Rural community and rural resilience: What is important to farmers in keeping their country towns alive?

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-29

  McManus, Phil ^a   Walmsley, Jim ^b   Argent, Neil ^b   Baum, Scott ^c   Bourke, Lisa ^d   Martin, John ^e   Pritchard, Bill ^a   Sorensen, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Belonging; Deep rural; Inland Australia; Interactional rural community; Rural resilience

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; FARMERS ATTITUDE; LOCAL ECONOMY; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL SOCIETY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84855218651     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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