Heartland strong : how rural New Zealand can change and thrive /

The future of New Zealand's rural communities is often in the news. Empty shops, depopulation and lack of jobs are offered as signs that many towns are dying. There is no getting away from the challenges to the rural sector. But what if you consider economics AND demography AND the environment,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brown, Margaret (Social scientist) (Editor), Kaye-Blake, Bill (Editor), Payne, Penny (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Auckland, New Zeland : Massey University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Rural development > New Zealand. Community development > New Zealand. Regional planning > New Zealand. New Zealand > Economic conditions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. What is happening within New Zealand's rural communities?: Chapter 1. On-farm changes that have affected rural communities in the past 20 years
Chapter 2. Wairoa: Resilience and change
Chapter 3. Talking to communities: How other small towns view their resilience
Chapter 4. The Sustainable Land Use Initiative: A community's response to an adverse event
2. Making sense of these facts and experiences: Chapter 5. A new framework to measure resilience
Chapter 6. Creating an integrated perspective with modelling
Chapter 7. Pathways to future resilience: The TSARA programme
3. How will intersecting drivers affect the future of rural communities?: Chapter 8. The resilience of Māori land use
Chapter 9. Southland: An adapting landscape
Chapter 10. How will technology affect the fabric of rural communities?
4. How will these changes be integrated?: Chapter 11. Entrepreneurship on New Zealand family farms
Chapter 12. Increasing indigenous biodiversity in farming landscapes
Chapter 13. An integrated approach to farming: Learning from matauranga Māori
Conclusion: The future of rural resilience in New Zealand
Notes
About the author.