Lockie, Stewart (2002) Building social capital and community well-being through plantation forestry. In: Proceedings of the Prospects for Australian Forest Plantations 2002 Conference. pp. 17-27. From: Prospects for Australian Forest Plantations 2002 Conference, 20-21 August 2002, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

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Abstract

Falling commodity prices, droughts, dying towns, bank foreclosures, escalating suicide rates, decreasing access to services and environmental degradation all form part of a well-known story of life in contemporary rural Australia. The litany of crises affecting the bush have become such mainstays of urban media as to appear commonplace. While politicians claim that they never forgot the bush, the rise of the populist right wing One Nation party in the late 1990s certainly helped to ensure that political concern for the plight of rural Australians is now proclaimed at every opportunity. Rural people are looking for solutions and there are plenty of people with solutions to offer. From deregulation of labour and commodity markets to the redefinition of private property tights and investment in natural resource management, there are plenty of proffered strategies out there. Within this mix, plantation forestry appears, at face value, to have much to offer. But it is also apparent that many rural community's experiences of plantation forestry, to date, have not been promising. Complex problems demand complex answers which no single strategy can provide.

Item ID:	31321
Item Type:	Conference Item (Presentation)
Date Deposited:	14 Sep 2017 01:00
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1608 Sociology > 160804 Rural Sociology @ 50% 16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1608 Sociology > 160801 Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment @ 50%
SEO Codes:	96 ENVIRONMENT > 9609 Land and Water Management > 960904 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Land Management @ 50% 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9605 Ecosystem Assessment and Management > 960504 Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments @ 50%
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