Spatial Concentration in Australian Regional Development, Exogenous Shocks and Regional Demographic Outcomes: a South Australian case study

Title
Spatial Concentration in Australian Regional Development, Exogenous Shocks and Regional Demographic Outcomes: a South Australian case study
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Smailes, Peter
Griffin, Trevor
Argent, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4005-5837
Email: nargent@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nargent
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/00049182.2016.1231051
UNE publication id
une:21798
Abstract
As a tribute to the massive contribution of our friend and colleague Graeme Hugo to the population and settlement geography of Australian rural areas, this paper presents a longitudinal study from his home State. It forms part of a wider study of the long-term demographic relationships between Australia's rapidly growing regional cities and their surrounding functional regions. Of particular interest is the question of what effect the accelerating concentration of population and economic activity into a given regional city will have for the longer term demographic sustainability of its functional region as a whole. Taking the case of Port Lincoln, regional capital of most of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, it examines the nature of change in the functional region over the period 1947-2011, and investigates the forces feeding, and partly counteracting, the population concentration process, informed by concepts of evolutionary economic geography. In particular it traces the demographic impact (particularly differential migration and ageing trends) of exogenous shocks to the region's essentially primary productive economic base during the period of major change from 1981 to 2011.
Link
Citation
Australian Geographer, 47(4), p. 527-545
ISSN
1465-3311
0004-9182
Start page
527
End page
545

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