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2001

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 crime in Australia: contemporary concerns, recent research and future directions

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Jobes, Patrick C.; Barclay, Elaine; Donnermeyer, Joseph F.; Graycar, Adam
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol.7, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.anzrsai.org/system/files/f8/f4/f32/f35/o194//Jobes%20et%20al.pdf ....

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 failure: The linkage between policy and lobbies

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: William P
  • Journal Name: Policy Studies Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol.29, No.1
  • Publisher: Policy Studies Organization
  • Published Location: Washington, United States
  • Country: United States

The failure of a national rural policy is a complex phenomenon. Suffice to say that such policy never emerged, despite frequent appearances on the presidential agenda. Browne examines the reasons why no sustained rural lobby was ever created independent of farm interests. The circular explanation finds that lobbies fail to develop in th ....

Rural policy and direct local participation: Democracy, inclusiveness, collective agency, and locality-based policy

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Swanson, Louis E
  • Journal Name: Rural Sociology
  • Journal Number: Vol.66, No.1
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Published Location: Columbia, United Kingdom
  • Country: United States, Mexico

During the closing decades of the twentieth century, the federal government has experienced a period of delegitimation and fiscal crisis that has led to decentralization of some federal programs and a fledgling revival of community- and place-based policies. Historic and recent records of locality-based policies suggest that they are not pan ....

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 ....

Small area population disease burden

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Taylor, Richard
  • Journal Name: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.25, No.4
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Small area health statistics has assumed increasing importance as the focus of population and public health moves to a more individualised approach of smaller area populations. Small populations and low event occurrence produce difficulties in interpretation and require appropriate statistical methods, including ....

Small town decline and survival: trends, causes and policy issues

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Collits, P
  • Editors: Rogers, M. F. and Collins, Y. M. J.
  • Journal Name: The future of Australia's country towns
  • Publisher: Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University
  • Published Location: Bendigo, Vic
  • ISBN: 1864465352
  • Country: Australia

This paper addresses the economic issues surrounding small town decline and government policy. The author discusses the perceived causes of the decline of small towns and examines the case for government assistance. He concludes that small town policy is only one aspect of broader regional policy, and that the real question for gov ....

Small town renewal: overview and case studies: a report for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Centre for Social Research, Edith Cowan University; Centre for Small Town Development
  • Editors: Kenyon, P; Black, A
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642582653
  • Country: Australia

Although long term economic, technological and social factors have resulted in the decline of many small inland towns in Australia, other such towns have successfully implemented a range of survival and revival strategies. This has resulted in positive outcomes for residents in terms of quality of life and economic opportunities. T ....

Social enterprise: partnership for sustainable change

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Simons, R
  • Journal Name: National Social Policy Conference 2001 - Papers
  • Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales, Western Australia

This paper addresses social enterprises as strategies for engaging community resources for sustainable change. In this context, the negotiation of indicators of change in communities and agreement on the indirect and cumulative signs of sustainable progress become critical components for effective risk management as well as for sus ....

Social indicators of rural community sustainability: an example from the Woady Yaloak catchment

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Pepperdine, S
  • Editors: Rogers, M. F. and Coffins, Y. M. J.
  • Journal Name: The future of Australia's country towns
  • Publisher: Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University
  • Published Location: Bendigo, Vic
  • ISBN: 1864465352
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The author states that successful planning for sustainable rural development must balance and integrate ecological, economic and social elements within a community but there are difficulties in identifying locally meaningful social indicators. In this paper she draws on the findings of a project based in the Woady Yaloak catchment ....

STATE OF THE REGIONS REPORT 2001-02: LEARNING REGIONS

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: National Economics
  • Journal Name: State of the Regions
  • Journal Number: 4
  • Publisher: Australian Local Government Association
  • Country: Australia

The theme of the 2001-02 State of the Regions report is jobs and learning regions. The prime concern is how well Australian regions are positioned to capture the economic development and employment benefits from the emergence of the knowledge-based or learning economy. Report Locationhttp://alga.asn.au/?ID=360&Menu=44,68,330 ....

Subsurface drainage design and management practices in irrigated areas of Australia

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Christen EW; Hornbuckle JW
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 095795820X
  • Country: Australia

The final report of a project to investigate best management practices for sub-surface drainage design and management summarises and compares current practices across Australia. The report includes details of practices in eleven irrigation regions around Australia: Burdekin River Irrigation Area Qld, Emerald Irrigation Area Qld, Ke ....

Sustainable development options on Aboriginal land: the hybrid economy in the twenty-first century

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Altman, J C
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0731556011
  • Country: Australia

The author of this paper outlines the economic development problem that is faced by Indigenous people living on Aboriginal land in remote and regional Australia; describes the hybrid economy, made up of market, state and customary components, that is a distinctive feature of such situations; and argues that a big part of the develo ....

Tele-education: a collaborative project in the delivery of mental health education in rural Victoria.

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Fahey, A; Gelber, H
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Findings from the Training Needs Survey in Children's Mental Health project, presented in this paper, were used to form the basis of the Children's Mental Health Tele-Education Program. The program targeted allied health workers employed in child and family agencies in the Loddon Southern Mallee Region, Victoria, and was developed ....

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