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A Dictionary of Geography

Web Links

Here is a list of recommended web links, arranged alphabetically by the relevant dictionary entries:

 A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T V W

A  Top

abrasion
http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm06/sm06-sessions/sm06_H53A.html
Sklar on the efficiency of particle abrasion in rivers.

absolute drought
http://md.water.usgs.gov/drought/define.html
Provides more definitions of drought.

absolute plate motion
http://ofgs.aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~okino/platecalc_new.html
Shows an absolute plate motion calculator.

Agenda 21
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/age...
Agenda 21 online

air pollution
http://www.london.gov.uk/air-quality/pollution
Description of types of air pollution.
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/automotive/pagesbackground/po...
EU emission standards.

artificial neural network
http://www.integralgis.com/pdf/Neural%20Networks.pdf
Thurston's summary of artificial neural network.

B  Top

barrier beach
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/chestorm.htm
West (2008) shows a barrier beach.

batholith
http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/
The Idaho Batholith.

bedforms
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/seds/
The excellent USGS bedform sedimentology site.

border
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/issues/index....
The e-journal borderlands, published by the University of Adelaide.

Bretton Woods
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0230524958
The International Monetary System, the IMF, and the G-20.

C  Top

Cambrian
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/camb.html
Provides an overview of the Cambrian period.

Carboniferous
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/carboniferous.html
An overview of the Carboniferous period.

Cascade
http://ausrivas.canberra.edu.au/Geoassessment/Physchem/
AUSRIVAS, Parsons et al. (2002).

Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/cams
Sets out CAMS policy.

Cenozoic
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cenozoic/cenozoic.html
An overview of the Cenozoic period.

CSISS
http://www.csiss.org/
The CSISS website.

Club of Rome
http://www.clubofrome.org/eng/home/
Club of Rome website.

contiguous zone
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/documentation/english/a_cn4_sr120...
UN discussion of the Treaty on the law of the sea.

core region
http://www.etsg.org/ETSG2006/papers/Brand.pdf
Brand and Bhatti (2006) on the core region of Madrid.

Cretaceous
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/cretaceous/cretaceous....
An overview of the Cretaceous period.

D  Top

decentralization
http://www.decentralisation.gov.ie/
Decentralization in the Republic of Ireland.

deprivation
http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/docs/pdfs/07-49285-ecosoc-book-2...
Describes circle of deprivation.
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Inf...
UK indices of deprivation.

development
http://www.worldbank.org/data/
World Bank development indicators.

Devonian
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/devonian/devonian.html
An overview of the Devonian period.

disability
http://www.daa.org.uk/index.php?page=social-model-or-unsocia...
Disability awareness in action.

doline
http://speleogenesis.com/pdf/SG9/SG9_artId3297.pdf
A description of dolines.

E  Top

economic dynamism
http://www.kauffman.org/neweconomy
Website of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

EFTA
http://www.efta.int/
The EFTA website.

energy
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/world.html
Energy Administration Information.

environment agency
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
The Environment Agency website.

Environment Directorate
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_33713_1_1_1_1_...
The Environment Directorate on the OECD website.

European Economic Area
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/eea/
The European Economic Area defined on the European Commission website.

European Union
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
The European Union website.

European Water Framework
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/index_...
The EU Water Framework Directive website.

F  Top

famine
http://www.fews.net
The famine early warning systems network.

fault
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/glossary.php
The USGS Visual Glossary provides definitions and outstanding photographs.

flashy
http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/wgmt/elnino/deserten/what.html
USGS description and depiction of effects of flash flooding precipitation on desert geomorphology during El Niño years. This link no longer works and we are unable to find a suitable alternative.

FRAGSTATS
http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/downloads/fr...
The Fragstats download page.

Framework Convention on Climatic Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php.
The UN Framework Convention on Climatic Change.

frost creep
http://www.uspermafrost.org/glossary.php
The US Permafrost Association glossary.

G  Top

geocomputation
http://www.geocomputation.org/2003/Abstracts/Junyan_Abs.pdf
A survey of geocomputational techniques in spatial data analysis.

glacial erosion
http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/
Glaciers online's thumbnails of glacially eroded landforms.

global city
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/publication/Habitat_...
Yeung and Olds on the global city.

global commodity chain
http://www.csiss.org/events/meetings/time-mapping/files/bair...
Jennifer Bair on commodity chains and value chains.

global value chain
http://www.globalvaluechains.org/concepts.html
Global value chains.

greenhouse effect
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre.

H  Top

heavily indebted poor country
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/hipc.htm
The IMF HIPC initiative.

homelessness
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/homeless/
Research into homelessness.

Human Development Index
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/nhdr/
The Human Development Index database.

I  Top

inequality
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/2077.asp
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation study of poverty and wealth across Britain.

informal sector
http://www.gdrc.org/informal/1-is_concept.html
The informal sector.

integrated land-use
http://www.clw.csiro.au/heartlands
The Heartlands Initiative.

IFAD
http://www.ifad.org/governance/index.htm
The IFAD website.

IMF
http://www.imf.org/external/work.htm
The IMF website.

intervention price
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/capreform/index_en.htm
CAP reform and intervention prices.

J  Top

Jurassic
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/jurassic/jurassintro.html
An overview of the Jurassic period.

just city
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/resurgentCity/Papers/susanf...
Susan Fainstein's 'The Resurgent City'. This link no longer works and we are unable to find a suitable alternative.
http://web.mit.edu/cis/jerusalem2050/
MIT's 'Just Jerusalem'.

