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Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...climate change and poverty transcend national boundaries and affect everyone. This free course introduces four key ‘challenges’ as a spur to thinking critically and creatively about responding to development issues on a global scale. You will identify how the four challenges of conflict, governance, justice, and transformation cut-across all areas of global...
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...climate change. This free course, Surface water, helps you examine the options...--- Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Monday 13th March 2023. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile. --- Water is arguably the...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...climate change, more on which next week, makes that unlikely), there would likely come a point where the oil remaining in geological reserves is too expensive to extract. So will we run out of oil? Probably not, but there will come a point when the remaining oil reserves are too expensive, economically or environmentally, to extract. When that point will come, nobody...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...climate change long before the E word became fashionable. I’m not sure we changed anything at the time but we did lay the groundwork for people to listen later. I left the BBC in the 1990s and since then have worked as a Producer and Executive Producer for all UK terrestrial broadcasters and extensively with US channels - National Geographic and Discovery/ Animal...
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...climate change, where even words that are in any way connected to people’s standard of living and politics, if you in any way link that to them, they split instantly into what they feel they should be, what their persona is. So in a way these programmes are about whatever people want to make programmes about, they’re not about conservation, they’re just telling the...
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...climate change. In the following section, you will begin to explore why it can be important to apply different disciplinary learning to a variety of topics...Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits: 4 The benefits of studying a multidisciplinary qualification - You are now going to explore the benefits of studying a multidisciplinary qualification, like The Open...
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...climate change debates and global agreements will reveal the difficulties of assuming science will directly shape actions and environmental management. As you study this unit, the connection between environmental management and systems will become more and more apparent. What you will also encounter is an understanding of environmental management as an ongoing process of...
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...Climate for Change- The Case for Media Neutral Planning and How to Get There [online], ATG UK. Available from: http://www.marketing-society.org.uk/downloads/climate-change-mnp.pdf...Marketing communications as a strategic function: Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a...