Small Town Renewal: Overview and Case Studies

This report is designed to generate action for community change and renewal by focussing on what communities are doing and can do.

Although long-term economic, technological and social factors have resulted in the decline of many small inland towns in Australia, other such towns have successfully implemented a range of survival and revival strategies.  This has resulted in positive outcomes for residents in terms of quality of life and economic opportunities.

The report, edited by Peter Kenyon and Alan Black for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) details the experiences of 14 small towns across Australia who have implemented a range of survival and revival strategies

Each of the 14 towns in the study has a population of less than 3,000 people. Whilst these towns vary among themselves in history and geography, there are some recurring elements in the processes of their social and economic revitalisation. 

As well as examining these particular processes, this report provides information on a wide range of resources that are available to assist rural communities in developing strategies appropriate to their own situations. 

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For further information

Contact	:	Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
Address	:	Level 2, 15 National Circuit, BARTON, ACT 2600
Phone	:	02 6272 4819
Fax	:	02 6272 5877
Email	:	rirdc@rirdc.gov.au

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