North-east England case study

• What is de-industrialisation?

  The process of decline of traditional, heavy industries
• Impacts of de-industrialisation:

  • unemployment - people who worked in the coal or shipping industry, lost their jobs and therefore lost their income
• Impacts of deindustrialisation on north-east England:

  • shipbuilding - used to be thriving shipyards, now they are all closed down and the industry has moved to china and south koread
  • Iron and steel industry closed due to the shipping industry closing
• Government response:

  • Investment in infrastructure, including roads and industrial estates
  • encourage foreign investment from large TNCs such as Nissan which employs many people
  • Setting up regional development
  • setting up a free port to encourage new secondary industries to locate