Rural change in Australia : population, economy, environment / edited by Rae Dufty-Jones, John Connell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dufty-Jones, Rae, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on rural policy and planning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regional planning--Australia.

Regional planning.

Social change.

Social policy.

Economic policy.

Migration, Internal.

Australia.

Migration, Internal--Australia.

Australia--Economic policy--21st century.

Australia--Social policy--21st century.

Social change--Australia.

Migration, Internal / Australia.

Regional planning / Australia.

Social change / Australia.

Australia / Economic policy / 21st century.

Australia / Social policy / 21st century.

Local Subjects:

Migration, Internal / Australia.

Regional planning / Australia.

Social change / Australia.

Australia / Economic policy / 21st century.

Australia / Social policy / 21st century.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]

Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction: twenty-first century rural Australia / John Connell and Rae Dufty-Jones

The role of gender in the migration practices and aspirations of Australian rural youth / Rae Dufty-Jones, Neil Argent, Fran Rolley and Jim Walmsley

Urban to rural elderly migration : renewing and reinventing Australia's small ruralátowns / Amanda Davies

Immigrant settlement in regional Australia : patterns and processes / Graeme Hugo

"They have no concept if what a farm is" : exploring rural change through tree change migration / Danielle Drozdzewski

Difference or equality? : settlement dilemmas on the indigenous estate / John Taylor

Challenging mining workforce practices : implications for frontline rural communities / Alison McIntosh and Kerry Carrington

Trajectories of change in rural landscapes : the end of the mixed farm? / Fiona McKenzie

Water reform in the 21st century : the changed status of Australian agriculture / Erin F. Smith and Bill Pritchard

Rural place marketing, tourism and creativity : entering the post-productivist countryside / Chris Gibson

Soft country? : rural and regional australia in country style / John Connell

"It's not just drought" : drought, rural change and more : perspectives from rural farming communities / Louise E. Askew, Meg Sherval and Pauline McGuirk

Evolving metabolic relations : nature resources and people in the hunter valley / Phil McManus

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409452041

1409452042

1409452050

9781409452058

1472403789

9781472403780

OCLC:

859061377