A-level Geography at Highlands

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Human Geography Core

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Core Human - Population Change

S-cool on population geography
Population indicators
How is population data collected? http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Population links at top-population-websites .
Glossary of population terminology at: http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=34153 .
Population change - the demographic transition model
The Demographic Transition Model: Demotrans and http://www.kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk/learningzone/subjects/geography/dtm.html .
Wikipedia on demographic transition
Facts on population and disease: globalhealthfacts
Population change through evolution:
Population structure
Population pyramids and demographic transition at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/geog/population/measuring.shtml .
Wikipedia on population pyramids
Creating population pyramids in Excel: pyramids.html
Create population pyramids for any country here: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html .
Population change simulator: play_population
Population and resources
World population growth slows down: news.bbc.co.uk .
Past, current and future population estimates here .
The concepts of optimum, under- and over-population here .
Malthus' theory of population growth here .
Boserup's ideas about population growth here
Carbon and population at Breathing Earth: http://www.breathingearth.net/
The Optimum Population Trust: http://www.optimumpopulation.org/
World Population Balance - an organisation campaigning for stable populations.
Which is the biggest problem, overpopulation or overconsumption? http://www.npg.org/forum_series/overpop&overconsume.htm , http://www.bcen.bc.ca/bcerart/Vol2-4/overpopu.htm and http://www.henrygeorge.org/popsup.htm
Or should we worried about underpopulation? http://www.metafuture.org/Articles/AgeingFutures.htm and http://www.geographyinthenews.rgs.org/
Implications of population change
Population and development links at http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_summer2002/focuson/index.html .
If the world were a village… www.miniature-earth.com/
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Case studies for population change:
Russia's population
Afghanistan's population (2nd article)
Brazil's population
Population structure
Russia
Afghanistan
Brazil Some more useful data.
International Population Pyramids for 2000, 2025, 2050.
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Managing population
11/11/08 - One Child China website for web enquiry: http://www.onechildchina.blogspot.com/
Details of Thailand's population and population policy: Family_ Planning_Fact_Sheets .
Details of India's population policy: http://www.india-seminar.com/2002/511/511%20pravin%20visaria.htm and Family_ Planning_Fact_Sheets .
Indian condom problem: news.bbc.co.uk
Animated Chinese population pyramid here: ChinaFood .
Views on China's population policy at: http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/Population_Control/one_child.html , news.bbc.co.uk , http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=771 ,
geography.about.com and http://www.tibettruth.com/birthcontrolprog.html
Wifeless future for China’s men? news.bbc.co.uk
Has the One Child Policy worked? news.bbc.co.uk
China’s elderly care problem: news.bbc.co.uk
China tones down one child posters: independent.co.uk
Campaigns about population policy from China, India and Kenya: worldbalance .
Analysis of population dilemmas for Europe: http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/councilarticles/pdr/PDR291Demeny.pdf .
Is Sweden underpopulated? http://www.pupilvision.com/lowersixth/kgp2-9/sweden.htm .
Russian ‘sex day’ to boost the population: news.bbc.co.uk
Britain's aging population: news.bbc.co.uk.
The Optimum Population Trust's view of UK population: http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.toomany.uk.html .
Brits go abroad: news.bbc.co.uk
Download summary Powerpoint presentations about topics such as the impact of AIDS on Sub-Saharan Africa here: http://www.populationconcern.org.uk/free_downloads.asp .
Where did we all come from? http://www.cambridgedna.com/
A guide to international migration here .
Theories of international migration here .
The impacts of migration here .
Factfile on global migration: news.bbc.co.uk .
Online lessons about migration: http://www.angliacampus.com/public/sec/geog/migrate/page01.htm and here http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/geog/population/migration.shtml .
Research about international migration: http://www.migrationdrc.org/projects/index.html .
Worldwide migration issues: here.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home .
7/11/08 Forced Migration Sudan, Darfur province: -
http://www.forcedmigration.org/guides/fmo040/fmo040.pdf
http://www.ahpi.health.usyd.edu.au/pdfs/srlpapers2004/ausmedaug04.pdf
Migration into the UK: news.bbc.co.uk and http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration.
Record numbers leave Britain: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2154249,00.html
Polish migration to the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1825469,00.html
Remittances from the UK: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/news/files/pressreleases/report-remittance.asp and news.bbc.co.uk
Would you qualify to migrate to Canada? http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/skilled/qual-5.html
Proposed guest worker scheme for Australia: http://www.workpermit.com/news/2005_02_24/australia/guest_workers_proposed.htm .
Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo: Kosovo-Ethnic_Cleansing1 and Kosovo-Ethnic_Cleansing2 .
Russian Jews move to Israel, then back again: http://www.boykotisrael.dk/changing_fortunes_lead_soviet_je.htm or
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7588374/ .
Turkish guest workers in Germany: news.bbc.co.uk and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/25/wturk25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/25/ixworld.html .
Migrant workers in Southern Italy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/slideshow/page/0,,1975338,00.html
Does Germany need immigrants? news.bbc.co.uk .
One way of entering Europe: news.bbc.co.uk
Brits abroad: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/0,,180242,00.html
Rural and urban settlements
Urban geography articles from the BBC: urbanisation
Our urban world: environment.guardian.co.uk
Settlement case studies
DEFRA East Midlands: http://www.defra.gov.uk/erdp/docs/emchapter/default.htm
Snowdonia - a rural area here .
Animation of ‘Our Blighted Countryside’: environment.guardian.co.uk
Urban structure - Belfast: http://www.geographyinaction.co.uk/Urban_structure/Urbanstructure_intro.html .
High density living in Hong Kong: news.bbc.co.uk
Life in Manila’s slums: news.bbc.co.uk
Urbanisation in China here
Migration & urbanisation in China: news.bbc.co.uk and http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20070411.shtml
Up-to-date urban development programmes in the UK at http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk/programmes.htm .
Urban redevelopment in Newcastle.
Inner city Nottingham: observer.guardian.co.uk
Nottingham's current developments: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,630-2126753.html
UK average house prices map: http://www.mouseprice.com/
What are sustainable cities? SustainableCities and here
China’s eco-city: news.bbc.co.uk
Social welfare

