DEVELOPMENT ISSUES:

Make trade fair
(Year 9)
Research the coffee trade and e mail the companies involved to find out their point of view.

Cafod
(Year 9)
Excellent resource for development issues!

United Nations CyberSchool Bus
(All)
Lots of information from the United Nations, and very well organised.

Oxfam Cool Planet
(Year 9)
More development issues, but less useful than CAFOD's site.

On The Line - Chokky Central
(All)
This link takes you to a great activity about chocolate biscuits!!

One World
(All)
Brilliant constantly updated development site! with a strong focus on conflict and politics.

Fair Trade Foundation

Campaign site.

Banana Link

A really great resource for the banana trade debate.

U N High Commissioner for Refugees
(GCSE / A level)
The definitive resource for refugee issues.

Refaid

Very good site about refugee issues

Global Eye

New site of the development issues magazine

Joseph Roundtree Foundation
(A level)
Read the latest report on poverty in Britain here

RADIX - Radical Interpretations of disaster
(A level)
Consider the social and political issues behind disasters such as the recent earthquakes in Gujarat and El Salvador.

POPULATION:

Population Pyramids
(KS3/ GCSE/ A level)
Draw a population pyramid for any country you like!

Population data
(KS3/ GCSE/ A level)
Excellent population resource.

Population clock
To get you thinking! If you're still looking at a grey box after 5 minutes then Java applets are not able to run on your machine and you won't see anything!

URBAN:

Belfast urban morphology
(A level)
Excellent and detailed analysis!

Meadowhall
(Year 8)
Out of town shopping anyone?


Cities Of Today / Tomorrow Project

Exceptionally good urbanization resource.



INDUSTRY:

Cambridge Science Park
(GCSE)
This site is useful for researching an example of a science park

Tourism Facts and Statistics

A useful site sponsored by various tourist boards.

Multinational Corporations
(A level)
Information from the International Labour Organisation.

Bhopal research:

This is Union Carbides' version of events:Bhopal.com
This site is for the victims: Bhopal victim support site

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