New Book!
Demographic change in Australia’s rural landscapes
Demographic change in Australia’s
rural landscapes: implications for
society and the environment
Springer Landscape Series Vol. 12
Gary Luck, Digby Race and Rosemary Black (Eds.)
Jointly published by Springer and CSIRO Publishing,
Collingwood, VIC, Australia. Available September 2010
1st Edition, 388 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9652-4
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/
978-90-481-9652-4
Brief synopsis
Demographic change in rural landscapes can be broadly
characterised in two ways: i) population decline and
dissolving rural communities; and ii) amenity-led in-migration.
Yet, substantial complexity in rural land-use change underlies
these broad trends and has major implications for rural
societies and the environment. This book examines broad
and local-scale patterns of demographic change in rural
landscapes, identifies the drivers of these changes using
local case studies, and outlines the implications for rural land
management. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach
by explicitly linking demographic change with environmental,
land-use, social and economic factors. It is a valuable
resource for land managers, policy makers and researchers
interested in rural development, environmental management,
human and physical geography and rural sociology.
Landscape Series editors say …..
This volume of the Landscape Series…puts demographic
change in the centre of rural development.
…the contributing authors all make a link between
demographic change and landscape change, thus providing
valuable knowledge for landscape planners, conservationists,
demographers, and…policy makers.
The many different perspectives make the book a valuable
source for everybody interested in rural change.
This book leaves no stone unturned regarding demographic
change in rural areas.
Table of Contents
1. Patterns, drivers and implications of demographic change
in rural landscapes. 2. Amenity-led migration in rural
Australia. 3. Sea- and tree-change phenomena in Far North
Queensland, Australia. 4. Seeking trees or escaping traffic?
Socio-cultural factors and ‘tree-change’ migration in Australia.
5. Demographic change and rural nature. 6. Agricultural
areas under metropolitan threats. 7. Agricultural land
ownership change and natural resource management. 8.
Land-use planning and demographic change: mechanisms
for designing rural landscapes and communities. 9.
Demographic change and the implications for commercial
forestry: lessons from south-east Australia. 10. Why farming
families decide to maintain native biodiversity on their farms
and the implications of demographic change for conservation
policies. 11 . Immigration and multicultural place-making in
rural and regional Australia. 12. 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? 13. Doing more
for fewer: health care for declining rural communities. 14.
Staffing rural schools: a new perspective. 15. Fly-in fly-out:
the challenges of transient populations in rural landscapes.
16. Demographic change in rural Australia: future
opportunities and challenges.
Bärbel Tress, Gunther Tress, Henri Décamps
CONTACT:
A/Prof Gary Luck
Institute for Land, Water and Society
[email protected]