ABSTRACT
The arts reflect the rapid changes happening in rural areas, and are responding to that change in many practical ways. People working in the field of environmental heritage recognise the need for joined-up global thinking about world environmental problems, which comes to affect everyone eventually. Environmental problems on a global scale have necessitated a constant rethinking about connections around the world, such that there is nowhere that can remain insulated from the effects of weather changes. Weather-watching is a stereotypically British obsession. The combined resources of art, heritage and education can be brought to bear in training people's powers of invention to cope with the effects of climate change. The chapter deals with some of the ways in which art or art projects and institutions in the rural or the countryside environment have been engaged in regeneration, or been invoked as agents of regeneration.
