Regional development and change : AS-A level resource pack.

Este recurso consta de dieciocho módulos y su objetivo es proporcionar un plan de enseñanza programado a los profesores de geografía de los niveles AS y A, niveles que se cursan después de la etapa secundaria superior general. Cada una de estas lecciones implica la realización de unas actividades que incluyen trabajo individual y en grupo, manejo de datos, comprensión, interpretación, análisis e informes, orales o escritos, para que los alumnos desarrollen unas habilidades concretas. Estos módulos están concebidos de forma independiente y siempre se presentan de la misma manera : con unas notas orientativas para el profesor y con hojas de ejercicios, que pueden fotocopiarse, con preguntas para los alumnos.

GCSE Modern world history.

Guía de bolsillo para la revisión de los temas clave en el área de historia del mundo moderno para el examen GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) con cuatrocientas preguntas rápidas y sus respuestas, organizadas en secciones temáticas y con consejos de examen. Los temas cubiertos son: Primera Guerra Mundial, tratados de paz 1918-1923, búsqueda de la paz y la estabilidad 1920-1939, caída del orden internacional en 1939, orígenes de la Guerra Fría 1945-1955, crisis de los misiles de Cuba, guerra de Vietnam, control soviético en la Europa del Este 1948-1989, fin de la Guerra Fría, terrorismo desde 1969, la guerra de Irak.

El consejo orientador.

Se destaca la finalidad del consejo orientador, así como su importancia desde el punto de vista individual y social. También, se ofrecen unas sugerencias prácticas y elementales para realizar este consejo orientador por medio de un modelo de ficha en el que se reflejan distintos tipos de datos de los alumnos: datos familiares y personales; condicionamientos fisiológicos y psicofisiológicos; aptitudes especiales; y cociente intelectual y factores mentales medidos por distintos tipos de pruebas y tests psicológicos. También, se incluyen un inventario de intereses profesionales; los resultados del cuestionario de adaptación para adolescente de Hugh M. Bell; actitudes hacia el trabajo; perfiles de rendimiento académico y, por último, un casillero para observaciones.

Habitat re-creation and restoration at the landscape scale: woodlands in Wales

The aim of this three year project funded by the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) is to develop techniques firstly, to refine and update existing targets for habitat restoration and re-creation at the landscape scale and secondly, to develop a GIS-based model for the implementation of those targets at the local scale. Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) is being used to map Landscape Types across the whole of Wales as the first stage towards setting strategic habitat targets. The GIS habitat model uses data from the digital Phase I Habitat Survey for Wales to determine the suitability of individual sites for restoration to specific habitat types, including broadleaf woodland. The long-term aim is to develop a system that strengthens the character of Welsh landscapes and provides real biodiversity benefits based upon realistic targets given limited resources for habitat restoration and re-creation.

Conservation strategy maps: a tool to facilitate biodiversity action planning illustrated using the heath fritillary butterfly

1. The UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP) identifies invertebrate species in danger of national extinction. For many of these species, targets for recovery specify the number of populations that should exist by a specific future date but offer no procedure to plan strategically to achieve the target for any species. 2. Here we describe techniques based upon geographic information systems (GIS) that produce conservation strategy maps (CSM) to assist with achieving recovery targets based on all available and relevant information. 3. The heath fritillary Mellicta athalia is a UKBAP species used here to illustrate the use of CSM. A phase 1 habitat survey was used to identify habitat polygons across the county of Kent, UK. These were systematically filtered using relevant habitat, botanical and autecological data to identify seven types of polygon, including those with extant colonies or in the vicinity of extant colonies, areas managed for conservation but without colonies, and polygons that had the appropriate habitat structure and may therefore be suitable for reintroduction. 4. Five clusters of polygons of interest were found across the study area. The CSM of two of them are illustrated here: the Blean Wood complex, which contains the existing colonies of heath fritillary in Kent, and the Orlestone Forest complex, which offers opportunities for reintroduction. 5. Synthesis and applications. Although the CSM concept is illustrated here for the UK, we suggest that CSM could be part of species conservation programmes throughout the world. CSM are dynamic and should be stored in electronic format, preferably on the world-wide web, so that they can be easily viewed and updated. CSM can be used to illustrate opportunities and to develop strategies with scientists and non-scientists, enabling the engagement of all communities in a conservation programme. CSM for different years can be presented to illustrate the progress of a plan or to provide continuous feedback on how a field scenario develops.