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  1. Did Tibet Cool the Earth? (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In September 1994 an international expedition to Tibet to investigate a controversy linking the uplift of the Tibetan plateau with changes in the earth’s climate - with cooling and the strengthening of the...

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  2. Earth, Life and Humanity (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Illustrated discussion of: rates of change; predicting the future; relative rates of carbon sequestering and release; predicted impacts of global warming; the connection between population growth and carbon...

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  3. Permaculture in Practice: Ecologically Sound Living - By Design (1997)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 48 minutes), £14.95

    Shows how permaculture - an ecologically sound method of permanent agriculture - is practised in a Hampshire back garden, a community co-op in Devon, a City Challenge project in Bradford and a small farm in...

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  4. Timber for Tomorrow (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. ? min., 1997 sale: £? (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at an sustainable logging on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, telling of an 83-year-old forester, Merv Wilkinson, who has been logging his land for profit for 50 years. The result is a...

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  5. Herring Spawning (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min., 1999 sale: £15.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    With unique underwater footage of spawning herring and areas of spawn deposition, this film was produced to explain the need for environmental impact surveys in areas of the seabed licenced for oil...

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  6. Gaia Theory with James Lovelock (1996)

    Director
    Malcolm Baldwin
    Producer
    Malcolm Baldwin
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £15.00

    Professor James Lovelock explores the origins and principles of the Gaia hypthesis, the notion that the earth is a self-regulating organism, that he formed in association with Lynn Margulis. His articulate...

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  7. Hubbard Brook: The Chemistry of a Forest (1996 Video)

    aka: Temperate Forest Chemistry

    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Features the long-term ecosystem study of a northern hardwood forest - the Hubbard Brook experimental forest in north-eastern USA. Research has shown the importance of monitoring the entire ecosystem when...

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  8. Managing for Biodiversity: Forests in Trinidad (1996 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the problem of finding the right management system to harvest timber from a tropical rainforest while at the same time maintaining the biodiversity of the natural forest. In Trinidad selective block...

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  9. Norfolk Broads: Conservation V. Commercialism (1996 Video)

    aka: Norfolk Broads, The: No Easy Answers

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows some of the practical ways in which the Broads Authority is improving the ecology of the open water, preserving the banks, and managing the landscape of Britain’s largest wetland. Features the...

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  10. Tropical Forest: The Conundrum of Co-Existence (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the biodiversity, structure and function of a tropical forest and advances three current ideas to explain how so many species of plants and animals can co-exist in such remarkable profusion. Filmed...

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