Rural Inequality

Question 1

What are 2 examples of a poor area and an area in extreme poverty?

Answer 1

Norfolk - poor

Botswana - Extreme

Question 2

What are the main issues Botswana is facing?

Answer 2

Landlocked
Hyperurbanisation
RUM
Invisible 6% of pop. moved to make way for wildlife conservation in RAD programmers but possible for diamond exploitation

Question 3

What is the problem with Retail choice? - e.g. food

Answer 3

Food
80% of food is in supermarkest
Rural areas don’t have a threshold for services
Shops shut, and people are cut off
Richer move away, poor are left
Even less for a threshold
Then poor diets – and associated health issues – e.g. cancer / diabetes / obesity

Question 4

What are some controversies?

Answer 4

Broadband notspots
Post office closures
Churches become private houses
Invisibility
Blinkered – rich don’t want to know about poor
Toleration – rich want the rural idyll
Privacy – poor don’t want to show the rich
Remote – cut off from government

Question 5

What other social causes of rural inequality are there?

Answer 5

Outmigration of young
Low priority give by policy-makers to exclusion
Limited healthcare provision
Varying/limited education/childcare provision
Lack of access to tech.

Question 6

What are some economic causes of rural inequality?

Answer 6

Reduces employment opportunity access - transport costs to enter labour market
Low pay
Detachment form labour markets of older people in workforce
Tied housing/gang labour/seasonality in employment
Fuel poverty

Question 7

What are some features of rural poverty in the UK?

Answer 7

A. 19.3% of UK population live in rural areas
B. It’s Mainly elderly families who move out of urban areas
C. Counterurbanisation means local are priced out by commuters
D. 80% of food in the UK comes from supermarkets
E. Churches become private houses
F. Post Offices closed
G. Broadband notspots
H. 10,000 people