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Understanding the future of humanity
01 Feb 08 in Videos
Director Interview: Nick Bostrom, Future of Humanity Institute, discusses human enhancement, global catastrophic risks and the problems of dealing with uncertainty in relation to the big questions affecting humanity.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/understanding-the-future-of-humanity
The contradictions of forest certification in the promotion of sustainability
04 Nov 10 in Videos
This presentation summarizes the formation and growth of forest certification and illustrates how it qualifies sustainability and leverages meaningful changes in forest management. Consumer demand seems to have played little direct role in the growth of forest certification. Instead, environmental campaigns and corporate interests in protecting brands drove the adoption of certification among buyers of forest products.
Forest certification puts the...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/the-contradictions-of-forest-certification-in-the-promotion-of-sustainability
Resilience in systems that must cope with uncertainty
03 Feb 11 in Videos
Climate change, economic globalization, and many new levels of communication have all made many human, biological and technical systems more unpredictable. This has been called The New Normal: a time of higher uncertainty, with fast and strong disruptions in many systems. This is affecting technical systems, biological systems, economic systems, and human organizations. This has increased interest in resilience, a...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/resilience-in-systems-that-must-cope-with-uncertainty
"Water Scarcity: a shortage of water or a shortage of ideas?" by Prof Mark New
21 Oct 11 in Videos
Seminar by Professor Mark New, part of the "Is the Planet Full" Series
'Water Crises', 'Water Wars', 'Peak Water' and many more phrases have been used in recent years to suggest that a growing population and increased per capita water use are leading inexorably to critical levels of water scarcity. In this talk, the factors affecting water availability and water...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/water-scarcity-a-shortage-of-water-or-a-shortage-of-ideas
International crisis and the failure of global ethics
01 Feb 12 in Videos
What can a philosopher of ethics say to the world in the aftermath of the financial crisis? Co-Director of Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, David Rodin, speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/international-crisis-and-the-failure-of-global-ethics
By birds or mosquitoes? West Nile Virus spread examined
19 Sept 12 in Videos
Tracking epidemic spread is vital to public health officers and medical practitioners, who need to know where and when people are likely to be affected by an outbreak, to deploy anti-viral drugs and healthcare in the right place at the right time. Researchers studying the spread of West Nile Virus in US since 1999 suggest that birds are more likely...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/by-birds-or-mosquitoes-west-nile-virus-spread-examined
Will global birth rates continue to fall?
01 Mar 13 in Videos
Africa is now the only place where women have more than two children. Sarah Harper discusses what this means for global resources.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/will-global-birth-rates-continue-to-fall