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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...climate change through the development and use of GM crops that are able to withstand more extreme variations in temperature. Activity 4 Drawing on your current or past professional experience, note down an example that you are familiar with of a technological fix to a problem/issue. Also note down the nature of the problem. Now think of a solution for this problem or...
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...climate change can be understood in these terms. Each myth has consequences for how we deal with the world. While this framework has most often been applied to understanding reactions to environmental risk, and in the business world to understanding the reactions of different stakeholder groups, it is also clearly applicable to reactions to economic risk. For example, one...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...climate change and sustainability resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The C-change in GEES project was funded by HEFCE as part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme and coordinated by the GEES Subject Centre. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover...
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...climate change, the Arab Spring, the crisis of the European Union and the rise of populism across all of the political spectrum are only a few examples of very different, but disruptive events that have happened in the last ten years of human history. And more will come. In this course, you will explore leadership in these turbulent times as the world continues to change...
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...climate change targets. We know that across the industries in terms of the jobs that are going to be essential to meet those decarbonisation targets, there are huge skills gaps. So we’ve got gaps in terms of skills for people working in nature, gaps in terms of skills of engineers, the people who are going to install our electric vehicle infrastructure, the people who...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens. It is important for entrepreneurs and innovators to understand the industry, market sector or specialist area which they wish to enter or in which...
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...changes in: climate (varying from subtropical to arid and semi-arid); sea-level (with two transgressions onto the land by shallow seas); and landmass relief (a progressive decrease in the height of the highlands). [Figure 1] Figure 1 A reconstruction of northern England looking westwards towards the Lake District at different geological times from the Early Carboniferous...
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...climate change in the early Tertiary, promoted the evolution of grasses, which in turn supported the spectacular rise of grazing mammals. It was perhaps the climate-driven change in vegetation that promoted our own evolution from tree-dwelling primates in late Cenozoic times. Global cooling as part of the initial descent into the Quaternary Ice Age caused retreat and...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs