"The impact of structural economic change on people and places are mostly environmental" Discuss (16)
Impact:
Temporal Scale/Variation
Spatial Scale/Variation
Positive
Negative
Short term/ long term
Economic/social/environmental
Discuss
Agree with statement
Disagree with statement
Economic change
Growth/decline
Sector model
Environmental Impacts
Early growth in industrial revolution - non renewable/ pollution, emissions (local/national/international scale and short/long term
Decline (deindustrialisation) - decline, dereliction, polluted legacy's (canal)
Regeneration - canal and river trust cleaned waterways, pedestrianisation (street furniture, trees) greenbelt (length of impact yet to be seen, local)
Economy
People
Employment (decline/regeneration)
Socio economic
Largest impact of structural economic change will be socio economic
Social
People
Multiplier effect (growth) / downward cumulative causation (decline), diversity, access to infrastructure
Conclusion
On the balance of evidence, I think there were a lot of socio economic changes as a result of structural economic change
social inequality
employment strucutre and opportunities
Housing type and availability
Service, provision, inlcuding access to health, education, community services
Incomes, unemployment and housing benefits
Infrastructure
Demographic
Total population
Age structure
Ethnic structure
Migration
Culture
Diversity in types of religions and places of worship
Traditions/festival
Health
Dereliction
Built environment
Pollution of air, land,waterways
Planning responses