Views / opinions / players in the nuclear debate

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Worksheet 5 - Opinions
The following sites show the context for the 'views' on the final page of the pre-release

Greenpeace UK, 2011
IAEA bulletin 2008
Independent article 2011
Friends of the Earth, 2007
Natural Gas for Europe website
Nuclear Industry Association

'Costs' of nuclear power

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Worksheet 2 - 'Costs' of nuclear power

Use these links to help with worksheet 2
INES
Nuclear radiation accidents
Windscale fire
Three Mile Island incident
Saint-Laurent plant incident
Bohunice plant incident
Tokaimura incident
Chernobyl incident
Fukushima incident

Uranium reserves

Nuclear fuel cycle

Uranium mining
Uranium mining debate

How to build a nuclear reactor - video

UK nuclear position

Uranium mining companies
Cameco
Areva
Kazatomprom
Rio Tinto
ARMZ
Uranium One

Unit 3 pre-release analysis January 2013

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Worksheet 1 - current nuclear position

A superb site from the World Nuclear Association covering many relevant topics

There are a number of excellent wikipedia articles on the topic of nuclear power
Nuclear power debate
Nuclear energy policy
Nuclear energy policy by country
Nuclear power in France
Nuclear power in Germany
BBC - Germany nuclear position
Nuclear power in Switzerland
Nuclear power in Spain
Nuclear power in UK
Nuclear power in Belgium

Nuclear decommissioning

BBC nuclear debate - a little out of date?

Update on UK situation - 4/12/12

Nuclear accidents by country

Wide World online exercises

IV Form hurricanes exercise

Hurricane tracker
Fox News - Saffir-Simpson scale
Hurricanes - FEMA

IV Form flooding exercise

Environment Agency flooding exercise

Water conservation

Water conservation involves reducing the demand for water, rather than trying to increase water supplies. This is important in a world where water supply is finite. Water conservation can be on three main levels; domestic, agricultural, industrial.

Domestic

Note some of the water saving tips here. Use the headings 'In the home', 'In the garden' and 'Water harvesting'

Agricultural

Use the wikipedia entry to note some tactics for saving water in an agricultural context.

Industrial

Coca-Cola have a number of examples of water conservation on a commercial level. Read their policy and note some examples of the things they have done.

Coca-Cola Sustainability Reports - Water Stewardship

Water transfers

One solution to water shortages is to transfer water form one basin to another. Rivers can be diverted or canals built. All water transfers carry political and environmental risk

Two contrasting examples:

1. The Snowy Mountains Scheme (p52-53)

Also see the Snowy River wikipedia entry

2. The South-North Transfer project (p63)

Good video story

BBC news story
More news reports
Guardian article
Guardian article II

Detail from water-technology.net

Middle East water conflict

Middle East tension over water - video
Inside story - Middle East water shortage
BBC news - global water shortage
Water wars - Spain BBC

Water issues in China

China is suffering from many environmental problems - including water stress. Use this map to complete the sheet detailing some of these issues.

Use this to help you with this task:

Create a detailed MS PowerPoint presentation on the factors which have created water stress in China

Check your text book p39-40

The China Water Risk website is very good. This info-graphic is superb.

Check this article for some excellent information.

Montserrat volcano

Using Google Earth, locate the island of Montserrat. Label the island on Google Earth using the techniques learned last time.

Screen shot your image and paste it into a MS Word document and add the following information:

Go to the Montserrat volcano monitoring web site.

What is the current hazard level? what does this mean?

Read the latest volcano report. What was happening last week?

Go to 'Resources' and use the Glossary to look up the following terms:

Ash

Dome

Igneous rock

Lava

Pyroclastic flow

Vent

Video clip - Discovery Channel
Video clip - 57min - overview - Seconds from disaster: Montserrat

Carbon trading

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth: Carbon Trading

BP / Rosneft deal

Details on the BP / Rosneft oil deal

Players in the energy game

25 biggest oil companies - Forbes
Forbes article
OPEC - BBC
OPEC - Wikipedia

IV glaciation

Use this link to complete the worksheet on glaciation

Fracking

BBC - What is fracking?
Newsnight - is fracking safe?
Great shale gas rush - National Geographic
National Geographic interactive
Science of shale gas
China shale gas
US shale gas

Create a report on fracking and the shale gas and oil industry
Include the following:

• What is fracking - how is the oil / gas extracted?
• Where are the largest fracking sites?
• Why is it controversial? Give examples of specific issues - environmental and social
• Does fracking and shale oil / gas represent a viable alternative for the future?

