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Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...trees. A large number of SSSIs in the UK, designated as such on account of their terrestrial plant communities, are considered to have been damaged by eutrophication. This has been identified as a factor in the decline of some important UK habitats, including some identified for priority action under the UK’s Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP). Wet woodlands, for example,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...family. © The Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Ben Van Beurden interview Key RH: Roger Harrabin = Interviewer BVB: Ben Van Beurden CEO Shell = Participant RH: I’m with Ben Van Beurden, CEO of Shell and we’re sitting in his office on the something very high floor in Waterloo with a spectacular view over the river and The Eye and right over London...
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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...trees being planted over them, you can recreate atmosphere in the landscape. You can recreate feeling. And that again, I think, can be very valuable, but you're never going to recreate exactly what was lost. So what you're recreating is the sense of the environment, its organic living quality. And those have their values, but I think they are distinct from the value of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...family to interview you...Week 8: Marketing teamwork experience to employers: 5 Returning to the beginning - Back in Week 1, the first activity asked a series of questions: How do you react when you see teamwork as one of the key essential competencies on the person specification for a job you are considering applying to? Reflect on why you are doing this course. What are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...family background that remains particularly influential for him, do you think, in the writing of 1984? DAVID: It's a very interesting question, and Orwell once said of the American writer Jack London, that he could foresee fascism because he had a fascist streak in himself. And although I wouldn't labour that point too prodigiously with regard to Orwell, we have to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...families and friends (e.g. see the Guardian’s article: Families divided by Brexit, 2016); a good reminder of how the ‘personal’ is also ‘political’ and vice versa. Social psychology attempts to understand such political events by asking fundamental questions about how and why people engage with political processes and structures. Why do people vote the way they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...families in America and who were major patrons of Mexican art in the period) largely controlled MoMA and owned the Standard Oil Company, which made huge operating profits south of the border. In this sense, Mexican murals were embroiled in a broader negotiation between the two countries, in which the purported nationalism of the Mexican post-revolutionary governments was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...family, group, local and national level, but within these different dimensions the conflict may be at different stages and heading in a range of directions involving escalation on a destructive path, or de-escalation towards settlement of conflict (Kriesberg, 2011). In other words, there is more than one conflict at play. Here you have read a brief overview of the nature...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs