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Regional Innovation Policy of South Korea Compared With, and Learning From, The EU

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Haknoh Kim
  • Country: Korea

This paper compares regional innovation policy of the Roh Moo-hyun administration, or so-called the "participatory government," of South Korea with that of the EU (European Union), with a view to drawing some lessons from the latter for the former. Since regional innovation policy of the participatory government has too short a period of time to ....

Resilience and Innovation in Indigenous Communities

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Scott, Pennie; Lovett, Anwen
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • Country: Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia, India

The on‐line searches will include case studies of positive examples from around the world. Direct contacts will be made with leaders and principals of the selected case studies, to have conversations with them and learn of the nuances which occurred and as part of the process of development, which will be on‐going. • Contact and dialogue wi ....

Resilience and Well-being of Small Inland Communities: Community Assets as Key Determinants

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Maybery, Darryl; Pope, Rodney; Hodgins, Gene; Hitchenor, Yvonne; Shepherd, Amanda
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 19, No. 4
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Introduction: The current climatic conditions and ongoing changes in the farming sector constitute stressful circumstances that impact on the well-being of many Australian rural communities. In these circumstances, small towns and communities are at particular risk due to their relative isolation from services and resources. Howeve ....

Resilience to Climate Change Impacts: A Review of Flood Mitigation Policy in Queensland, Australia: Based on Case Studies of Flood Events in 2008

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Thomas, Melanie; King, David; Keogh, Diane U; Apan, Armando; Mushtaq, Shahbaz
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Emergency Management, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 26, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

The vulnerability of cities to inundation from the impacts of climate change associated with the increased inter-annual variability associated with extreme weather events has been highlighted in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Predictions of an increased intensity of rainfall are likely to result in subse ....

Resilience, adaptation and adaptability

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Pike A, Dawley S, Tomaney J
  • Journal Name: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.3, No.1
  • Country: United Kingdom

The resilience of places in response to uncertain, volatile and rapid change has emerged as a focus of academic and policy attention. This paper aims to contribute to understanding and explaining the resilience of places. Drawing upon evolutionary Economic Geography, the concepts of adaptation and adaptability are developed in a framework based u ....

Rising above a crisis: Resilience processes and community well-being

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Goguen Campbell, Monique
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494820070
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: Newfoundland, Labrador

Background. The closure of the North Atlantic cod fishery in 1992 has had devastating economic, social and health impacts on coastal communities in Newfoundland and Labrador. However, considerable variability in adaptation has been noted between communities that were formally dependant on the fishery. Aim. This thesis builds on pre ....

Rural and remote environments and health

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Farley, R
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference, Canberra
  • Country: Australia

What is a healthy community? In addressing this question the author argues that a healthy community is one that grows in a sustainable and equitable way and that the core issue is how to manage change in relation to landscape, employment and population in rural and remote communities. Issues which should constitute an agenda for a ....

Rural Communities and Rural Social Issues: Priorities for Research

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Black, A; Duff, J; Saggers, S; Baines, P; Jennings, A; Bowen, P
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642581606
  • Country: Australia

This report deals with priorities for research into rural communities and rural social issues. The report is based on an extensive literature review, together with information derived from a survey of policy-making agencies and researchers, as well as discussion at a national workshop held in Canberra on 19 May 1999. Issues reviewe ....

Rural decline and innovation: issues within issues

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Banks, Robert
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Journal Number: Vol.36, No.2
  • Country: Australia

Examines political and ideological dispute, as well as potential remedies, relevant to the social problem of regional dislocation in Australia. Urban-rural divide in income terms according to Robert Manne; Core issue behind declining farm income; Important facts about the decline in rural income and the urban-rural divide; Potential general respo ....

Rural Health Systems Change

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Harvey, Peter
  • Journal Name: Environmental Health
  • Journal Number: Vol. 5, No. 4
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

Much effort has been expended in recent years attempting to reform the Australian health system in order to deliver more efficient and effective systems of care for an ageing and increasingly chronically ill population. Rural health care systems in particular have been a focus of reform programs, and new initiatives such as Univers ....

Rural resilience: youth 'making a life' in regions of high unemployment

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Abbott-Chapman, Joan
  • Journal Name: Youth Studies Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol.20, No.3
  • Country: Australia

Examines rural families' social capital and resilience based on the studies of education and training in rural schools in northern Tasmania. Attitude of school leavers and their teachers toward post-compulsory school participation; Influence of parents and family on post-school choices; Overview of a study on Year 10 leavers in rural schools. R ....

Rural Support Program Progress Report 2012-2013

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Rural Support Program
  • Publisher: NSW Department of Primary Industries
  • ISBN: 978 1 74256 515 6
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Our vision is to have resilient rural communities across NSW, driving social and economic change. With this goal in mind, over the past year, we have worked with our partner organisations on a variety of programs. Together we have delivered services to build community capacity, assisted communities to prepare for and manage advers ....

Science for decision makers: rural lifestyle landholders: implications for rural policy makers, natural resource managers and communicators

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Aslin H
  • Publisher: Australian Bureau of Rural Sciences
  • Published Location: Canberra
  • Country: Australia

Rural policy makers, natural resource managers and communicators need to be aware of the nature of rural landholders, including the many rural lifestyle landholders in the more densely settled and better serviced parts of rural Australia. These kinds of rural landholders are variously referred to by terms like hobby farmers, peri-u ....

Sea change: re-inventing rural and regional Australia

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Murphy, Peter
  • Journal Name: Transformations (Online)
  • Journal Number: 2
  • Country: Australia

The ABC’s popular SeaChange series has re-popularised the idyll of getting away from big city pressures to high amenity rural and small town settings on the Australian coastline and in select inland localities usually within striking distance of the big cities. This paper addresses: the changing relationships between city and hinterland tha ....

Skilled Labour Migration Flows to Australia's Northern Territory 2001-2006: Beyond Periphery?

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Dean Carson
  • Journal Name: AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LABOUR ECONOMICS
  • Journal Number: 14.1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

This research describes the Australian domestic skilled labour migration system as recorded at the 2006 Census, and specifically examines the role of the Northern Territory within that system. The international literature suggests that most labour migration conforms to core-periphery (CP) patterns, although there is evidence that other structures ....

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