Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- 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
climate change, Mark Easton, UNAIDS, water use, Poverty in Britain, plastic, Brazil, ageing, developing world, populations, Oxfam, global, dr marie charles, Jospeh Rowntree Foundation, United Nations, architecture, water bottles, TB, water footprint, Copenhagen
Not In My Back Yard : Media Gallery
Introduction by Julian Glover, the guardian
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Julian Glover, chief leader writer for the guardian and chair, introduces the topic of the discussion and the panel.
Antony Oliver - New Civil Engineer
Antony Oliver, Editor of New Civil Engineers, discusses NIMBYism and planning in Britain
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Fiona Reynolds - The National Trust
Dame Fiona Reynolds, Director-General of The National Trust discusses the importance of local planning and the right for people to object to development.
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Jim Steer, Steer Davis Gleave
Jim Steer discusses proposals for a high speed rail network and the way it could transform the economic geography of Britain.
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