Neil Barr
Biographic Data
| ID | 6404289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Barr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Barr |
| SIGNATURE | BARR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bendigo Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Healthy ageing
Policy directives in agriculture have long been concerned with encouraging low producing farmers to retire – with limited success. From a healthy ageing perspective, the choice to remain on the farm into advancing years could appear a desirable policy outcome. Yet as farmers age, many with little prospect of inter-generational succession, there is growing concern that some farm families are beginning to experience extraordinary isolation, reduced…
Healthy Ageing
The House on The Hill
Review(s) of: The House on the Hill: The Transformation of Australia's Farming Communities, by Neil Barr (2009), Canberra ACT: Land and Water Australia in association with Halstead Press. ISBN 978-1-921253-85-0, pp. xii +162 $39.95 RRP paperback. Includes references
Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders
Research on the adoption of rural innovations is reviewed and interpreted through a cross-disciplinary lens to provide practical guidance for research, extension and policy relating to conservation practices. Adoption of innovations by landholders is presented as a dynamic learning process. Adoption depends on a range of personal, social, cultural and economic factors, as well as on characteristics of the innovation itself. Adoption occurs when t…
The Semantics of ‘Forest’ Cover
Healthy ageing
Policy directives in agriculture have long been concerned with encouraging low producing farmers to retire – with limited success. From a healthy ageing perspective, the choice to remain on the farm into advancing years could appear a desirable policy outcome. Yet as farmers age, many with little prospect of inter-generational succession, there is growing concern that some farm families are beginning to experience extraordinary isolation, reduced…
The House on The Hill
Review(s) of: The House on the Hill: The Transformation of Australia's Farming Communities, by Neil Barr (2009), Canberra ACT: Land and Water Australia in association with Halstead Press. ISBN 978-1-921253-85-0, pp. xii +162 $39.95 RRP paperback. Includes references
The Semantics of ‘Forest’ Cover
Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders
Research on the adoption of rural innovations is reviewed and interpreted through a cross-disciplinary lens to provide practical guidance for research, extension and policy relating to conservation practices. Adoption of innovations by landholders is presented as a dynamic learning process. Adoption depends on a range of personal, social, cultural and economic factors, as well as on characteristics of the innovation itself. Adoption occurs when t…
The House on The Hill
Review(s) of: The House on the Hill: The Transformation of Australia's Farming Communities, by Neil Barr (2009), Canberra ACT: Land and Water Australia in association with Halstead Press. ISBN 978-1-921253-85-0, pp. xii +162 $39.95 RRP paperback. Includes references
Healthy ageing
Policy directives in agriculture have long been concerned with encouraging low producing farmers to retire – with limited success. From a healthy ageing perspective, the choice to remain on the farm into advancing years could appear a desirable policy outcome. Yet as farmers age, many with little prospect of inter-generational succession, there is growing concern that some farm families are beginning to experience extraordinary isolation, reduced…
Healthy Ageing
Geography (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Rural development and sustainability (3 works) · Ageing (2 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)