Demographic Change in Australia's Rural Landscapes Implications for Society and the Environment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Luck, Gary W. (Editor), Black, Rosemary. (Editor), Race, Digby. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Landscape Series, 12
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Landscape ecology.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Demography.; Life Sciences.; Landscape Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Management.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9654-8

Throughout history, humans have lived primarily in rural landscapes. In 2008, for the first time, the global population became predominantly urban. While much research has focussed on the impacts of increasing urbanisation, we have very little knowledge of the implications of these changes for rural...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Patterns, drivers and implications of demographic change in rural landscapes; Digby Race, Gary W Luck, Rosemary Black
• 2. Amenity-led migration in rural Australia: A new driver of local demographic and environmental change?; Neil Argent, Matthew Tonts, Roy Jones, John Holmes
• 3. Sea- and tree-change phenomena in Far North Queensland, Australia: Impacts of land use change and mitigation potential; Iris C. Bohnet, Nicky Moore
• 4. Seeking trees or escaping traffic? Socio-cultural factors and <U+0018>tree-change<U+0019> migration in Australia; Angela T Ragusa
• 5. Demographic change and rural nature; Gary W Luck
• 6. Agricultural areas under metropolitan threats: Lessons for Perth from Barcelona; Valeri ̉Pa<U+00fc>l, Fiona Haslam McKenzie
• 7. Agricultural land ownership change and natural resource management: Comparing Australian and US case studies; Emily Mendham, Hannah Gosnell, Allan Curtis
• 8. Land-use planning and demographic change: Mechanisms for designing rural landscapes and communities; Joanne Millar
• 9. Demographic change and the implications for commercial forestry: Lessons from south-east Australia; Hugh T L Stewart, Digby Race, Allan Curtis
• 10. Why farming families decide to maintain native biodiversity on their farms and the implications of demographic change for conservation policies; Quentin Farmar-Bowers
• 11 . Immigration and multicultural place-making in rural and regional Australia; Kirrily Jordan, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Jock Collins
• 12. Too bad to stay or too good to leave? Two generations of women with a farming background <U+0013> what is their attitude regarding the sustainability of the Australian family farm?; Ingrid Muenstermann
• 13. Doing more for fewer: Health care for declining rural communities; Ann Larson
• 14. Staffing rural schools: A new perspective; Colin Boylan
• 15. Fly-in fly-out: The challenges of transient populations in rural landscapes; Fiona Haslam McKenzie
• 16. Demographic change in rural Australia: Future opportunities and challenges; Gary W Luck, Rosemary Black, Digby Race.