‘Tree-changing’ and ‘lifestyle’ migration in rural and regional Australia
Project Team
Angela Ragusa
Project Themes
- Landscape
- Sustainability
- Urban Development
- Regional Development
- Tourism
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The sociocultural phenomena that has come to be termed ‘tree-change’, much like its counterpart ‘sea-change’, is a media-inspired, popular culture phenomenon applied to various expressions of contemporary Australian ‘lifestyles’. With deep roots in ‘population change’, ‘in-migration’, ‘counter-urbanisation’ and ‘population turnaround’, this interdisciplinary project sociologically examines the imagery, life-experiences, perceptions and community changes accompanying dynamic relationships between urban-rural Australia expressed through demographic change.
Globally contextualised, how international social movements, technological changes and social construction of environments interplay with natural environments, urban/rural planning and ideas governing ‘progress’, growth and development is critically considered to promote thriving natural and human environments.