Trouble in Paradise? Governing Australia's multifunctional rural landscapes

Argent, Neil

doi:10.1080/00049182.2011.572824

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“…These comments support literature explaining that the neoliberal governance of Australian agricultural communities is leading to conflict between groups of citizens that could be engaging with each other to have more political influence (Argent, 2011;Sterman, 2012).…”

Section: Regional Land Use Priorities and Risk Perceptionssupporting

confidence: 66%

“…Competition for resources such as fuel and land has also initiated conflict between other industries, such as the mining sector, while increasingly powerful corporations squeeze farmer profit margins at both ends of the supply chain (Fraser, 2011;Neales, 2012aNeales, , 2012b. Argent (2011) argues that the neoliberal governance of Australian agriculture has forced various stakeholders who share a common interest to become fierce rivals, in an effort to win more explicitly defined outcomes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Regional agricultural governance in peri-urban and rural South Australia: strategies to improve multifunctionality

Fielke

Bardsley

2014

Sustain Sci

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The current neoliberal agricultural policy model focuses on maximising productivity and efficiency. The issues that arise from this governance focus are manyfold. In this study we illustrate the regional disparity and implications for agricultural sustainability caused by this governance focus. We surveyed farmers in two South Australian case study regions, the adjoining peri-urban Barossa-Light region and the rural area of Loxton. It was found that respondents from Loxton had larger properties, saw more benefits from government support for agriculture, and were more likely to prioritise support for their local community and increases in productivity. Respondents from Barossa-Light were more concerned about risks of urban encroachment and an increasing population in the region, prioritised keeping their farms in their families, and were more concerned about aspects of government support. These results highlight the complexity involved with applying appropriate government support mechanisms across a diverse industry such as agriculture, with various regional sustainability issues driving respondent priorities. We also suggest that regional variation will require explicit planning which aims for heterogeneous goals, and that educational, cooperative and alternative pursuits may help to increase the capacity of the land managers in the case study regions. These suggestions have broader implications for other regions where agricultural diversity complicates policy to support the industry within strongly neoliberal regimes.

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Section: Regional Land Use Priorities and Risk Perceptionssupporting

confidence: 66%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional agricultural governance in peri-urban and rural South Australia: strategies to improve multifunctionality

Fielke

Bardsley

2014

Sustain Sci

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“…Amenity migration has significant environmental implications for the receiving areas. This is because the social and environmental relations that inform land use, land management, and natural resource governance and politics are recast by the aspirations, values, and activities of these 'new rural landowners' (for both overviews and case studies see, for example, Walker and Hurley 2011;Robbins et al 2009;Klepeis, Gill, and Chisholm 2009;Gill, Klepeis, and Chisholm 2010;Epanchin-Niell et al 2010;Barr 2010;Argent 2011). As a result of these changes, land use and land management patterns shift, subdivision and residential development often increases, socio-economic settings change with rural gentrification, and conflicts can emerge over development and environmental issues.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Same but different: sources of natural resource management advice for lifestyle oriented rural landholders

Ikutegbe

Gill

Klepeis

2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Amenity migration to attractive and accessible non-metropolitan areas changes social and environmental relations with consequences for natural resource management and landscape composition and trajectories. Lifestyler oriented rural landholders are often cast as a problem for land management and extension. Managers and some researchers see them as a cause of landscape and social fragmentation and report difficulties in engaging such landowners on natural resource management issues and responsibilities. In contrast, limited existing research indicates that lifestylers do join and form networks of personal and other contacts for advice and support in land management. We contribute to this research with a survey of rural landholders in southeastern New South Wales (NSW). We explicitly compare the sources of advice for land management for lifestylers with those of farmers. We focus on the types of sources available to rural landholders in Australian regions and their relative importance to these two landholder groups. We find that lifestylers and farmers are different in their sources of advice but that both prefer personal sources rather than sources such as agencies. We reflect on the significance of the differences for engagement with lifestyle oriented rural landowners and for understanding landscape change. AbstractAmenity migration to attractive and accessible non-metropolitan areas changes social and environmental relations with consequences for natural resource management and landscape composition and trajectories. Lifestyler-oriented rural landholders are often cast as a problem for land management and extension. Manager and some researchers see them as a cause of landscape and social fragmentation and report difficulties in engaging such landowners on natural resource management issues and responsibilities. In contrast, limited existing research indicates that lifestylers do join and form networks of personal and other contacts for advice and support in land management. We contribute to this research with a survey of rural landholders in south-eastern NSW. We explicitly compare the sources of advice for land management for lifestylers with those of farmers. We focus on the types of sources available to rural landholders in Australian regions and their relative importance to these two landholder groups. We find that lifestylers and farmers are different in their sources of advice but that both prefer personal sources rather than sources such as agencies. We reflect on the significance of the differences for engagement with lifestyle-oriented rural landowners and for understanding landscape change.

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“…In rural studies' literatures poststructuralist contributions are extensive and range from analyses of how rural governance is reimagined from the centre to produce new problematisations of rural communities and places Murdoch and Ward, 1997;Higgins, 2001;Argent, 2005), to how traditional roles and relationships of governing authorities have changed (Woods, 1998;Herbert-Cheshire and Higgins, 2004;Thompson, 2005;Cheshire, 2010;Pemberton and Goodwin, 2010;Cheshire et al, 2011;Dibden et al, 2011;Beer, 2014;Cheshire et al, 2014), to what this means for local communities in terms of how new governing rationalities seek to responsibilise them (Herbert- Cheshire, 2000;Herbert-Cheshire and Higgins, 2004) or how rural populations have contested and resisted governmental change (Gibson et al, 2008;Argent, 2011a). The rural governance literature has brought into focus important critical understandings of how governmental processes relating to and occurring within rural communities and spaces have changed over the last forty years.…”

Section: Rural Housing and The Politics Of Mobilitymentioning

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Governmentalities of mobility: The role of housing in the governance of Australian rural mobilities

Dufty‐Jones

2015

Journal of Rural Studies

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Trouble in Paradise? Governing Australia's multifunctional rural landscapes

Cited by 60 publications

References 36 publications

Regional agricultural governance in peri-urban and rural South Australia: strategies to improve multifunctionality

Regional agricultural governance in peri-urban and rural South Australia: strategies to improve multifunctionality

Same but different: sources of natural resource management advice for lifestyle oriented rural landholders

Governmentalities of mobility: The role of housing in the governance of Australian rural mobilities

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