Rural Revival?: Place Marketing, Tree Change and Regional Migration in Australia

by Phil McManus, John Connell, Henry Buller, Owen Furuseth, Andrew W Gilg

Overview

How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas? Examining this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, this book explores how a particular organization, 'Country Week', has emerged and developed as one means of stimulating the repopulation of declining or stagnating areas. While this is a problem shared by many other developed countries in Europe and North America, Australia's 'Country Week' programme puts forward an innovative range of place-marketing strategies that challenge rural decline and urban migration and can offer new approaches which could be adopted more widely.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409490074
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Series:	Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

John Connell is Professor at the School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, Australia and Phil McManus is Associate Professor at the School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Rural revival?; Leaving the city; Country week; Strategies: 'in it to win it'; A place on the map?; Going to the show; Taking to the country; The good resident; Living the dream? A retrospective; Bibliography; Index.