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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...sustain, just because there are relatively few criteria available which might serve to exclude. Moreover, despite its protestations of modernity, political nationalism in Scotland relies quite heavily on a cultural inheritance from the past. The Holyrood government has already been accused by some teachers, historians and media commentators [1] of using the school history...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...sustainable living, creative culture and alternative economies. This free course, Changing cities, explores how contemporary processes of urbanisation challenge how we think about political agency, providing a framework for the analysis of the causes, implications and responses to issues of common concern...Urban processes are increasingly held to be responsible for...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...sustainably manage ecosystems both for conservation and timber production it is necessary to understand both the ecological role of fire and a central aspect of fire ecology, which is the concept of a fire regime...Fire ecology: 1.3 Fire regimes - Fire has predictable features regarding how it spreads across landscapes and the frequency and season of occurrence. Such...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...sustainability and development. And I don’t know what’s in the letter because it hasn’t been published properly yet, but it must be to address this whole question about how to have a sustainable future and yet have humanity get benefit from the planet. RH: Is it the Pope’s job to talk about climate change, climate science, climate economics, is it his job? JB: Is...
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...sustain itself in the global economy; and in particular if it is right for Britain to concentrate on excelling in the knowledge economy (commercial awareness is of course vital for nation states as well as for companies). The three stages mentioned in the video are: creativity: coming up with a new product or process manufacturing: churning out the product (this is the...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...sustainable, the magic word, it’s not sustainable. So I think the number of people and what they need, the resources that they need, or are led to believe that they need – it’s easy for us to sit here in the sunshine with everything we want in a way, but you think of the desperately poor people, the migrants and so on. I mean I don’t see a way out of that.
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...all aware of these issues and they all care. And you see more and more corporations embracing sustainability, not perhaps because it’s good for their profit margin, but because it’s what they want to do, they think it’s the right thing to do. So I think we’re starting to see that happening in the world, so that’s got to be cause for optimism in my view....
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...sustains their engagement, they are likely to be reading for some form of satisfaction, in response to their own goals. While it has been suggested that reading for pleasure can be defined as ‘Non-goal-oriented transactions with texts as a way to spend time and for entertainment’ (BOP consulting, 2015), children do choose to read for diverse personal purposes and...