Transcript Managing Rural Change

Managing Rural Change
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1. Defining Rural areas
Social characteristics of rural communities
Functions
Opportunities for development
Case study = Wensleydale see school
web
• Case study = Vesternorrland, Northern
Sweden see school web
• 2 rural change (demographic economic
political social, etc)
• Case study = Nebraska (decline)
• Case study = Chester County growth and
development
• Thornham Estate
• Counter urbanisation
• 3. Environmental Issues (agricultural
change, loss of habitat, loss of woodland,
loss of wetlands, pollution, degradation +
political influence = government and EU
with CAP and periphery payments)
• Case study = E. Anglia and Lopham Fen
• Case study = Langton Grove Farm, Suffolk
• Building developments in rural
areas..Cambourne, by-passes, etc.
• Management, Planning and the
sustainable use of rural areas
• Case study St Edmondsbury, Suffolk
• Regenerating Suffolk's market towns
• Second homes and holiday homes in
Norfolk
To answer questions
• With reference to named examples explain
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• why the sustainable development of rural
areas requires careful planning and
management….
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• Describe and explain attempts to manage
rural areas sustainably
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• With the aid of named examples describe
and explain …
• The positive and negative effects of
agricultural change over the last century
on rural communities
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• How changes in agriculture have had a
positive or negative effect on the
environment