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The programme sets out how the Von Thunen land-use model was derived and how far this idealised land-use pattern fitted the actual agricultural land-use around early 19th-century London. The progra...mme then concentrates on one particular land-use zone, that of dairy farming, and traces the development of this zone, which primarily supplies the London market, further outwards from the city centre. It is the westward expansion which is featured most, moving to the present-day, when large areas of counties as far afield as Devon and Cornwall are now given over to producing milk and associated products for the London market. In tracing the development of the dairy belt westwards, the technological factors which have been important are considered; also the significance of policies carried out by the government-created Milk Marketing Board. The film ends by extending the concept of natural advantage to the European scale and demonstrates the virtue of producing, say, tomatoes in the South of France and milk in North Western Europe.
The programme sets out how the Von Thunen land-use model was derived and how far this idealised land-use pattern fitted the actual agricultural land-use around early 19th-century London. The progra...mme then concentrates on one particular land-use zone, that of dairy farming, and traces the development of this zone, which primarily supplies the London market, further outwards from the city centre. It is the westward expansion which is featured most, moving to the present-day, when large areas of counties as far afield as Devon and Cornwall are now given over to producing milk and associated products for the London market. In tracing the development of the dairy belt westwards, the technological factors which have been important are considered; also the significance of policies carried out by the government-created Milk Marketing Board. The film ends by extending the concept of natural advantage to the European scale and demonstrates the virtue of producing, say, tomatoes in the South of France and milk in North Western Europe.
| Module code and title: | D204, Fundamentals of human geography |
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| Item code: | D204; 09; 1982 |
| First transmission date: | 13-06-1982 |
| Published: | 1982 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:30 |
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| Producer: | Hugh Phillips |
| Contributor: | John Blunden |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Dairy farming; Human geography; Land use; Natural advantage |
| Master spool number: | HOU3303 |
| Production number: | FOUD080A |
| Videofinder number: | 17 |
| Available to public: | no |
