Explore Challenges
- Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010]
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
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Not In My Back Yard
For centuries Britain has had to balance the social and environmental benefits and consequences of development.
With pressure on ageing energy and transport infrastructures mounting, is it time to put projects of national importance ahead of local concerns? Or does this bypass our democratic right to object?
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Focus
Interview with Shaun Spiers, CEO of CPRE
Shaun Spiers, Chief Executive of Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) talks about the issue of NIMBYism and planning in Britain.
Interview with Wayne Hemingway MBE
Watch an interview with designer Wayne Hemingway MBE on the role of design in building large-scale projects in Britain.
23rd February, 2010- more »
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Read about the proposed multi billion pound high-speed rail line High Speed Two. It has the potential to change the geography of Britain, but does it threaten to put protected land at risk?
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The debate over wind farms often polarises local opinion. Read the arguments for and against this form of renewable energy
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