Deep water offshore drilling

Deep-water Horizon oil spill documentary

 BBC overview - excellent

Wikipedia entry

Create a case study on deep-water drilling and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in particular.
Include the following information:

• What is deep-water drilling? Give examples of the technological challenges involved
• Give examples of where it is happening at the moment
• Describe the events of the Deepwater Horizon spill
• Desribe the impacts of the spill. Environmental, economic, social etc.

Japanese earthquake and tsunami 2011

BBC latest
Guardian map
Guardian video clips
Wikipedia entry

Oil sands

To the last drop - video
To the last drop - part II - video
Guardian video
Guardian 'dirty oil' article
How to get oil from oil sands - photos
Guardian graphic

National Geographic video
The Alberta oil sands
Greenpeace Canada

New oil shale plant in Jordan
Shale gas in UK

GCSE controlled assessment (CAT)

Some useful mapping web-sites:

10 ways to Google-up your coursework - some excellent ideas using Google Earth and mapping

A great site to compare OS map data and Google Earth

Add data to Google Earth with this site

OS Open-Data site - free mapping

Supervolcano

Link for the case study on Yellowstone

The truth about Yellowstone - BBC

National Geographic interactive

Energy pathways

Gas pathways into the EU are vital for energy security. Problems in Russia and the former Soviet states threaten this supply.

Nabucco pipeline

South Stream pipeline

Nord Stream pipeline

Russia - Ukraine gas disputes

Russia Today report - Nabucco

Videographic from The Economist

Russia-Ukraine gas dispute report 1 and 2

Earthquakes

Web Research Exercise: Earthquakes

Use the links below to help answer the questions on the sheet:

Latest earthquake map

Europe earthquake map

Earthquakes with 50 000 or more deaths

Largest earthquakes by magnitude

UK earthquakes

Magnitude

Measuring earthquakes

Different types of volcano

Use this link to help you complete the worksheet on volcanoes

UK energy security

Use the following links to help with your report:

BBC Panorama programme

The Energy Security report by Malcolm Wicks MP (just read the Executive Summary)

The Governement response

This entry on the 'Oil Drum' blog

Government energy security research paper (just read the Summary)

Guardian article - there are many more similar

Latest update of the ESI from June 2011

Statutory Security of Supply Report - DECC

IPPR report - Energy Security in the UK

Structure of the earth

Use this website to help you with the worksheet

Fold mountains

Use these links to help you research into the importance of fold mountains and the Andes case study.

Detail about ocean trenches

Primary energy source task

Use the following to help you with your research task:

A good summary of all the Primary Energy Sources

Wikipedia entry for renewable energy

Wikipedia entry for fossil fuels

Wind power in the 'How Stuff Works' website. Other energy sources also on the site

An interesting article  - follow links to others on the BBC site

BBC Energy in the UK mini-site - links to lots of relevant stories (some slightly dated)

Energy on BBC Bitesize

IV Form ecotourism

Use the sheets on ecotourism in Rwanda and the links below to create a short project on the tourism industry in Rwanda - particularly the gorilla visits. Include:

• What is ecotourism?
• A map of Rwanda showing the major features and where the gorillas are
• Background on Rwanda, including some of the issues they have faced in the past
• The development of ecotourism in Rwanda
• The advantages of ecotourism
• Problems facing tourism
• What does the future hold?

Gorilla tours
International gorilla conservation
Rwanda tourist board
Tourism in Rwanda - Wikipedia

LVI A2 Energy task

Use the following to help you with your research task:

A good summary of all the Primary Energy Sources

Wikipedia entry for renewable energy

Wikipedia entry for fossil fuels

Wind power in the 'How Stuff Works' website. Other energy sources also on the site

BBC Energy in the UK mini-site - links to lots of relevant stories

Energy on BBC Bitesize

Lagos - a growing megacity

Channel 4 video

Flooding in the UK

UK floods 2007
Flooding in UK causes and effects
BBC 1
BBC 2
BBC 3

Bangladesh flooding 2004

Presentation showing causes of the flooding and the responses

National Geographic article and maps
ITN report 1998

Factors influencing the effectiveness of response

Use these links to as new sources for references for your report. Use the table provided to note the information

Chile - Haiti comparison
Earthquake prediction
Effectiveness of military response

Improving life for the urban poor

The authorities are trying to improve life for the urban poor in Africa. Research, using the links and headings below, how the Kenyan government are trying to improve life for the people who live in Kibera.

