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  1. Extreme Weather (2005)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

    First-hand accounts and pictures of the best and worst of British weather during the last sixty years including the blizzards of 1947, coastal floods of 1953, the winter of 1963, the summer of 1976, the...

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  2. Living with Disaster (1996 Video)

    Director
    Damien Rea
    Producer
    Janet Boston
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Shows what happens in poorer countries when natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and drought strike. In contrast to the stereotyped images of people in developing countries as hopeless, passive...

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  3. Vanishing Earth (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Andrews
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 90 min.

    Two-part documentary about the importance of soil and water. Part 1: Shows how mismanagement of land can lead to soil erosion and drought. Part 2: Shows methods of alleviating the problem and demonstrates...

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  4. Land is Bad, The: The Mursi (1991 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    This is Leslie Woodhead’s fourth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985. He has filmed the continuing story of a people as they fight to maintain their identity...

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  5. Parched Land, The (1978 Film)

    Director
    Kieron Moore
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Over 26 million people who live in the Sahel region of Africa are continually threatened by drought. Looks at how the shortage of water affected Gad Amar Fal, a small village in North Senegal. Examines...

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  6. 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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  7. Going with the Flow (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Water may not be a scarce resource generally in the UK but it nonetheless needs careful management. The Dee River management scheme of the Welsh Water Authority is a fascinating example of such management,...

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  8. Humph ‘The Desert Dairy’ (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Shows how the camel has been successfully domesticated and used to combat the effects of the droughts of the previous five years.

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  9. Guess What’s Coming to Dinner? (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Tessa Livingstone
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at attempts to create food products through biotechnology. Genetic engineers claim that food shortages in the developing countries could be overcome by transferring genes from plants which can survive...

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  10. Greenhouse Effect, The 1 (1989 Video)

    Director
    Richard White
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the causes and implications of global warming and climate change. Fox example, a minute rise in temperature within the Pacific basin can result in drought in Africa and flooding in Pakistan....

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