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In episode of four of this five part series, Joanna Haigh explores how access to critical resources might change the way our economies work.
Without the most basic resources – water, food and energy – the global economy could not function. Much of the world has grown used the ready supply of all three. But that might be changing. Demographics and climate change are likely to transform how we value and use essential resources. In this edition of Economic Tectonics, Joanna Haigh – a professor at London’s Grantham Institute at Imperial College – explores how, in her view, such changes could have profound consequences for the future economy.
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
(Image: Map made of food, Credit: Shutterstock)
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- Wed 29 Mar 201702:32GMTBBC World Service Online, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East, UK DAB/Freeview & West and Central Africa only
- Wed 29 Mar 201703:32GMTBBC World Service South Asia
- Wed 29 Mar 201704:32GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Wed 29 Mar 201706:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia
- Wed 29 Mar 201712:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
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