- Title
- To Rural Proof or Not to Rural Proof: A Comparative Analysis
- Creator
- Shortall, Sally; Alston, Margaret
- Relation
- Politics & Policy Vol. 44, Issue 1, p. 35-55
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/polp.12144
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Rural mainstreaming reviews policies to ensure people in all parts of a country receive comparable policy treatment. Rural proofing is the method used to ensure that rural mainstreaming is correctly carried out. This article offers a critical analysis of rural proofing. It examines English policies in this area and questions how applicable similar policies might be in an Australian context. We argue that while rural proofing intuitively feels like a positive development for a country rich in rural and remote areas, there are many complexities to importing a policy designed for a different social and spatial context. In Australia, this is almost certain to render attempts to implement the English rural proofing concept futile. Indeed, we contend that this concept can potentially lead to the marginalization of rural issues. We conclude by identifying some of the complex questions our argument identifies which should be addressed by Australian policy makers before designing specific policies.
- Subject
- agricultural policy; rural proofing; rural mainstreaming; policy learning; policy transfer; policy analysis; SDG 2; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437047
- Identifier
- uon:40220
- Identifier
- ISSN:1555-5623
- Language
- eng
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