Book chapter
Water reform in the 21st century: the changed status of Australian agriculture
Rural Change in Australia: Population, Economy, Environment, pp.169-186
Ashgate Publishing Company
2014
Abstract
New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia. They range from ageing populations, youth out-migration, immigration policies (that seek to place skilled migrants in rural Australia), tree changers, agricultural restructuring and new relationships with indigenous populations. Challenges also exist around the 'patchwork economy' and the wealth that the mining boom offers some areas, while threatening regional economic decline in others. Rural Australia is increasingly not simply a place of production of agriculture and minerals but an idea that individuals seek and are encouraged to consume. The socio-economic implications of drought, water rights and changing farming practices, have prefaced new social, cultural and economic reforms. This book provides a contemporary perspective on rapidly evolving population, economic and environmental changes in 'rural and regional Australia', itself a significant concept. Bringing together a range of empirical studies, the book builds on established rural studies themes such as population change, economic restructuring and globalisation in agriculture but links such changes to environmental change, culture, class, gender, and ethnic diversity. Presenting original and in-depth interventions on these issues and their intersections, this book assembles the best of contemporary research on rural Australia. [Book Synopsis]
Details
- Title
- Water reform in the 21st century: the changed status of Australian agriculture
- Authors
- Erin F Smith (Author) - University of SydneyBill Pritchard (Author) - University of Sydney
- Contributors
- R Dufty-Jones (Editor)J Connell (Editor)
- Publication details
- Rural Change in Australia: Population, Economy, Environment, pp.169-186
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Company
- Date published
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9781409452058
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2014 Ashgate Publishing Company. Reproduced here with permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449911002621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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