Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges

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Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges

Hannah Gosnell¹, Jesse Abrams¹•Institutions (1)

Oregon State University¹

01 Aug 2011-GeoJournal (Springer Netherlands)-Vol. 76, Iss: 4, pp 303-322

TL;DR: A review of the social science literature related to the concept of amenity migration, focusing on the ways in which it has been conceptualized, theorized, and documented by different communities of scholars is presented in this paper.

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Abstract: Rural communities throughout the postindustrial world are in the midst of a significant transition, sometimes referred to as rural restructuring, as traditional land uses, economic activities, and social arrangements transition to those associated with “post-productivist” or “multifunctional” landscapes. Amenity migration, the movement of people based on the draw of natural and/or cultural amenities, can be thought of as both driver and implication of this transition, resulting in significant changes in the ownership, use, and governance of rural lands, as well as in the composition and socioeconomic dynamics of rural communities. In concert with other social, economic and political processes, amenity migration is contributing to the fundamental transformation of rural communities throughout the world. This paper presents a review of the social science literature related to the concept of amenity migration, focusing on the ways in which it has been conceptualized, theorized, and documented by different communities of scholars. We then profile and summarize diverse perspectives on drivers and socioeconomic impacts, highlighting emerging challenges and opportunities related to this type of migration occurring at multiple scales and in multiple sites. The paper also identifies and discusses particular areas where further research is needed.

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TL;DR: A post-2012 international global climate policy architecture with three essential elements: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated but meaningful ways; an emphasis on an extended time path of targets; and inclusion of flexible market-based policy instruments to keep costs down and facilitate international equity.

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From Lifestyle Migration to Lifestyle in Migration: Categories, concepts and ways of thinking

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Michaela Benson¹, Karen O'Reilly¹•Institutions (1)

Goldsmiths, University of London¹

01 Mar 2016-Migration Studies

TL;DR: The authors argue that analytical concepts used in migration (and other) research are most effectively employed empirically when their methodological underpinnings, and the nature of their development, are fully understood.

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Abstract: This article argues that analytical concepts used in migration (and other) research are most effectively employed empirically when their methodological underpinnings, and the nature of their development, are fully understood. Inductively-designed conceptual frameworks developed through long-term qualitative research are useful ways of (re)thinking migration that can free researchers from the constraints of externally-imposed frameworks, categories and conceptualisations. In order to make this argument, we use the concept of lifestyle migration and consider closely the ways in which this term was developed, not to capture a discrete or homogenous category of migrants, but rather as an analytical tool and an alternative way of thinking about migration. Drawing impetus from a close examination of a specific attempt to operationalise lifestyle migration in quantitative research, we are led to consider the political and governance implications of using (migration) labels, and the overlaps and synergies between types of migration understood as practices informed by meanings and understandings. Here, we specifically explore, on the one hand, how economic factors intersect with lifestyle in migration and, on the other hand, the role of lifestyle as imagination, aspiration and way of living in other migration processes not necessarily labelled lifestyle migration.

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...As Gosnell and Abrams (2009) identify—citing research by Hoey (2005, 2006), Jacob (1997) and Hines (2007)—research on lifestyle migrants contributes another perspective into the equation: the foci on migrant motivations and relocation stories....
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...…emphasis of amenity migration—a concept that seems to have developed concurrently with lifestyle migration, with the seminal article in this field by Gosnell and Abrams (2009) published in the same year as Benson and O’Reilly’s (2009) article on lifestyle migration—has been on how migration…...
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...5 field by Gosnell and Abrams (2009) published in the same year as Benson and O’Reilly’s (2009) article on lifestyle migration—has been on how migration variously intersects with rural development and transformation (Gosnell and Abrams 2009)....
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...…with lifestyle migration, with the seminal article in this field by Gosnell and Abrams (2009) published in the same year as Benson and O’Reilly’s (2009) article on lifestyle migration—has been on how migration variously intersects with rural development and transformation (Gosnell and Abrams 2009)....
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Re-creating the Rural, Reconstructing Nature: An International Literature Review of the Environmental Implications of Amenity Migration

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Jesse Abrams¹, Hannah Gosnell², Nicholas Gill³, Peter Klepeis⁴•Institutions (4)

Whitman College¹, Oregon State University², University of Wollongong³, Colgate University⁴

01 Jul 2012-Conservation and Society

TL;DR: In this article, a review of international literature, drawn from the authors' own prior research and searches on relevant databases, synthesises findings on the implications of amenity migration for the creation and distribution of environmental harms and benefits.

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Abstract: The term 'amenity migration' describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature, drawn from the authors' own prior research and searches on relevant databases, synthesises findings on the implications of amenity migration for the creation and distribution of environmental harms and benefits. Further, we critique common framings of amenity migration- related environmental transformations and offer suggestions for future research. Analysis is positioned within a review of five common themes reflected in the cases we consider: land subdivision and residential development; changes in private land use; cross-boundary effects; effects on local governance institutions; and displacement of impacts. Within each of these themes, we discuss the uneven geographies of environmental transformation formed by diverse conceptions of 'nature', patterns of local management of amenity-driven transformations, and ecological contexts. We conclude that, through both intended and unintended environmental consequences of dominant activities and land uses, amenity migration results in a redistribution of environmental harms and benefits at multiple scales, as rural landscapes are (partially and incompletely) re-created in line with the ideals and expectations of amenity migrant populations.

