ABSTRACT
This chapter reports the development of the Deep Place method in two very different contexts from the UK studies. The first case study is of the Australian regional town of Muswellbrook in New South Wales. The second is of an informal settlement, Freshwater (Fres Wota) in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, a group of Pacific Islands. With more restricted scope than the original studies, the first sought to inform an economic diversification strategy with the potential to employ social housing tenants and mitigate poverty in a low carbon economy transition from mining. The second had the objective of informing the allocation of resources within a small-scale international development programme to create the best impact on local economic activity and poverty alleviation.
