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  1. Desertification: A Threat to Peace (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Mercia Seminara
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at desertification, the process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. Recorded in Kenya, it examines the way of life of the pastoral nomads. The problems faced by these tribes...

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  2. Global Ideas: Forests (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    This film contains four case studies, each looking at a certain aspect of forests. Part 1 looks at Brazil’s tropical rainforests; Part 2 looks at ways in which farmers are combating desertification in...

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  3. Ecotoons (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2001 sale: £10.00 (inc VAT +p&p)

    Tony Robinson presents a collection of 30 short films from young animators around the globe on the environmental problems facing our planet - desertification, pollution, waste, and consumptio. Includes an...

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  4. Trees of Hope (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Neil McKee
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documents the rapid deforestation of Africa and analyses various solutions such as shifting to solar energy and improving traditional stores. Shot in Niger, Mali, Sengal and Nigeria, it shows how people are...

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  5. Farmers of Gaho (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    All too often dry lands are dismissed as unproductive regions, with agriculture collapsing in the face of desertifiction. But this need not be so. In southern Ethiopia the farmers of the village of Gaho,...

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  6. Decade of Destruction: Storms of the Amazon (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Argues that deforestation will change the climate of the Amazonia and its surrounding regions. Trees push moisture into the atmosphere, thus generating rainfall, which can be used by all plants. Cutting the...

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  7. Global Gardener (1996)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 120 minutes), £21.95

    For nearly two decades Bill Mollison has travelled the globe spreading the word about permaculture (permanent agriculture), the method of sustainable agriculture that he devised. Permaculture weaves together...

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  8. Living with Drought (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

    During the 1970s and 1980s the recurrence of famine in rural areas of Africa resulted in many hundreds of thousands of deaths, notably in the Sahel, in Ethiopia and in Mozambique. Well publicised famine...

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  9. Battle for the Planet (7 Parts) (1987 Video)

    Director
    Bo Landin
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 videocassettes. Standard formats. col. 208, 156 min. Tape 1 contains programmes 1-4; tape 2 contains programmes 5-7.

    A seven-part series with each programme presenting a personal view of a major issue, followed by responses from grass-roots groups in different countries, and concluded with discussion relating the issue to...

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