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Flood Mitigation Strategies
This page provides an overview of the different approaches to flood mitigation, including hard, soft and adaptive strategies. It develops a number of examples to illustrate the mitigation but develops...
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River Processes
This page develops the river processes of erosion, transportation and deposition and examines the spatial and temporal factors that influence their operation. This includes channel characteristics and...
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Managing Contemporary Pandemics - COVID-19
The following page develops resources on the lessons to be learned from the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. It looks systematically at different stages of management from the science of epidemiology...
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Cities, Risks and Resilience
Cities, Risk and Resilience This page introduces students to the types of risks that cities face as well as the concept of resilient cities. It uses several maps, galleries and videos as well as active...
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Middle Course Landforms
This page sets out a model essay, with teacher annotation Model Essay “Landforms in the middle course of the river are generally formed more by deposition than erosion.” To what extent do you agree with...
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Food and Health
This page includes model essays on the theme of Food and Health Model Essay 1 Examine the relative importance of physical and human factors in the diffusion over time of one vector-borne disease. (10)...
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Chapter 8a - The Water-Food-Energy Nexus
Water, food and energy are interconnected in what is termed a “nexus” relationship. The water-food-energy nexus is both a model for developing an understanding of resource pressures but also a framework...
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Chapter 7e - Trends in Energy
As many as 2 billion people in the world still rely on wood as their main source of direct energy. However, on the global scale, fossil fuels dominate the direct energy supply. The most developed and...
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Chapter 7d - Trends in Food
Fertile land is not evenly distributed in the world so it matches the countries with the highest population densities. Some regions lack the economic development to maximise their agricultural potential....
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Chapter 7c - Water Trends
Water availability is subject to physical and economic scarcity. The global pattern of water availability does not always match the global pattern of consumption. Most places of the world will experience...