"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