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Named flood management strategy: DamsDams are the classic hard engineering solution to flooding problems. A dam is a giant wall built across a river’s channel to impede its flow. Water builds up behind the d...

Firstly, most TNC’s such as Apple and Nike manufacture their products in different low-income countries in order to find reduced labour costs. This comes with many positive impacts for people within the host...

At it's source a river has high gravitational potential energy (GPE) because of it's height above it's base level (generally the sea or a lake). This GPE translates into high velocity and therefore high eros...

Firstly a waterfall is defined as a cascade of water falling from a height over a steep incline or precipice. It is typically found in the upper course of a river and in formed via vertical erosion. They are...

Palaeomagnetism deals with the past magnetic states of the earth. In the 1900's geographers were interested in the mid Atlantic ridge, its on a constructive plate margin, meaning the crust further away from ...