Regeneration Flashcards
Primary sector
Producing raw materials
Secondary sector
Manufacturing/processing of raw materials
Tertiary sector
Service jobs
Quaternary
Within ICT/technology
Quinary
Focus on STEM and senior officials in healthcare, universities, research, government and business
Full-time employment
Permanent and may be a long term contract e.g. 2 years or short term such as 2 months
Part-time employment
Reduced hours and more flexible, maybe for 8 hours a week
Seasonal employment
Either summer or winter months e.g. summer tourism or agricultural work
Illegal employment
Often low paid in poor conditions and done by migrants
Self-employed
Run own business and may be a freelancer or consultant
Zero-hour contract
Employer/ee has no obligations for work and it is often minimum wage with little reliability
Temporary work
May be on an agency data base for temporary positions
Deindustrialisation
Economic and social change caused by the removal/failure of an industry in a region e.g. the mines in Yorkshire, ship building and steel in the North East
The overheated south
manufacturing is of little importantce to the south east and it has been less affected by deindustrialisation and recessions. Since economic crash it’s economic output has grown whereas the rest of the UK (except Scotland) has seen a relative decline. A quater of the population generates half of the UKs economic growth
Postcode lottery
The uneven distribution of local personal health and health services nationally, especially in mental health, early diagnosis of cancer and emergency care for the elderly
Glasgow effect
The impacts of poor health linked to deprivation
The intergeneration cycle of educational failure
Education underachievement and poor health may be intergeneration, meaning that they are passed on from parents to their children. Breaking the cycle is often a key goal for decision makers
Quality of life
The larger social and economic well-being experienced by individuals or communities measured by various indicators including health, happiness, educational achievement, income and leisure time. It is wider than ‘standard of living’ which mainly focuses on income levles
Spatial inequality
The differences across places at a neighbourhood or street level as well as between cities or regions or countries
Inequality
Reduces potential for economic growth, benefits of any growth will not trickle down into society, OECD believe targets should focus on the bottom 40% of the popualtion not just the bottom 10% - may increase wealth as well as eqaulity - regeneration programmes can help this
Gentrification
Where affluent poeple move into a location and planners may allow developers to upgrade facilities deliberately in order to encourage higher classes to move in
Studentification
Students are often clustered in certain areas of large towns and cities and their behaviour can often cause conflict with residents. Queen’s University Belfast, 50% of the immediate housing around the campus is student occupied. Gov want to reduce the amount of houses in multiple occupation
