Jan 20, 2022
- Describe the various approaches to defining ‘rural’ & indicate which of the approaches, you find most convincing, and explain why?
- Outline the features of rural areas that contribute to a higher risk of rural poverty occurring & explain the factors that contribute to the ‘invisibility’ of
rural poverty - “Some natural and social scientists, as well as environmental activists, see rural depopulation as an opportunity to reclaim for non-humans some of the enormous amounts of space they have lost over the decades, centuries, and millennia. In doing so, many aims to combat both the global biodiversity and climate-change crises”. Evaluate the arguments for ‘rewilding’ of rural areas.
- “In developed regions, the rural has become a highly controlled landscape of
production and consumption: industrialized agriculture coexists with leisure
landscapes for tourism, retirement, and recreation”. Discuss the meaning and implications of this statement, referring in your answer to relevant examples.
