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| Current Follies |  |
| Brief overview of problems associated with dam building on major rivers. From New Internationalist magazine. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.newint.org/issue273/follies.html
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| Current Follies | |
| Brief overview of problems associated with dam building on major rivers. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.oneworld.org/ni/index4.html
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| International Rivers Network - Three Gorges Campaign | |
| Home page for IRN campaign against the development of the Three Gorges Dam and hydroelectric project in China. | Key Stage 4 & 5 |
http://www.irn.org/programs/threeg/
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| Norfolk Coast AONB, UK | |
| On management of Norfolk coast area of outstanding natural beauty. Management links most useful for details of managing visitor pressure on ecosystem - AONB management & tourist pressure management. Useful for a case study. | Key Stage 4 & 5 |
http://www.norfolkcoastproject.org.uk/
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| Channel 4 - River Tees |  |
| Web site to go with Channel 4 television programme about the River Tees from its source to its mouth. Program background information and outline, with some activities and links to other websites. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.channel4.com/learning/main/netnotes/dsp_series.cfm?programid=1026
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| Disappearing Delta | |
| From American Scientist. A report suggesting erosion of the River Nile Delta may also be linked to irrigation channels as sediment traps, not just the impact of the Aswan dam. | Key Stage |
http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/issues/Sciobs96/Sciobs96-09Delta.html
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| Flood of Protest | |
| Review of reasons and impact of dam construction on major rivers. From New Internationalist magazine. | Key Stage 4 & 5 |
http://www.newint.org/issue273/keynote.html
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| Flood of Protest | |
| Review of reasons and impact of dam construction on major rivers. Fro New Internationalist magazine. | Key Stage |
http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue273/keynote.html
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| Geography Action 2001 - Rivers | |
| National Geographic website for Geography Action week 2001 (Rivers). Topics covered are Using our rivers, changing our rivers and saving our rivers. Information and activities. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/rivers/
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| Narmada Control Authority | |
| For background, use the link 'Narmada Basin' for general information; 'Narmada Basin Development' gives statistical details; links on projects in the scheme give useful details and photos. Other pages give technical and government details. | Key Stage 3, 4 & 5 |
http://nca.nic.in/index.html
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| River System | |
| Clickable diagram of a river system or river basin with key features labelled and brief meanings - source, tributary, meander, mouth. | Key Stage 2 & 3 |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/ga01.html
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| Shapes of the Land | |
| From Canadian Geographic. Useful brief descriptions of fomration of selected landforms, with diagrams and photos. Sections on how glaciers shape the land, during and after the ice, moraines, eskers; how water shapes the land, streams and rivers, meanders, floodplains and natural levees, and river deltas, oceans, spits, sea cliffs, sea stacks and sea arches. | Key Stage 3 & 4 |
http://www.cangeo.ca/Landforms/landforms.htm
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| The River Ribble | |
| Photos and brief descriptions of the River Ribble, Yorkshire from source to sea from a primary school teacher. With clickable location map of Ribble valley. | Key Stage 2 & 3 |
http://members.lycos.co.uk/gdeanict/ribble/
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| Virtual Geomorphology |  |
| An online forum for geomorpholigcal information exchange. Maintained by Zbigniew Zwolinski at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. | Key Stage 5 |
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~sgp/gw/gw1.htm
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| World Wide Fund for Nature |  |
| Key Stage |
http://www.panda.org
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