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01 Jul 2012-Journal of Rural Studies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how shifts within the social sciences towards conceptualising spatiality in relational terms have unfolded in rural studies in particular ways over the past decade or so, and identify the notion of countertopography as a promising conceptual and methodological addition to the rural scholar's toolkit.

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TL;DR: The concept of post-industrial society deals primarily with changes in the social structure, the way in which the economy is being transformed and the occupational system reworked, and with the new relations between theory and empiricism, particularly science and technology.

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...David Bell (1973) was another early observer of the ways in which quality of life—a function in large part of the presence of natural amenities— determined economic well-being in postindustrial societies moreso than quantity of goods....
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Steven C. Deller, Tsung-Hsiu Tsai, David W. Marcouiller¹, Donald B.K. English²•Institutions (2)

University of Wisconsin-Madison¹, United States Forest Service²

01 May 2001-American Journal of Agricultural Economics

TL;DR: A structural model of regional economic growth is estimated using data for 2243 rural US counties Five indices designed to capture specific amenity and quality of life characteristics are constructed using fifty-four separate indicators as discussed by the authors.

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Abstract: A structural model of regional economic growth is estimated using data for 2243 rural US counties Five indices designed to capture specific amenity and quality of life characteristics are constructed using fifty-four separate indicators Results suggest that amenity characteristics can be organized into consistent and meaningful empirical measures that move beyond ad hoc descriptions of amenities In addition to insights into the influence of local characteristics ranging from tax burdens to income distribution on regional economic growth, results suggest that predictable relationships between amenities, quality of life, and local economic performance exist

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Abstract: This paper has evolved out of a growing dissatisfaction with the relatively uncritical acceptance in contemporary debates that agriculture in advanced societies has moved from ‘productivism’ to ‘post-productivism’. A brief review of current conceptualizations of productivist and post-productivist agricultural regimes reveals inconsistencies in current understandings these dualistic terms. The problem has partly been that the conceptual literature on post-productivism has largely failed to take into account the wealth of actor-oriented and behaviourally grounded research. Productivist and post-productivist agricultural regimes have also been conceptualized from a UK-centric perspective that has largely failed to discuss whether the concept has wider applicability within Europe and beyond. The paper discusses the time-lag and spatial inconsistencies in the adoption of post-productivist action and thought, and emphasizes that different localities are positioned at different points in a temporal, spatial and conceptual transition from ‘pre-productivist’ to ‘post-productivist’ agricultural regimes. The notion of the ‘territorialization’ of productivist and post-productivist actor spaces highlights the wide-ranging diversity that exists within the productivist/post-productivist spectrum, and that productivist and post-productivist action and thought occurs in multidimensional coexistence leads one to question the implied directionality of the traditional productivist/post-productivist debate. It is suggested that the notion of a ‘multifunctional agricultural regime’ better encapsulates the diversity, non-linearity and spatial heterogeneity that can currently be observed in modern agriculture and rural society.

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...As McCarthy (2008, p. 131) observes, ‘‘understanding amenity migration demands investigation of thewidely circulating imaginaries,meanings, and performances coded as ‘rural’ that generate demand for, and somewhat orchestrate the production and use of, particular commodifications of rural landscapes.’’...
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...A number of studies (e.g. Theobald et al. 1996; Ghose 2004; Salamon 2003a, b; Sheridan 2007; Yung et al. 2003; Brogden and Greenberg 2003) describe how the social identities of rural places become susceptible to redefinition as new social groups begin to occupy space once occupied by others....
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...Amenity migration, or ‘‘aspirational migration’’ (Woods 2003), is often linked with processes of ‘‘counterurbanization’’ (Boyle and Halfacree 1998; Dahms and McComb 1999; Otterstrom and Shumway 2003; Mitchell 2004; Loffler and Steinecke 2006, 2007; Halfacree 1994), a ‘‘rural rebound’’ (Johnson et al. 2005; Johnson and Cromartie 2006), and/or a ‘‘population turnaround’’ (Lewis 2000)....
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01 Aug 2007-Progress in Human Geography

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...Other related nomenclature includes ‘‘the new countryside’’ (Beesley et al. 2003), ‘‘the global countryside’’ (Woods 2007), and the ‘‘urbanization of the rural’’ (Cloke 2006)....
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...…2003; Kendra and Hull 2005; Halfacree 2007), studies of the social implications of amenity migration tend to frame research questions around the differences between two broad categories of people: local residents with long-term, often generational, roots in the community on the one hand, and…...
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Impulses towards a Multifunctional Transition in Rural Australia: Gaps in the Research Agenda.

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University of Queensland¹

01 Apr 2006-Journal of Rural Studies

TL;DR: The direction, complexity and pace of rural change in affluent, western societies can be conceptualized as a multifunctional transition, in which a variable mix of consumption and protection values has emerged, contesting the former dominance of production values, and leading to greater complexity and heterogeneity in rural occupance at all scales as mentioned in this paper.

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"Amenity migration: diverse conceptu..." refers background in this paper

...…sometimes referred to as ‘‘rural restructuring’’ (Nelson 2001, Woods 2003), as traditional land uses, economic activities, and social arrangements transition to those associated with ‘‘post-productivist’’ or ‘‘multifunctional’’ landscapes (Holmes 2002, 2006; McCarthy 2005; Wilson 2001, 2006)....
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