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The Danube is Western Europe's longest river, running nearly 2800 kilometers from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea. It is the world's most international river connecting 18 countries. The Danube and its tributaries comprise a river basin that covers one-tenth of continental Europe. But with the expansion of the European Union into Eastern Europe, it's at the heart of a very modern dilemma - how to create prosperity through trade and development without destroying the environment. This Life program examines the legacies of communist rule and conflict in the region, and asks what are the consequences when more than one country shares what a river has to offer? It is the story of how the Danube has become a new battleground in the conflict between the EU's transport and agriculture lobbies, and environmentalists fighting to preserve the river's unique ecology.
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Main credits
Orders, Ron (film director)
Richards, Jenny (consultant)
Gawin, Luke (film producer)
Kerr, Alistair (editor of moving image work)
Olofson, Sascha (film producer)
Wright, Richard (composer)
Dunbar, Sally (narrator)
Other credits
Editor, Alistair Kerr; producer, Sascha Olofson; music, Richard Wright, The Definitive Break.
Agriculture; Ecology; Economics; Environment; Europe; European Studies; Geography; Globalization; International Studies; Millennium Development Goals; Rivers; Sociology; Sustainability; United Nations; Water
Keywords
Danube, Danube River, rivers, Europe, European Union, Eastern Europe, trade, transport, agriculture, river ecology, Millenium Development Goals, MDGs; "Blue Danube?"; Bullfrog Films
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 27 minutes
Date: 2005
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 7-12, College, Adult
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Closed Captioning: Available
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