Tracking rural change community, policy and technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe

A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversifica...

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Otros Autores: Merlan, Francesca (-), Raftery, David
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press 2009.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The rural future in Australia and New Zealand: mapping the terrain of rural change / Francesca Merlan and David Raftery
  • Rurality and rural space: the 'policy effect' of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Borders of Scotland / John Gray
  • Has Australia's administrative heritage maintained a culture of agrarian dependency? / Ian Gray
  • The role of agrarian sentiment in Australian rural policy / Linda Botterill
  • Wildlife, wilderness and the politics of alternative land use: an Australian ethnography / Adrian Peace
  • Land tenure and identity in the New Zealand high country / Carolyn Morris
  • Moving to the country for a graduated retirement: constructing new meaningful lives / Lesley Hunt
  • Intergenerational transitions in rural Western Australia: an issue for sustainability? / Daniela Stehlik
  • Under the regulatory radar? Nanotechnologies and their impacts for rural Australia / Kristen Lyons and Gyorgy Scrinis
  • Conclusion / Francesca Merlan and David Raftery.