School of Geography and the Environment Podcasts

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These online audio resources consist of lectures, seminars and interviews from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

  1. 05/20/2015

    Long-period temperature records in the British Isles

    Prof Chris Folland, University of East Anglia and Met Office Hadley Centre, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015.

    25 min

  2. 05/20/2015

    Long-period precipitation records in the British Isles

    Prof Tim Burt, University of Durham, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015 Oxford University's Radcliffe Meteorological Station is the longest running continuous weather station in the UK. On 15 May, the Met Office presented an award to the University 'in recognition of 200 years of continuous climate observations at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford'.

    32 min

  3. 03/24/2015

    Are we bigger than the biosphere? An ecologist's examination of our human dominated planet.

    Prof Yadvinder Malhi delivers the 2nd School of Geography and the Environment Annual Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on 12 February 2015. "We live in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, the Age of Us. The defining feature of this age is that sum of human activity (how many we are and what we are doing) has become large compared to the natural processes of the biosphere. How can we measure how "large" we are, and how has our impact on the planet varied throughout human history? I examine this question through the concept of social metabolism, how much energy we use to support our lifestyles, compared to the metabolism of the biosphere. With this concept in hand, we will travel from a world full of hunter gatherers after the end of the last Ice Age, through the dawn of farming, the Roman Empire, the industrial revolution and finally look at prospects for the 21st century. On the way we'll examine whether our cities behave like termite colonies, and whether people walk faster in London than in Oxford. And you'll find out how you are like King Kong …"

    55 min

  4. 03/31/2014

    Water Lives: forging a science-policy interface

    Exploring the interface between science and policy-making at Water Lives - a science-policy symposium for Freshwater life in Brussels, January 2014. Listen to find out what every scientist should know about policy-making. Presented by Helen Scales. Produced by Paul Jepson. Supported by Biofresh. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 226874.

    26 min

  5. 02/17/2014

    Geography, Inequality and Oxford

    Danny Dorling delivers his inaugural lecture as Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography on 'Geography, Inequality and Oxford'. Danny Dorling's talk outlines how geography is increasingly important for revealing inequalities - over the last third of a century, inequalities in health and wealth have been rising and rising fastest in the last 5 years. The last period in recent history when we enjoyed relative equality was back in the 1970s - the time when Danny himself was living and schooled in Oxford.

    54 min

  6. 05/15/2013

    Environmental Decision-Making in the European Union: Who Exercises Power?

    As part of Europe Day on 9 May 2013, the Conservation Governance Laboratory at the University of Oxford organised a panel discussion co-sponsored by the School of Geography and the Environment and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

    40 min

  7. 02/07/2012

    The People's Planet: Reconnecting climate science, climate policy and reality

    Myles Allen (Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics) delivers his inaugural lecture on 28 Nov 2011.

    54 min

  8. 11/22/2011

    A President, the Gobi and the Oxford Union: Environment, Politics and Mining in Mongolia.

    Three researchers analyse the Mongolian President's speech at the Oxford Union, October 2011. Drawing from their current research, the themes of environment, politics and mining influence in Mongolia are discussed and implications for the future assessed.

    1h 9m
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