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Social impacts and Landscape Change in Yorkshire

Social impacts and Landscape Change in Yorkshire. Philip Lowe Director Rural Economy and Land Use Programme. State of the C’side 2020; C’side Agency. Fragmentation. The Countryside Means Business. Go for Green. Environmentally unsustainable. Environmentally sustainable. All on Board.

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Social impacts and Landscape Change in Yorkshire

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  1. Social impacts and Landscape Change in Yorkshire Philip Lowe Director Rural Economy and Land Use Programme

  2. State of the C’side 2020; C’side Agency Fragmentation The Countryside Means Business Go for Green Environmentally unsustainable Environmentally sustainable All on Board The Triple Whammy Cohesion

  3. Henley Centre for MAFF/Defra

  4. Common themes in axes • Economic liberalism v protectionism • Social cohesion v individualisation • Concern for environment

  5. Drivers specific to rural issues • agriculture • the regionalisation of rural economies • social values • countryside recreation and leisure • counterurbanisation and demographic change • the differentiated countryside

  6. Rural Yorkshire

  7. Table 2 – Rural Area Types Generated by Cluster Analysis

  8. Dynamic Rural

  9. Consumption Countryside • rural lifestyle for affluent commuters • the end of rural ‘separateness’ • a sharp decline in deep rural • a focus on regional governance • stronger security focus, ‘gated psychology’, stressed ‘country living’ • dynamic and vibrant with entrepreneurship growing

  10. 21st Century Good Life • tighter land use policy • ‘tailing off’ of ‘counterurbanisation’ • farmers seen more as environmental / land managers, maintaining the countryside • dependence on city wealth • anglo-saxon, no ethnic diversity • low probability

  11. Rise of the Rurbs • rural strategy is to promote economic growth • high investment in transport infrastructure • technology is key driver in the knowledge economy ‘creative class’ • teleworking and long-distance commute • moderately affluent, mobile, multicultural commuter belt • regional hubs attracting major enterprise • plausible

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