Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes

Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, Marco Amati (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-92278-2 (ISBN)

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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 University's School of Global, Urban and Social Sciences, Australia. His interests include the urban forest and green spaces and the history of planning.

1: Peri-Urbanization; I: Placing the Peri-Urban in Australia; I 2: Amenity, Landscape and Forms of Peri-Urbanization around Melbourne, Australia; I 3: From Multi-Functional to Value-Fusion; I 4: Adaptability in Provision of Professional Services in Peri-Urban Spaces; I 5: The ‘Online' Peri-Urban; II: Planning in the Neglected Space; II 6: Environmental Objectives of Local Planning in Peri-Urban Landscapes; II 7: Integrating Regional Settlement with Rural Land Protection; II 8: It's All About Growth; II 9: Governance, Property Rights and Planning in Peri-Urban Areas; III: Land, Food and Contested Natures; III 10: Frankenstein's Chicken; III 11: Highlighting the Complexity of Interactions between Peri-Urban Environments and Weed Management Using Case Studies from Southern Victoria; III 12: Peri-Urban Environments; III 13: Beyond Governance of Food Systems; IV: Solutions to Discord; IV 14: Voices in the Messy Agriscape; IV 15: The Challenge of Being Heard

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Urban Planning and Environment
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-032-92278-8 / 1032922788
ISBN-13	978-1-032-92278-2 / 9781032922782
Zustand	Neuware