uk futures

• What is the primary sector looking like in the UK?

  Decreasing due to mechanisation
• What is the secondary sector like in the UK?

  Increasing due to industrial revolution, then decreasing due to deindustrialisation also the uk are moving there factories over to NEEs
• What is the tertiary sector like in the UK?

  Increasing due to higher disposable income
• What is the quaternary sector like in the UK?

  Increasing due to increase in technology and high tech jobs
• What is globalisation?

  The process which has created more of a connected world
• What is deindustrialisation?

  The decline of the countries traditional manufacturing as its more cheaper to produce in NEEs
• What percentage of the Tertiary and quaternary sector employed in the UK?

  81% in 2011
• How many people work in the IT In the UK?

  Employs over 60,000
• What is the services like in the UK?

  Employs 4.4 million
• What is finance like in the UK?

  London is the worlds leading centre
• What is research like in the UK?

  Government investing 30 billion in 2013
• What is the purpose of business parks?

  To build areas of offices and warehouses on the edge of cities for good transport links and cheaper
• What is the purpose of science parks?

  For groups of high-tech industries to do scientific research located near universities to share facilities
• What are the environmental impact of industry in the UK?

  Air and water pollution, soil degradation, releases CO2 increasing rate of global warming, an increase in effluent
• What are some examples of the modern industry being environmentally sustainable in the UK?

  google - 686 Bike spaces but 4 car spaces, 19,800 KWh of solar panels, rooftop Gardens, fitness centre
• what are the causes for the north and south divide?

  • decline of the heavy industry in the north
  • investment in finance and services in the south
• what are the impacts of the north and south divide on the north?

  • higher unemployment and 40% lower wages
  • lower life expectancy by 10 years
  • worse education
• what are the 3 strategies attempting to solve the North and south divide?

  quicker transport (HS2)

  northern powerhouse

  low enterprise zones
• what are low enterprise zones?

  they encourage businesses to set up areas near high unemployment

  they have reduced tax and super fast broadband and this created 15000 jobs however the reduced tax only lasted 3 years
• what is the northern powerhouse?

  a plan to attract investment in the north by having better broadband and a place to work but this plan is expensive and only a concept
• what is sustainability?

  Sustainability is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations .
• why is access to universities important for business parks?

  Lower costs as share facilities and gets high graduates
• why is attractive surroundings important for business parks?

  retaining the staff
• what are services like shops and nurseries important for business parks?

  convenient to drop off children, good at retaining staff as easier to access food and fitness
• why is it important to have transport links for buisnesses?

  easy for employees to get to work
• why is being located near other business grid for business parks?

  share facilities so its cheaper
• why is it important for a large plot of land for business parks ?

  expand easily and green space which is good for mental health
• what things complete the post industrial economy ?

  services, research, finance, development of IT, business and science parks
• what does post industrial mean?

  a shift in employment from manufacturing to services
• why can the uk be described as a post industrial economy?

  deindustrialisation and globalisation have occurred leading to a high rise in tertiary and quaternary employment
• what are government policies?

  decisions.made by the government to influence the economy
• what is a primary job?

  taking raw materials like farming
• what is a secondary job?

  manufacturing raw materials like factory workers
• what is a tertiary job|?

  providing a service like a teacher
• what is a quaternary job?

  research like software developer
• what are the 3 government policies?

  privatisation, deregulation, trade agreements
• what is the effect of trade agreements?

  TNCs moving there factories abroad to lower the secondary employment in the uk
• what is deregulation and its effects?

  to remove the taxes and restrictions encouraging investment from foreign countries and people to move to the uk
• what is privatisation and its effects?

  when the key industries became privatised so major job losses in the secondary industry occured
• what is the spiral of decline?

  when less jobs are available leading to less disposable income so less tax to the government so a decline in infrastructure