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  1. Australia’s Water Crisis: Climate Change, Salinisation (2009)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £97.00

    Film 1 THE BIG DRY: Farmers in south-east Australia are suffering their worst drought in living memory. It’s a question of adapt or go under. Film 2 THE SALT PROBLEM: White settlers tried to use water to...

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  2. Water Crisis II: Cyprus, China, Spain (2009)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £97.00

    Three films highlight water shortages across the world. Film 1: Inner Mongolia has long been one of China’s driest regions; Film 2: In Spain the government is trying to solve its shortage by pumping water...

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  3. 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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  4. Rainmaker, The (1998 Video)

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

    Canadian scientist Dr Graeme Mather, who work with cloud seeding in South Africa to prove that clouds could be made to rain by means of human intervention, believed that after 30 years he learned how to end...

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  5. 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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  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. 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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  8. 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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  9. Dust Bowl, The (1960 Film)

    Subject
    Agriculture; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Contrasts past and present conditions of the Dust Bowl area of the southern Great Plains. Shows newsreel footage of the area during the dust storms of the early 1930s. Interviews residents in Dalhart, Texas,...

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