Issues in Rural Environments
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- Created on: 30-05-16 14:19
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- Issues in Remote Rural Environments
- A rural environment
- An area sufficiently distant from major urban areas so not to be affected by suburbanisation or counterurbanisation
- Peripheral
- Locations describes in terms of both location and their economy
- 600,000 people living in remote or very sparsely populated areas in the UK
- Out-migration- leave region/community to another
- Brain drain
- he emigration of highly trained people from a particular country
- Out-migration and ageing population
- the development of transport and communications has facilitated the out-migration of large numbers from rural peripheral regions
- Preception of rural areas
- old fashioned
- Dull
- lacing in economic and social opportunities
- Reality - little entertainment
- Perception of Urban Areas
- modern
- Young
- Vibrant
- Reality- hard too get jobs/ houses
- economic hardship is a reality of many remote rural areas
- With increasing out-migration the rural population gets older and fewer young people are left to support the population
- Some peripheral regions have experienced an in-migration of second home-owners and retired people
- Lead to an increase of house pries and the character of the settlement can change
- Done little to curb the out-migration of younger age groups
- A rural environment
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