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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...Managing for sustainability...Financial methods in environmental decisions: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: understand techniques for the financial appraisal of projects understand private and external costs of environmental impacts and their mitigation understand methods for assessing the economics of environmental impacts understand...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Participatory development in action
Society, Politics & Law

Participatory development in action

...management of water. Farmers in Peru have to persevere in their struggle. Learning to change the future Knowledge and technical skills are passed down through Kamayoqs to other farmers. An example of how it has changed one woman’s life. Providing communities with experts How a local Kamayoq is filling the role of a professional within the community. Speeding up the pace...
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Audio 1 hr 36 mins
Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...projects throughout the UK. Patricia Ragazzon chats to researchers from the University of Nottingham about innovations in nanotubes and David Smith finds out about how we might be able to grow a cure for malaria. We also talk to David Gamblin, an Associate Lecturer, about what he enjoys about working for the OU. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is...
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Audio 3 hrs 50 mins
What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...projects that bring about innovation"), reducing costs (e.g. "reaped 50% in savings for a key website just weeks after embracing open source"), and furthering business (“IT Pros Prefer Open Source for Continuity, Control"). Yes, it would appear "open source continues to eat the software world", perhaps even the whole world. Unfortunately, as organizations who actively...
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Article 5 mins
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...project-based learning sessions conducted at FabLab Nepal. The course took an interdisciplinary approach to integrate multiple disciplines and expose students to the Project Based Learning (PBL) approach with hands-on, project-based learning sessions conducted at FabLab Nepal. The goal was to expose children that had only experienced a traditional, theoretical and...
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Article 5 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...project to help restore dirt to healthy soils on a vast scale. “This was absolute desert. A few years later the whole thing came back,” he says. “We saw birds, butterflies, insects – the whole ecosystem began to recover. Even after hundreds of years of complete devastation, the seeds were still in the ground and things began to happen very quickly. We did not...
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Article 20 mins
Changing approaches to heritage
Society, Politics & Law

Changing approaches to heritage

...management. You can also learn more about changing approaches to archaeology and heritage management, and the relationship between heritage and public memory... Changing approaches to heritage An introduction to this album. What is world heritage? Dr Rodney Harrison of The Open University explores what is meant by world heritage and introduces the Lake District case...
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Audio 1 hr 44 mins
Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...project. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Dr Neil Younger]Honestly, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by history. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? Like many, I studied the Tudors at A-Level, and loved the...
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Article 5 mins