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dc.contributor.authorArgent, N.
dc.contributor.authorTonts, M.
dc.contributor.authorJones, Roy
dc.contributor.authorHolmes, J.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:09:18Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:09:18Z
dc.date.created2015-05-13T20:00:35Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationArgent, N. and Tonts, M. and Jones, R. and Holmes, J. 2014. The Amenity Principle, Internal Migration, and Rural Development in Australia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104 (2): pp. 305-318.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37867
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00045608.2013.873320
dc.description.abstract

Arguably, rural land markets in Australia are currently in a high state of flux, with a panoply of competing interests seeking to capitalize on both the traditional and a range of newly emergent values anchored in land. Amenity-led migration is, we argue, an important strand of this renewed interest in rural lands, albeit one that is highly spatially selective. Employing a predictive and synoptic model of migration attractiveness across southeastern and southwestern Australia, we test its associations with migration currents into and out of rural communities for the 1990s and 2000s. This article finds that communities with high relative accessibility—to metropolitan and urban centers and the coast—and an established or emerging tourism industry have been most likely to experience net migration gains. Yet amenity migration also intersects with more traditional rural land uses and, in particular, irrigated agriculture. Farming, and the biophysical environment and cultural landscape it both draws on and produces, is an important attractor of amenity migration

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectAustralia Counterurbanization
dc.subjectRural migration
dc.subjectRural amenity
dc.subjectContra urbanizacion
dc.titleThe Amenity Principle, Internal Migration, and Rural Development in Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume104
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage305
dcterms.source.endPage318
dcterms.source.issn0004-5608
dcterms.source.titleAnnals of the Association of American Geographers
curtin.departmentHumanities Research and Graduate Studies
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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