1. Rural environment in MEDCs
Lesson 5

2. Rural environments in MEDCs
Categories Description Features
• Declining villages in some parts,
At a travelling
Remote rural distance of more than •Abandoned farms,
1 hour from an urban
area •Ones with a high proportion of
second homes
•Suburbanised area
Accessible At a travelling
rural distance between •Commuters settlements
15mins and 1 hour
from an urban area •Areas of intensive farming
Urban fringe
Land close to the edge •Areas of greenbelt attempting to
of the urban area curtail the spread of urban sprawl

4. Both MEDCs and LEDCs areas are undergoing change
Growth or
Decline of
settlements
Landscape
and rural
RURAL Changing
environment
CHANGE
services
Changing
population and
community
structure

5. Key factors that affect rural
change include the following:
• Proximity to large urban areas
• Accessibility
• Natural beauty
• Planning decisions
• Land reform
• Agricultural changes and innovations
• Diversification and tourism development

6. The processes of change produce either
growth or decline, creating a cycle

7. Changes in rural settlements in the UK:
• Counter-urbanisation /
Population
• Agriculture
• Leisure and Tourism
• Transport
• Economics

8. Conterurbanisation

9. Changes in rural settlements in UK: services

13. UK
RURAL BLISS…

23. UK VILLAGE
PROBLEMS

36. Credits to
• Mr Garreth Griffith for sharing the all the
resources..