Sustainability and Change in Rural AustraliaChris Cocklin, Jacqui Dibden By addressing themes such as social and economic change, government policy and gender relations, this volume tackles the thematic complexities of sustainability. At the heart of this discussion lies a desire to understand how small rural communities have survived in the past; how they are shaped by environmental, economic and social factors at present; and how these factors will impact on their survival in the future. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Rural communities and sustainability | 20 |
Rural sustainability in historical perspective | 38 |
The state of rural populations | 56 |
The changing social framework 80 | 80 |
ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY RURAL AUSTRALIA | 103 |
The changing economics of rural communities | 121 |
Gender perspectives in Australian rural community life | 139 |
Common terms and phrases
aged agriculture argued Australian Bureau Australian rural Burch capacity cent centres challenge chapter Charles Sturt University cities clusters coastal Cocklin & Alston Commonwealth community development country towns cultural decline Dibden ecological economic and social employment environment environmental example factors families farmers future gender global globalisation groups growth Guyra Hugo human capital impact important income increased Indigenous Indigenous Australians individual industry inland institutions issues labour land Landcare leadership loss masculinity Melbourne ment Narrogin natural capital natural environment natural resource neoliberal nities non-metropolitan areas non-metropolitan Australia organisations population problems processes production programs remote restructuring Richard Stayner role rural areas rural Australia rural communities salinity settlement significant Smailes small towns social capital social exclusion society South Australia South Wales spatial Stayner strategies structures sustainability of rural tion Tonts trends Tumbarumba urban areas variables Wagga Wagga Wagga Western Australia women young