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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...economic growth understand some concepts to more sustainably manage waste and resources identify some of the emerging social responses to China’s environmental problems assess your own waste management habits...Waste management and environmentalism in China: 1 Waste in China - From their changing diet to owning more household objects, the Chinese are becoming great...
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...economically peripheral in a sense that they tend to be monocultural, dependent on one activity. In this case of course the – the nuclear industry. And they are politically relatively powerless. So there is a political dimension to this. Socially they have a particular – I suppose a particular culture, which you could describe, and I tend to describe as a nuclear...
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...economic, cultural and political change has led to significant shifts in the gender composition of the labour force and in sections of the economy. Further, a shift in the balance of workplace power towards owners and managers, and an increasing and widening pattern of disputes in the public sector in Scotland has become more marked since the 1980s. Alongside these...
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...economic terms? What are the challenges we face in describing ‘race’ in our study of the past? Please be aware, this course includes descriptions and depictions of violence, slavery and racist language. If you are likely to find this distressing, please consider carefully how you might want to engage with this. OpenLearn’s Race and Ethnicity Hub This course is part...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...economic actors to be comfortable that their counterparts and competitors are going in the same direction. RH: OK, so give me a snapshot of the organisations you’ve worked for over the years because they have changed. BH: I’ve worked initially for the Australian Conservation Foundation in Melbourne, Australia. It’s one of Australia’s biggest environmental groups...
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED) and funded by the Office of Science and Technology, the Natural Environment Research Council, and NIREX – the company responsible for implementing policy on disposal of intermediate-level radioactive waste. Twenty-two experts selected by the citizens' panel gave 5-minute presentations before debating the issues with the...
Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...economic change can be achieved successfully. Critical to this success is institutional development, as it is through developments in institutions that development in the policies that drive change can be achieved. However, institutions are rich and complex phenomena, and institutional development is a rich and complex process. It is therefore possible and necessary to...
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...economic, or environmental values’ (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2022). Wildfire is becoming an increasingly pressing environmental challenge. Wildfires are getting bigger, more intense, and burning in places they have never been seen before. Between 1998 and 2017 there were 254 recorded major wildfires across the world, which resulted in an estimated...