Developing policy for Australia's small towns : From anthropology to sustainability
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Martin, John
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Martin, John
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities (CSRC) 2nd National Conference on the future of Australia's Country Towns, Latrobe, Bendigo : 11th February, 2005
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- Description: Over the last three decades the way in which public policy analysts learn about the structure and function of Australia’s small towns has shifted from the intensive, in-depth analysis provided by the anthropologist living in the community (called “community studies”) to a more empirically oriented, demographic-based research carried out at a distance from these places (called “sustainability studies”). Rather than just understanding the functioning of small towns through case studies, recent research emphasis has centred on the more “aggregative” question of small town sustainability in all it forms. This alters the way in which small towns are viewed and complicates the current policy approaches to small town development and change. This paper identifies the two different methodologies implied by these divergent approaches and examines what this means to understanding of small towns and the policy implications that emerge. By reviewing the community studies approach to learning about small towns popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasting this approach with recent, more aggregative approaches to learning about the sustainability of towns; this paper aims to find points of alignment and suggest a broader research framework that incorporates both approaches. This provides a comprehensive understanding of small towns, leading to a more effective development of public policies for these communities.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001308
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Martin, John
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities (CSRC) 2nd National Conference on the future of Australia's Country Towns, Latrobe, Bendigo : 11th February, 2005
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: Over the last three decades the way in which public policy analysts learn about the structure and function of Australia’s small towns has shifted from the intensive, in-depth analysis provided by the anthropologist living in the community (called “community studies”) to a more empirically oriented, demographic-based research carried out at a distance from these places (called “sustainability studies”). Rather than just understanding the functioning of small towns through case studies, recent research emphasis has centred on the more “aggregative” question of small town sustainability in all it forms. This alters the way in which small towns are viewed and complicates the current policy approaches to small town development and change. This paper identifies the two different methodologies implied by these divergent approaches and examines what this means to understanding of small towns and the policy implications that emerge. By reviewing the community studies approach to learning about small towns popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasting this approach with recent, more aggregative approaches to learning about the sustainability of towns; this paper aims to find points of alignment and suggest a broader research framework that incorporates both approaches. This provides a comprehensive understanding of small towns, leading to a more effective development of public policies for these communities.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001308
Stanhope
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Towns in Time 2001 - Analysis: Incorporating the study of small towns in Victoria revisited Chapter 15 p. 103-120
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- Description: Stanhope was described in the original 1988 small towns study as a manufacturing and service centre for an important irrigated dairying district. According to 2001 Census data, the role of manufacturing based on the dairy processing plant has remained significant. The same data reveals that this plant also continues to service the dairy farms in the district and provide significant jobs for these farms. The original study noted the importance of service clubs and other voluntary organisations in providing community capacity building to build and fund local facilities and amenities such as a community hall and a swimming pool. The recently established Stanhope and District Development Committee seems to be providing a similar function today for soft, or information technology infrastructure for business development and information-based transactions.The 1988 study also noted that Stanhope faced a range of issues and concerns about its ongoing viability, including its narrow dairying economic base, strong competition from larger service centres, constraints on residential growth due to lack of facilities, and closure of V/Line freight services. This update identifies that essentially the same concerns remain.
- Description: B1
- Description: 2003005229
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Towns in Time 2001 - Analysis: Incorporating the study of small towns in Victoria revisited Chapter 15 p. 103-120
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: Stanhope was described in the original 1988 small towns study as a manufacturing and service centre for an important irrigated dairying district. According to 2001 Census data, the role of manufacturing based on the dairy processing plant has remained significant. The same data reveals that this plant also continues to service the dairy farms in the district and provide significant jobs for these farms. The original study noted the importance of service clubs and other voluntary organisations in providing community capacity building to build and fund local facilities and amenities such as a community hall and a swimming pool. The recently established Stanhope and District Development Committee seems to be providing a similar function today for soft, or information technology infrastructure for business development and information-based transactions.The 1988 study also noted that Stanhope faced a range of issues and concerns about its ongoing viability, including its narrow dairying economic base, strong competition from larger service centres, constraints on residential growth due to lack of facilities, and closure of V/Line freight services. This update identifies that essentially the same concerns remain.
- Description: B1
- Description: 2003005229
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