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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
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...climate change could lead to the evolution of sedentariness in many bird populations that are currently migratory...Migration: 3.2 Stabilising selection - Stabilising selection occurs where there is an optimal value for the trait of interest. This means that selection acts against both extreme phenotypes and favours intermediate variants which have the highest fitness...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Climate change is expected to alter the pattern of migration and create climate change refugees. There is also the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and you may have encountered the challenges that this presents to both individuals and States through news and media reports in the past decade. Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness This was adopted on 30...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...Climate change will impact the market for our product, how we produce and where we can sell. a. There is a chance that the government may introduce new regulations that would limit how the company could trade. b. There has been a coup in a country we operate in, leading to civil unrest in major towns and cities. c. Climate change will impact the market for our product,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...climate change, we may fall into the risk of forgetting or not considering other aspects that are equally important. So LCA gives us, let's say, like a whole picture or environmental profile of any product or service. At the same time, a life cycle assessment is a quantitative method which allows us to put a number, if you want, associated with each of those impact...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...Climate Change has predicted that several low lying Pacific islands will become swamped by increased sea levels as a result of Seawater expansion and that countries such as Bangladesh could lose as much as 17% of their land area – an area populated by around 20 million people. In addition to this, melting of the ice over Antarctica and Greenland will have an effect at...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...climate change) as one of the most significant ‘drivers’ of biodiversity change in terrestrial ecosystems. Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, together with the deposition of phosphorus-rich sediments by floods, can alter competitive relationships between plant species within a terrestrial community. This can cause significant changes in community composition, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...climate changed from a wet, and likely warm, planet in the Noachian, to dryer and colder period in the early Hesperian. Then the cold and dry conditions that prevail today emerged in the Amazonian. The transition from warm and wet to cold and dry is now believed to have occurred around 4.2 billion years ago and is a critical part of the story of water on the red planet,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs