Following my meeting with Maureen Fordham, I have put a few things into practice. Firstly I evaluated apiece of software that can be used for a bibliography and literature review based on her advice. End Note is supposed to be a cross platform biblography programme, but I have read that it wasn’t that compatible with OS X 10.4 and it was also very expensive. Instead I found a link to Sente on a forum. This is a great piece of software which check online library catalogues and databases for documents and even retrieves it in pdf format if available. The author. a synopsis and key words are then added to your own chosen category or sub-category by dragging the document.

I have managed to track down some of the texts suggested by Maureen on Amazon and these should be coming through any day soon.

Maureen also suggested that we submit a paper to Children, Youth and Environments is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed
journal with a multidisciplinary audience of researchers, policy makers, and professionals in 143 countries around the world (http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/index.htm). The closing date for abstracts is 15th September. I have viewed the synopsis for abstracts and I think that tackling the subject of children’s vulnerability to hazards and how this can be redressed by empowering children to become involved in risk analysis (hazard mapping in El salvador for instance) It would be useful to find information on the effectiveness of such schemes.
Also might be useful to examine what role groups like COGSS would like to play in future.