title: Demographic response to rural restructuring and counterurbanisation in South Australia, 1981-1991.
abstract: "Using South Australia as a case study, this paper seeks to trace and demonstrate two processes (counterurbanisation and rural restructuring) whose effects overlap to differentiate and characterise the population geography of...two zones, separated by a transition along the outer fringe of Adelaide's urban field.... In the demographic core zone [rural restructuring] has been partly offset by continued counterurbanisation, resulting in demographic mixing and rural dilution. The 1981-91 population growth in rural communities is shown to be more a function of population density at the outset of the period than of initial population size. Demographic growth...is shown to conform to a simple unidimensional scale, allowing the production of a clear, easily interpretable typology of rural demographic change with few non-conforming statistical areas. At a local level within individual rural communities, demographic decline is shown to be accompanied by increased concentration of the population into small towns, while demographic growth is associated with deconcentration."
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005843:Geography; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012939:Social Planning; D012942:Social Sciences; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Australia; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; Geography; Human Geography; Migration; Migration, Internal; Oceania; Population; Population Density; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Rural Development; Social Sciences; Spatial Distribution; Turnaround Migration; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization