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1. Introduction : twenty-first century rural Australia / John Connell and Rae Dufty-Jones -- 2. The role of gender in the migration practices and aspirations of Australian rural youth / Rae Dufty-Jones. [and more] -- 3. Urban to rural elderly migration : renewing and reinventing Australia's small ruralatowns / Amanda Davies -- 4. Immigrant settlement in regional Australia : patterns and processes / Graeme Hugo -- 5. "They have no concept if what a farm is" : exploring rural change through tree change migration / Danielle Drozdzewski -- 6. Difference or equality? : settlement dilemmas on the indigenous estate / John Taylor -- 7. Challenging mining workforce practices : implications for frontline rural communities / Alison McIntosh and Kerry Carrington -- 8. Trajectories of change in rural landscapes : the end of the mixed farm? / Fiona McKenzie -- 9. Water reform in the 21st century : the changed status of Australian agriculture / Erin F. Smith and Bill Pritchard -- 10. Rural place marketing, tourism and creativity : entering the post-productivist countryside / Chris Gibson -- 11. Soft country? : rural and regional australia in country style / John Connell -- 12. 'Not just drought' : drought, rural change and more : perspectives from rural farming communities / Louise E. Askew, Meg Sherval and Pauline McGuirk -- 13. Evolving metabolic relations : nature resources and people in the hunter valley / Phil McManus.

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 globalization 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.

"This book focuses on three multi-faceted aspects of rural sustainability: farms and farming, the remaking of rural communities and rural spaces, and policy and action in rural development. The research is focused on three global regions: North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Australia."--back cover

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Agricultural Cooperatives in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 1.3 Conceptual Framework -- 1.4 Data and Field Work -- 1.5 Organization of the Study -- 2 Spread -- 2.1 Submission, Separation and Integration (1896-1945) -- 2.2 Introduction of Agricultural Service Cooperatives in African Areas -- 2.3 Euphoria and Consolidation Policies (1963-72) -- 2.4 Supply Side Strategies and Penetration of Marginal Areas (1973-83) -- 3 Survival -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A Conceptual Note -- 3.3 Survival 1946-62 -- 3.4 Survival 1963-70 -- 3.5 Survival 1971-83 -- 4 Performance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Some Basic Features -- 4.3 Coffee -- 4.4 Cotton -- 4.5 Pyrethrum -- 4.6 Dairy -- 4.7 Other Marketing Activities -- 4.8 Unions -- 5 Impact -- 5.1 Scope of Participation -- 5.2 Source of Participation -- 6 Summary and Conclusions -- 6.1 Summary -- 6.2 Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Rural areas are changing" is the favorite quote of rural studies in the last few decades. Although this is the fact, current dynamics in rural areas have become the challenging research topic. The diversity and uniqueness of rural areas, the difficulty to define and classify them due to the last transformations occurred, have led researchers to focus on case-study specific changes. This new dynamism in rural areas can be caused by internal factors (e.i. assets of a given rural region), external factors (e.i. national politics) or their combination. It is certain that the dominant indicators and their impacts on the rural change differ according to the unique features of rural areas. Nevertheless, it is worthy to define common points which have already created great shifts or are able to create further that give new role to rural areas in the global scene. Therefore, in this study, we try to classify the rural changes and we offer a typology of this regeneration which is followed with a SWOT analysis on the basis of the possible and current effects of these changes on rural capital.