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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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