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REPOPULATION OF THE PERIPHERY: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MID-WALES AND NORTHERN SCOTLAND. HUW R. JONES Jones, Huw R. 1985, Repopulation of The Periphery: A Comparison Between Mid-Wales and Northern Scotland, Cambria, Vol. 12, pp. 113 to pp. 129. Part I of: Davies, W.K.D. (ed) Human Geography from Wales: Proceedings of the E.G. Bowen Memorial Conference. ISSN 0306- 9796. An unexpected, but increasingly prevalent feature of remote rural peripheries of highly developed countries in the last decade or so has been the halting of a long debilitating period of population decline. The causes and migration mechanisms are examined for two British Celtic peripheries in relation to the nature of post-industrial societies. Huw R. Jones, Dept. of Geography, University of Dundee, Dundee,Scotland,DDl 4HN. In the last two decades it has become apparent that the long-established pattern of population agglomeration in major metropolitan regions of developed countries is being reversed. The terms 'population turnaround' and 'counter-urbanisation' have been widely adopted to describe the new deconcentration trend of net flows of migrants from major conurbations, primarily to their immediate hinterlands but also, increasingly and unexpectedly, to remote, peripheral, often upland and predominantly rural regions long subject to debilitating depopulation. Such deconcentration is becoming accepted as a phenomenon common to developed countries in Europe, North America and Australia, as part of a natural process of advanced economic development common to post-industrial societies rather than the result of unrelated circumstances operating in individual countries (Vining and Kontuly 1978; Vining and Pallone 1982; Fielding 1982). Yet explanation of the phenomenon remains tentative, focussing either on broad conceptual contributions (Cloke 1985; Dean et al. 1984; Hugo and Smailes 1985; Wardwell 1980) or detailed empirical observation in localised communities (Forsythe 1980; Williams and Sofranko 1979). This paper attempts to integrate such approaches through a comparative consideration of the impact of long-distance migration on recent population trends in two archetypal, traditionally disadvantaged marginal regions of Britain.