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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...Change', an AHRC-funded project currently running on the Norfolk coast, UK (PI Revill, ‘Listening to Climate Change: experiments in sonic democracy’):www.soundingcoastalchange.org. More information on this audio-slideshow Transcript Coping on the coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter Welcome to the first half of a two-part...
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...climate change. I find that it means that I don’t get as stuck in the stereotypes essentially of things that people expect to see environmental films. Very much when I was at uni and I was in my previous job I was always pushing to find always a new idea, something that people haven’t seen before, so when you apply that to our world of conservation and climate change...
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...climate change. You will assess your ‘carbon footprint’ and see what actions you and, if relevant, other household members could take to lighten that footprint. You will also better understand which actions are more and less effective, and the scope and limits of what individuals can do at the personal and household level. You’ll explore the answers to questions...
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...change issues, particularly climate change. I don’t think that work will ever end, but I have to say just in the last six months I’ve seen some of the best media projects I’ve seen in a very long time, which gives me cause for hope. And finally of course just now and then we find a little bit more resource and top up the content on Creative Climate. One of the...
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...climate change – human management of the environment is shaping the world around us. Our environmental challenges Our world is facing major environmental challenges, including deforestation, pollution, loss of biodiversity and the chaos of climate shocks. The alarm has been raised and many scientists, educators and activists are voicing the need to act (Consider the...
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...climate change; the continuing threat to the ozone layer; loss of natural habitats, e.g. tropical forests; loss of biodiversity, including threats to individual species, from insects to whales; and the depletion of vital natural resources such as oil and gas. At the other end of the scale the issues which may concern you are likely to reflect your local situation and...
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...climate change really only when it devolved into some kind of potential global disaster. RH: Was your conclusion on asteroids that the fear of an asteroid strike was hyped or…? BP: Well, the astronomical community was very responsible in dealing with that, they struggled for many, many years how to communicate a risk that is not negligible, but that is low. They were...
Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...Climate Change in Berlin, Germany, who participated in the study. The resulting loss of forests can influence the local climate too. In India, there is enough evidence to believe that forests cleared for agriculture have weakened the summer monsoon rainfall. Interestingly, such cropland losses are not expected to have strong implications for global food security. Navin...