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Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...energy and process materials to produce the communities and landscapes that we see in the world around us. In ecology, the term has become associated with a particular approach to the study of the interactions among living organisms, an approach that concentrates on energy and material exchanges. However, it is also used more colloquially to refer to any area or grouping...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...energy, nuclear war, the extinction of the planet. And the UN began to pass resolutions about nuclear weapons, about chemicals that we used to make weapons and energy, and criminologists began to take an interest in these sorts of issues. I mean, we saw in 1983 Professor Richard Harding from Australia published in the ANZ Journal of Criminology a piece about nuclearism...
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...energy that might otherwise be put to good use. In teams, a degree of conflict on the journey together might – as you will see in this course – actually help...Difference and challenge in teams: 1.2 The bee colony - Countless worker bees spread out from the hive in search of nectar. Different bees end up at different nectar sources, and on their return, perform...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...energy, and silence about it really does make the depression worse. And then I began thinking about all the ways people make themselves better. I'd started off as a medical conservative. I thought there were a few kinds of therapy that worked. It was clear what they were there. There was medication; there were certain psychotherapy; there was possibly electroconvulsive...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...energies? The following discussion stresses how the pyramid model needs to be used with caution and complements it with some other models to guide your effective donor development. The pyramid represents a ‘bottom-up’ approach to donor development. It rests on your ability to attract and renew a broad base of potential interest and support. What might the process look...
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...energy sources away from fossil fuels to biofuels. Land acquisition, or ‘land grab’ as it is often called, offers important lessons about the way that environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues at an increasingly global scale. The issue illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in complex connections that link...
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...energy) and the watt (W; unit of power, which is energy per unit time or J/s). The size of an atom is about one-ten-billionth of a metre, and the nucleus of that atom is around a hundred thousand times smaller still! Clearly some different units for distance are needed that are more appropriate for the very small and very large. One way to do this is to use units that are...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...energy source in the future. On the way, you've also learned how to make and record observations in a systematic way, how to plot graphs, and how to interpret your data. Now, both of the experiments revealed some important facts about water. And this week, you're going to do another simple experiment that will reveal something astonishing. You're going to freeze some...