The Challenges of Managing Rural Environmental Change
Rural environments are modified by changes in economic activity. Most
rural land use is a result of farming, particularly in LEDC, where the
country is more primary based income.
Land use in rural areas is being exploited in many areas such as:
· Mining
· Quarrying
· Water supply
· Forestry
· Military activity
· Tourism
· Transport
· New settlements
Changes in farming have also affected rural environments, in a variety
of different places. They have altered what the landscape looks like.
Because of farming becoming uneconomic, many farmers have been forced
to leave their land. People such as recreation or forestry later use
the land. They also affect it and alter how it looks.
Examples of this happening are like in the Lake District or the
highlands of Scotland.
There are key areas where farming is creating problems for the rural
landscape. Such as, GM crops, hedgerow loss, eutrophication,
deforestation, salinisation and stubble burning.
These aspects are all affecting the way that the rural environment is
developing. And they are all of a bad aspect, it is important that
these points are focused on before the rural landscape is ruined.
Because of higher demand for food production in farms, the farmers
have turned to machinery instead of people; this resulted in a huge
drop in people employed in agriculture. Over the last 4 years the
amount of people evolved has fallen by 550, 000. This is in
replacement of manual labour. The machines were introduced into the
farming industry because they allow for much faster spread of
fertilizers and pesticides over large areas of land.
These machines have usually only been specialized to one crop. So
therefore, only one crop is made, increasing monocultures. The reason
farmers only make one type of crop is because of the vast amounts of
their money have been put into the machines which are specialized to
only one crop.
The problem with these new machines was that they needed large areas
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