Conflict and Change in Australias Peri-Urban Landscapes
In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential development, productive farming, water catchments, forestry, mineral and stone extraction and tourism and recreation. Whilst the peri-urban space is valued for offering a unique ambiance and lifestyle, it is often highly vulnerable to bushfire and loss of biodiversity and vegetation along with threats to farming and food security in highly productive areas.
Drawing together leading researchers and practitioners, this volume provides an interdisciplinary contribution to our knowledge and understanding of how peri-urban areas are being shaped in Australia through a focus on four overarching themes: Peri-urban Conceptualizations; Governance and Planning; Land Use and Food Production; and Solutions and Representations. Whilst the case studies focus on Australia, they advance a variety of tools useful in discerning processes and impacts of peri-urban change globally. Furthermore, the findings are instructive of the issues and tensions commonly encountered in rapidly urbanizing peri-urban areas throughout the world, from landscape valuation and biosecurity concerns to functional adaptation and social change.
Melissa Kennedy is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Community Planning and Development Program at La Trobe University, Australia. Her research interests focus on the creative economy in rural and peri-urban communities.
Andrew Butt is a Senior Lecturer in the Community Planning and Development Program at La Trobe University, Australia. His research and teaching has a focus on planning practice and community change in peri-urban and multifunctional rural regions in Australia.
Marco Amati is an Associate Professor at RMIT Universitys School of Global, Urban and Social Sciences, Australia. His interests include the urban forest and green spaces and the history of planning.
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Names: Kennedy, Melissa, 1984 editor. | Butt, Andrew, editor. |
Amati, Marco, 1975 editor.
Title: Conflict and change in Australias peri-urban landscapes /
by Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt and Marco Amati.
Description: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, [2016] |
Series: Urban planning and environment | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015033761 | ISBN 9781472466853 (hardback: alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781472466860 (ebook) | ISBN 9781472466877 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Wildland-urban interfaceAustralia. | Urbanization
Australia. | Rural developmentAustralia. | City planningAustralia.
Classification: LCC HT384.A8 C65 2016 | DDC 307.760994dc23
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Contents
by Trevor Budge
ANDREW BUTT, MELISSA KENNEDY AND MARCO AMATI
Part I
Placing the Peri-Urban in Australia
ANDREW BUTT AND BILL FISH
ANGELA WARDELL-JOHNSON
EDGAR BURNS
MARCO AMATI, ROBERT FREESTONE AND AMY LANFRANCHI
Part II
Planning in the Neglected Space
ALBERT LLAUSS, RUTH BEILIN, MICHAEL BUXTON AND MELISSA NEAVE
MICHAEL BUXTON, KATH PHELAN AND BILL FISH
PAUL MCFARLAND
PETER WILLIAMS
Part III
Land, Food and Contested Natures
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
DAVID MCLAREN, GREG LEFOE, FIONA EDE, TONY DUGDALE, JACKIE STEEL, RAELENE KWONG, JOHN WEISS, FRANZ MAHR, DANIEL CLEMENTS AND TREVOR HUNT
DAVID WILLIAMS, JACQUELINE EDWARDS, GREG LEFOE, BRENDAN RODONI AND ALAN YEN
CHRISTINE SLADE AND ANGELA WARDELL-JOHNSON
Part IV
Solutions to Discord
ANGELA CASTLES
DAVID JONES, DARRYL LOW CHOY, PHILIP CLARKE, SILVIA SERRAO-NEUMANN, ROBERT HALES AND OLIVIA KOSCHADE
Marco Amati is an associate professor at RMIT Universitys School of Global, Urban and Social Sciences. His interests include the urban forest and green spaces and the history of planning.
Ruth Beilin is a professor in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences at the University of Melbourne with a teaching and research position as a Landscape Sociologist, focusing on everyday landscapes and ordinary people.
Trevor Budge is an associate professor in the Community Planning and Development Program at La Trobe University. He is also Manager of Strategy at the City of Greater Bendigo. He has over 40 years experience in peri-urban planning scholarship and practice and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011 for his services to planning.
Edgar Burns is a lecturer in sociology at La Trobe University and supervises postgraduate planning research. He has studied professions and professionalism, particularly veterinarians, over many years.
Andrew Butt is a senior lecturer in the Community Planning and Development Program at La Trobe University. His research and teaching has a focus on planning practice and community change in peri-urban and multifunctional rural regions in Australia.
Michael Buxton is a professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. Michael heads a research team carrying out extensive research into peri-urban regions, including a national study titled Change and Continuity in Peri-Urban Australia.
Angela Castles researched planning for agricultural activity in peri-urban areas as her PhD project between 2010 and 2014. She contributes to the Graduate Certificate of Business and Post-Graduate Environmental Planning programs at the University of Tasmania.
Philip A. Clarke
