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Step by Step: Cemis Ghana (1997 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 14 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Shows how communities can be enabled to improve their living environment with the help of a community-based environmental management information system (CEMIS). Looks at the experience of the community...

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Focus on Women (1981 Film)

Producer

Claire Taplin

Subject

Media studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the traditional image of a woman as portrayed in the world’s visual media and looks at the part women play in determining that image. Uses examples from India, Egypt and the Dominican Republic.

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Only One Baltic (197 Film, Video)

Director

Rolf Husbert; Marek Pisarski

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

For a long time the Baltic was used as a rubbish dump and a sewer for the wastes of industry and 200 million people. In 1974 the seven nations with Baltic coastlines made a national agreement to protect the...

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Promise for Tomorrow, A (1975 Film)

Subject

Environmental science; Law

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Outlines the Canadian government’s proposal, advanced in 1975 at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, that coastal states should be empowered to extend their jurisdiction in matters...

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Killing Rain, A (1982 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Taylor

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the problem of acid rain concentrating particularly on Sweden. Looks at sources of pollutants, how fish and tree deaths occur and at ways of halting the rain. Discusses the political arguments and...

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War Within, The - A Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1992)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £105.00

With archival footage, paintings of the period, and family photos of a Victorian childhood of both beauty and abuse, the film interweaves the personal story of Virginia’s life and loves with the turbulent...

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Flight of Flamingoes, A (1996 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

The urban expansion of Nakuru in Kenya, unless designed carefully, could threaten the animals in the neighbouring national park, including the flamingoes of Lake Nakuru. As part of its Localising Agenda 21...

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Vision for Essaouira, A (1996 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 16 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Hopes for an ecologically sustainable future often rest on on the micro-management policies of local authorities. To help Localise Agenda 21, UNCHS(Habitat) is working with the local authority of Essaouira,...

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Before Columbus (3 Parts) (1992 Video)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. 156 min., 1993 sale: £19.99 (+p&p each)

Looks at the history of the Americas as seen through the eyes of the native Americans. For them the legacy of Columbus has been the destruction of their civilisations, the loss of their lands, repression...

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Livelihood from Waste, A (1999 Video)

aka: Trash is Cash

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 14 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Looks at a recycling initiative in Mukuru, a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, where a group of former scavengers have formed the Mukuru Recycling Centre. The scavengers collect waste, separate it,...

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