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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...Climate change Law and justice Roads and transport Words: 0 Comment Table 6 lists the main government departments with responsibility for the areas in question. It is worth noting that sometimes more than one department or agency will cover the same territory. Table 6 Suggested government departments and their areas of responsibility AREA OF RESEARCH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...climate change. In the words of New York Times journalist David Brooks, hurricanes such as Katrina ‘wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities’ (September 2005, quoted in Strolovitch et al., 2005, p. 1). In these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...climate change, race, gender, class. All of the key issues, problems, questions that you have about the world around you, Religious Studies addresses those - because religion is implicated in all those issues. Suzanne Newcombe, Lecturer in Religious Studies: Our society is really complicated. What you learn in Religious Studies is how to use the best tools to answer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...climate change, religious and political conflict, resource depletion and over-population. Our collective unwillingness as human beings to address these challenges may prove our final downfall. But Anthropathology also challenges many assumptions about individual problems, for example, the view of mental health problems as caused primarily within families or by our own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...climate change induced by human activity is likely to have major impacts on the planet, its physical environments, and its living organisms, including people. But all of these effects are so interdependent it is impossible to discover what the effects are likely to be by breaking the situation down. [Described image] Figure 5 Breaking situations down doesn’t always...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...climate change, human behaviour and the future. ...Desmond Morris Desmond Morris is an English zoologist, ethologist, broadcaster and author. He has a zoology degree from the University of Birmingham and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford on the reproductive behaviour of the ten-spined stickleback. In the 1950s he present Zoo Time on Granada ITV, and in the 1960s...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...climate change and financial sector regulation – there is no over-arching or agreed institutional authority and, as a result, no-one is in charge of global poverty eradication. The values that underpin international efforts to tackle global poverty, and the policies and actions that are pursued, are constrained – some would say are undermined – by the day-to-day...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...climate change in the Arctic', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 342, no. 1-3, 15 April 2005, Elsevier Inc. Video 1: Using Google Earth to look at the ocean with Mark Brandon : © content: Google Earth/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/ Video 2: Using Google Earth with a file containing information in layers with Mark...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs