1. Managing Rural Change

2. 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

3. 2 rural change (demographic economic political social, etc)
Case study = Nebraska (decline)
Case study = Chester County growth and development
Thornham Estate
Counter urbanisation

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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