Wednesday, January 16, 2013

9DR Development analysis

Complete these questions for your HW:
What does the 'total' column tell us about the countries you picked?
How does the 'total' column compare to the 'GNI per cap' column?
What does it tell you about ONLY using GNI to judge a countries development?
Use the statistics to explain why country X is more developed than country Y

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Year 12 - Bangladesh Flooding Research

Research how Bangladesh is trying to manage the flood problem
Use Fig 1.52 to help -
E.g.
Compartmentalisation pilot project,
Bank protection pilot project
Brahmaputra right embankment strengthening (BRE)
etc

You can also use the following links as a starting point (you need to do more)
http://www.gwptoolbox.org/index.php?option=com_case&id=127
http://geobytesgcse.blogspot.com/2006/12/flooding-in-ledc-1998-floods-in.html (GCSE but good)
http://www.apfm.info/pdf/case_studies/bangladesh.pdf

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