Sparsely-populated Areas Research Articles

Problems of Education in Remote and Sparsely Populated Areas, Monograph No. 1 (Scottish Educational Research Association, 1979), pp. vi + 105, £2.00

Problems of Education in Remote and Sparsely Populated Areas, Monograph No. 1 (Scottish Educational Research Association, 1979), pp. vi + 105, £2.00

Education in Sparsely-Populated Areas of Developed Nations

Education in Sparsely-Populated Areas of Developed Nations

The economic effects of large industrial undertakings on rual economies

This paper uses an adaptation of the input-output method to test the impact of large-scale industrial undertakings on comparatively small and sparsely-populated areas. It explains how, firstly, a model was built based upon a specimen rural area and including a series of vectors which allow local demand to change as incomes change. The model was then generalized so that data could be inserted to simulate any similar area. The paper then explains the results obtained from inserting a large-scale industrial activity into the model.

Problems of leprosy reconstructive surgery in Australia.

Leprosy is common in Aborigines in the tropical parts of Australia, and although there is a significant amount of deformity amongst patients, much of it can be corrected or relieved by reconstructive surgery. In the sparsely-populated areas of the north, problems may arise in establishing a surgical service to cope with deformity in leprosy, and these are discussed with reference to those already experienced in the Northern Territory.

The Mechanics' Institutes of the East and North Ridings and of York, 1837–1887

Summary The economy of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, based on agriculture, was virtually unaffected by the changing technology of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moreover, the social framework of these sparsely-populated areas retained its former rigidity. A man's lease could be lost on the evidence of his vote, and a clergyman's living on his interest in the ‘lower orders’. The macrocosm, for most people, was limited to the distance they could walk. The science of agriculture had not yet wholly permeated the upper classes, so it was little use establishing institutes to extend a knowledge of the arts practised by mere agricultural labourers. Craftsmen in the market towns often desired to implement their practical knowledge, but without funds, and dependent on their fellow-townsmen for their livelihood, they had to tread warily. Where institutes were established in the 1820's, the severe depression of the later years of the decade ended the movement in many districts. When l...