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Demographic Change in Australia's Rural Landscapes

Implications for Society and the Environment

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Editors:
  1. Gary W. Luck

    1. Inst. Land, Water & Society (ILWS), Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

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  2. Rosemary Black

    1. Inst. Land, Water & Society (ILWS), Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

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  3. Digby Race

    1. Inst. Land, Water & Society (ILWS), Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

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  • Integrated interdisciplinary approach Focus on rural landscapes Implications for planning policy

Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 12)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Patterns, Drivers and Implications of Demographic Change in Rural Landscapes

    • Digby Race, Gary W. Luck, Rosemary Black
    Pages 1-22

  3. Amenity-Led Migration in Rural Australia: A New Driver of Local Demographic and Environmental Change?

    • Neil Argent, Matthew Tonts, Roy Jones, John Holmes
    Pages 23-44

  4. Sea- and Tree-Change Phenomena in Far North Queensland , Australia: Impacts of Land Use Change and Mitigation Potential

    • Iris C. Bohnet, Nicky Moore
    Pages 45-69

  5. Seeking Trees or Escaping Traffic? Socio-Cultural Factors and ‘Tree-Change’ Migration in Australia

    • Angela T. Ragusa
    Pages 71-99

  6. Demographic Change and Rural Nature

    • Gary W. Luck
    Pages 101-123

  7. Agricultural Areas Under Metropolitan Threats: Lessons for Perth from Barcelona

    • Valerià Paül, Fiona Haslam McKenzie
    Pages 125-152

  8. Agricultural Land Ownership Change and Natural Resource Management: Comparing Australian and US Case Studies

    • Emily Mendham, Hannah Gosnell, Allan Curtis
    Pages 153-187

  9. Land-Use Planning and Demographic Change: Mechanisms for Designing Rural Landscapes and Communities

    • Joanne Millar
    Pages 189-206

  10. Demographic Change and the Implications for Commercial Forestry: Lessons from South-East Australia

    • Hugh T. L. Stewart, Digby Race, Allan Curtis
    Pages 207-231

  11. Why Farming Families Decide to Maintain Native Biodiversity on Their Farms and the Implications of Demographic Change for Conservation Policies

    • Quentin Farmar-Bowers
    Pages 233-257

  12. Immigration and Multicultural Place-Making in Rural and Regional Australia

    • Kirrily Jordan, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Jock Collins
    Pages 259-280

  13. Too Bad to Stay or Too Good to Leave? Two Generations of Women with a Farming Background – What is Their Attitude Regarding the Sustainability of the Australian Family Farm?

    • Ingrid Muenstermann
    Pages 281-305

  14. Doing More for Fewer: Health Care for Declining Rural Communities

    • Ann Larson
    Pages 307-327

  15. Staffing Rural Schools: A New Perspective

    • Colin Boylan
    Pages 329-351

  16. Fly-In Fly-Out: The Challenges of Transient Populations in Rural Landscapes

    • Fiona Haslam McKenzie
    Pages 353-374

  17. Demographic Change in Rural Australia: Future Opportunities and Challenges

    • Gary W. Luck, Rosemary Black, Digby Race
    Pages 375-384

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 385-387
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About this book

The distribution and re-distribution of people across the landscape has signi cant implications for ecological, economic and social dynamics. Movement of people to urban centres (mostly from rural landscapes, especially in the developing world) is a major global phenomenon. This can result in the de-population of rural landscapes. Conversely, population growth and a changing demographic pro le have been id- ti ed for particular rural landscapes with notable examples from North America, Europe and Australia. Yet we know little of the factors that drive demographic changes in rural landscapes and even less about the implications of these changes. This book examines broad and local-scale patterns of demographic change in rural landscapes, identi es some of the drivers of these changes using Australian case studies or comparisons between Australian and international contexts, and outlines the implications of changes for society and the environment. This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature because it adopts an integrated and interdisciplinary approach by explicitly linking demographic change with environmental, land-use, social and economic factors. This integrated approach was achieved by encouraging interaction among authors writing on similar topics to ensure coherency and complementarity among chapters, and cross-pollination of ideas and perspectives. Chapters are presented as interactive and re ective d- cussions that address the ndings of other contributors; yet, each chapter contains enough background to stand alone as a unique contribution.

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“A valuable and highly informative collection which examines contemporary population dynamics in rural Australia, identifying some of the drivers of demographic change using case studies or international comparisons, and exploring the implications for rural areas, their residents and communities. … a timely volume which will be of great interest to students, researchers, policy makers and planners from a wide range of disciplines, and those simply with an interest in the future of rural Australia, its people, communities and land.” (Frances Rolley, Journal of Population Research, Vol. 29, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Land, Water & Society (ILWS), Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

    Gary W. Luck, Rosemary Black, Digby Race

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