Regional Cities and City Regions in Rural Australia A Long-Term Demographic Perspective

The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia’s heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions. It presents a longitudinal study, over the period 1947-2011, of the exten...

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Main Authors: Smailes, Peter John, Griffin, Trevor Louis Charles (Author), Argent, Neil Michael (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The six centres and their regions
  • Chapter 3. Overview of total population change, 1947-2011
  • Chapter 4. Economic, environmental and demographic change, 1981-2011
  • Chapter 5. Structural ageing and long-term survival 1: major drivers of ageing
  • Chapter 6. Structural ageing and long-term survival 2: measures, processes, status
  • Chapter 7. A downward demographic spiral: predictable and inexorable?
  • Chapter 8. Stop press: some indications from the 2016 Census
  • Chapter 9. A summary of findings and their wider applicability
  • Chapter 10. Implications for regional research and development I: three key research fields
  • Chapter 11. Implications for regional research and development II: Australian regional policy
  • Chapter 12. Some final observations