Rural poverty
How’s your rural health?
Author / Creator: Scottish Rural Action
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
There is wide diversity of rural inequality across the social and health care spectrum.
Inquiry into Poverty in Rural Scotland
Author / Creator: Cross Party Group on Poverty
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
The cost of living in rural Scotland is significantly higher than in urban Scotland, often with precarious, low-paid and seasonal employment, and compounded by trends of depopulation and demographic change.
Finance and the Growing UrbanRural Divide
Author / Creator: Samuel MacKinnon
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2019
The rural economy is subject to more frequent, cyclical crises, as well as problems in areas such as land and resource management.
Carbon-free, Poverty-free
Author / Creator: Keith Baker Dr Ron Mould Dr Craig Dalzell Jonathon Shafi
Media type: Report
Date published: 2019
Fuel poverty is not only worse in rural Scotland than in urban Scotland, it also has different characteristics
Carbon-Free, Povetery-Free: Heating Options for Rural Scotland
Author / Creator: Ron Mould, Craig Dalzell, Jonathan Shafi
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Fuel poverty is not only worse in rural Scotland than in urban Scotland, it also has different characteristics. Fuel poverty plays a much larger role in rural poverty than in urban poverty. By far the biggest driver of this fuel poverty is not being on the gas grid.