The Future of the Fringe

The Crisis in Peri-Urban Planning

Michael Buxton, Andrew Butt (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2020
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4863-0895-8 (ISBN)

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Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world’;s most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important natural resources. The Future of the Fringe explores the history of peri-urban areas, peri-urban policy and practice, and related concepts.

Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world’s most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important natural resources and make valuable contributions to agriculture, water use, biodiversity conservation, landscape preservation and human well-being. Billions of people use them and enjoy their natural values. Their continuing loss threatens to alter our relationships with nature and have a negative impact on the environment.

The Future of the Fringe first explores the history of peri-urban areas, international peri-urban policy and practice, and related concepts. It analyses internationally relevant issues such as green belts and urban growth boundaries, regional policy, land supply and price, and the concepts of liveability, attractiveness, well-being and rural amenity. It then examines a range of Australian peri-urban issues, as an extended case study. The book argues for a precautionary approach so that we retain the greatest number of options to adapt during rapid and unprecedented change.

Michael Buxton is an Emeritus Professor at RMIT University and is former head of RMIT Planning and Environment. He has published more than 80 refereed papers, books, book chapters and monographs, including Planning Melbourne (CSIRO Publishing, 2016). He has led 20 major research projects, mainly on peri-urban issues and urban form. He formerly held senior positions in local, regional and state governments. Andrew Butt is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University. His experience in planning practice, research and teaching has focussed on rural and peri-urban issues, including a PhD on approaches to planning for farmland protection in peri-urban Australia, as well as articles and book chapters exploring socio-economic transitions and planning systems in rural and peri-urban regions.

Introduction

PART I: Peri-urban concepts, policy and practice

1: Understanding the peri-urban

2: Conceptualising peri-urban regions

3: Planning and policy for peri-urban protection

4: Land markets, land supply and price and the peri-urban fringe

5: Regionalism and peri-urban development

6: Liveable peri-urban spaces

PART II: Peri-urban issues: an Australian context

7: Australian green belts

8: Population change in peri-urban Australia

9: Peri-urban agriculture

10: Biodiversity, natural resources and peri-urban regions

11: The practice of peri-urban planning

Conclusion: peri-urban futures

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.05.2020
Verlagsort	Melbourne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 245 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-4863-0895-3 / 1486308953
ISBN-13	978-1-4863-0895-8 / 9781486308958
Zustand	Neuware