues and human contribution to problems in the past and present day.  

The Ecosphere and Environmental Issues | OER Commons

• Title: The Ecosphere and Environmental Issues
• This text covers ecology and environmental science in a way that highlights concepts that are related to ecology.  Climate change is a topic throughout this text that the reader of this text will find a lot of information concerning climate change.  Additionally, biodiversity is included as a central theme of the text, and the reader will learn about this theme in detail.  The text informs about different types of cycles in ecology and the importance of energy in ecosystems. 

Environmental Science in the 21st century (merlot.org) 

• Title: Environmental Science in the 21^st century
• This text covers environmental science in the context of the 21^st century.  The reader of this text is interested in learning about climate change, resources, and water issues.  Throughout the text, the reader will learn about air quality and pollution and their relation to environmental science.  The reader will also learn about carbon dioxide and the carbon cycle.  The reader will also learn about the water cycle and what this means for the environment.  The reader will understand how different processes function and their implications to environmental science through models.  

The Ecosphere and Environmental Issues | OER Commons

• Title: The Ecosphere and Environmental Issues
• This text covers ecology and environmental science in a way that highlights concepts that are related to ecology.  Climate change is a topic throughout this text that the reader of this text will find a lot of information concerning climate change.  Additionally, biodiversity is included as a central theme of the text, and the reader will learn about this theme in detail.  The text informs about different types of cycles in ecology and the importance of energy in ecosystems. 

Environmental Issues | OER Commons

• Title: Environmental Issues
• This text is primarily related to environmental issues and why they are essential.  The text talks about ecological ethics and how people can think about the environment ethically.  The text also goes into energy and matter relevant to ecosystems.  The reader of this text will be interested in the human impact on the environment.  Additionally, the reader will learn about biodiversity's importance and threats to biodiversity.  The text covers plans to protect the environment and water and pollution problems.  Lastly, renewable energy is covered, and the text provides different renewable energy methods.  The text stresses how important it is to use renewable energy concerning the environment. 

Climate Lessons: Environmental, Social, Local | OER Commons

• Title: Climate Lessons: Environmental, Social, Local

• This text covers climate change concerning environmental science primarily.  The reader of this text is interested in the impacts of climate change and the indicators of climate change topics like rising sea levels and how climate change impacts society and human health.  The text goes into geographical regions and how climate change affects those regions themselves.  The text is also essential for a reader who wants to understand how people in the world experience climate change and why this experience is different geographically. 

Economic sources are sources that contribute to one's learning of economics.  These sources relate to economic concepts, such as macroeconomics and microeconomics.  Additional topics in economics address supply and demand, as well as trade. 

The following sources will assist in understanding economics through a business lens.  

Principles of Macroeconomics | OER Commons

• Title: Principles of Macroeconomics
• This text is about economics, whose primary focus is on the concept of macroeconomics.  The reader of this text will come across many topics in macroeconomics such as scarcity, supply, demand.  The reader will also learn how these concepts are applied or studied in economics.  The text also focuses on markets money itself, which ties into investments.  The government's involvement in economics is also covered, and what a term like inflation means.  If the text reader also wants information about inequality and poverty, this textbook is especially relevant for those topics. 

Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications | OER Commons

• Title: Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications
• This text covers economics and, in more detail, the concept of macroeconomics.  The textbook uses real-world examples of how macroeconomics is a part of economics and highlights the role of macroeconomics.  The reader of this text will find real-world examples that they can relate to and understand to gain relevant insight.  The text also covers problems that give readers an additional type of insight.  Additionally, the text provides visuals that allow readers to understand the different aspects of a particular concept through diagrams and tables. 

Microeconomics for Managers | OER Commons

• Title: Microeconomics for Managers
• This textbook covers microeconomics and how they relate to the concept of economics.  The reader of this text will find the most value in it if they are a potential manager who would like an insight into microeconomics.  The reader of this text is introduced to microeconomics topics relevant to a managerial role, which covers competition, taxes, and the part of the government.  Other issues include utility, supply and demand, and graphs. 

Principles of Managerial Economics (merlot.org)

• Title: Principles of Managerial Economics
• This text covers how economics is related to management.  One of the text's main points is that economics plays an essential role in management, and this is highlighted throughout the text.  The reader of this text would like to gain an insight into how economics plays a role in managerial decisions.  When reading this text, the reader will look at how managers have to consider economics when making decisions.  The text also goes into detail about consumers and how to meet consumers' demands through economic understanding. 

Principles of Economics | OER Commons

• Title: Principles of Economics
• This textbook covers the general concept of economics and is a helpful introduction for readers who want to learn about economics.  This text covers many aspects of economics, such as monopolies, cost, trade, markets, and different perspectives.  The reader of this text will be someone who would like to gain a general understanding of economics while learning about macroeconomics and microeconomics at the same time. 

Ethic sources contribute to one's learning of ethics.  These sources relate to ethical topics and primarily the role of ethics in business.  Ethics in business typically means the practices of a business and determining whether or not they are ethical. Additionally, when studying ethics, there usually are situations in business where one chooses to make an ethical decision or not. 

The resources below address not only business ethics, but the consequences of unethical decisions and how the law applies to unethical business decisions or practices.   

The Business Ethics Workshop (merlot.org)

• Title: The Business Ethics Workshop
• This text relates to ethics in business and why ethics are essential in business.  The reader of this text will find a new understanding of ethical choices and why they are relevant to a business position.  In addition, the reader will have to ask themselves if they think certain companies are ethical and think about if different companies value ethics.  Throughout the text, the reader will learn about the consequences of choices concerning ethical problems.  Lastly, the text covers the social responsibility of corporations and how ethics relates to the environment. 

Business Ethics for Managers (merlot.org)

• Title: Business Ethics for Managers
• This text consists of information related to business ethics for managers.  The text covers practices that are considered unethical and the associated negative impacts of the unethical practices.  The reader of this text would be someone who wants to avoid unethical practices or at least someone who would like to understand what unethical means in business for managers.  One of the main themes of this textbook is monitoring standards and the different sub-topics of this concept.  Additionally, the text covers stakeholder issues and improves their ethical management skills. 

Business Ethics | OER Commons

• Title: Business Ethics
• This text is a textbook about business ethics and the importance of ethical knowledge concerning its business implications.  The reader of this text will learn about the history and what business ethics have meant throughout history.  The text covers different ethical problems and strategies that someone would have to apply to an ethical issue.  The text also covers what ethics means to other regions in the world.  Lastly, the text covers corporate social responsibility and considering stakeholders when making business decisions. 

Business Ethics (merlot.org)

• Title: Business Ethics
• This text covers why ethics contain a connection towards business and ethic's implications towards business.  The book's primary purpose is to give readers different situations in which ethics are involved.  The text wants the reader to analyze these ethical problems and then decide to consider business.  The reader of this text will be someone who wants information on how to make decisions in business that are ethical.  The text provides case studies for a reader to consider situations in business regarding ethics and the possible results.

The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business | OER Commons

• Title: The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
• This text connects the idea of legality and ethics in a way that is related to business.  The reader of this text is someone who wants more information about how law correlates with business.  The reader will also find out how the law impacts different decisions that ethics play a role.  Additionally, the text gives ideas to businesses on how they can incorporate more ethics.  The reader of this text will primarily be interested in learning the legal results of unethical decisions.  The text explains how companies can be more ethical, such as anonymous reporting that has the potential to be investigated.  This text's relevancy to legality and ethics provides essential information to someone who is already involved in business or wants to be involved in the business.