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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...Open-loop recycling. * Resources Materials found in the environment that can be extracted from the environment in an economic process. There are abiotic resources (non-renewable) and biotic resources (renewable). * Scope The agreed boundaries of a risk assessment and the risks to be assessed within those boundaries. * Shareholders Any person or organisation that holds...
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...open the sandy-haired 18-year-old’s finger. “After this he cuts with a scalpel on the side of my finger – yes, he cuts my finger open,” Michael recalled moments later, looking decidedly pale as he smiled nervously before the flashing cameras. After sterilising the table and numbing Michael’s finger with a local anaesthetic, “he uses – I don’t really know...
Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...Open University programmes in 1983 (Regan and Breathnach, 1981). Using a rural area in the West of Ireland also links the programmes directly to the next series in this collection, on Northeast Mayo. Southwest Donegal and Northeast Mayo are similar in many respects but the areas have experienced different forms of industrialisation and this serves to extend the discussion...
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...Open University course K219 Critical issues in health and wellbeing...Exploring issues in women's health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the impact of social and cultural contexts on women describe how the women’s movement has influenced the health and social care sector identify pertinent health issues in the field of...
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Money & Business

Risk management

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 2: Establishing the context: Introduction - In Session 1 you started learning about risk management. It defined what is meant by ‘risk’, and discussed why managing risk is important, what happens when risk is well managed and what can happen when it...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...Grid', © 1964, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas; T205 Concept File 3 'Groups and Teamwork' pp. 5–63 Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs