Weblinks and videos for use with 6080 - A Level AQA Case Study Toolkit: GEOG1 - Cold Environments
Case Study 1: Tundra - Northern Europe
- Sami Culture: Hunting and Gathering by the Sami
- Boreal forest dwellers: the Sami in Sweden
- The Sami: an Indigenous People in Sweden
- Sami Culture: Reindeer Herding in Finland
- The Sami people, the indigenous people of Norway
- Work on traditional Sami knowledge in Norway
- Guardian Article: What the Sami people can teach us about adapting to climate change
- Climate Change and Displacement for Indigenous Communities in Arctic Scandinavia
- Climate change and the Finnish Sami
- GRID Polar Division News: Most Of Arctic Affected By Human Activities By 2050
- How is human activity causing pressures on the Arctic and alpine tundra environments?
- Sami Environmental Program
- The Sami Parliament’s Living Environment Program
- Tourism and the Challenge of Arctic Governance
- Indigenous tourism destination development
- Sami in Sweden
- Northern Norway
- Northern Sweden and Swedish Lapland
Videos
Case Study 2: Exploitation: Oil in Alaska
- International Business Times Article: Keystone XL And The Alaska Pipeline: Environmentalists Vs. Oil Industry; What Obama Can Learn From Nixon
- Huffington Post Article: Alaska Oil Spill: Trans-Alaska Pipeline Shuts Down 800 Mile Area In North Slope
- Oceana: Addressing Ocean Pollution and Climate Change
- Alaska's present, after 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, might be Gulf Coast’s future
- Environmental Risks with Proposed Offshore Oil and Gas Development off Alaska’s North Slope
- New York Times Article: Shell Submits a Plan for New Exploration of Alaskan Arctic Oil
- Telegram Article: Shell submits plan for Alaskan Arctic oil exploration
- USGS: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Petroleum Assessment, 1998
- Alaska’s Tourism Industry
- Everything You Need to Know About Shell Oil and Arctic Offshore Drilling in Alaska
- Shell: Offshore Alaska – UPDATED LINK
Videos
Case Study 3: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
- IIED Briefing: A sustainable future for polar regions
- The sustainable development of Antarctic ecotourism
- A Tale of Two Poles: A Comparative Look At The Legal Regimes in The Arctic And The Antarctic
- Smithsonian Article: Trash Threatens Fragile Antarctic Environment
- Oil Spills in the Antarctic
- The Future of Antarctica
- Sustainability in Antarctica
- The Antarctic Treaty
- Human Impacts in Antarctica
- Pollution and Waste in Antarctica
- Protecting and managing special areas of Antarctica
- Antarctica’s cultural heritage
- Antarctica and climate change
- Challenges facing the future of Antarctica
- The Antarctic Treaty Explained
- Sustainable Building in Antarctica
- Ultimate ice-breakers: the future of tourism in the polar regions
- Human Involvement and Impact in Antarctica
- BBC Article: Should tourists be banned from Antarctica?
- General Guidelines for Visitors to the Antarctic
- In Conversation: what does the future hold for Antarctica?
- Exploiting the Southern Ocean: Rational Use or Reversion to Tragedy of the Commons?
- A lost opportunity for sustainable ocean management
- Sustainability of southern ocean biological resources
- Threats to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
- Japan Whaling Ban: Revised Antarctic Whale Hunt Quota 'Not Changing Anything'
- Proposed Research Plan for New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean (NEWREP-A)
- Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean
- Japan told to halt Antarctic whaling by international court
- Australia v. Japan: ICJ Halts Antarctic Whaling
- Tour Operators' Contributions to Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
- Antarctica: Things to Do
- Wikitravel: Antarctica
- Places to go in Antarctica
- Tourism and Non-governmental Activities in the Antarctic: Environmental Aspects and Impacts
- General Guidelines for Visitors to the Antarctic
- The Antarctic Treaty (1959)
- Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (1991)
- Webcams from Antarctica
- Mawson station: Antarctic webcam
- McMurdo Station: Antarctic webcam
- Royal Caribbean: Canada and Alaska
- Princess Cruises: Alaska