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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 diversification of rural activity. The corpor

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Author:   Francesca Merlan ,  David Raftery
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
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9781921536526

ISBN 10:   1921536527
Pages:   187
Publication Date:   15 April 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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  Preliminary Pages 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  

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