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Ymgyrch Diogelu Cymru Wledig:
Erthyglau o gylchrawn Cymru Wledig

Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales: 
Articles from Rural Wales Magazine

Hâf / 
Summer
2004
Landscape at the International Scale – the Significance of the European Landscape Convention
An international perspective
Hâf / 
Summer
2004
The landscapes of Wales: their rightful place in Europe
For a nation characterised by the distinctiveness of its rural life and the uniqueness of its local traditions, one would assume that the landscapes of Wales, along with their counterparts in other parts of the UK, would be acknowledged in some strategic and national context. Surprisingly this is not the case.
Hâf / 
Summer
2004
Dry Stone Walls
Historical and geological background
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2004
The Green Economy of Wales
 The full extent to which the management, use and enjoyment of the natural environment makes to the Welsh economy is now understood. Preliminary estimates of the Adfywio scheme suggest that it will have had a positive impact on the rural economy of Wales.
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2004
How long can this go on?
As turbines get bigger and spread to previously untargeted areas, and as the cumulative effect begins to strangle large areas of countryside, so more people respond adversely to this presumed passport to a greener future.
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2004
Regional Waste Plans
It is more often residential, industrial or transport planning that causes inappropriate development, and consequent heartaches in local communities, but the present large-scale waste planning for Wales and the UK could have similar consequences
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2004
If the Cap Fits
 How Wales adapts to the shift in the EU's Common Agricultural Polcy in the next decade will be a crucial question for many Welsh rural communities.
Hydref /
Autumn
2003
Y Gofalwr
Teyrnged i Merfyn Williams cyn cyfarwyddwr YDCW
Hydref /
Autumn
2003
The Living Highways Project
How an initiative in Powys is successfully addressing concerns about our roadside wildlife habitats
Hydref /
Autumn
2003
Book Review
'Heart of the Country'
by Jeremy Moore & William Condry
Hydref /
Autumn
2003
A Room with a View – Housing Policies in Rural Wales
Resolving rural housing needs - based upon the publication 'The Feasibility Study of Sustainable Housing in Rural Areas'
Hydref /
Autumn
2003
A 'City of the Valleys' A planners vision to become reality?
 The possibility of planning the valleys as a city thus perhaps aquiring the dynamism and investment that characterises conventional cities.
Hâf / 
Summer
2003
Book review: Small Rural Dwellings in Wales
publication by Cadw
Hâf / 
Summer
2003
Book review: Vernacular Gower 
A review of the publication produced by the Gower Society
Hâf / 
Summer
2003
The Monks Trodd: A path of time and place
The Monks Trodd resonates with historical, cultural, ecological and spiritual meaning and yet it is  threatened by unsustainable motorised vehicle use.
Hâf / 
Summer
2003
CPRW and Offshore Turbines
Some thoughts by Geoff Sinclair, CPRW Consultant
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2003
2002 CPRW Youth Conference
A report on the Youth Conference held at Llangollen YHA in October 2002 
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2003
Bluestone Project
A holiday village and associated leisure facilities proposed for the Pembrokeshire Coast national Park  There have been numerous objections to this proposal, the main grounds are that the project is in conflict with the Joint Unitary Development Plan of the Pembrokeshire National Park. 
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2003
The Myth has exploded
A critical review of the 'Myths and Legends' section in respect of renewable energy enumbrated in the Final Report on Renewable Energy from the Welsh Assembly's Economic Development Committee
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2003
Cymru Solar - the Wales Solar Network 
A review of the Welsh solar resource and the emergence of the Cymru Solar network of solar thermal practitioners
Hydref /
Autumn
2002
Renewable Heat in Bavaria and Upper Austria
A report on the Wales OPET Cymru Study Trip to Bavaria and Upper Austria. 
Hydref /
Autumn
2002
How to cook up a kerbside recycling project
How does a community group form, fund itself, develop and flourish? CPRW member Vic Warren shares his experience of an environmental community group in South-east Wales.
Hydref /
Autumn
2002
Gone With the Wind
'The love of landscape which people cherish as the ultimate value in their lives is under threat of being blown away by the production of one form of energy.'

