Research to Define and Measure Rural Wellbeing

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is commissioning research to define and measure Rural Wellbeing and then determine the feasibility of using this research to develop a "rural wellbeing toolkit" to help evaluators to assess the impact of policies upon rural areas. While measures for wellbeing do currently exist, they are not premised upon factors of particular importance to rural communities (e.g. access to services; cultural capital; environment). This limits the extent to which policy...