Leadership of place in the rural periphery: Lessons from Australia's agricultural margins

Policy Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 491-504

  Kroehn, Michael ^a   Maude, Alaric ^a   Beer, Andrew ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Aquaculture; Australia; Economic transformation; Leadership; Peripheral rural areas; Place shaping

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953900765     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442871003723457     Document Type: Article

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