Synopsis
Professor Iain Stewart looks at how Scotland is on the verge of a revolution - the transformation of a carbon economy to a green one.
- Programme: Making Scotland's Landscape
- Episode: 5: The Climate
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Geography
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