From The Turnaround To The Backlash: Tourism And Rural Change In The Shire Of Denmark, Western Australia

Selwood, John; Curry, George; Jones, Roy

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“…Research into rural population change has focused on whether the ‘rural idyll’ exists and on its importance to rural in‐migration decisions (Benson and O'Reilly, ; Hjort and Malmberg, ; Van Dam et al ., ). People's positive images of the rural and its attractiveness may also be related to a specific part of a country, for example, the area where a person either grew up, purchased a second home, holidayed, or a specific landscape described in art, film, or literature (Hjort and Malmberg, ; Selwood et al ., ).…”

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More than Counter‐urbanisation: Migration to Popular and Less‐popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands

Bijker

Haartsen

2011

Population Space and Place

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Migration into rural areas in Western countries is often explained by the pull of the rural idyll for urban, middle-class migrants. Although previous research has shown that this counterurbanisation model is insufficient to explain rural immigration in sparsely populated countries, this paper shows that also within core regions, more diverse conceptualisations of migration into rural areas are required. This is achieved by distinguishing popular, average, and less-popular rural living areas in the northern Netherlands, on the basis of average house prices, and by analysing the migration flows to these areas. Data from Housing Research of the Netherlands demonstrate that popular rural areas attract more highly educated people and people moving from urban areas compared with less-popular and average rural areas. For movers to less-popular areas, being near to family and friends is more important. The characteristics of the movers to popular rural areas fit very well with the counterurbanisation story. Less-popular rural areas in the Netherlands share personal reasons as an important motivation for in-migration with more remote rural areas in Europe. This indicates that conceptualisations of periphery and remoteness have to be considered within the local, regional, and national context. Research into rural population change in both core regions and sparsely populated countries should consider these different contexts to be able to acknowledge the variety in the way amenities and peripherality are perceived by different groups of people.Measured from the town hall of the specific rural municipality to the city hall in the nearest provincial capital city or the nearest of the two cities in the centre of the country, as predicted by a website on travel routes. 2 * p<0.05. 650R. A. Bijker and T. Haartsen

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Section: Different People Different Motives?mentioning

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More than Counter‐urbanisation: Migration to Popular and Less‐popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands

Bijker

Haartsen

2011

Population Space and Place

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“…Denmark's population was boosted signi cantly in the inter-war period when Premier Mitchell instigated the Group Settlement Scheme, whereby groups of about 20 families, mainly from Britain, but also from Western Australia, were settled in camps at various locations throughout the south-west (Gabbedy 1988;Selwood et al 1996;Brunger & Selwood 1997). Fifteen groups with a total population of 1500 settlers were established in the Denmark district, a region with a 1911 population of only 500.…”

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Cashing Out, Cashing In: Rural change on the south coast of Western Australia

Curry¹,

Koczberski²,

Selwood³

2001

Australian Geographer

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Over the past century the cultural and physical landscape of the Shire of Denmark on the south coast of Western Australia has been transformed by successive waves of in-migrants. The paper examines the period since the early 1970s when alternative lifestylers and early retirees, attracted by the district's natural beauty and low land prices, began moving in and acquiring former Group Settlement holdings. The activities of these and subsequent 'alternatives' and 'cashed out' early retirees settling in the district have raised the marketability of the Shire's cultural capital. These changes have occurred in association with broader processes of rural restructuring and changing notions of 'rurality'. Increasingly, Denmark's cultural and physical landscape has become a highly marketable product for consumption by Perth's af uent middle classes. In recent years land prices have risen rapidly as speculators and nanciers seek to 'cash in' on the 'cashed out' society. The paper explores these issues and relates them to broader processes of economic and social change occurring at the national and international levels.

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“…The region is dominated by broadacre crop farming and, in comparison to the South West region of the State, is popularly perceived as having low aesthetic value. Thus, the Wheatbelt region has experienced little of the 'sea-change/ tree change' in-migration phenomenon that has driven population growth in the south-west of Western Australia (Selwood et al , 1996;Tonts and Grieve, 2002). It has also been largely bypassed by the regional population growth associated with the State's mining boom, which has been concentrated in the Goldfields-Esperance and Pilbara regions.…”

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Declining Youth In‐migration in Rural Western Australia: the Role of Perceptions of Rural Employment and Lifestyle Opportunities

Davies¹

2008

Geographical Research

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Over the last two decades there has been a steady decline in youth migration to Australian rural communities. Generally, inland agricultural communities are the most seriously impacted by this trend. Coupled with high rates of youth out‐migration, many rural communities face difficulties in attracting young people to fill skilled job vacancies and apprentice positions. Declining youth in‐migration also has social consequences, effectively reducing the capacity of rural communities to replenish their skill base and social networks. This research identifies how urban‐based youth perceive rural lifestyles and employment opportunities and how this is linked to their willingness to move to rural areas. The study reveals that young people attach undesirable aesthetic values to the physical environment of inland rural communities and perceive them as socially isolating and as having minimal opportunities for career advancement. However, the perceptions of those who live, or had lived, in rural areas are far more positive than those who have had little experience in rural communities. Accordingly, those who had previously lived in inland regions were far more likely to move to rural areas than those who had limited lived experience of rural communities. Overall, the research found that perceptions of lifestyle and employment opportunities were important influences on young people's willingness to move to rural communities.

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From The Turnaround To The Backlash: Tourism And Rural Change In The Shire Of Denmark, Western Australia

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

More than Counter‐urbanisation: Migration to Popular and Less‐popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands

More than Counter‐urbanisation: Migration to Popular and Less‐popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands

Cashing Out, Cashing In: Rural change on the south coast of Western Australia

Declining Youth In‐migration in Rural Western Australia: the Role of Perceptions of Rural Employment and Lifestyle Opportunities

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