TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in service provision in rural areas. Part 1
T2 - The use of GIS in analysing accessibility to services in rural deprivation research
AU - Higgs, G.
AU - White, S. D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements -- We would like to thank Post Office Counters for providing us with information on the names and locations of post offices in Wales, the Welsh Consumer Council for permission to use Post Office data collated in the late 1970s and Chris Cole for data entry. All census data are Crown Copyright and have been provided through the Census Microdata Unit of the University of Manchester with the support of ESRC/JISC/ DENI. The two-year survey of facilities carried out for all rural communities in Wales was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW). The Rural Deprivation Research Project is sponsored by the ESRC (Grant No: R000221827). All interpretations of the data are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the agencies listed above.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Previous work has highlighted the importance of public service provision in rural areas particularly for potentially vulnerable groups such as the elderly, unemployed and single parents especially where this coincides with a lack of access to either private or public transport. Disadvantage can often be compounded by limited access to services for such groups with the superior resources of more affluent social groups enabling them to respond and adapt to the increasing centralisation and reduction of services. This paper reviews previous investigations of the implications of changing accessibility to services in rural areas and draws attention to the need for a new research agenda which uses spatial analytical techniques to gauge the current levels of (in)accessibility to key services at the community level. These techniques are illustrated in Part 2 of the paper with reference to changes in post office provision in mid Wales, and the policy significance of incorporating geographical information systems-based measures of provision into traditional area-based indicators of disadvantage is discussed.
AB - Previous work has highlighted the importance of public service provision in rural areas particularly for potentially vulnerable groups such as the elderly, unemployed and single parents especially where this coincides with a lack of access to either private or public transport. Disadvantage can often be compounded by limited access to services for such groups with the superior resources of more affluent social groups enabling them to respond and adapt to the increasing centralisation and reduction of services. This paper reviews previous investigations of the implications of changing accessibility to services in rural areas and draws attention to the need for a new research agenda which uses spatial analytical techniques to gauge the current levels of (in)accessibility to key services at the community level. These techniques are illustrated in Part 2 of the paper with reference to changes in post office provision in mid Wales, and the policy significance of incorporating geographical information systems-based measures of provision into traditional area-based indicators of disadvantage is discussed.
U2 - 10.1016/S0743-0167(97)00030-2
DO - 10.1016/S0743-0167(97)00030-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031457942
SN - 0743-0167
VL - 13
SP - 441
EP - 450
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
IS - 4
ER -