School of Geography and the Environment Podcasts
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School of Geography and the Environment Podcasts
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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29 episodes
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 w...
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...
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. "W...
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. L...
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 o...
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 t...
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 N...
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 envir...
Soil moisture and feedback cycles; southern Africa as a carbon sink
Andrew Thomas, Manchester Metropolitan University, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and t...
Minimum carbon payment along an aridity gradient for dryland forestation
Henri Rueff, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the Sch...
Casting new light on Late Quaternary environmental and palaeohydrological change in the Namib desert: a review of the application of optically stimulated luminescence
Abi Stone, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geogra...
Modelling the emission and transport of Saharan dust
Jamie Banks, Atmospheric Physics, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Enviro...
Aeolian research
Marcelo Zarate, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Soanta Rosa, Argentina, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the Sc...
Water landscapes in central Sahara
Savino di Lernia, University of Rome, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environmen...
Gateway of India: the implications of palaeoenvironmental change in the Thar desert, NW India, for the dispersal of Homo Sapiens
James Blinkhorn, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the...
A new estimate about the evaporation in the deserts of northwestern China
Xiaoping Yang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference...
Wet rocks, big trouble? Using novel techniques to assess rock art deterioration
Lisa Mol, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geograp...
The role of the desert in forming the ancient Egyptian civilisation
Mohamed Abouelata, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography a...
Hominid dispersals and the Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia
Huw Groucutt, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Env...
From Dick to the Desert: a short (and incomplete) history of Oxford geography's contributions to desert science
Prof. David Thomas, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, delivers the keynote address at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conferenc...
The role of NGOs in the Drylands Development Paradigm
Mike Mortimore talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford...
Inferences on retrospective climate of Thar desert through luminescence dating of aeolian and lacustrine sequences
Ashok Singhvi, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geo...
Groundwater and irrigation in Balochistan, Pakistan
Dr Daanish Mustafa, Dept. of Geography, King's College London, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geo...
Climate change and cultural transitions over the last 160,000 years in NW Africa
Angela Vaughan, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the E...
Rejecting authenticity in the desert landscapes of the modern Middle East (Oman)
Dr Dawn Chatty, Development Studies, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Env...
Livelihood sustainability in drylands
Professor Andy Dougill, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Ge...
The significance of deserts in shaping the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens
Dr Michael Petraglia, School of Archaeology, Oxford, delivers the introductory address at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by...
Riding the Perfect Storm: World on the Edge, When will the Big Bubble Burst
Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington DC, gives a lecture for the Linacre Lecture Series; Riding the Perfect Storm.
Earth: A Three Act Structure
Relevance of geological ideas to contemporary environmental issues.' Professor Iain Stewart, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Un...