Managing Rural Change

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 … why the sustainable development of rural areas requires careful planning and management…. Or Describe and explain attempts to manage rural areas sustainably

or With the aid of named examples describe and explain … The positive and negative effects of agricultural change over the last century on rural communities Or How changes in agriculture have had a positive or negative effect on the environment