The Challenges Facing Britain's Coastal Communities : A Neglected Divide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asthana, Sheena.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Why have the many problems facing coastal communities been overlooked by the media and national policy? This book explains the factors behind the economic and social problems of coastal regions and shows how policy reform can create dynamic, thriving coastal communities.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes

List of Abbreviations

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Economic Inequality: The Coastal Dimension

Introduction

The 'left behind' and 'levelling up'

'Levelling up' and current economic policy: what do they mean for coastal communities?

3 Economic Change, Restructuring and 'Left Behind' Coastal Communities

The changing fortunes of Britain's coastal communities

Economic challenges facing Britain's coastal communities

Population growth and economic activity

Industrial structure

Average earnings

Job accessibility

Fuel poverty

House prices

Personal bankruptcy rates

Productivity

Economic 'health' of coastal communities

Economic divergence and diversity

Conclusion

4 Developing and Regenerating the UK's 'Left Behind' Coastal Communities

The UK's regeneration policy: a glacial neglect?

UK central government funding allocations

Central government funding and targeting need?

Central government funding and political bias

Coastal place-​based regeneration: approaches, goals and objectives

Economic regeneration

Culture and heritage

The blue economy

Social, cultural and community-​led regeneration

Environmental regeneration

The success of coastal regeneration?

Regeneration: barriers and obstacles

Socioeconomic and environmental context

Transport infrastructure

Digital exclusion

Central government funding allocations

5 Inequality and Social Justice: The Coastal Dimension

Economic inequality in the UK

Economic inequality and social outcomes

Addressing inequality: from social justice to spatial justice

The Index of Multiple Deprivation.

The weightings given to the income and employment domains

How well does the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 perform geographically?

The health domain

The education, skills and training domain

The crime domain

6 Growing up in Coastal Communities

Housing and children's wellbeing

Education

Coastal inequalities in educational outcomes

Explaining variations in education outcomes

Young people and the skills gap in coastal communities

Coastal inequalities in health outcomes among children and young people

The canary in the coal mine: coastal variations in the need for children's social care

The long-​term impacts of adverse childhood experiences

Coastal variations in the health of children and young people

7 Growing Old in Coastal Communities

The ageing coast

Coastal inequalities in older age

Deprivation among older people on the coast

Health implications of socioeconomic deprivation in older age

Protected characteristics

Promoting health and wellbeing in older age

Housing

Transport and mobility

Social isolation

8 Health in Coastal Communities

The coast as a therapeutic landscape

Coastal health inequalities

Disease prevalence in coastal and non-​coastal areas

Life expectancy and standardised mortality in coastal areas

Explaining coastal health inequalities

Coastal inequalities in the wider determinants of health: compositional effects

Coastal inequalities in the wider determinants of health: contextual effects

Future threats to coastal health

9 (Displaced) Coastal Cultures

Factors driving disconnection

The loss of traditional industries

Transient populations

Housing affordability

Gentrification.

Political disconnection

10 Public Services in Coastal Areas

Area-​based formula funding of public services in England

Estimating the relative needs of local populations

Technical challenges in estimating relative needs

Area cost adjustments

Relative needs formulae within broader resource allocation structures: the complexity of local authority funding

Variations in expenditure by category

11 Variations in Education Spending and Outcomes

Early years education

Funding for early years education

The school years

Variations in school outcomes

Does funding explain variations in educational performance?

The distribution of education funding

12 Variations in Children's Services

What are children's services?

A postcode lottery in children's services?

Funding for children's services

Variations in expenditure by type of service

Early intervention

Youth services

Special educational needs and disabilities

Variations in caseloads

Towards a new children's services formula

13 Variations in Social Care for Older People

How is adult social care funded?

Unmet need for publicly funded social care

A postcode lottery in access to adult social care?

Responding to funding shortfalls

The role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector

A role for technology in supporting adult social care?

14 Variations in Access to Health Care

NHS resource allocation

Inequalities in access to and use of healthcare services

Evidence from the 2021 Chief Medical Officer's annual report

Evidence of Integrated Care Board-​level variation in service provision

Category 2 response times

Specialised services

Dental care.

Children and young people's mental health services

Evidence of trust-​level variation: access to cancer care

Variations in organisational stress

The role of adult social care

15 (Re)connecting the Cultures of Coastal Communities

Place attachment and cultural identity

Cultural place-​making

Re-​imaging coastal communities: from cultural to creative place-​making

Who benefits?

16 Britain's Coastal Communities in Global Context

Economic performance, divergence and the 'left behind'

'Left behind' coastal communities and the periphery

The periphery, 'left behind' places and coastal communities

A coastal deficit or an issue of peripherality?

Addressing regional inequalities: some international examples

References

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Asthana, Sheena The Challenges Facing Britain's Coastal Communities

ISBN:

9781529225792

OCLC:

1593362849