The costs and benefits of deindustrialisation in rural areas

LO: Know the costs and benefits of de-industrialisation in rural areas.

The costs and benefits of deindustrialisation in rural areasStarter: Competition – A’s you are the benefits, B’s you

are the costs. See who can come up with the most costs or benefits to deindustrialisation in rural areas.

Benefits Costs

Danger- waste material from coal mines causing landslides in Aberfan

Toxic material left in the ground making it expensive to clean up and difficult to use again.

• What is deindustrialisation?

• Where do you think deindustrialisation happens in the UK?

What is it?

In partners discuss what

you think this is. Examples?

Definition: The decline in industrial activity in a region or an economy.

Rural areas

Look at the pictures. What is a rural area?

200 years ago – lots of different industries located in the countryside

Included: making of woollen cloth, flour-milling, lime-making, brick-making and brewing

What types of industry were located in rural

areas?

What types of industry are

these?

• Many small mines scattered around countryside – small deposits of minerals: iron, lead, tin, copper, silver and even gold.

• Because of their dangerous nature, some factories – making gunpowder, fireworks and guns, for example – were deliberately located in the countryside...

• Away from people!

Why some factories were located in rural area?

DID YOU KNOW?The first coal was

mined in rural areas

Landscape feature Former industrial activity

Water mill Power for grinding cereals into flour, power for the woollen industry

Lime kiln Burning limestone to make agricultural fertiliser

Tip or spoil heap Working of a localised mineral

Dry pits Extraction of sand (for building) and clay (for brick-making)

Windmill Power for grinding cereals into flour

Brick kiln Brick-making

Landscape features

Match up the features to the former activity.

1. Power for grinding cereals into flour2. Burning limestone to make agricultural fertiliser3. Power for grinding cereals into flour, power for the woollen industry4. Brick-making5. Extraction of sand (for building) and clay (for brick-making)

6. Working of localised mineral

Very few of these industries are still going. Why?

And then...

What industry decline is this a

part of?

Farmers today use chemical

fertilisers rather than

lime

Flour-milling and brewing are now concentrated in or near urban

areas

Old industrial building are

either demolished or

put to new uses

Old spoil heaps

Beckton Alps

What were the effects of deindustrialisation?

Disadvantages

The loss of jobs in rural areas.

The break-up of rural communities, as people move to towns and cities to find work.Derelict industrial buildings and disused quarries scar the landscape.The need to clean up old industrial sites – demolishing old buildings, filling in old pits and removing toxic waste.

Advantages

Less environmental pollution.

Old industrial buildings that can be made into tourist attractions.

The opportunity to remove ugly industrial buildings from the landscape.The chance to return land to farming (reagriculturalisation) or forestry – or to create new wildlife habitats.The opportunity to use brownfield sites for new housing.

What were the effects of deindustrialisation?

• What are the NEGATIVE effects of deindustrialisation of the mine that you can see in this picture?

• What ways might you use the landscape to improve it? Be creative!

The Eden Project- Cornwall

SOME OTHER FACTS TO ENJOY

• 1995- China clay pit closes down• 2001- Opens its door• It works with homeless, unemployed and disabled

people• 60m deep• 2 different Biomes• Educating people about a sustainable way of living

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEmU0KumSFM&safe=activehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AP2D4MOjM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va87iu9hm4Y&feature=player_embedded&safe=active#t=0

http://www.edenproject.com/

Eden Project

• What are the benefits of the Eden Project?– Social, Economic, Environmental

• Deindustrialisation in rural areas leads to……• This is because…….• It then causes……• This is because……• And as a result can cause….

Eden project- China clay pit june 2012

Explain links

• Deindustrialisation in rural areas leads to……• This is because…….• It then causes……• This is because……• And as a result can cause….

Use examples to describe and explain benefits of de-industrialisation: cleaning up sites, tourist use, recreation, wildlife habitats, re-agriculturalisation of land.

• Describe and explain the costs: infilling, toxic waste, methane gas, inadequate toxic clean-up.

In your groups you must prepare a 3 minute presentation on why industrialisation is good or bad for your given group of people.

Use the information sheets and the cost/benefit table to help you.GOOD LUCK!

Villagers

Farmers

Residential Association

Environmental group

Rural family

Tourists

New Businesses

Rural Council Rural Community Representative