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A CAL package examining issues in agricultural economics, based on AECONIntro by G C Nelson and Dr W Seitz, University of Illinois (McGraw-Hill) and edited and extended for the UK. Consists of a suite of...
A film, introduced by Mark Thomas, investigating the social and environmental issues facing banana plantation workers and farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean, where harsh working conditions and...
Looks at gold prospecting and mining past and present, the geology of deposits, and the economics of mining.
The problems of our world point to disaster in the future. A group of influential academics and businessmen got together, with the help of a computer, to analyse the problems and find some solutions. It...
Shows the high human and environmental costs of banana production on large plantations. The companies who control the trade show no signs of accepting their responsibilities towards either their workers or...
Examines the science, technology and economics of supersonic and hypersonic air transport 20 years after the first Concorde flights and 50 years after the invention of the jet engine. With various...
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as "the commons" -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most...
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half - and food by 80 percent - people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships...
Traces the history of copper extraction from Roman times to the end of the 19th century, and then looks at copper demand in the 20th century and how new technologies such as froth flotation enable copper to...
Two programmes made in a collaboration between the BBC’s MONEY PROGRAMME and the Open University’s Open Business School. HOW GREEN IS YOUR HIGH STREET - The giants of Britain’s high streets are...
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