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What Value Viable Country Communities?

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  • Bennett, Jeffrey W.
  • Bueren, Martin van
  • Whitten, Stuart M.

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Ensuring the continued viability of rural and regional communities in Australia has become a high priority politically. Economic and environmental forces are perceived as threats to viability. Declining terms of trade for agricultural commodities along with decreased relative prices for transportation and communication services have led to fewer and more concentrated regional centres. Environmental threats such as dryland salinity are perceived as potential future causes of diminished settlement densities. In Europe and the United States of America, similar political pressures to keep rural communities viable are also apparent, often as a component of the “multi-functionality” of agriculture. Given that these pressures are manifest in the form of demands for public resources, the question is whether or not the tax paying public enjoy benefits from any resultant improvement in country community viability. As an integral component of a number of recent non-market, environmental valuation exercises, the value of these benefits have been estimated. The results demonstrate a positive “existence value” held primarily by urban dwellers for country communities.

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  • Bennett, Jeffrey W. & Bueren, Martin van & Whitten, Stuart M., 2002. "What Value Viable Country Communities?," 2002 Conference (46th), February 13-15, 2002, Canberra, Australia 125060, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aare02:125060
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.125060
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    1. Jeff Bennett & Russell Blamey (ed.), 2001. "The Choice Modelling Approach to Environmental Valuation," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 2028.
    2. Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe, 2000. "European Agri-Environmental Policy Facing the 21st Century," 2000 Conference (44th), January 23-25, 2000, Sydney, Australia 171918, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
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