Planning, governance and rural futures in Australia and the USA: revisiting the case for rural regional planning

Morrison, Tiffany H.; Lane, Marcus B.; Hibbard, Michael

doi:10.1080/09640568.2014.940514

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“…In the few years of the NBN's existence, it has already created, reinforced and extended socio-economic disparities between those with access to it and those without (Alizadeh, 2013), and future developments could again reinforce digital disadvantages. The observations in this article therefore confirm that conditions of rurality -including the geographic and socio-economic contexts of communities -require greater consideration in planning policies (Morrison, Lane & Hibbard, 2015;Broadband for the Bush, 2013).…”

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The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

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Middleton

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Advanced connectivity offers rural communities prospects for socio-economic development. Despite Australia's national broadband infrastructure plans, inferior availability and quality of rural Internet connections remain persistent issues. This article examines the impact of limited connectivity on rural socio-economic opportunities, drawing from the views of twelve citizens from the Boorowa local government area in New South Wales. The available fixed wireless and satellite connections in Boorowa are slow and unreliable, and remote regions in the municipality are still without any Internet access. Participants identified four key areas in their everyday lives that are impacted by insufficient connectivity: business development, education, emergency communication, and health. Rural citizens often already face challenges in these areas, and infrastructure advancements in urban spaces can exacerbate rural-urban disparities. Participants' comments demonstrated apprehension that failure to improve connectivity would result in adverse long-term consequences for the municipality. This article suggests that current broadband policy frameworks require strategic adaptations to account for the socio-economic and geographic contexts of rural communities. In order to narrow Australia's rural-urban digital divide, infrastructure developments should be prioritised in the most underserved regions.

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The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

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Park

Middleton

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“…It focused on rural production -managing primary resources such as soils, forests, minerals, and water to sustain cities and develop the national economy. In so doing, it aimed to enable economic and social opportunities in rural settlements, to stabilize and strengthen them, to create permanent occupations, homes, and communities (Morrison, Lane, and Hibbard 2015).…”

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“…Its purposes were to regulate and utilize water resources for power and river navigation; to generate electricity for industrial, agricultural, and home use; to develop mineral resources; to check soil erosion; and to improve crop yields by introducing 'scientific' farming practices (citation needed). The general characteristics of rural planning qua river basin planning were: (1) the centrality of state leadership and resourcing; (2) the importance of expert-driven scientific rationality; and (3) a commitment to the integrated development of natural resources for human use (Morrison, Lane, and Hibbard 2015).…”

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“…Now, in the early twenty-first century, the full consequences of globalization are emerging, reviving concern for the rural in planning. A set of issues that are 'of the rural' have emerged that have major implications for the planet as a whole -climate change, future energy supply, food security, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, to mention several critical instances (Morrison, Lane, and Hibbard 2015). As well, there is what might be called the 'ruralization' of urban spaces through the rise of community gardens, farmers markets, and the like; concerns about low-impact living through recycling, composting, reducing energy consumption, and so on.…”

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Rural issues in urban planning: current trends and reflections

Dandekar

Hibbard

2016

International Planning Studies

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“…However, a restructure of the relationship between proponent and opponent could provide the leverage to allow for critical appraisal of emergent ENRM issues. Morrison et al (2014) describe a town in regional Australia which successfully opposed the construction of a wind turbine development and subsequently pursued a community-based wind power development of their own implementation. If the social identity based perceptions of the interactions between energy development proponents and local communities impact on the conflictual trajectory of the ENRM issue, then adopting a nonconventional approach to sustainable development may help achieve ESD outcomes with limited dysfunctional conflict.…”

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The social identity approach to understanding stakeholder conflict in environmental and natural resources management

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Conflict between stakeholders about environmental and natural resources management (ENRM) issues is a significant challenge for achieving sustainable outcomes for people and the environment.Although conflict can be a constructive and important part of deliberative processes, ENRM routinely experiences dysfunctional conflict, where people involved focus on their perceived incompatibilities rather than finding solutions for the problem. This form of dysfunctional conflict leads to decision-making stagnation and exacerbation of issues which require timely management.The self-perpetuating nature of conflict means that relationships between people and groups become strained, and the potential for cooperation and compromise is undermined. In ENRM, conflict is addressed, often implicitly, through the practice of stakeholder engagement. Although advancements have been made on stakeholder engagement processes through both research and practice, conflict continues to manifest in ENRM issues.This thesis investigates ENRM conflict through analysing the contribution of ENRM stakeholder engagement practice to the prevalence of dysfunctional conflict. In order to understand the hidden complexities and drivers of conflict, the social identity approach has been applied as a theoretical lens. The social identity approach is a theoretical perspective from social psychology which explains how people become members of groups, and how groups interact. As such it is well suited to a study of ENRM conflict, where the heart of the conflict is how groups of people -stakeholders -interact with each other.First, the thesis outlines the theoretical basis for the interest in ENRM conflict, and makes a case for both why stakeholder engagement processes are a critical aspect of conflict which are worthy of investigation, and why the social identity approach is a useful theoretical lens. Following this, a theory building approach to integration of the literature across disciplines is used to present a way of understanding the human dimension of ENRM conflict, and the argument is made for the use of the social identity approach. As a result, a clear distinction is made between 'stakeholders' and 'the citizenry', where stakeholders are formalised groups with a defined interest, and the citizenry is everyone else. An integrative conceptual model for ENRM conflict is created, and is analysed with the application of the social identity approach.Next, the thesis examines the processes taken by ENRM practitioners to identify stakeholders, thereby filling a recognised gap in the literature. This is undertaken with the use of semi-structured interviews with experienced ENRM practitioners, analysed qualitatively. As a result, a typology of approaches to identification of stakeholders is presented, and the previously proposed distinction iii between stakeholders and the citizenry is shown to be reflective of how practitioners categorise people in the context of ENRM issues.The thesis then investigates a case study of a large-scale wind energy d...

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Planning, governance and rural futures in Australia and the USA: revisiting the case for rural regional planning

Cited by 49 publications

References 57 publications

The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

The Importance of Broadband for Socio-Economic Development: A Perspective from Rural Australia

Rural issues in urban planning: current trends and reflections

The social identity approach to understanding stakeholder conflict in environmental and natural resources management

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