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8 - Planning for rural landscapes
- from Part II - Key Issues
- Susan Thompson, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Paul Maginn, University of Western Australia, Perth
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- Planning Australia
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- 05 June 2012
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- 17 February 2012, pp 180-203
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Summary
Key terms: rural land; rural character; peri-urban; rural land-use conflict; agriculture; rural lifestyle; rural residential; sustainability; zoning; food security.
Land available for agriculture is declining across the globe as expanding populations inhabit fertile land that could otherwise be devoted to food production. Although this problem is not as severe in Australia as it is in countries with a smaller land mass, urban encroachment is nonetheless affecting the capacity of Australian producers to grow food in the areas in which it is demanded, which in turn affects its quality and affordability. Competition for fertile land from mining and biofuels also threatens to reduce Australia’s productive capacity. Australian governments need to give serious consideration to mechanisms for protecting our most fertile agricultural land from alternative uses in the interests of our long term productive capacity and food security. (Senate Select Committee 2010, pp. 20–1)
Planning rural regions combines natural resource management with land-use planning in a manner that depends on their location and resource endowment. Most of rural Australia is remote from significant urban settlements and has low population density. For these regions, the dominant consideration is ensuring sustainable production through appropriate natural resource management, but the normal land-use planning systems are of little relevance because they are biased towards urban areas (Farrier et al. 1998).
Accordingly, this chapter concentrates on planning for and management of rural land use in ‘peri-urban’ or fringe metropolitan and coastal areas, where the impact of urban settlements or strong population growth raises several common issues and where land-use planning systems are the chief means of managing growth. However, while concentrating on the coastal and fringe metropolitan areas, the approach is just as relevant to inland regional Australia because of the growing importance of natural resource management everywhere, and its increasing integration with land-use planning measures (Bunker, Houston & Hutchings 2007)
6 - State Planning Operation
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- By Raymond Bunker, University of South Australia
- Patrick Troy, Australian National University, Canberra
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- Australian Cities
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- 03 May 2011
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- 14 September 1995, pp 142-163
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This chapter concentrates on recent planning initiatives in South Australia. It goes beyond official publications to review, comment on and provide a critique on those developments. In doing so it seeks to place them within a wider, if more superficial, appreciation of current trends in State urban planning operations generally. A major linkage is made between these two dimensions by analysing the concept of strategic planning which is a common ambition of all State operations, and a prominent and distinctive feature of the South Australian current experiments.
Setting the Scene
There are some background assumptions and interpretations that should be outlined. While government policies and actions of all kinds and all levels impact on urban conditions, the States build and operate the cities. Commonwealth policies and actions, whether targeted on urban issues or unintended in their urban impacts, have great influence. They tend to be more abstract in their character and effect. State policies involve constructing the built environment of the cities, operating it and servicing its people, so that they are a mixture of the abstract and the physical. Local policies are mainly physical in their orientation and impact and considerably influence the character of the street and the suburb.