'Strange Visitor From Another Planet': Genre, Corporate Identity and the Arrival of American Telefantasy on British Television

While the BBC had been broadcasting television Science Fiction productions from as early as 1938, and Horror since the start of television in 1936, American Telefantasy had no place on British television until ITV’s broadcast of Adventures of Superman (1952-1958) in 1956. It would be easy to assign this absence to the avoidance of popular American programming, but this would ignore the presence of Western and adventure serials imported from the US and Canada for monopoly British television. Similarly, it would be inaccurate to suggest that these imports were purely purchased as thrilling fare to appease a child audience, as it was the commercial ITV that was first to broadcast the more adult-orientated Science Fiction Theatre (1955-7) and Inner Sanctum (1954). This article builds on the work of Paul Rixon and Rob Leggott to argue that these imports were used primarily to supply relatively cheap broadcast material for the new channel, but that they also served to appeal to the notion of spectacular entertainment attached to the new channel through its own productions, such as The Invisible Man (1958-1959) and swashbucklers such as The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-60). However, the appeal was not just to the exciting, but also to the transatlantic, with ITV embracing this conception of America as a modern place of adventure through its imports and its creation of productions for export, incorporating an American lead into The Invisible Man and drawing upon an (inexpensive) American talent pool of blacklisted screenwriters to provide a transatlantic style and relevance to its own adventure series. Where the BBC used its imported serials as filler directed at children, ITV embraced this transatlantic entertainment as part of its identity and differentiation from the BBC.

Lismore Historical Society visitor centre - Lismore Argyll

2005-6 Input into content and design of the Lismore Historical Society Museum displays

Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Visitor Centre, Ggantija Visitor Centre:Prehistoric World Heritage Sites visitor centre media and academic content

2010-12 Expert Assistance with research material, digital illustration and text for Visitor Centres in Malta and Gozo (Heritage Malta) and National Museum

Research agendas for the sustainable management of tropical peatland in Malaysia

There is a need for coordinated research for the sustainable management of tropical peatland. Malaysia has 6% of global tropical peat by area and peatlands there are subject to land use change at an unprecedented rate. This paper describes a stakeholder engagement exercise that identified 95 priority research questions for peatland in Malaysia, organized into nine themes. Analysis revealed the need for fundamental scientific research, with strong representation across the themes of environmental change, ecosystem services, and conversion, disturbance and degradation. Considerable uncertainty remains about Malaysia's baseline conditions for peatland, including questions over total remaining area of peatland, water table depths, soil characteristics, hydrological function, biogeochemical processes and ecology. More applied and multidisciplinary studies involving researchers from the social sciences are required. The future sustainability of Malaysian peatland relies on coordinating research agendas via a ‘knowledge hub’ of researchers, strengthening the role of peatlands in land-use planning and development processes, stricter policy enforcement, and bridging the divide between national and provincial governance. Integration of the economic value of peatlands into existing planning regimes is also a stakeholder priority. Finally, current research needs to be better communicated for the benefit of the research community, for improved societal understanding and to inform policy processes.

Estudio de factibilidad para la creación de una microempresa dedicada a la producción y comercialización de artículos (agendas, tarjetas de invitación, envolturas para regalos), elaborados con papel reciclado en la ciudad de Quito provincia de Pichincha.

A nivel mundial el tema de la protección del medio ambiente ha tomado gran importancia, sobre todo en los países industrializados que son los que generalmente presenta más altos niveles de contaminación ambiental. Como consecuencia de este hecho se han creado organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales que se han dedicado no solamente a realizar investigaciones acerca de cómo preservar la naturaleza sino también de que puede hacer las empresas y la sociedad para disminuir la destrucción del medio ambiente. La provincia de Manabí en Ecuador, tiene la tasa más alta de deforestación en el mundo; durante los últimos 20 años se ha visto un daño ambiental inigualable en el Estuario de Caráquez, en la desembocadura de los Ríos Chone y Carrizal. “Antes existía una superficie muy extensa de bosque de manglar; ahora, el 95% del área se ha sido destruido para la construcción de piscinas camaroneras”

Ambiente, território e sociedade. Novas agendas de investigação

A presente publicação reúne 26 contributos de membros do Grupo de Investigação Ambiente, Território e Sociedade do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Criado em 2014, no âmbito da reorganização interna do Instituto que decorreu da aprovação do Programa Estratégico para 2015-2020, este grupo de investigação beneficiou do importante legado de conhecimentos e competências desenvolvidos nos últimos anos, sobretudo no contexto da Linha Temática SUSTAIN – Sustentabilidade: Ambiente, Risco e Espaço, e do OBSERVA – Observatório de Ambiente e Sociedade.

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