In the early to mid-2000s the Washington DC Metropolitan Area and other urban and suburban area around the country experienced rapid growth in new home construction largely due to the low home...

Design and Operation of Public Water Systems
Design and Operation of Public Water Systems

Resistance to change is a natural reaction. It requires new ways of thinking and
doing and is often uncomfortable. People have trouble perceiving what life will
look like on the other side of a change. So they have the tendency to cling to the
known rather than em
ace the unknown. Change causes anxiety and uncertainty.
The range of reactions to change is often unpredictable. People are afraid of the
ambiguity that may set in their lives as change threatens to modify established
patterns of working relationships of different components in society. But change is
inevitable. Globalization, economic restructuring, migration and policy changes
have its implications on people and different areas for that matter. Many rural areas
are now growing faster than u
an areas. But the economic and social processes
associated with it are not well accepted by local people. They consider it as an
invasion.
A truly rural area is the one in which a farmer is able to make his living off the
land. Now this definition is changing. In recent years, the grand scale sub-u
an
development has pervaded places like Loudoun, Prince William, Cam
idge,
Fauquier etc. It has completely changed or is in the process of changing the
topography of those areas. Farmlands and open spaces have been taken over by
swanky houses, schools, roads etc. One of the main reasons for this development
has been migration of people from u
an to semi-u
an and rural areas. The serene
ambience coupled with good communication facilities and a...