1,127 search results
Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...economic aspects, protecting the existing infrastructure and community, rather than allowing nature to take its course. The harbour authority consulted with the local community to devise the Looe adaption plan (Looe Flood Protection Project, 2019). This local participation is key to addressing sea-level rise adaption across the world and has been central to devising the...
View article Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Article 5 mins
The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...economic activity, and or health of native species they are termed as invasive alien species. This is a relatively young but rapidly growing field of study. Some examples of well known invasive alien species NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ORIGIN NEW HABITAT NATURE OF DAMAGE Cane toad Bufo marinus Central America Australia Kills native fauna with poison Crazy ant Anoplolepis...
View article The challenge of invasive alien species
Article 10 mins
This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...economic production, the distribution of goods, and sites of the exploitation of workers, whose labour produces that wealth. Walking around many of the UK’s cities today can remind one of the wealth generated during the industrial age, with elegant Victorian buildings, statues and squares, although the labourers of this period are often absent from this representation....
View article This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Article 15 mins
The origins of Welsh male voice choirs
History & The Arts

The origins of Welsh male voice choirs

...economically significant as the Gulf of Oman is today. And it was not only the south Wales coalfield that contributed its rich weave to this choral tapestry. Allegedly, while coal dust produced the distinctively ringing top tenors of south Wales, it is to their slate quarries that the thunderous basses of north Wales owe their comparable resonance. Industry was the...
View article The origins of Welsh male voice choirs
Article 5 mins
Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...economic recovery would delay the return to budget balance. Six years on, Hammond has taken much the same stance. Attempts to achieve a budget surplus have been pushed elusively forward to “the next parliament”. Meanwhile, the focus shifts to boosting growth, following a forecast downgrade by the Office for Budget Responsibility, with adverse implications for tax...
View article Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Article 10 mins
Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...economic strife to head to Australia, North America and the UK over the last 200 years. However, there is a shift in social views regarding this new inward migration trend including a focus on refugees, asylum seekers and those from Ukraine. This period in time is not aligned with a wealthy prosperous Ireland like the Celtic Tiger years were, where there was plenty to go...
View article Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
Article 10 mins
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...Economics where Betty gained a Diploma in Social Sciences. Betty and Bryan settled in Manchester in 1961. Bryan worked in Adult Education and Betty began her lifelong connection with the African Caribbean community in her new role as a community development worker employed by the Commission in the UK for the West Indian Federation. The aim of the post was to support newly...
View video Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
Video 10 mins
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognises that ‘it is governments that have the overarching duty to ensure a division of labour in the matter of positive duties, and one that is appropriate to their own societies and sufficient to ensure that the rights are effectively secured’ (Beetham, 1999, p. 128). In the modern world, rights claims are most often made...
View course Rights and justice in international relations
Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs