human geography rural change case studies

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langton grove, Eye
factors influencing development (ECONOM) // EU funding childrens nurserys (1996) // delveopment grant DEFRA // 17 new jobs // parents of 60 children back to work (multiplier)
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Curitiba
factors influencing develoment (POL) // migrants (low skilled) enter // free bus home // rural village programme (land divided 5000m^2 plots // 74,000 benefit (15,000 families) // Escola De Campo (school gives qualif to young + share with families)
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upper Wensleydale
factors influencing developmet (EVIRO) // isolated // closest supermarket (26km) // poor climate (soils // slopes // sheep farming // rainfall) // inconvenient A684 + pennine hills // telecottaging // spiral of decline
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Allerdale, Cumbria - social factors
factors influencing development (SOCIAL) // OUTMIGRATION // falling pop. // decline in threshold // spiral of decline // ageing pop. // no economically active // dereliction
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Oxford - social factors
factors influencing development (SOCIAL) // INNMIGRATION // transport development (park + ride for commuters) // retail devlopments (oxford science parks // hotels // cinemas // leisure // bowls)
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Dufton, foothills of pennines
negative decline // remote // 169 people // 3 children (no school) // 1/3 home ownership (lack in community cohesion) // ageing pop. // amalgamation (pub diversified as post office + holiday home)
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Temple Sowerby
positive growth // next to A66 // 13km from penrith // rural-urban fringe // 2006 by-pass (traffic dec. + pop. inc) // commuters // grants from council (EDU+MED) // 6 daily buses // inc. critical threshold // inc house price // service range
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Allerdale, Cumbria - rural change
pop. decline (2001 11peo. aged 30 to 2011 14peo. aged 30) // ENVIRO (B5289 tourist conjest // pastoral farming // climate) ECON (tradit. // tourism) SOC (1981-2006 83% dec in post offices) HELP (allerdale borough inc. 2nd home tax + reduce bus fares)
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Oxford - economic growth (negative)
150,000 pop. // uni // rural-urban fringe expansion // housing (blackbird leys) // industrial (ox. sci. park // less farmland) // recreation (cinemas // ox. united) // service (ox. retail) transport (p+r) // pressure on existing villages
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Trimleys
environmental growth (negative) // pop. growth // 500,000 new homes (2001-2021) // imperm. flooding river orwell // remove veg.=soil erosion // pollutants // traffic // greenfield sites // manage (enviro. studies// inc transport // enriched habitats)
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Langton grove, Eye + East A nglia (farming)
1970's-80's CAP (guar. prices + grants for product intensification) // small farms amalg. // eutrop. // soil erosion // dec in biodiversity // MANAGEMENT (ESA's // ES replaced ESA's // diversification (£10,000 per farm // area pay (per ha) // NFZ)
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A140 Ipswich to Norwich
90km carriageway + 3km dual carriageway // 15% lorry inc (containeris. felixstowe 70's-80's) // norfolk broads // air + noise poll // dec house price // BROME (3 cameras 2009 9 deaths) // HARFORD p+r // mini bus // cross-county // norfolk cc bypass
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Norfolk borads
tourism / recreation (£3.5bn to EA economy) // 100's nature reserves // SSSI's // fram castle // sutton hoo // pollution (water // TURBIDITY (less sunlight)) // 2M visitors edu. // 5-9km speed // 1998 conserve status // dec. salt incursions
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factors influencing develoment (POL) // migrants (low skilled) enter // free bus home // rural village programme (land divided 5000m^2 plots // 74,000 benefit (15,000 families) // Escola De Campo (school gives qualif to young + share with families)

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Curitiba

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factors influencing developmet (EVIRO) // isolated // closest supermarket (26km) // poor climate (soils // slopes // sheep farming // rainfall) // inconvenient A684 + pennine hills // telecottaging // spiral of decline

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factors influencing development (SOCIAL) // OUTMIGRATION // falling pop. // decline in threshold // spiral of decline // ageing pop. // no economically active // dereliction

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factors influencing development (SOCIAL) // INNMIGRATION // transport development (park + ride for commuters) // retail devlopments (oxford science parks // hotels // cinemas // leisure // bowls)

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