Human Option - Food Supply Issues

Global patterns - supply, trade and consumption
Food production systems
Managing food supply - increasing production
Causes and impacts of famine here, here , here and here .
Food security statistics: http://www.fao.org/es/ess/faostat/foodsecurity/index_en.htm
The looming food crisis: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The Green & Gene Revolutions: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,669450,00.html , news.bbc.co.uk , http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_autumn2001/focuson/case2.html , http://www.whybiotech.com/index.asp?id=4075 , http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/mar/17gene.htm , http://www.foodfirst.org/media/opeds/2000/4-greenrev.html , http://www.fao.org/FOCUS/E/Women/green-e.htm, http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/topics/borlaug/borlaug-green.html , http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/webprojects/w01_africagr.htm mich.edu , livingheritage.org http://www.gvnr.com/88/4.htm
Africa's food crisis: news.bbc.co.uk.
Oxfam small farmers in Zimbabwe: zimbabwe/nutritional_gardens.htm and
Managing food supply - controlling production
Changing demand
Globalising food
Food miles calculator: http://www.organiclinker.com/food-miles.cfm
Environmental impact and sustainability
28/11/08 - Case studies at national scale of two contrasting
approaches to managing energy supply.
Icleand data on energy consumption.
Icelandic Government policy on energy consumption
Chinese data on energy consumption
Chinese problems with energy consumption
A comparative study between Icelands energy policies and China's.What methods do they use? Use data to prove your answer and discuss whether their policies are sustainable? Discuss how easy or difficult it is for either country to introduce reneable energy programmes.

Unit 1: Physical Geography Core

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Unit 1: Physical Geography

Core Physical - Rivers, Floods & Management

Drainage basin hydrology and water balance

The drainage basin: www.physicalgeography.net and geomorphology
The hydrological cycle: cycle.html and hydrology.cgi
Soil moisture budgets: water_balance

Factors affecting river discharge

Hydrographs: thinkquest.org
Check your hydrograph terminology.
More on hydrographs.

Profiles, characteristics and processes

The long profile of a river.
Virtual fieldtrip down the River Dane.
Virtual fieldtrip along the River Darent.

Channel processes: library.thinkquest.org
Processes of erosion, transportation and deposition.
Transportation process animation.
Virtual rivers fieldwork: VirtualRiver
The Hjulstrom Curve

Landforms of erosion and deposition

Some basic ideas about river landforms.
Stream erosion and landscape development.
A meandering river.

