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The River Tees
The Tees drops 21 metres at High Force in the Pennines, then meanders past Yarm to a wide industrial estuary at Teesmouth.
- River landscape
The map
The map itself, and every figure and source on it, is open to everyone. Reading case studies is free within a monthly limit, and one you have already opened never counts again. Choose a pin to see what a country has, or a day to see the map as it stood then. Choosing an exam board changes how cards are labelled and counted, never what you can read.
Where the cards are
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Nissan in Sunderland
A Japanese TNC whose Sunderland plant, the biggest car factory in the UK, shows the benefits and risks of foreign investment.
- Transnational corporation
- UK economic change
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Banbury flood management scheme
An £18.5 million storage reservoir beside the M40, opened in 2012, holds back the River Cherwell to keep Banbury dry.
- Flood management
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Bristol, UK
A growing UK city with strong aerospace and digital industries, sharp inequality between wards, and major regeneration at Temple Quarter.
- Major UK city
- Urban regeneration
- UK economic change
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The Lake District
England's largest National Park, a glaciated upland of corries, aretes and ribbon lakes under heavy tourist pressure.
- Glaciated landscape
- Tourism area
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The Holderness Coast
Europe's fastest eroding coastline loses about 2 metres of soft boulder clay cliffs a year, and defences protect some towns while speeding erosion elsewhere.
- Coastal landscape
- Coastal management
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Stratford and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
The 2012 Games rebuilt polluted industrial land in east London into a park, homes and jobs, though not everyone gained.
- Urban regeneration
- Major UK city
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Somerset Levels floods, winter 2013 to 2014
Record winter rain drowned 6,900 hectares of drained farmland for weeks, cutting off villages and prompting a £100 million flood plan.
- River flood event
- UK extreme weather
- Flood management
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Epping Forest
An ancient pollarded woodland of 2,400 hectares on London's edge, managed by the City of London under heavy recreation pressure.
- Deciduous woodland
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Lyme Regis coastal management scheme
Phased sea walls, beach nourishment and cliff stabilisation costing tens of millions protect a small Dorset tourist town built on unstable slipping cliffs.
- Coastal management
- Tourism area
Editions
Legend
A magenta pin marks a country with at least one case study. Countries in the edition on screen are named beside their pin, and so is whichever pin you point at. How many cards a country has is read out under the map.
Each tick under the map is one day. Solid magenta days published an edition, and choosing one hides everything published after it.