Tracing the density impulse in rural settlement systems: A quantitative analysis of the factors underlying rural population density across south-eastern Australia, 1981-2001

Population and Environment

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-190

  Argent, Neil M ^a   Smailes, Peter J ^b   Griffin, Trevor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amenity; Australia; Cluster analysis; Multifunctionality; Productivism; Rural population density

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SETTLEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745171125     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-006-0018-1     Document Type: Article

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