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Environment: habitat and conservation
Nature & Environment

Environment: habitat and conservation

...economic and environmental impact. Farmers, conservation workers and fishermen share their views. The Wetlands of Wicken Fen What is biodiversity? Assessing the role of conservation in maintaining Britain's oldest nature reserve. Following the Food Web in Wicken Fen Experts analyse and compare habitats, identifying the 7,000 species that thrive at Wicken Fen. Managing...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...economic; stakeholders’ interests in the decision are much broader than economic. Stakeholdings may be direct or indirect. Ways in which people affected can influence the decision range considerably. They may participate actively or proactively from the start, for example by being involved in the design of decision-making processes or in deciding on policy, or at other...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result
Society, Politics & Law

Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result

...economic situation. Europe, Germany and France can’t exist in a permanent state of crisis. Europeans need to adjust their position. And for that to happen, France needs to have more courage – others too. Perhaps the elections in Spain at the end of this year will change things. All these elements can combine to influence majority politics in Europe when it comes to...
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Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?
Society, Politics & Law

Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?

...Economic Area, the customs union, the European Investment Bank and the European Atomic Energy Community. There are also more than 40 specialist EU agencies throughout the continent from which the UK will no longer benefit. [The Conversation] Some, such as the European Food Safety Authority in Parma, have important regulatory roles. These agencies are full of experts whose...
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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...economics. And yet… and yet… There are, in the bean-counting, cost-cutting, eye-on-the-bottom-line world of modern media economics, still a few factors which give one pause for thought. One is that the new paper, at 50p (25p to start with) will be cheap – so will potentially appeal to the Lidl-obsessed middle classes as much as the cash-strapped student or minimum...
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...economic principles related to the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms. The fear back then was about the economic costs of setting technology standards and hence the focus on flexibility. A good 0.3oC of global heating later, the fear is on climate impacts and the emphasis is now on direct actions to encourage the public and private sectors to work together to directly change...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...economic and environmental practices. Toby Miller writes of “This friendly face of pollution” in his article “Global Arts Scene Awash with Big Oil and Gas Sponsorship”. Finally, this raises fundamental questions of what should be the relation of art to markets? True art is commonly thought to be separate from business considerations. Artistic creation should not...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...economic conditions for the LGBTQI communities and immigrant communities. CRT affirms the centrality of race and racism in society such that racism is endemic and ‘normalised’ (Delgado and Stefancic, 2001; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Gillborn, 2008), and the very ‘ordinariness makes racism hard to recognize much less address' (Delgado and Stefancic, 2007). CRT emphasises...
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