Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ IB Geography 2011
Rss Feed
Sort By: Most Recent | Popular Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
1More

Risk Perception - 0 views

www.geo.mtu.edu/...Risk%20Perception.htm hazards risk perception
shared by Andrew Woodman on 26 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 26 Jan 10
     
    A summary of hazard risk perception and how this affects people's response to hazards and risk.
1More

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center - 0 views

www.gnocdc.org hazards katrina response
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    Pre and post Katrina soci-economic data on New Orleans
1More

Four Years After Katrina: The State Of New Orleans - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...rs-after-katrina_n_270944.html hazards katrina hurricane response
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    A look at the longer-term response to Katrina and how people are putting their lives back together after the disaster.
1More

The Geography of Social Vulnerability: Race, Class, and Catastrophe - 0 views

understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Cutter hazards hurricane katrina vulnerability
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    A look a the disparat impact of Hurricane katrina on different soci-economic groups within New Orleans.
1More

In pictures: The Turkanas of Kenya - nomadic herders in a changing climate | Environmen... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...a-kenya-drought-climate-change hazards drought
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    Stunning pictures of the impact of drought on the Turkana people of northern Kenya.
1More

Video: Kenya's drought crisis: Starving to death | World news | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...kenya-drought-childs-eye hazards horn of africa drought
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    Child eye from the Guardian, 5 minute clip about the impact of drought on the nomadic pastoralists of northern Kenya.
1More

Kenyan herders to be offered livestock insurance against drought | Environment | guardi... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...kenya-drought-insurance hazards horn of africa drought risk response
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    Changing vulnerability and managing risk through using high technology to determine insurance payouts for drought affected animals in northen Kenya.
1More

The continental scale of the Chernobyl accident - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal - 0 views

maps.grida.no/...cale-of-the-chernobyl-accident hazards disasters chernobyl
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    Map of the continental scale of contamination from Chernobyl
1More

Britain's farmers still restricted by Chernobyl nuclear fallout | Environment | guardia... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-restricted-chernobyl-disaster hazards disasters chernobyl
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    Chernobyl legacy, areas still affected by contamination in the UK
1More

Chernobyl - Tschernobyl - Information - 0 views

www.chernobyl.info/index.php hazards chernobyl disasters
shared by Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 25 Jan 10
     
    Detailed site focused on the long-term implications of the Chernobyl disaster.
1More

BBC News - Handling a crisis on the scale of Haiti - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8466595.stm hazards disasters haiti response
shared by Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10
     
    In depth break down of the way the UN and other agencies respond to a major disaster such as the Haiti earthquake. It outlines the priorities and challenges faced by those trying to help in the days and weeks after a major hazard event.
1More

Disaster Risk Index - 0 views

www.grid.unep.ch/...index.php
shared by Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10
     
    Maps, graphs and country profiles using data related to the Disaster Risk Index (DRI)
1More

Recovering a Future - 0 views

www.recoveringafuture.org.uk hazards earthquakes asian tsunami response
shared by Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10
     
    From the British Red Cross, a detailed site looking at how the Red Cross has worked to rebuilt communities since the Asian Tsunami.
1More

Global Dimension - Ideas and resources for teachers - 0 views

www.globaldimension.org.uk/index.aspx hazards earthquakes haiti
shared by Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10
     
    A collection of links with descriptions, about the Haiti earthquake.
1More

Global Dimension - Ideas and resources for teachers - 0 views

www.globaldimension.org.uk/index.aspx hazards asian tsunami earthquakes
shared by Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 21 Jan 10
     
    A nice page that has a small collection of focused links with descriptions of content.
1More

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - 0 views

www.unisdr.org hazards disasters vulnerability risk response
shared by Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10
     
    UN agency website established to pull together attempts to reduce the impact of disasters around the world.
1More

What's new | EM-DAT - 1 views

www.emdat.be hazards disasters
shared by Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10
     
    The International Disaster Database with lots of data and statistics related to hazards and disasters.
1More

Project of Risk Evaluation, Vulnerability, Information & Early Warning (PreView) - 0 views

www.grid.unep.ch/...preview hazards disasters vulnerability risk
shared by Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10
     
    Global Risk Data Platform using spatial analysis techniqiues and GIS information. In preview version only, click link on page to view.
1More

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - 0 views

www.worldmapper.org/...text_disaster.html hazards disasters worldmapper
shared by Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10
     
    Hazards and disasters data and maps from Worldmapper
1More

BBC News - The Big Picture: Haiti after the earthquake - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8458690.stm hazards haiti earthquake
shared by Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Andrew Woodman on 20 Jan 10
     
    Great maps of the Haiti disaster summarizing the areas affected and the tectonic processes responsible.
« First ‹ Previous 61 - 80 of 108 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page