Rejuvenation

Causes and impacts of flooding

Scottish flood case studies here.
UK Flood risk: news.bbc.co.uk
Impacts of Polish floods 1997: www.socialstyrelsen.se
What should be done about floods in Poland? www.edie.net
Polish floods return in 2001: news.bbc.co.uk
Recommendations for the future in Poland: wwf.us
Large flood events: www.dartmouth.edu

Flood management strategies

International Commission on Large Dams – benefits & problems: www.swissdams.ch
Critical dam building FAQs: www.irn.org
Aswan Dam: ww w.kented.org.uk
Itaipu Dam: www.kented.org.uk
The Three Gorges Dam: news.bbc.co.uk
The Narmada Valley Development Project here and here
What happened to people displaced by new reservoirs in Lesotho? www.panos.org.uk

Ecological restoration of rivers: http://www.ser.org/
Kissimmee River restoration: my.sfwmd.gov

Physical Option - Coastal Environments

The coastal system

Ocean waves: www.forgefx.com
Studying coastlines: www.theseashore.org.uk

Coastal processes

Waves breaking on the shore.

Landforms of erosion and deposition

Watch a stack get destroyed.

How sand dunes develop at virtual_dunes .
Magilligan Dunes, Northern Ireland: www.geographyinaction.co.uk .
Morfa Harlech Dunes, North Wales here .

Coastal erosion case studies

The disappearing Welsh coast: news.bbc.co.uk

Sea level change

Types of sea level change here .
The impact of sea level change on the Essex coast at www.essex-estuaries.co.uk .
Open University resources about the Blackwater Estuary on the Essex coast: openlearn.open.ac.uk
The impact of sea level change on the Maldives here .
What would disappear if sea level rose? merkel.zoneo.net

Human impact on the coast: news.bbc.co.uk

Coastal flooding case studies

Coastal protection and management

Contrasting management - hard and soft engineering

Unit 2: Geographical Skills

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Unit 2: Geographical Skills

How to do a fieldsketch: www.bbc.co.uk
Using Excel to produce graphs for geography: geographydrawinggraphswithexcel.asp
Creating pictograms in Excel: pictograms.html
Creating population pyramids in Excel: pyramids.html
Stuck with statistics? Stats for twits
Using Spearman’s Rank

Measuring river gradient.

Malham Tarn Field Centre website: www.field-studies-council.org .
The formation of Malham Tarn: www.malhamdale.org.uk .
Research on the ecology of Malham Tarn here
Photographs of Malhamdale sights here .
Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority website.

Year 13: A2 Module - Global Challenge

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Y13 STARTS HERE

Links are relevant to the AQA Geography A2

A2 Module: Global Challenge

Geography Newsroom http://www.geographynewsroom.co.uk/

Challenges facing our planet at: news.bbc.co.uk and www.globalissues.org
The Green Room – opinions on the challenges facing our planet: news.bbc.co.uk
Terradaily – news from planet earth: www.terradaily.com
TED – click ‘Global Issues’ http://www.ted.com/
Can we build a sustainable society? here

Weather & Climate

Jetstreams: here
The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ): africa-itcz

BBC Newsround Global Warming.
Impacts of climate change: www.bbc.co.uk .
Open University resources on climate change: openlearn.open.ac.uk
Policies on climate change: www.bbc.co.uk .
Climate change around the world: news.bbc.co.uk
Global warming & climate change: news.bbc.co.uk.
Radio 1 documentary: Global Warming - www.bbc.co.uk
Climate change scepticism: www.hudson.org and www.open2.net
El Nino here . El Nino in 2006: here , here and here
Human impact on storms: news.bbc.co.uk

Biomes

Biomes and their climates: www.forgefx.com
Forests or plantations? www.cru.uea.ac.uk

Globalisation & Development

Huge user-friendly site about economic development - The Commanding Heights: www.pbs.org

Globalisation the basics: news.bbc.co.uk
What is globalisation? news.bbc.co.uk
Listen to a lecture "Is the world really shrinking?"
Globalisation on the radio: www.bbc.co.uk
Global environmental, social and economic change: earthtrends.wri.org .
Globalisation in the car industry: news.bbc.co.uk
Globalisation of waste: environment.guardian.co.uk
Outsaucing - HP Sauce moves away from Birmingham: www.brownsauce.org
Global sourcing of pencils (way back in 1958!) www.econlib.org
Workers’ rights in the global economy: www.nlcnet.org

The production chain for a pair of jeans: www.tes.co.uk and
www.geographypages.co.uk
How much does the UK depend on the rest of the world? www.neweconomics.org .

