Volume 28, Number 1, September 2014
Weblinks
Live links to all the websites listed in this issue
Forced labour in the UK: why are migrants to
vilunerable? (page 2)
Government website explaining support for asylum seekers www.gov.uk/asylum-support
Refugee Council: a charity that supports refugees and asylum seekers: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
The author’s research referred to in this article: Lewis, H., Dwyer, P., Hodkinson, S., and Waite, L.
(2013) Precarious lives: experiences of forced labour among refugees and asylum seekers in
England. Leeds: University of Leeds.
http://precariouslives.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/precarious_lives_main_report_2-7-13.pdf or
http://tinyurl.com/oou7tmq
Measuring avalanches to manage risk (page 10)
We exhibited our work at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2012. The online exhibit
contains useful videos and interviews: http://sse.royalsociety.org/2012/exhibits/avalanche-radar
Geographical skills Using graphs to visualise data
(page 14)
Information about presenting data from the University of Leicester:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/numeracy/numerical-data or http://tinyurl.com/kohr2jn.
Explanations of different types of variable:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mult_pkg/whatstat/nominal_ordinal_interval.htm or
http://tinyurl.com/c35pf64
Development update Development and traditional
societies: the case of the Jarawa (page 17)
Survival International http://www.survivalinternational.org/ Go to Tribes & campaigns and scroll down
to find the Jawara under Asia & Australasia
Aljazeera article, ‘Time ticking for India’s Jarawa tribe’:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/time-ticking-india-jarawa-tribes20141314281424904.html or http://tinyurl.com/ofsrck4
Tourism Concern campaign on the Jawara: http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/protect-the-jarawapeople.html or http://tinyurl.com/qel7vvx
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Centrepiece Why was last winter so wet and windy?
(page 20)
BBC News ’10 key moments of the UK winter storms’ 17 February 2014: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk26170904
Met Office ‘Winter storms, January to February 2014’
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/2014-janwind or http://tinyurl.com/kejvypk
Met Office ‘Winter storms, December 2013 to January 2014’
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/2013-decwind or http://tinyurl.com/l7otnrv
The Afghan conflict: causes and consequences
(page 22)
UN summary of recent Afghan history: http://www.un.org/news/dh/latest/afghan/un-afghanhistory.shtml or http://www.tinyurl.com/occf4uy
BBC news profile of Aghanistan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12011352 or
http://www.tinyurl.com/3gnhsem
Oxfam publication about the impacts of war in Afghanistan 1978–2009
http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/cost-war-afghanistan-experiences or http://tinyurl.com/yaxwbe8
A piece on the Afghan economy from Michigan State University:
http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/afghanistan/economy or http://tinyurl.com/p79cj8z
BBC news item on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25410582
Building on the basics Using hydrographs (page 27)
The National River Flow Archive provides an extensive database and hydrographs of river flows in the
UK. You can compare and contrast different rivers or use these in case studies:
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/data/nrfa/
You can find current flooding information here: http://www.gov.uk/check-if-youre-at-risk-of-flooding.
The link to ‘current river and sea levels’ takes you to a map where you can drill down to local areas
and see current river levels at individual monitoring stations.
Down under Saving the Murray-Darling catchment
(page 30)
Australian Conservation Foundation: http://www.acfonline.org.au
Environment Victoria, a leading environmental group: http://environmentvictoria.org.au
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: http://www.ramsar.org
Climate change: communicating the risks (page 34)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): http://www.ipcc.ch/
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The UK government’s climate-change communication website, designed to help members of the
public understand their impact on climate change and what they can do about it:
http://carboncalculator.direct.gov.uk/index.html
Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN). Information and resources about how to communicate
climate change, with a regularly updated blog: http://www.climateoutreach.org.uk/
Devon, Cornwall and Isle of Scilly Local Resilience Forum promotes understanding of natural hazards
and how to prepare for them in the southwest of England: http://www.dcisprepared.org.uk/web/lrf
Storm damage and coastal protection: a case study
of Chesil Cove (page 38)
Case study of the Chesil defence scheme completed in 1988:
http://content.swgfl.org.uk/jurassic/chiswell.htm or http://tinyurl.com/qgd4rqc
The jet stream: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/wind/what-is-the-jet-stream or
http://tinyurl.com/oqomple
Spectacular video footage of waves hitting Chesil Beach, 5 February 2014:
http://youtu.be/rRYbDtqusX4
Further information about Chesil beach and the background to the issues in this article:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/chestorm.htm or http://tinyurl.com/pbr9oo4
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