Decline of seaside resorts - tourism

A BBC story about the decline of seaside resorts

Studland Beach - sand dunes

Presentation on dune succession

Water on the land revision

Click this link for the new prezi on the Water on the Land unit

Mass tourism in Jamaica

Tourist board video

Dubai tourism

Dubai tourism video
Piers Morgan on Dubai
Human planet - Dubai
Supersized earth - Dubai

Monitoring Etna

Journey to Etna - video about monitoring the volcano

Supervolcano

Link for the case study on Yellowstone

The truth about Yellowstone - BBC

National Geographic interactive

Development in the EU

Information on Bulgaria

BBC country profile

EU urges crime reform

Corruption

EU welcomes Bulgaria

Information on Ireland

BBC country profile

Migration

Irish bail out

Haiti - one year on (Impact of a natural hazard on development)

One year on - BBC

One year on 2 - BBC

Cholera outbreak - BBC

Rubble - BBC

Human Development Indicators - Haiti

Haiti - one year on BBC articles

Progress of NGOs in Haiti - Guardian

Small scale development projects

The Grameen Bank

Using the handout and the web link create a case study sheet on how the Grameen Bank works and how it allows people to improve the quality of their own lives. Describe the project and explain how people benefit from it.

Explain the term 'micro-credit'

Development indicators

A video showing the development of 200 countries using the software Gapminder

Another showing how statistics can be used to disprove myths about the 'third world' and one showing population growth using IKEA boxes!

Use Gapminder to illustrate some of the development indicators you researched in your Prep. Use the countries you selected to illustrate the changes. Copy the graphs into a MS Word document and describe what they show.

Lynford House Farm

GCSE requires a case study of an EU farm. We will use Lynford House Farm in Cambridgeshire. Complete the case study sheet using the web site.


View Larger Map

This is a GoogleMap image of the farm