Country rankings by various development indicators here and here
Watch development happen on exciting scatter graphs (honestly!) gapminder
World maps of various indicators (you will have to register for this site): maps.maplecroft.com/

A detailed site about poverty: povlinks
Chronic Poverty Research Centre: www.chronicpoverty.org
Poverty mapped worldwide: maps.grida.no
Causes of poverty: www.globalissues.org
What’s poverty in the UK? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7481927.stm

Where do you fit on the Global Rich List? http://www.globalrichlist.com/

What is the International Monetary Fund? www.imf.org
World Bank views on development issues: worldbank.org .
WTO BBC Newsround World Trade Organisation.
G8 BBC Newsround the G8.

The Millenium Development Goals at: www.un.org .

How committed are MEDCs to aiding development? www.cgdev.org

Africa in facts and figures: www.learningafrica.org.uk
African case studies on a variety of development issues: www.learningafrica.org.uk
Sustainable Africa: allafrica.com
Virtual Zambia here .
Real life in Ghana: www.plan-ed.org
Visit a Ugandan village: www.plan-uk.org
Play the 'game' of life in Darfur: www.darfurisdying.com

Virtual Bangladesh: www.virtualbangladesh.com .

India & China - profiles of the emerging economic giants: news.bbc.co.uk
Infochange India: www.infochangeindia.org
Hear about China's economic miracle (this is an MP3 sound file): china.mp3.
Video diaries from Chinese and Indian workers: bbc.co.uk
Multinationals and India’s service revolution: news.bbc.co.uk
BBC Radio journey to the 'beating heart of China's economic boom': worldtoday/news
IPod manufacture in China: www.mailonsunday.co.uk

Do transnational corporations operate like this? mcdonalds_game.htm
Simsweatshop www.simsweatshop.com
The true cost of coffee: news.bbc.co.uk
Starbucks, Ethiopia and coffee: www.guardian.co.uk
Multinationals and India’s service revolution: news.bbc.co.uk

Introduction to world trade issues: www.globaleye.org.uk .
Open University resources about the WTO and LEDCs: openlearn.open.ac.uk
Current world trade issues: news.bbc.co.uk .
What is free trade? www.oxfam.org.uk (thanks to Jamie Smith for this link)
Export industries in Kenya: www.epzakenya.com
Trade and development links here , here and here .
Bananas and fair trade in the Windward Islands.
St Lucia saved by fair-trade bananas? environment.guardian.co.uk
Detailed assessment of fair trade in bananas from Ghana: www.nri.org
Fair trade versus free trade: www.nfu.org, www.samuelbrittan.co.uk, www.onpointradio.org,
www.foodanddrinkeurope.com and www.sierraclub.org
Open University resources about labour and trade issues between Mexico and the USA: openlearn.open.ac.uk

Aid and development links:
www.globaleye.org.uk , www.makepovertyh istory.org , www.bized.ac.uk and www.guardian.co.uk .
How much do governments give in aid? www.globalissues.org
Are aid levels falling? business.guardian.co.uk
What does Wateraid do? www.wateraid.org
Oxfam briefing on food aid: www.oxfam.org

Debt and development links www.makepovertyhistory.org

Population

How is population data collected? www.bbc.co.uk

Population links at top-population-websites .
Glossary of population terminology at: www.school-portal.co.uk .
The Demographic Transition Model: Demotrans and www.kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk .
Population pyramids and demographic transition at: www.bbc.co.uk .
Creating population pyramids in Excel: pyramids.html
Create population pyramids for any country here: www.census.gov .
Population change simulator: play_population

World population growth slows down: news.bbc.co.uk .
Past, current and future population estimates here .
The concepts of optimum, under- and over-population here .
Malthus' theory of population growth here .
Boserup's ideas about population growth here
Carbon and population at Breathing Earth: www.breathingearth.net
The Optimum Population Trust: www.optimumpopulation.org
Which is the biggest problem, overpopulation or overconsumption? www.npg.org , www.bcen.bc.ca and www.henrygeorge.org
Or should we worried about underpopulation? www.metafuture.org and www.geographyinthenews.rgs.org

Population and development links at www.globaleye.org.uk .
If the world were a village… www.miniature-earth.com/

Details of Thailand's population and population policy: Family_ Planning_Fact_Sheets .
Details of India's population policy: www.india-seminar.com and Family_ Planning_Fact_Sheets .
Indian condom problem: news.bbc.co.uk
Animated Chinese population pyramid here: ChinaFood .
Views on China's population policy at: www.overpopulation.com , news.bbc.co.uk , www.peopleandplanet.net ,
geography.about.com and www.tibettruth.com
Wifeless future for China’s men? news.bbc.co.uk
Has the One Child Policy worked? news.bbc.co.uk

China’s elderly care problem: news.bbc.co.uk
China tones down one child posters: independent.co.uk
Campaigns about population policy from China, India and Kenya: worldbalance .

