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Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...study in The Lancet that cited climate change as the century’s biggest global health threat. Biggest opportunity “I had been taught to treat heart attacks and strokes, and I wasn’t sure how an emergency physician was supposed to treat climate change,” she said. But six years later, in 2015, The Lancet also identified the response to climate change as the...
No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals
Health, Sports & Psychology

No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals

...studied blogs, magazines, reality TV shows such as Sex Box (which actually gets people to have sex in a box), newspaper problem pages, websites, apps, and more. We emphasise throughout our book that it’s rarely a matter of any sex advice being all good or all bad. Rather, sexpertise often opens up some things – in terms of ways of understanding or experiencing sex –...
Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?

...studies and interpretations of the period continue to emerge in academic output, in online blogs and in other commentary pieces. We provide a link to some of these as way of demonstrating the continuing interest with Red Clydeside. At the Open University event in January 2019, several of the speakers made references to the legacies of the events of 1919 for protests,...
Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...study across a range of geography modules in relation to the environment at The Open University. She looks at whether the New Deal by the government to boost the economy is actually good for the environment...[Boris Johnson talking at a Covid-19 press conference in March 2020] The COVID-19 crisis began with a focus on human health, but it wasn’t long before the economic...
Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?
Nature & Environment

Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?

...studies in São Paulo, Vitória and Rio de Janeiro. Sharing Knowledge and Building Capacity Implementing natural infrastructure programs requires know-how on a range of topics, from prioritizing which lands to protect and restore to identifying sustainable financing mechanisms. Traditionally, water managers and other decision-makers in Brazil have lacked information on...
One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One

...Goldstein's huge book, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (2015). Current students may want to look at DTS206's block on food, affluent diets and their effects on the environment. Steve Pile is Professor of Human Geography. He is currently writing about electricity for the new Environment and Society module, D213, which you will be able to study from 2018 onwards....
Human impacts on the lives of animals
Nature & Environment

Human impacts on the lives of animals

...study has shown that the average size of bighorn sheep horns is 25% smaller than it was 30 years ago. As well as causing an evolutionary change in horn size, selective hunting may have affected bighorn sheep in another way. Females prefer to mate with those males that have the largest horns; because large horns require a great deal of resources to produce, only those...
Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...studying, solving problems – much of which involves engaging others in completing a goal. I call this task attending, and it means the rhythms of often simultaneous mobile conversations are set by the demands of the offline task. Debbie, for example, sets herself the weekend task of sorting out her energy bills, and her request for advice and information leads to...