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Welcome to the Anthropocene (2012)

Subject

Environmental science

In June 2012, ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ opened the UN’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The summit was the largest UN meeting to date. A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of...

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Return to the Summit, A (1991 Video)

Producer

Eleanor Morris

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Mounting global problems show us that we face a crisis in international decision making. Cooperation is essential if, for example, global warming is to be curbed and destructive development processes...

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Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone (2008)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Imagine being short of oxygen, fighting for breath, your lungs filling with fluid, brain swelling, struggling to stay alive. This is what it feels like to a patient in intensive care as they struggle to get...

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12 Days to Save the World (1993 Video)

Director

Frank Stapleton

Producer

Catherine Tiernan

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Economist Marcus Arruda analyses the UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Cuban president Fidel Castro warned that man is in danger of disappearing because of the fast and progressive...

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Environment, Course U206

Subject

Environmental science

Introduces basic concepts, processes and problems relating to the environment. Spans specific, technological, social, scientific and philosophical approaches. Considers current environment matters such as...

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Green Energy (1998 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £24.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

Reviews some of the sustainable energy projects and plans that have emerged in and around the area covered by the Milton Keynes-based South Midlands Renewable Energy Advice Centre, following on from the...

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Touching the Void (2004)

Subject

Psychology; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £19.99

The documentary reconstructing the story of British mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates as they climb to the summit of the hitherto unclimbed Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. On the descent,...

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Green Challenge, The (1995 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 32 min., 1997 sale: £120.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines key environmental issues facing manufacturing companies all over the world. At the Rio Earth Summit the world came up with an action plan for ‘sustainable development’, but to make this plan...

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Inconvenient Sequel, An (2017)

aka: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Director

Bonni Cohen; Jon Shenk

Subject

Environmental science; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

Eleven years after the release of An Inconvenient Truth, the US Vice President Al Gore is continuing his fight against climate change. The threat has intensified, and President Trump’s views- as voiced in...

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Modelling in the Long Term (1995 Video)

Producer

Alison Tucker

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Focuses on the issue of unemployment in Europe, examining why it has arisen and what can be done to alleviate it. Representatives from the European Commission discuss three different economic theories in...

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