Analysis of population dilemmas for Europe: www.popcouncil.org .
Is Sweden underpopulated? www.pupilvision.com .
Russian ‘sex day’ to boost the population: news.bbc.co.uk

Britain's aging population: news.bbc.co.uk.
The Optimum Population Trust's view of UK population: www.optimumpopulation.org .
Brits go abroad: news.bbc.co.uk

Download summary Powerpoint presentations about topics such as the impact of AIDS on Sub-Saharan Africa here: www.populationconcern.org.uk .

Where did we all come from? www.cambridgedna.com

A guide to international migration here .
Theories of international migration here .
The impacts of migration here .
Factfile on global migration: news.bbc.co.uk .
Online lessons about migration: www.angliacampus.com and here www.bbc.co.uk .
Research about international migration: www.migrationdrc.org .
Worldwide migration issues: here.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees: www.unhcr.org .

Migration into the UK: news.bbc.co.uk and www.guardian.co.uk .
Record numbers leave Britain: www.guardian.co.uk
Polish migration to the UK: www.guardian.co.uk
Remittances from the UK: www.dfid.gov.uk and news.bbc.co.uk

Would you qualify to migrate to Canada? www.cic.gc.ca
Proposed guest worker scheme for Australia: www.workpermit.com .

Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo: Kosovo-Ethnic_Cleansing1 and Kosovo-Ethnic_Cleansing2 .
Russian Jews move to Israel, then back again: www.boykotisrael.dk or
www.msnbc.msn.com .
Turkish guest workers in Germany: news.bbc.co.uk and www.telegraph.co.uk .
Migrant workers in Southern Italy: www.guardian.co.uk
Does Germany need immigrants? news.bbc.co.uk .

One way of entering Europe: news.bbc.co.uk
Brits abroad: www.guardian.co.uk

Year 13: A2 Module Global Futures

2008-10-03T13:30:00.000-07:00

A2 Module: Global Futures

Natural Hazards

Investigate a virtual earthquake: VirtualEarthquake
Seismic waves: www.forgefx.com
Open University resources about earthquakes: openlearn.open.ac.uk

Eruptions on Montserrat at www.geography.nd o.co.uk , www.cari bbeannetnews, www.streetphoto.com, www.danum-photos.co.uk and www.earthchangestv.com.

The Indian Ocean Tsunami: www.nytimes.com
1. Map and summary.
2. BBC News special report.
3. Animated guide to the Tsunami.
4. How did it start and spread?
5. Detailed sets of links: A; B; C; D.
6. Aerial photos and the impact on Aceh, Indonesia.
7. Stories from tsunami survivors.
8. The effects on various countries: www.guardian.co.uk
9. How has aid been spent to help tsunami hit areas? USAid, Christian Aid, ActionAid ITDG.
10. Can tsunami warning systems work? And here.
11. Tsunami warning system now up and running: here

Atlantic tsunami threat: www.guardian.co.uk
A tsunami hits Britain: news.bbc.co.uk
Solomon Islands tsunami April 2007: news.bbc.co.uk and

Monsoon rains in India and Bangladesh, 2006: www.guardian.co.uk
Oxfam one year on from the Pakistan earthquake: asian_quake

Hurricane HQ: hurricanehq.net
Hurricane Katrina two years on: www.time.com

How does aid help after natural disasters? www.shelterboxschools.org

Stop disasters game! www.stopdisastersgame.org/

Feeding the World's People

Causes and impacts of famine here, here , here and here .
Food security statistics: www.fao.org
The looming food crisis: www.guardian.co.uk
The Green & Gene Revolutions: www.guardian.co.uk , news.bbc.co.uk , www.globaleye.org.uk , www.whybiotech.com , www.rediff.com , www.foodfirst.org , www.fao.org, www.agbioworld.org , www.globalchange.u mich.edu , livingheritage.org www.gvnr.com
Africa's food crisis: news.bbc.co.uk.
Oxfam small farmers in Zimbabwe: and zimbabwe/nutritional_gardens.htm