Deprivation
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- Created on: 29-04-15 14:28
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- Rebranding- Cornwall.
- Decline in rural economy
- Cornwall has suffered from the decline in traditional employment.
- Primary employment dominated in the 1970s. This included farming, fishing, tin mining
- Farming- Falling farm prices, as supermarkets seek the lowest prices from their suppliers.
- Fishing- EU quotas have allocated fish supplies to other european countries.
- Mining- The exhaustion of tim reserves in Cornwall.
- Deprivation
- Caused by low wages.
- Tourist economy
- Tourism is an established industry in Cornwall.
- Helped offset job losses in primary industries.
- Tourism brings problems: The jobs are mainly seasonal, part time or poorly paid.
- Only 33% of profits from tourism stay in Cornwall.
- The visitor numbers vary between seasons depending on the weather.
- Core and Periphery theory
- Main reason for deprivation is rural areas is their remoteness.
- The UK's core areas is where most wealth is produced. It extends from London to Leeds and Manchester.
- It produces 75% of the UK's goods and services.
- Has the highest wages and level of investment.
- Has the densest transport infrastructure-most motorways, the busiest airports and densest rail networks are there.
- Remote rural areas are described as the periphery and are poorly served by transport infrastructure.
- They are a long way from core markets, and job opportunity's are fewer.
- There are some benefits- peripheral areas can be cheaper to live in but they often suffer from depopulation as young people leave to find bette jobs.
- Lack of rural services and employment
- 72% of villages don't have a village shops.
- Lack of job opportunities for younger people.
- Low income households in rural areas are more likely to remain on a low income than urban households.
- The Eden Project
- Consists of two large conservatories- know at Eden as biomes. Exhibiting the worlds major plant types.
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