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Beyond ecological limits

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Beyond ecological limits New content Creative commons imageCredit: Wind farm and greenhouse gas farm, together / CC BY 2.0
Introductory Level Duration 15 mins Updated 18 Jun 2013
With uncontrolled population and economic growth, have we sailed past key ecological limits?

Terminal Cities

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 13 Jun 2013
Everyone wants to be able to go everywhere, but no-one wants the Terminal City near them. Simon Bell discusses the paradox of modern air travel.

Human population growth and the natural world

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Human population growth and the natural world New content Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 11 Jun 2013
Is population growth dismantling the building blocks of the natural world? Bob May talks to Shared Planet's Monty Don.

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Microbes – friend or foe?

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Microbes – friend or foe? Copyrighted imageCredit: selvanegra/istockphoto.com
Introductory Level Duration 10 hours Updated 19 Jun 2013
Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital roles in recycling nutrients in the soil to enable...

Studying Darwin

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Introductory Level Duration 1 hour Updated 19 Jun 2013
This unit brings together a collection of units from the OpenLearn site that would be of interest to anyone wishing to study Darwin’s theory of...

School activities: Evolutionary tree of mammals

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School activities: Evolutionary tree of mammals Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Introductory Level Duration 5 hours Updated 19 Jun 2013
This introduction to the evolution of mammals considers Darwin’s observations on mammals, and how he noticed that species fell into natural groups. The unit looks...

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Environmental management 1

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Environmental management 1 Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Intermediate Level Duration 300 hours Updated 26 Apr 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
Why is environmental management vital for our sustainability? What kind of environmental management do we need now? Explore systemic answers to these and related questions.You...

Environment

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Environment Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Intermediate Level Duration 600 hours Updated 10 May 2012 Register by 10 Jan 2013
This course introduces a wide range of environmental concerns, exploring and debating our responses to them and investigating their scientific, technological and social backgrounds.The study...

BSc (Honours) Environmental Management and Technology

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BSc (Honours) Environmental Management and Technology Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Duration 3600 hours Updated 14 Mar 2012
Develop your understanding of the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects relating to the complex inter-relationships between human activity and environmental systems.How can we best manage...