Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context - for iPod/iPhone

Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context - for iPod/iPhone

40 episodes

This innovative album introduces one of the biggest, and most complex, of today’s environmental problems – climate change. It features the hard-hitting, "Who Will Pay", selected as a finalist in an international film competition on "Vulnerability Exposed: The Social Dimensions of Climate Change" organised by the World Bank. This 'Earth in Crisis' album offer a sophisticated understanding of the processes and players that shape contemporary international environmental problems, evaluates what can and should be done in the future, and explores how responses to these dilemmas are intertwined with issues of development, international justice and responsibility. The eleven video tracks focus on climate change induced flooding in the delta regions of Bangladesh and in the Thames region of the UK. In the first five audio tracks, members of The Open University course team explore the main issues raised in the videos. The final three audio tracks explore some of the wider political and scientific dimensions of climate change. This material forms part of The Open University course DU311, Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context.

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Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

Published: March 8, 2010, 3:03 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds

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Published: March 8, 2010, 3:03 a.m.
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Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:19 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:19 a.m.
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Climate Change in Bangladesh

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:18 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:18 a.m.
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Adapting to Salinity

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:17 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:17 a.m.
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Defence from Cyclones

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:16 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:16 a.m.
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Awareness of Climate Change

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 46 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:15 a.m.
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Who is to Blame?

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:14 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:14 a.m.
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Rising Sea Levels

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:13 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:13 a.m.
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The Thames Barrier

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:12 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 51 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:12 a.m.
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The Isle of Sheppey

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:11 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:11 a.m.
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Hold the Line Policy

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:10 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:10 a.m.
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What is Managed Realignment?

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:09 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:09 a.m.
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Bangladesh: the issues

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:08 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:08 a.m.
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Injustice and inequality

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:07 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:07 a.m.
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Scientists, sceptics and deniers

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:06 a.m.
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Developed and developing worlds

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 47 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:05 a.m.
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What DU311 offers

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:04 a.m.
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The Impact of Science

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:03 a.m.
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The Policy Makers

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:02 a.m.
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A Sustainable Climate?

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Transcript -- A Sustainable Climate?

Published: Dec. 24, 2008, 1:01 a.m.
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