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21st Century Challenges

Geography is at the heart of a number of key challenges affecting places, societies, environments and livelihoods locally and globally in the 21st Century.

The 21st Century Challenges series aims to improve public understanding of, and engagement with, some of the key issues likely to affect our lives and society in the coming years and thereby aid people in making their own informed decisions and judgements on these issues.

 

Recent challenges: Natural disasters: how can we improve?


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 Visit www.21stCenturyChallenges.org for more information and resources: watch previous talks, interviews, articles and guides to the issues (see previous talks below for details of the 'challenges' explored to date)




Previous events

Digital Divide?
Digital Divide?
· 1 December 2009
· Martha Lane Fox, Professor Tanya Byron and Rory Cellan-Jones

 

Britain's Population timebomb?
Britain's Population timebomb?
· 16 June 2009
· Angela Eagle MP, George Magnus & Samira Ahmed


Importing goods: Exporting drought
· 14 October 2009
· Robin Farrington. Andy Wales and George Alagiah

Engineering our Climate
Engineering our Climate
· 14 May 2009
· Professor David Keith, Dr Paul Johnston & Tom Clarke

Future Shape of Capitalism
Future Shape of Capitalism
· 17 March 2009
· Vince Cable MP, John Micklethwait & Evan Davis

people on busy city street
Migration, skills, job markets
· 11 November 2008
· Sir Andrew Green, Philippe Legrain, Khalid Koser, Jonty Bloom
 

Rainforest from above
Razing the Rainforest
· 22 October 2008
· Warren Evans, Marina Silva, Simon Counsell, Prof Sir Gordon Conway
 

Are we concreting the countryside?
Concreting the Countryside
· Sir Peter Hall, Martin Crookston & Simon Jenkins
 

Sir Gordon Conway, Lord Browne & Malcolm Wicks at 21st Century Challenges event
Future of low-carbon energy
· Lord Browne & Malcolm Wicks

What are London's flood risks?
London Under Water

· Evan Davis, Dave Wardle, Alex Nickson & Rowan Douglas

Sir Gordon Conway, Kofi Annan & Bob Geldof at 21st Century Challenges event
Africa in the 21st Century
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Bob Geldof & Kofi Annan

 

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