School of Geography and the Environment Podcasts

May 20 2015 29 ep. 27 mins 3.6k

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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.

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Long-period temperature records in the British Isles

May 20 2015 24 mins

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. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Long-period precipitation records in the British Isles

May 20 2015 32 mins

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 continuo

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

Mar 24 2015 54 mins

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 ca

Water Lives: forging a science-policy interface

Mar 31 2014 26 mins

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 res

Geography, Inequality and Oxford

Feb 17 2014 53 mins

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 histor

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

May 15 2013 39 mins

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. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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

Feb 07 2012 53 mins

Myles Allen (Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics) delivers his inaugural lecture on 28 Nov 2011. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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

Nov 22 2011 69 mins

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.

Soil moisture and feedback cycles; southern Africa as a carbon sink

Feb 24 2011 17 mins

Andrew Thomas, Manchester Metropolitan University, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.

Minimum carbon payment along an aridity gradient for dryland forestation

Feb 24 2011 16 mins

Henri Rueff, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.