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Rural areas throughout the developed world are undergoing significant restructuring due to a number of socio-economic factors. One aspect of recent rural change has to do with demographic shifts and in-migration to rural areas formerly dominated by agricultural enterprises and other types of working landscapes. Since ownership is a major determinant of land use, and different cohorts of owners interact socially in different ways, these trends have implications for natural resource management (NRM). In this chapter, we present results of research on trends in agricultural ownership change in regions of Australia and the American West that involved analysis of property sales records, survey data, and semi-structured interviews with landowners and other key informants. In the Australian study areas, 50% of properties are likely to change hands between 2006 and 2016, doubling …