L  Top

land capability
http://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/asdd/ANZTA0015000028.html
A model of changes in land capability for Tasmania.

land classification
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x0596e/x0596e00.htm
The FAO Land Cover Classification System.

land management
http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/index_en.cfm
EC Environment Research website.

landscape studies
http://www.foundationforlandscapestudies.org/index.php?p=sit...
Site/Lines: the social life of landscapes.

landslide
http://rainfallthresholds.irpi.cnr.it/
Worldwide database of empirical rainfall thresholds for the possible occurrence of landslides.

least developed country
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=3073
UNCTAD's Least Developed Countries Report.

Lightning
http://www.ametsoc.org/
American Meteorological Society.

M  Top

Mesozoic
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/mesozoic.html
An overview of the Mesozoic era.

micro-credit
http://www.grameen-info.org
Grameen Bank website.

N  Top

net radiation
http://www.physicalgeography.net/
Michael Pidwirny on net radiation and the planetary energy balance.

nitrogen cycle
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/9s.html
Michael Pidwirny on the nitrogen cycle.

North American Free Trade Agreement
http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/en/view.aspx?x=343
The text of NAFTA.

O  Top

ontology
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ontology/
UK Ordnance Survey ontologies.

Ordovician
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ordovician/ordolife.html
An overview of the Ordovician period

Organization of African Unity
http://www.africa-union.org/
The African Union website.

Organization of American States
http://www.oas.org/
The OAS website.

P  Top

Palaeozoic
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleozoic/paleozoic.html
An overview of the Palaeozoic era.

Permian
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/permian/permian.html
An overview of the Permian period.

placelessness
http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w188/articles/noplace...
Ingolf Vogeler's lecture notes about placelessness.

place names
http://monderusse.revues.org/index135.html
Arseny Saparov on the alteration of place names in Soviet Armenia.

Pleistocene
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/quaternary/ple.html
An overview of the Pleistocene epoch.

political ecology
http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=705
An overview of the potential violent conflict in pastoral communities.

poverty
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/
The Human Development Report.

Precambrian
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/precambrian.html
The divisions of Precambrian time.

R  Top

radiometer
http://freegeographytools.com/2007/avhrr-analysis-add-on-for...
AVHRR Hydrological Analysis system.

Regional Dev. Agency
http://www.englandsrdas.com/
Regional Development Agencies online.

relationality
http://oro.open.ac.uk/7763/01/Interdependence.pdf
Smith et al. on interdependence.

renewable resource
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/energy/renewable_ener...
The Renewable Energy Roadmap.

river restoration
http://www.therrc.co.uk/index.php
The UK River Restoration Centre has case studies.
http://www.ecrr.org/.
The European Centre for River Restoration has a useful bibliography.

rugosity
http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/ecosystems/coralreef/coral2008/
Monitoring of coral reef ecosystems.

S  Top

salinization
http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/themes/Salinization/
European Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit on soil salinization.

SAPRIN
http://www.saprin.org
The SAPRIN website.

Silurian
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/silurian/silurian.html
An overview of the Silurian period.

Site of Special Scientific Interest
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/notification.cfm
The Board of Natural England's SSSI website.

smog
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-31594-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Details of the air pollution in Mexico City from the International Development Research Centre.

social cohesion
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/c...
UK Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Sixth Report.

social exclusion
http://www.trg.soton.ac.uk/vm/social.htm
Transport Research Group summary table on social exclusion.

soil classification
http://soil.gsfc.nasa.gov/links/tax.htm
National soil classifications.

soil series
http://soils.usda.gov/technical/classification/osd/index.html
Soil Survey Staff, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture: Official Soil Series Descriptions.

soil texture
http://www.agri.upm.edu.my/~chris/tal/
TAL software. This link no longer works and we are unable to find a suitable alternative.

solonchak
http://www.ufz.de/data/du_wuch3833.pdf
A solonchak succession.

standard industrial classification
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/sic/downloads/S...
British government standard industrial classification.

Super Output Areas
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/soa.asp#3layers
Names and codes for Super Output Area geography.

sustainable development
http://sd.defra.gov.uk/
UK government sustainable indicators.
http://www.indigodev.com/Sustain.html
Indigo Development.

T  Top

terrane
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/geomorphology/GEO_2/GEO_PLATE_T-9....
Cordilleran accretionary terranes.

third world
http://www.twnside.org.sg/
The Third World Network.

tornado
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/ef-scale.html
The enhanced Fujita scale, which uses 28 tornado damage indicators.

transnationality
http://www.northernperiphery.net
The Northern Periphery Programme.

travel-to-work area
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/ttwa.asp
Office for National Statistics 1991-based Travel to Work Areas.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/ttwa.asp
National Statistics, Travel to Work Areas.

Triassic
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/triassic/triassic.html
An overview of the Triassic period.

tropical forest
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/index.html
The European Tropical Forest Network.

V  Top

vadose
http://intl-vzj.geoscienceworld.org/
The Vadose Zone Journal, online

W  Top

wetland
http://www.constructedwetland.co.uk/resources/recommended_Re...
The Constructed Wetland Association reading list.

Wilson cycle
http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/Wilson/Wilson.html
Information about the Wilson cycle.

World Bank
http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/
The World Bank Economic Review and the PovertyNet Newsletters.

world city
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/citylist.html
GaWC Inventory of World Cities.