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This series of 13 programmes looks at global environmental problems and solutions, giving examples from around the world of how committed professionals are turning textbook concepts and principles into real, and viable action. This series underscores the fundamental connections between the environment and the disciplines of economics, science and politics.
13 x 30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £32.00 + p&p + VAT
This video reviews the history of environmental science and the origins of the current crisis. It introduces the concept to sustainability.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme looks at the role of population and the challenge of managing environmental and economic sustainability.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme provides a model for study of the way in which environmental laws are promulgated and enforced.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
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This programme deals with chemicals entering the environment which can have adverse impacts on human health. Two case studies are presented: one chronic; a one acute.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme examines some primary environmental concepts: the carbon cycle; the hydrologic (water) cycle; and the food chain.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
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This video explains the environmental compartments of air, water and biota (living material) and presents a case study to demonstrate their interaction.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
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This video examines the environmental threats to the band of life supporting oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. Studies applications of fuel cell technology.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
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This video explores the international ramifications of water related issues and the formidable challenges posed by the mismanagement water.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
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This programme surveys the use of hazardous materials, the ramifications of their illegal disposal, and the attendant political, economic and human impacts.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme depicts the struggle to improve workplace safety by looking at coal miners, scientists developing rocket engines, an industrial hygienist at Boeing, and a safety inspection at a machine shop.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
This video shows the world's largest landfill coping with a 13,000 tonnes of solid waste per day; it studies materials recycling and challenges posed by military nuclear waste. Environmental justice and NIMBY are underlying themes.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme explores environmental justice, the importance of materials recycling, and problems of civilian nuclear waste, and other hazardous materials.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
The final programme introduces a trend setting chain of factories in Denmark that sees waste from one industry as raw material for another (industrial symbiotics). It includes a visit to Ecovillage in Itheca, New York.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £12.75 + p&p + VAT
This programme highlights Bacon's inductivist view that grew out of the scientific revolution and challenges posed by Popper and Khun. Considers Khun's views on the role paradigm theories play in scientific revolutions.
30 minutes 1999 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
Looks at correspondence, coherence, and pragmatists theories of the truth, and how conflicts have carried over into realist verses antirealist views of science, including the Einstein-Bohr debate on quantum mechanics.
30 minutes 1996 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
The endless voyage series focuses on the marine environment as a unique and important part of life on earth. The following programmes are taken from a 26 part series using on-location material, computer graphics, individual case studies and discussions with leading scientists.
Plate tectonics is found virtually everywhere. Studies polar wandering, characteristics of plate boundaries, hot spots, and earthquakes.
30 minutes at 2003
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
Studies the chemistry of water, physical properties and behaviour, as well as the temperature, density, and salinity of ocean water. Also considered is the profound impact of the ocean on global temperatures.
30 minutes 2003 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
Like wind-powered surface current, density driven thermohaline circulation plays a key role in global heat transfer and in distributing dissolved gases and nutrients. Chemical tracers are just one method used to study these deep water currents.
30 minutes 2003 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
The following programmes are taken from a 26 part series examining how the earth's dynamic interacting systems relate to the development of life and environment. The series looks at how major geological formations and processes relate to plate tectonic theory. They also illustrate how the scientific process works, how scientists propose hypotheses, gather evidence and develop ideas.
This video describes earth's change from homogenous body to differentiated planet; studies it's internal structure, external environment, free oxygen, internal and external heat engines, and how it changes with internal and surface processes. Relates plate tectonics theory to scientific method.
30 minutes 1992 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
This programme studies continental drift theory and history of continents; reviews Hes s' s theory of spreading. Describes the causes of magnetic patterns on the sea floor, and how it allows us to measure the rate of sea floor motion and predicted its age. Describes the rate of plate motion.
30 minutes 1992 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
studies lithosphere, athenosphere, plate boundaries, deep-sea trenches, backarc spreading, continental collisions. Relates plate tectonic to volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, and sea floor features.
30 minutes 1992 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
This programme discusses mountain belt characteristics of size, alignment and age; the thickness and density of rocks and rock layers is examined; patterns of folding and faulting along with metamorphosis and plutonism. Explains oregeny as applied to convergence. Describes how continent's grow.
30 minutes 1992 PAL VHS tape
Cost £16.45 inc. VAT
This video explains atoms and how they differ and bond; and elements and how they relate to the composition of common minerals. It explains the significance of silica tetrahedron and the principle of crystallinity in mineral structure. It also identifies the conditions a substance must satisfy to be considered a mineral in the geological sense. It describes the properties and structures of common rock-forming minerals and indicates physical properties used to identify hand specimens.
30 minutes 1992 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
This programme studies volcano formation, activity and importance to geology and climate; beneficial and catastrophic effects of volcanism; factors controlling an eruption's violence, and influencing the shape, height and composition of volcanoes; lava types, colours and compositions and resulting volcanic rocks. Describes plateau and pillow basalts; volcanism and plate tectonics.
<30 minutes 1992 PAL VHS tapeCost: £16.45 inc. VAT
This video studies rock-forming processes; classifications of intrusive structures; igneous rock texture as a clue to origin; classification;mineralogical and chemical distinctions between granite, diorite, gabbro and ultrafamic rocks; dry and water pressure, mineral mixtures and melting temperatures; compositional variation due to differentiation, assimilation and partial melting. Relates tectonic theory to distribution of types, and to intrusive volcanic activity.
30 minutes 1992 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
The second in a series covering four waste treatment technologies. The following videos cover the chemical treatment of waste.
This programme introduces treatment methods used to change chemical properties of waste. It reviews chemical principles; studies the diversity of chemical treatment methods (neutralisation, precipitation, oxidation and reduction).
30 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
This video considers pollution prevention and waste minimisation relating critically to air atmospheric issues. It includes a case studies of a petroleum producer , developing, marketing, and lobbying to promote cleaner car exhaust emissions; and emission problems faced by a dry cleaning firm.
30 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
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This programme studies the exploratiom, production and transport of crude oil; the use of an active oil-field as an ecological preserve; and regulatory concerns associated with production and transportation.
30 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
This video examines petrochemical plastics, sulphuric acid,and inoganic chemical(production); bulk handling and processing along with pressurised vessel reactions; and environmental monitoring.
30 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
A series of 36 programmes on biology.
This video explains: how plants convert the sun's energy to chemical energy; the photosynthesis equation; how glucose is formed and used; cellular respirationand how an organism uses glucose to form ATP (adenosine triphosphate).
30 minutes 1978 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
A 26 part introductory series to astronomy.
This programme studies (spectroscopic developments from Newton to the late 20th century). It considers atoms and transitions between their electronic energy levels; compositionand temeperature of a star; and how its specrum reveals clues abouts its motion with respect to earth (red shift) and its rate of rotation.
30 minutes 1994 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
This video explains the chemicals of life; how supernovae supplied the elements that are it's basis; the 'habitability zone'; the Drake equation; and searches for extraterestial intelligence.
30 minutes 1994 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £16.45 inc. VAT
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