Rural region planning

7 important questions on Rural region planning

Which three broad forms of planning occur in rural regional planning?

1. rural community planning and countryside preservation
2. regional economic development (rejuvenating rural and non-metropolitan economies)
3. resource conservation and the environment (resource development and conservation and environmental protection)

What are the five types of rural regions of Canada?

- completely rural regions
- aboriginal rural regions
- recreational rural regions
- city countryside
- northern & resource regions

What are the characteristics (3) and major planning problems (4) in 'completely rural areas'?

1. low population densities, small settlements
2. widespread use of some natural resource
3. employment: primary activities / service jobs in small businesses in towns

Planning problems;
1. small, weak government
2. poverty
3. service provision/transport in low density settlements
4. degradation of environments and landscapes due to excessive exploitation of resources
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What are the characteristics (4) and planning problems for aboriginal rural regions?

charachteristics:
1. mostly 'completely rural' settings
2. severe development challenges: poverty, poor housing, lack of services
3. special aboriginal relationship with land, water and air.
4. primary activities, where they exist, major source of employment + service jobs in towns

planning problems:
1. inadequate levels of transportation, health and education
2. depleted resources
3. few job opportunities

What are the characteristics (3) and planning problems (3) of rural recreation regions?

characteristics:
1. tourism is economic base
2. previous settlements are often displaced
3. impact environment: large volume of visitors and extreme concentration of development

planning problems:
1. low wage and seasonal employment
2. housing price differentials and shortages for local people
3. social cleavage

What are the characteristics and planning problems of the cities countryside regions?

1. contain 40% of Canada's farm population
2. most diverse areas regarding types of activities and settlements
3. manufacturing and service sector displacing primary  activities (agriculture)

Planning problems:
1. conflicting land uses
2. air and water pollution
3. upward pressure on land values
4. preservation of Agricultural and natural landscapes.

What are the characteristics (3) and planning problems (5) for the Northern and Resource regions?

characteristics:
1. 72 % of land, 2 % of population
2. severe weather and isolation form challenges for small resource based and aboriginal settlements
3. primary activities (mining, oil and gas, forestry) predominate with some service (transportation) and public sector (health) jobs.

planning problems:
1. fragile environments
2. vast distances
3. lack of economic integration and high capital costs (due to huge distances and no secundairy economy
4. aboriginal land interests
5. boom bust economy

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