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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

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This free short course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This course seeks to shift the balance back to a value based approach to doing development. It will be rich with the voices of the poor and advocate for a particular approach to development, namely adaptive management. The course will be open to all with the only prerequisite an interest in how to do development differently.
Category: Leadership & Management

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

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What harm can microplastics cause to human health and can they get into our food? Joanna Jesionkowska, a research student at The Open University, looks into this here.

Category: Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

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What affects the atmospheric and ocean flows? This
free course, Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows, explores the mechanisms that are
important; the most rapid carrier is the wind. The basic principle of global
atmospheric circulation is simple: warm air rises and cold air sinks. How does
this principle affect the atmosphere and flow of water in practical terms? Starting
with an iconic environmental icon, the polar bear, you will learn how global
flows of water, heat and pollution are affecting the Arctic region and changing
our world.
Category: Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

Raising awareness of local trees.
Category: Environmental Studies

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth focuses on the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide. This free course will give you an understanding of the nature and importance of carbon footprints of individuals and households. It will enable you to measure your own carbon footprint and explore what you could do to reduce that footprint and so ‘tread more lightly on the Earth’.
Category: Environmental Studies

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

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What is ecology and why is it important to our understanding of the world around us? This free course, Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems, looks at how we can study ecosystems to explore the effect that humans are having on the environment.
Category: Environmental Studies

Managing coastal environments

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Coastal environments are by their nature ever-changing. This free course, Managing coastal environments, looks at the example of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, England, describing how the current state of the estuary came to be. It examines the contests and conflicts that centre on the estuary in terms of managing the environment for human needs and the needs of the other species who make their habitat there.
Category: Environmental Studies

Astrobiology from the ground up

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Ann Grand, Lecturer in Astrobiology Education, interviews Shonil Bhagwat, Professor of Environment and Development, on the intersections between his work on environment and international development and astrobiology.
Category: Astrobiology

Should animals have legal standing?

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The law recognises babies, companies and ships as ‘persons’ with legal rights, but not even the most intelligent animals. Is it time for this to change? 
Category: Law

Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities

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Trees in South Asia are protected for their religious symbolism, so you’ll find them in crowded cities. Shonil Bhagwat looks at their natural and cultural heritage.

Category: Sacred & secular
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