Contributors to this volume came together in the attempt to stimulate collective insight into trends of rural change in australia new zealand and europe the first two countries have been characterised by avowedly neoliberal rural policy with considerable departures from it in practice europe on the other hand by a mix of policy measures which attempt to integrate land management and . Tracking rural change community policy and technology in australia new zealand and europe amazonde merlan francesca raftery david fremdsprachige bucher. Tracking rural change community policy and technology in australia new zealand and europe edited by francesca merlan and david raftery publication canberra ausralia anu e press 2009 format description book 1 online resource 194 pages illustrations maps subjects sociology rural rural development australia social policy rural development new zealand rural . A key intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming the corresponding re distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas and diversification of rural activity the corporatization and technological modification of food production . Tracking rural change community policy and technology in australia new zealand and europe link to publisher version statistics export reference to bibtex export reference to endnote xml altmetric citations description a key intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is