2006
ISBN: 1876851236
Paperback: $29.95 (including GST, postage & handling)
eBook (PDF download): $9.95
“Country Towns” provides a look at our increasing understanding of the growth, stasis and decline of our country towns. It covers not only changing social and economic trends, but also the art of engagement of communities, new modes of development, water and its local management and planning policies and practices.
This book brings together both international and Australian experts on country towns. The ideas and actions described in this book are those of academics and inhabitants of country towns, often working closely together. They reflect our growing understanding of the realities of non-metropolitan Australia.
Testimonials
“Communities are forever changing. So why do some communities fail, and others prosper? All of the old cliches spring to mind – whether necessity was really the mother of invention, whether Murphy's law that 'if it can get worse it will' really exists – we do know that there is no gain without pain.
The rural communities that prosper have found a way to come together and find their own solutions to their problems – those that fail have not found the necessary social glue to bind them. So here's to the real country, and all of the wonderful rural and remote communities who are determined to hang on, hold out, and continue to be the best place in all of Australia to have a challenging and satisfying life.
This book reflects the many and varied ways in which communities are rising to the challenge.”
Myra Pincott
NATIONAL PRESIDENT, COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
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