Hydref /
Autumn
2002
Trusting in the future
"To inspire the present and future generations to gain understanding and enjoyment of the historical environment through excellence and innovative work in conservation, education and interpretation
"

National Trust - Strategic Plan for Wales

Hâf / 
Summer
2002
Wales' Russian Dolls'
The recent publication of Planning Policy Wales (PPW) and the consultation on 'Planning: Delivering for Wales' reveal how the National Assembly is ploughing its own furrow in public policy-making especially in terms of Land Use Planning.
Hâf / 
Summer
2002

AONB Cycleway Rejected in the Wye Valley
A review of the issues and the reasons behind the rejection

Hâf / 
Summer
2002

The Pyramid and 'The Broad and Shallow'
A brief summary of a discussion paper by Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link proposing an extension to Tir Gofal.

Hâf / 
Summer
2002
Montgomeryshire Rural Enterprises (MRE)
CPRW was told that, at the end of March, Carwyn Jones, AM and Minister for Rural Affairs, would be visiting Montgomeryshire at the invitation of Montgomeryshire Rural Enterprises. We had been hearing about this group of farmers for some time and so we sent our Assistant Director, Jenny Smith, along to find out more.

Hâf / 
Summer
2002
How do you see the future of farming in Wales in the context of the mid-term review of CAP reform? 
– we asked the Unions
Hâf / 
Summer
2002
What size the CAP? 
Splitting the CAP subsidies in new directions, in the context of a reduced EU agricultural budget.
Gwanwyn/
Spring 2001
CPRW Youth Conference 2001
CPRW's annual youth conference held in Aberystwyth in November 2001. The theme was planning, its process and implications. 
Hydref /
Autumn
2001
Jewels of the West
The  islands of west Pembrokeshire.
Hâf /
Summer
2001
The Presely Hills
An account of the historic landscape of the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire.
Hâf /
Summer
2001
Gelligaer Common 
An account of the ancient area of 'Senghenyth' comprising the strip of land between the rivers Rhymney and Taff.
Hâf /
Summer
2001
Elenydd
An account of the historic landscape of Elenydd in Mid Wales.
Hâf /
Summer
2001
Hiraethog
An account of the historic landscape of the Hiraethog moors in North-east Wales.
Hâf /
Summer
2001
Garreg Hir 
Description of the historic landscape of Garreg Hir forming part of Montgomeryshire's Western Uplands Special Landscape Area.
Gwanwyn/
Spring
2001
Landscape or Sustainability?
Must we agree blindly to all that is green and support it at all costs?
Hydref / Autumn
2000
The Millennium Tractor
Converting waste cooking oil into 'bio-diesel'
Hydref / Autumn
2000

A New Tradition
A description of cottage development in Newport Pembs. in accord with CPRW's 'The Cottage Tradition' ideas.

Hydref / Autumn
2000
A New Look by John Lloyd Jones O.B.E., Chairman of the Countryside Council for Wales

Land use and attitude changes and their effect on the environment as seen in past generations of his own family in the Dysynni Valley in Meirionydd. 
Hydref / Autumn
2000
Wind Turbine Development
Fact Sheet
provides the framework for CPRW's opposition to the current method of deployment of wind turbines.
Hâf /
Summer
2000

Walking for CPRW or........Why the Farmer and the Rambler Should Be Friends
Walking tourism can contribute to economic development and the objectives of CPRW

Gwanwyn/
Spring 2000
Think Local, Trade Global by Merfyn Williams
An explanation of how the activities of the 
World Trade Organisation affect what is 
actually happening in the Welsh countryside.
Gwanwyn/
Spring 2000 
 Population Trends and Housing Needs 
by Professor Arthur Thomasson, Chairman 
Pembrokeshire Branch
A contribution to the debate on the forecasting and provision of housing in Mid and West Wales
 Gwanwyn/
Spring 2000 
 Sustainability Corner -not a pin in site!
by Claire Morgan

Real Nappies (washables) as an ideal subject to promote in terms of sustainability and Agenda 21. 
www.cprw.org.uk/magartcl/artind.htm   24/3/00