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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
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
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
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