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This innovative album introduces one of the biggest, and most complex, of today’s environmental problems – climate change. It features the hard-hitting, "Who Will Pay", selected as a finalist in an international film competition on "Vulnerability Exposed: The Social Dimensions of Climate Change" organised by the World Bank. This 'Earth in Crisis' album offer a sophisticated understanding of the processes and players that shape contemporary international environmental problems, evaluates what can and should be done in the future, and explores how responses to these dilemmas are intertwined with issues of development, international justice and responsibility. The eleven video tracks focus on climate change induced flooding in the delta regions of Bangladesh and in the Thames region of the UK. In the first five audio tracks, members of The Open University course team explore the main issues raised in the videos. The final three audio tracks explore some of the wider political and scientific dimensions of climate change. This material forms part of The Open University course DU311, Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context.

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This innovative album introduces one of the biggest, and most complex, of today’s environmental problems – climate change. It features the hard-hitting, "Who Will Pay", selected as a finalist in an international film competition on "Vulnerability Exposed: The Social Dimensions of Climate Change" organised by the World Bank. This 'Earth in Crisis' album offer a sophisticated understanding of the processes and players that shape contemporary international environmental problems, evaluates what can and should be done in the future, and explores how responses to these dilemmas are intertwined with issues of development, international justice and responsibility. The eleven video tracks focus on climate change induced flooding in the delta regions of Bangladesh and in the Thames region of the UK. In the first five audio tracks, members of The Open University course team explore the main issues raised in the videos. The final three audio tracks explore some of the wider political and scientific dimensions of climate change. This material forms part of The Open University course DU311, Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context.

    Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

    Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

    A short introduction to this album

    • 1 min
    Transcript -- Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

    Transcript -- Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

    A short introduction to this album

    • video
    Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?

    Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?

    Finalist in the World Bank Climate Change Micro-Documentary Award.

    • 4 min
    Transcript -- Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?

    Transcript -- Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?

    Finalist in the World Bank Climate Change Micro-Documentary Award.

    • video
    Climate Change in Bangladesh

    Climate Change in Bangladesh

    Extreme weather events are getting worse. Forecasters predict that Bangladesh will be severely affected by floods, cyclones, droughts and the rising sea level.

    • 4 min
    Transcript -- Climate Change in Bangladesh

    Transcript -- Climate Change in Bangladesh

    Extreme weather events are getting worse. Forecasters predict that Bangladesh will be severely affected by floods, cyclones, droughts and the rising sea level.

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