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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
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...climate change (SDG 13), while also creating new economic opportunities and enhancing sustainability (SDGs 8 and 11). In addition to investment decisions, responsible financial reporting and accounting practices can help to ensure transparency and accountability in the use of financial resources, which is important for achieving many of the SDGs, such as SDG 16. Overall,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...climate change, and multiple perspectives associated with family therapy to international relations. The different traditions of systems thinking can be grouped together in different ways. Systems approaches can be grouped according to the emphasis given to the context or situation in which the approach was used, the practitioners or users of the approach, and the ideas...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...climate change or global economic instability, right through to everyday issues like the quality of street lighting or even where your cup of coffee comes from. Increasingly, many of these challenges are identified as having their causes in the nature of urbanisation itself. For most places, the challenges they face are mostly not entirely of their own making and are...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...climate change, Volume 2 [Online]. Available at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/10803281.0001.001/1:6/–impasses-of-the-post-global-theory-in-the-era-of-climate?rgn=div1;view=fulltext (Accessed 11 March 2017). Tai, J., Zhang, W., Che, Y. and Feng, D. (2011) ‘Municipal solid waste source separated collection in China: a comparative analysis’, Waste Management, vol....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs