Rural Environments Keywords

the practice of growing crops and raising livestock sufficient only for one's own use, without any surplus for trade.

• Intensive farming

• Subsistence farming

• Arable farming

• Pastoral farming

a type of farming that requires large areas of land and minimal input of capital or labour

• Intensive farming

• Subsistence farming

• Extensive farming

• Agro-forestry

a biome with vegetation composed primarily of broad-leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season

• Tropical rainforest

• Coniferous forest

• Deciduous forest

• Tundra

a biome with vegetation composed primarily of evergreen trees that are able to survive in areas that are cold or dry

• Tropical rainforest

• Coniferous forest

• Deciduous forest

• Tundra

a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down

• Deforestation

• Agro-forestry

• Shifting cultivation

• Clear felling

a rural area that is a day's drive from urban areas, characteristed by issues such as rural isolation

• Remote countryside

• Accessible countryside

• Rural-urban fringe

• Commuter belt

a rural area that is experiencing suburbanisation and the loss of greenfield sites

• Remote countryside

• Accessible countryside

• Rural-urban fringe

• Commuter belt

a rural area that is made up of dormitory settlements

• Remote countryside

• Accessible countryside

• Rural-urban fringe

• Commuter belt

a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas

• Depopulation

• Rural isolation

• Counter-urbanisation

• Commuting

the development of methods of income generation (making money) that are in addition to, or instead of, traditional rural income sources

• Diversification

• Depopulation

• Demonstration

• Diversity