Write a report on the issue using the following headings and links:
Use the Wikipedia page to find 10 key facts about Kibera slum

1. Look under the heading 'Slum Upgrading'. Describe the 3 reasons why upgrading Kibera slum is difficult
2. Look under the heading 'Clearance'. Describe the Kenyan government's clearance strategy

Use the BBC article

1. Note some details about the clearance scheme - how will it work?
2. Describe how some people are very pleased with the scheme
3. Why are others not so happy?

Use the article about providing clean water

1. Describe some of theproblems associated with water - contamination and cost
2. Describe what Kenya Water for Health have been doing to address these problems 

Ageing population revision

BBC Interactive pie-chart for ageing population
BBC - An ageing future
60-second overview of the ageing population issue

WaterAid

Use the link below to create a MS PowerPoint presentation on the work of WaterAid. Use the headings below to structure your presentation. Read the advice at the bottom carefully.

WaterAid


Summary of WaterAid

• Who are WaterAid? (try a Wikipedia search too)
• How do they pay for the aid schemes?
• What is their ‘mission’?

Choose a specific project country

• A profile of the country and specific area / areas (if relevant)
• What are the problems with water supply in your chosen country?
• What schemes have WaterAid provided?
• How has it helped?

Avoid the cut and pasting of information – this is plagiarism.
Do not produce slides is different colours. Have a consistent format
Avoid producing crowded pages full of text.

Hand in Mon 7/5/12

Ecotourism in Rwanda

Videos showing information about the growth of ecotourism in Rwanda.
Sky News
Promotional video

Blackpool

Links to help with the Blackpool case study of a UK coastal resort.
Blackpool wikipedia
BBC news
BBC news
Blackpool Bay Area Company
ReBlackpool is now no longer...

Africa

Mark on the map - including sizes:
The 5 largest cities (by population)
The 5 largest countries (by population)
The 5 longest rivers
The 5 highest mountains
The 5 largest lakes

Also, mark the 5 countries with the highest AIDS infection %

How many of the largest companies in the world are Africa?

Positive and negative effects of globalisation

India - a country of contrasts: Two-speed India
Contrasts
UNICEF - contrasts

Holderness coastal erosion

Use the following links to help create your case study sheet on coastal erosion at Holderness on the east coast of Britain.

Spurn Point
Old maps
Mappleton

Solutions to the environmental impacts of globalisation

Use these links to complete your notes on some of the solutions to the environmental impacts of globalisation

–Carbon offsetting
–Biofuels
–Green taxes
–Cutting food miles
–Recycling / reusing / refusing
–Organic food

Event profiles of hazards

Tectonic hazards can be described in terms of their frequency, magnitude, duration and areal extent. Use the following links to complete the worksheet:

Earthquake scales

Richter Scale

Mercalli Scale

Volcanic explosivity index

VEI

Frequency and magnitude

Frequency

Last hour / day / week

TNC - Tesco

Create a case study sheet on Tesco using the folowing headings:

Include:
Brief history of the company
Reasons for growth - what strategy hvae they used to enable their growth?
Statistics about their success
Criticisms - are Tesco guilty of exploitation?
Any other information about the growth of Tesco as a TNC

Then answer this question:
Discuss Tesco's role in development and globalisation around the world (15)

Use some of these sources (and find your own):
Textbook p105-106
Article from The Times May 2011
Tesco - global business
Tesco - corporate responsibility
Tesco - how it came to dominate
BBC - growth of Tesco
BBC - growth in Asia
BBC - Is Tesco on the turn?

TNC or GDP?

Compare this list of countries GDP and the revenue of the largest companies in the world. Illustrate this information on a diagram.

Create a table of the top 10 largest companies in the world with the headings:

Rank, Name, Industry, Revenue and Country of headquarters

GM crops

Research GM crops using this link. Answer the questions as listed on the web site:

• What are GM foods?


• Are they dangerous?


• Give an example of how food can be changed


• Are there any benefits of GM foods?


• Are GM foods allowed in the UK?

L'Aquila earthquake 2009

Click on the following links from the BBC reporting of the earthquake and write some notes on the following:

• Site and and characteristics of L'Aquila



• The impacts of the earthquake on the city and the people living there



• The rescue efforts



• The aftershocks



• Building construction

Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Link 5
Interactive map

Impacts of global warming

Use this website to complete your table showing the worst possible impacts of global warming