Unit+4+Flooding+Project+Guidelines

Flooding Project Guidelines




 * 1.Choose your countries and classify them as MEDC or LEDC**

Make sure that you have chosen your countries and made a table with indicators to show whether they are MEDCs or LEDCs. You can choose the indicators that you like. Write a paragraph explaining why you have classified them as MEDC/LEDC using examples from your table.


 * 2. Find out about what happened when it flooded.**

Why did it flood? Was it unseasonal weather conditions, a tropical storm, el Niño, a tsunami, overflowing rivers, high sea levels? Or maybe it was caused because the place was not prepared and didn't have proper flood defences or the defences were damaged. If it was the bad weather, try to find out what caused all the rain. Is it the first time in that place, or does it often flood?

Where did it flood? Was it all over the country or just in one part of it. Was it in major cities or in the countryside? Was it in the towns near one particular river that overflowed? Was it towns by the sea? About how many towns or how many square km were flooded?

What happened when it flooded? Did people have to leave the area? Were their homes swept away? Were they stuck in their homes? Were they killed? Did they have supplies of food and water? What was damaged - homes, crops, industries etc?

Who helped? Dis the neighbours help? Were the emergency services like fire fighters and police able to help. What did the government do? Did they have to call in the army? Did the NGOs like the Red Cross help? How did they get food and essential equipment to people. How did they get people out of their flooded homes? Did they have to ask for help from other countries.

Reconstruction How long did it take them to get back to normal? Did they reconstruct houses, roads etc that had been damaged. Where did they get the money from to do this? Did they give people new homes or lend money to repair the damage. Did people have insurance to pay for the damage?

Prevention What did they do/ are they doing to make sure this doesn't happen again? Are they building better flood defences? Are the moving people away from vulnerable areas?

3. Conclusion This should answer the question: //Is the impact of flooding different in MEDCs and LEDCs?//

Use the ideas that you can find in __Unit 2 websites MEDCs and LEDCs - flooding in MEDCs and LEDCs__ to see whether what they say there is true for what you found out about your floods. You should answer in paragraphs, comparing the initial impact of the flood, the rescue operation and the recuperation after the event. Use examples from your text to illustrate your opinions. Remember that the information you include in the conclusion must be a reflection of what you wrote in the country articles, not new information.

4. Prevention Describe how countries can prevent flooding in the future. Discuss the difficulties of preventing floods, the methods that might be used and the possibility of doing this in more and less economically developed countries. Use the links on __Unit 2 websites flood prevention__ to help you decide which type of prevention is better for each type of country.

5. What would happen if it flooded in an LEDC or MEDC tomorrow?

Write what you would expect to happen in each type of country using some examples from the floods you have studied to explain your reasons. What other factors need to be taken into consideration when predicting the outcome of flooding? Is it always possible to be fully prepared?

Floods of 2013 - 2014

@http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/german-city-copes-after-worst-flood-in-500-years-1.1324991 Germany

@http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/aug/23/sudan-floods-worst-25-years Sudan

@http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alberta-flooding-top-weather-story-of-2013-1.2470102 Canada

@http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-10/10/c_132786894.htm China

@http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/world/americas/record-flooding-kills-dozens-in-Argentina.html?_r=0 Argentina

@http://world.time.com/2013/06/24/as-deadly-floods-hit-india-kerry-calls-on-new-delhi-to-address-climate-change/ India

@http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/09/historic-flooding-across-colorado/100591/ USA

@http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/11/3047731/brazil-flooding-drought/ Brazil

@http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-21/super-typhoon-victims-flee-rains-flood-southern-philippines/5211698 Philippines

@http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-20/an-tens-of-thousands-displaced-by-deadly-floods-in-jakarta/5207586 Indonesia

@http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25683649 UK

For links to older floods check out Unit 2 websites.

http://humanities7ccb.wikispaces.com/Unit+2+websites