Unsustainable world

BBC’s Newsnight has been running an excellent series of programmes - Unsustainable World” - here is the link to the relevant web site

Tullow Oil and African Development [25 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Managing the Global Commons - Limits to GDP [15 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazilian Growth and Sustainability [12 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Focus on China - Carbon Emissions and Growth [26 Jan 2012]
Study Note - Finite Resources and Sustainability [13 Sep 2011]
Tuesday Talks - the cycling city [8 Mar 2011]
Economics Q&A: Tragedy of the Commons and Market Failure [18 Jan 2011]
Environmental Economics: Five Fresh Links [13 Jan 2011]
The cost of damaging Planet Earth [14 Oct 2010]
Searching for the right price for water [30 Aug 2010]
Nudging Consumers towards Sustainability [11 Jun 2010]
Sustainability - building a building from plastic bottles [3 May 2010]
Innovation in a Material World [21 Mar 2010]
Graphic on environmental performance [24 Jan 2010]
Unearthing the ratings agencies [23 Jan 2010]
Paul Mason on the Wall Street Crash [28 Oct 2009]
Paul Romer on Growth and Cities [24 Oct 2009]
Paul Mason on Economic Aftershocks [21 Sep 2009]
Icelandic fishing industry in deep water [3 Jun 2009]
Revision: Green National Product [20 May 2009]
Revision: Sustainable Development [20 May 2009]
Electric cars - subsidise the consumer or producer? [9 Apr 2009]
Two new books - Meltdown and the Storm [23 Mar 2009]
Retracing the Road to Wigan Pier [1 Mar 2009]
Worst case scenario for the UK [29 Jan 2009]
Coal and CO2 emissions - Poland [12 Dec 2008]
The Costs of Cutting Carbon [5 Dec 2008]
Wiki Assignment [17 Oct 2008]
Back to the cave or a brave new world? [22 Sep 2008]
Soft landing for the labour market [11 Jul 2008]
Flood defences, cost benefit and opportunity cost [17 May 2008]
Revision: Climate Change Policies [10 May 2008]
Brazil’s widening wealth gap [28 Apr 2008]
The external costs of food waste [18 Apr 2008]
Tim Harford takes a dig at green taxes [31 Mar 2008]
Interrelated markets and climate change [24 Mar 2008]
Fashionable changes in preferences [22 Mar 2008]
Fragile Earth Gallery [18 Mar 2008]
Canines or SUVs? Carbon foot (paw) prints [14 Feb 2008]
The London Pollution Charge [13 Feb 2008]

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