Problem
Unsustainable rural development
Nature:
Unsustainable rural development is the failure to sustain the renewable and nonrenewable rural resources: natural, modified and cultivated. Renewable resources offer the greatest opportunity for sustainable development. This opportunity is missed or destroyed by inadequate conservation or the separation of development and conservation efforts.
Incidence:
On the fringes of Woodchester, an English village, there was an old flock mill with a beautiful lake which was a haven for wildlife. In the early 1980s, in a single day, the lake was filled in with tons of rubbish, the mill was pulled down, and a flat, dark industrial building was constructed on the site that has remained untenanted ever since. In 1993, there is an approved planning application for a new commercial building on a village green, when there are many commercial and business premises vacant.
Broader Problems:
Unsustainable development Narrower Problems:
Defective development planningLoss of biodiversity in rural areasUnsustainable agricultural development Aggravates:
Rural povertyResource depletionAbsorption of rural communitiesIndiscriminate economic developmentDestruction of rural subsistence economyDegradation of agricultural land by cash crops Strategies:
Advancing integrated rural developmentCreating global sustainabilityIncreasing food production to reduce rural povertyImproving access of rural poor to creditEnsuring socially sustainable developmentEnsuring sustainable agricultural development Subject(s):
Amenities → RuralDevelopment → Development
Development → Sustainable development
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems Date of last update
30.05.2019 – 18:27 CEST