id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
aps-93	Argent, Neil	Dissecting the drivers of rural demographic decline: the case of the New England & North West region of New South Wales	2021	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6656	312	48	Rural population decline in the literature In the contemporary academic literature, rural population decline has generally been regarded as a long-running and almost natural phenomenon that commenced from the end of the famed post- WWII “long boom”. In tacit recognition of the interrelated nature of rural populations, land use and economy (see Brown & Argent 2016), a ‘desertification’ phenomenon was observed, where net population loss and demographic decline (e.g., loss of young cohorts, ‘left behind’ aged people) combined with public and private service withdrawals to effectively eviscerate the demographic, social and economic life of more remote regions and villages (Cawley 1994; Sorensen 1990).	cache/aps-93.pdf	txt/aps-93.txt