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Volume 28, Number 2, November 2014 Weblinks Live links to all the websites listed in this issue Brunei’s capital city: a case study of sustainable urban growth (page 2) To see a video summary of the Master Plan visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soUzmX6VcrM An aerial view of the intended result of the Master Plan is at: http://hoklife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/99-v1-r1_crop.jpg Geographical skills Using specialised graphs (page 10) A blog showing examples of data, graphs and visualisations that make no sense (according to the author, anyway). Spot what is wrong: http://wtfviz.net/ A video that shows you how to make your own kite diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_yKtAHhTF50 Geography Unit 1: Geographical Methods and Techniques has a specific skills area to help with graphical presentation of data: http://tinyurl.com/ns7vgt4 Building on the basics Evaluating the demographic transition model (page 13) For data on countries at different stages of the model with some influencing factors go to the Population Reference Bureau: www.tinyurl.com/6qok95z Tropical cyclones in the South Pacific: impacts on island communities (page 16) Australian Bureau of Meteorology, ‘About Tropical Cyclones’: http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/about/ The Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS) operates the RSMC (Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre) Nadi-Tropical Cyclone Centre. This is the official authority in the South Pacific for monitoring cyclone formation, forecast tracks, release warnings and archive historical data: http://www.met.gov.fj/ Centrepiece The global flow of people (page 20) For an interactive version of the diagram go to: www.global-migration.info Everybody’s talking about… MINT (page 22)

Philip Allan Publishers © 2014 1 BBC article about the MINT nations (January 2014): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25548060 or http://tinyurl.com/mdq3ue8 Interview with Jim O’Neill in the New Statesman (2014) http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/01/after- brics-mints-austerity-britain-and-big-c or http://tinyurl.com/lopkc6u Community enterprises in rural settlements (page 25) Look at the websites for Social Enterprise UK (http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk) and the Plunkett foundation (http://www.plunkett.co.uk) to find examples of the ways in which social enterprise has been introduced in rural communities. Cold environments Antarctic glaciers and climate change (page 28) http://www.antarcticglaciers.org is a website developed by Bethan which has masses of accessible information about glaciers and Antarctica. Glaciers Online (http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/) has excellent glacier photographs with explanations. Discovering Antarctica (http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk/) is also a good source of information, including video clips. The ‘worst journey in the world’ was the winter expedition made by three Antarctic researchers in 1911: http://tinyurl.com/nmx2u8t Geographical ideas Malthus and population (page 32) The Financial Times and Guardian have produced useful summaries of the books by Danny Dorling and Stephen Emmott. See: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a7e5ba20-e7e4-11e2-9aad- 00144feabdc0.html#axzz30BtPxdNY or http://tinyurl.com/ogwp55n and http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/05/ten-billion-stephen-emmott-review or http://tinyurl.com/pez5eft Why are deserts dry? (page 34) Revision materials: http://tinyurl.com/nwx5bcf

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