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- Countryside in Crisis?
- The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus
- Unsustainable Fishing
- 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 to 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
Society
It’s better to keep older people in work
Forcing people to retire is at odds with a positive vision for our ageing society
Britain’s ageing population / In The News / It’s better to keep older people in work
Ageing’s silver lining
Singapore's location in Asia, the world's fastest-ageing region, places it in a prime spot to seize the economic and social opportunities that come with ageing
Britain’s ageing population / In The News / Ageing’s silver lining
Majority are resigned to working longer after pension collapse
The majority of Britons accept they will be forced to work beyond 65 after watching the value of pensions collapse. Six in ten said they realised they would have to stay in jobs longer to save up more money, a poll shows.
Britain’s ageing population / In The News / Majority are resigned to working longer after pension collapse
More will need to work beyond 65 as Wales’ population ages, suggests expert
Wales has to wake up to the challenge of an ageing workforce with more than 40% of the population likely to be aged 50 and over by 2031.
Britain’s ageing population / In The News / More will need to work beyond 65 as Wales’ population ages, suggests expert
End of retirement age signal
The government has brought forward by a year a review of the default retirement age of 65.
Britain’s ageing population / In The News / End of retirement age signal
Baby bust nations will face hard times as populations age
Population growth is beneficial for any economy, but for investors it is better if the median age of that population is low, ie a young economy.
Britain’s ageing population / In The News / Baby bust nations will face hard times as populations age
Social care green paper: reaction in quotes
The government has set out its blueprint for reforming care for older and disabled people. Key figures in the social care sector give their response
Britain’s ageing population / In The News / Social care green paper: reaction in quotes
The internet and the ‘e-solated’
A decade ago most of us had never used the internet – now we can't imagine life without it. Actually, some of us can: there are 10 million people in the UK still without a connection. Are they, Tim Adams asks, losing out economically and culturally? Below, we ask four web refuseniks to go online to see how their lives would change
Digital Divide in the UK? / In The News / The internet and the ‘e-solated’
Digital Divide in the UK?
December 2009
Martha Lane Fox, government's Digital Inclusion Champion, author and broadcaster Professor Tanya Byron and BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones discuss the digital divide in Britain and the risks and benefits of a digital society.
Challenges / Digital Divide in the UK?
Robert Neuwirth
Slums and the rise of the informal economy.
Adapting to an urban future / Focus / Robert Neuwirth
INTERVIEW: Professor Richard Burdett
Discussing the growth of urban populations, the future of cities and environmental and social sustainability.
Adapting to an urban future / Focus / INTERVIEW: Professor Richard Burdett