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2011

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 ....

Responding to Australia's regional skill shortages through regional skilled migration

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Cameron, Roslyn
  • Journal Name: Journal of Economic & Social Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 14, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

Skill shortages in regional Australia are having a profound effect upon regional sustainability and renewal. The causes and drivers of skill shortages involve a complex interplay between macroeconomic trends and proximal causes. This paper draws together recent policy initiatives and research on skill shortages in the Australian co ....

Responding to Rural Health Needs through Community Participation: Addressing the Concerns of Children and Young Adults

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Jeffery, Vivienne; Ervin, Kaye
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

A small rural health service undertook a major needs analysis in 2008 to identify gaps in service delivery and duplication of services. This exercise was intended to inform strategic direction but the result was consumer and community consultation and outcomes that far exceeded everyone's expectations. Organisations often pay lip s ....

Restructuring of Land and Community in the Remote Rural West: The Case of Wallowa County, Oregon

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Abrams, J.B.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Oregon State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Oregon
  • ISBN: 9781124762111
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Oregon

Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created material ....

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 ageing-in-place: community connectedness, health and wellbeing - an opportunity for new technologies?

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Feist, Helen Ruth; Parker, Kelly Lyn; Howard, Natasha Jayne; Hugo, Graeme John
  • Journal Name: Public Health Bulletin South Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol.8, No.1
  • Publisher: Department of Health
  • Country: Australia

The Linking Rural Older People to Community through Technology project (the project) aims to improve access and connection to the wider community for older Australians in rural and remote locations through the use of new communication technologies. The focus on community connectedness is framed within a demographic and geographical perspective, p ....

Rural medical workforce distribution programs and policies

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Deloitte
  • Publisher: Deloitte Access Economics
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

An underlying principle of current Australian Government health strategy is to achieve a health sector workforce that is distributed to achieve equitable health care and outcomes for all Australians, regardless of location. Report LocationClick here to view the full publication ....

Rural Regional Innovation: A Response to Metropolitan-framed Place-based Thinking in the United States

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Dabson, Brian
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 1
  • Country: United States

The purposes of this paper are to examine the origins of the place-based policy initiative introduced by the Obama Administration and the implications of this approach to rural America, and so provide a framework for emerging thinking in the United States around the idea of 'rural regional innovation'. The paper begins by discussin ....

Rural Research and Development Corporations

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781740373449
  • Country: Australia

Key points • Through the Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs), rural industries and the Australian Government together invest some $490 million a year in R&D. • This co-investment model has important strengths, including: helping to ensure that public money is not spent on research of little practical value; and facilitati ....

Scoping Study - Mining and Coal Seam Gas Development

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Parsons Brinckerhoff
  • Publisher: Regional Development Australia: Darling Downs and South West Queensland
  • Published Location: Towoomba, Qld
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

RDA DD&SW commissioned Parsons Brinckerhoff to complete a desktop study that would provide information that could be used by all levels of government and key stakeholder groups within the region to better inform debate and policy decision making in relation to the resource development occurring within our region. Report Locationhttp://www.r ....

Security: Fraud in regional and remote Australia

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Jorna, Penny
  • Journal Name: Government News
  • Journal Number: Vol. 31, No. 4
  • Country: Australia

A variety of fraud risks arise with the work of government agencies in regional and remote communities, writes Penny Jorna. Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=456279495594688;res=IELHSS ....

SEGRA 2011 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Year: 2011
  • Journal Name: SEGRA 2011 ‘Promoting Regional Australia: regions and their cities’
  • Country: Australia

Papers from the Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia Conference 2011. Report Locationhttp://www.segra.com.au/segra11ConfProc/index.html ....

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 ....

Skills Shortages in South East NSW

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Strategic Economic Solutions
  • Publisher: RDA Southern Inland
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The issue of skills shortages in South East NSW affects business activity, consumer costs and other important community factors, such as health and education services. A review of the most recent literature on skill shortages in Australia may help to refine the nature and extent of the problem, and to focus on responses. In turn, this may help Re ....

Skills Shortages in South East NSW

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Strategic Economic Solutions
  • Publisher: RDA Southern Inland
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

This report is the second part of a project to determine the nature and extent of skills shortages in South East NSW, and what actions SEROC and RDA committees might take to help alleviate them. This report summarises progress on a series of 50 phone interviews aimed at providing a local and regional perspective on skills shortages in the South ....

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