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Rural People in Times of Recession

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

John Hill  and
Cheryl Phillips
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Rural “crises” have been a significant feature of our physical and social history since the early days of European settlement. Our landscape is both harsh and vulnerable, and the climate accentuates the vulnerability of that environment. In the beginning farmers imposed traditional English methods of agriculture on the land, including clearing and irrigating without any real understanding of the consequences these methods would bring to the landscape. Soil erosion and salinity are part of the heritage of those days which we will have to deal with for generations to come. Nevertheless, Australian farmers have developed techniques for farming this country that have been copied in other dry-land areas throughout the world.

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Research Article
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Children Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 4: Rural Australia in the Nineties , 1991 , pp. 4 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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