TY - CHAP
T1 - Small Town Change in South Africa
AU - Hoogendoorn, Gijsbert
AU - Nel, Etienne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Small townsSmall towns are the base for a significant proportion of the South African population and its economy, however, these places have historically been a research lacuna. This chapter will attempt to show that small towns have started to receive greater academic attention including to themes such as population and economic change, innovation, policy shortfalls, the importance of post-productivistPost-productivist activity, dependency and depopulation. New challenges are posed by climate change and local government failings which make the search for development alternatives all the more pressing.
AB - Small townsSmall towns are the base for a significant proportion of the South African population and its economy, however, these places have historically been a research lacuna. This chapter will attempt to show that small towns have started to receive greater academic attention including to themes such as population and economic change, innovation, policy shortfalls, the importance of post-productivistPost-productivist activity, dependency and depopulation. New challenges are posed by climate change and local government failings which make the search for development alternatives all the more pressing.
KW - DepopulationDepopulation
KW - Post-productivismPost-productivism
KW - Rural areasRural areas
KW - Small townsSmall towns
KW - Social and economic change
KW - South Africa
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197552845&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-94974-1_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-94974-1_16
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85197552845
T3 - World Regional Geography Book Series
SP - 153
EP - 158
BT - World Regional Geography Book Series
PB - Springer Nature
ER -