Local governments attempting to respond to environmental change face an array of challenges. To better understand policy responses and factors influencing local government capacity to respond to environmental change, we studied three environmental issues affecting rural or peri-urban towns in different regions of New York State: climate change in the Adirondacks (n = 63 towns), loss of open spa...

This paper analyses the main causes of the growth in population and employment in urban areas in Australia. We find that two-thirds of the variations in growth rates between 1981 and 1991 are explained by four factors: an inland location, a reliance on primary sector production, a tourist orientation, and suburban growth. Tourism and suburban growth greatly increased both population and employm...