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Unit 1 - Geophysical Systems
This online book is to be used to support students studying Option D - Geophysical Hazards. It includes content and guidance in line with Unit 1 - Geophysical Systems. It includes text on relevant theory...
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Growing Pressures on Wetlands
This page runs through the types of wetlands and their environmental services. It documents the major pressures and threats wetlands face and then develops the case based on the future possibilities of...
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Integrated Drainage Basin Management - Mekong
This page examines the case study covering the Integrated Drainage Basin Management Plan and explores the same case study for the Mekong. In doing so flexibility is created n how this case study can be...
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The Lancang - Mekong Dam Cascade
This page documents the case study for the expansion of a large-scale dam construction scheme. It develops the costs and benefits of the multi-function schemes including the environmental, social economic...
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Community Participation in Water Management
This pages looks at the importance of community involvement in the management of water. It develops a range of examples, development contexts and scales. Syllabus The importance of strengthening particthe...
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Groundwater and Lakes
This page looks at problems related to aquifer water quality and management. It also looks at growing pressures of economic growth and population migration on freshwater lakes illustrating with examples...
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Environmental Consequences of Agriculture
This page develops the agriculture impacts on water quality in rivers, lakes and groundwater. It develops threats such as salinisation and eutrophication. It uses developed examples to illustrate the...
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Conflicts and Resolutions in the Mekong River Basin
This page looks at the Mekong River Basin and explores the case study in terms of tensions arising from competing water use as well as the resolutions to them. Syllabus Internationally shared water resources...
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Hydrographs and Floods
This page develops hydrographs and their characteristics including lag time, peak discharge, and base flow. It goes on to examine the natural influences on hydrographs, including geology and seasonality....
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Flood Prediction
This page looks at attempts to predict floods, including changes in weather forecasting and uncertainty in climate modelling. Syllabus Attempts at flood prediction, including changes in weather forecasting...