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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...becomes central to understanding their structure and the ways in which an organisation might act, with implications for innovation and environmental management. Activity 2 Purpose Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Identify the different purposes of the organisations you considered while developing your answer for Activity 1. Provide your answer... Discussion My employer’s...
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...become determined to reverse this longstanding scientific neglect of pregnant women. Science and society, they argue, have got it utterly wrong: our efforts to protect women and their fetuses have actually put them both in jeopardy. “Ethics doesn’t preclude including pregnant women in research,” says Lyerly. “Actually, ethics requires it.” On 16 December 1961,...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...becomes animated describing the torment of those with no voice: his patients. People in a ‘vegetative state’ are awake yet unaware. Their eyes can open and sometimes wander. They can smile, grasp another’s hand, cry, groan or grunt. But they are indifferent to a hand clap, unable to see or to understand speech. Their motions are not purposeful but reflexive. They...
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...become groundwater may eventually re-emerge at the surface as springs where the water table intersects the surface. Almost all streams and rivers have springs or seepages as their ultimate source, or are fed by them at various points along their courses. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Environment & Development...Surface water: Learning...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...becomes ‘elderly’? Discussion In this video, the ‘elderly’ are those who are 60+. What do you think about this way of classifying people as ‘old’? Is it fair? Using this classification, the video then goes onto show how for the first time, there will be more older people than there of working age people in societies across the globe. b.What are the benefits of...
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...become even more pressing and their consequences more acute in times when the economy is not growing; or worse, in moments when it is actually shrinking. As the famous economist Paul Krugman wrote in 2012, 'times of crisis are when economists are most needed. If they cannot get their advice accepted in the clinch – or worse yet, if they have no useful advice to offer...
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...become quite a popular position and quite well known from people like Matt Ridley. There’s an independent scientist called Nick Lewis. And it’s this idea that they completely agree that CO2 is a greenhouse gas; they completely agree that there’s warming; they agree that humans are causing some part of that warming and that we should probably do something about that,...
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...become what’s now known as a cliché, as a legacy issue, it’s one of things he wants to say, ‘I achieved in Office.’ And he has been able to do this because he has got executive authority to act on climate change under the Clean Air Act which he doesn’t have in other areas of policy. So as we know, he’s not been able to do everything he would like because...