Evolutionary Dynamics and the Transformation of Rural Australia

了解澳大利亚农村中心地带的转变方式，对于建设具有竞争力的地区至关重要。该项目旨在开拓应用和发展进化经济地理学和主食理论，以调查澳大利亚东南部和西南部的转型，涵盖战后时期的长期繁荣，通过20世纪80年代和90年代的重组“危机”，到多功能农村。本项目预计将开发的地方建模“工具”的解释力超越“一刀切”的政策处方套件，具有为农村和区域政策和实践提供信息的特殊潜力。

Understanding the ways in which Australia's rural heartland has been transformed is critical to constructing competitive regions. This project aims to pioneer the application and development of evolutionary economic geography and staples theory to an investigation of the transformation of south-east and south-western Australia, covering the long boom of the post-war period, through the restructuring 'crisis' of the 1980s and 1990s, to a multifunctional countryside. The explanatory power of the local modelling 'tools' that this project is expected to develop moves beyond the 'one size fits all' suite of policy prescriptions, with the specific potential to inform rural and regional policy and practice.