Achieving Better Environmental Outcomes

Gilmour, Alistair J.

doi:10.1080/07293682.2001.9657945

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“…This was evident in the public response to proposed policy changes to the Hills Face Zone during 1999-2000 (Hart, 2002). Likewise, the unilateral, 'systems management' methods that characterise State government agencies appear inadequate for disentangling and reconciling the competing demands of the contemporary fringe, as various authorities seem to admit (Cabinet Office, 1999;Brown, 2001;Gilmour, 2001). This task is crucial if, as advocated in Sydney's 1948 plan and Adelaide's OMPA Plan of 1975, the fringe is to benefit both town and country.…”

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“…Two such proposals aim to bring administrative responsibilities into new and more relevant focus (Gilmour, 2001), and to deploy environmental plan-making skills and experience more fully and effectively in key agencies (Brown, 2001). Two such proposals aim to bring administrative responsibilities into new and more relevant focus (Gilmour, 2001), and to deploy environmental plan-making skills and experience more fully and effectively in key agencies (Brown, 2001).…”

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“…Some commentators have recently advocated a more radical reshaping of the machinery of governance in the planning and environmental arenas, largely in response to the unfolding agenda of sustainability. Two such proposals aim to bring administrative responsibilities into new and more relevant focus (Gilmour, 2001), and to deploy environmental plan-making skills and experience more fully and effectively in key agencies (Brown, 2001). These more radical prescriptions for governance may hold the key to the future prospects for the rural-urban fringe in Australia.…”

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Prospects for the Rural‐Urban Fringe in Australia: Observations from a Brief History of the Landscapes around Sydney and Adelaide

Bunker

Houston

2003

Australian Geographical Studies

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Despite being a major site of recent population growth and, arguably, a key arena for sustainability concerns, the rural‐urban fringe has received relatively little attention in the literature concerning Australian cities and urban policy. To address this shortcoming the authors review post‐World War II efforts to plan the rural‐urban fringes of Sydney and Adelaide and find a number of issues for contemporary policy‐makers. First, the fringe is becoming increasingly complex due to multi‐faceted demographic change, a broadening economic base and demands for better environmental management, all within the context of an evolving understanding of sustainability. Second, water resource management, partly under the auspices of integrated natural resource management, is assuming a much higher priority than in early fringe planning endeavours, which emphasised urban containment, agricultural land protection and landscape conservation. Third, and partly as a consequence of this shift of priorities, there is also evidence of changes to the nature and focus of policy tools used in the fringe, with land management concerns now cutting across traditional land use planning. Finally, and fundamentally, these observations raise questions about how future governance of the fringe should be organised. Together these four themes pose an enthralling series of challenges for policy‐makers for which much more research and discussion are needed.

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confidence: 99%