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Beyond the Edge: Australia's First National Peri-urban Conference La Trobe University Oct 2013
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Environmental values in peri-urban landscapes
Angela Wardell-Johnson
Peri-urban landscapes
Are a complex zone providing sources of innovation and diversity
These communities provide innovation and adaptive capacity • through the interactions of social capital
• knowledge diversity
Maintaining a balance of landscape values through context and place-based sense of place
This presentation… Provides an overview of results from a survey of people living in peri-urban SEQ
Addresses questions on relationships between: environmental ideals, ideology and practice • in relation to property activities and property
size
The catchments…
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Upper Bremmer
Lockyer Laidley
Emu Creek
Ningi Pumicestone
Palmwoods Hunchy
Noosa Cooroy
Beaudesert
Scientific & practice engagement framework
Conflict • Cognitive:
• People have different definitions and judgements of a situation
• Values: • Goals and outcomes are in dispute
• Interest: • Relative cost and benefits of a situation
• Relationship: • The winners and losers in the exercise
of power
Three socio-geographic scales • Micro
• family & close friends at local scale
• Meso • community and regional scale
• Macro • society, institutions and abstract/
global scale
Three pillars of wisdom • Scientific • Local • Indigenous
Three communities • Place • Identity • Interest
Community - three forms • Status Quo • Subjugated • Subject
Two interactions • Captured • Critical
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The participants CATI sampling 0.025% of
total population in the SLA for each focus catchment
• 5447 participants contacted
• 1009 interviews completed
• response rate of 19%
CS distributed 365 surveys by mail and by hand
• 123 returned
• response rate of 34%.
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18-24 yrs old
40-64 yrs old
80+ yrs old
How old are you?
SEQ CATI CS
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AllMyLife
>20 years
10 - 20 years
5 - 10 years
2 - 5 years
<2 years
How long have you lived on this property?
CS% SEQ CATI%
Q: environmental ideals, ideology and practice: in relation to property activities and property size
A stratified ontology • Ideals
• Personal & individual
• Ideology • Collective & shared
• Practice • Intersection of ideals
& ideology
• Based on experience
• Draws on history & memory
Discourse frameworks
• Agents and their motives • Who are the agents?
• What are the framing structures?
• Metaphors and Rhetoric • What strategies and devices are
used to convince others?
• Agents and their motives • Who are the agents?
• What are the framing structures?
• Metaphors and Rhetoric • What strategies and devices are used
to convince others?
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Discourses of the Environment: A conceptual model
Technological Ecological
Green
Romanticism
Green
Rationalism
Survivalism
Sustainable
Development
Environmental
Rationalism
Environmental
Problem Solving
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Ideology of the environment
classification of six statements “How do you think we should manage the
environment?” (CATI) “How do you think we should manage land in this
area?” (CS)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Rational Ideology
Technical Problem Solving Idology
Survivalism Ideology
Sustainable Development Ideology
Green Rational Ideology
Green Romantic Ideology
Environmental Discourse: ideology
CS% CATI%
Column fusion dendrogram
ENVIRIONMENTAL
RATIONALISM
SUSTAINABILITY
GREEN ROMANTIC
Property activities and discourse frameworks
Statistically critical vector showing
positive association label end, and
negative association in the
opposite space Colours=social
assemblages with
similar responses
The dots represent people
in the survey
Catchment
surveys
•Most delivered
personally
•45 minutes to
complete
•123 returned
•34% response
rate
•stess 0.1794 in
3 dimensions
Property activities and discourse frameworks
The dots represent people
in the survey
Colours=social
assemblages with
similar responses
Statistically critical vector showing
positive association label end, and
negative association in the
opposite space
A: environmental ideals, ideology and practice
Property size acts as a predictor • for environmental discourse value frameworks
• for the solutions to environmental planning in diverse landscape and land use values
long term viability of commercial agriculture in the proximity of the SEQ metropolis hinges on • The divide between people who live on larger
properties
• those who live on small properties (less then 10ha)
Role of values Values and landscapes values
• role in defining enterprise, landscape health assessment and institutional frameworks
Diversity of value frameworks
• representative of complex peri-urban social landscape
• potentially integrating knowledge systems through social processes
• value frames support shift from multi-framings to a fusion, adaptive capacity
mix of production and environmental care to integrate across the landscape beyond individual properties
Conclusions The integration of social values in planning is
critical to maintain biological and food security and ultimately systemic resilience
Effective integration of resource management and social planning requires focus on context
SEQ epitomises a rich and diverse community with social values well beyond the traditional life-styler – farmer divide
Acknowledgements The initiative to conduct this research
lies with Professor Janelle Allison (then of UQ, and now of UTAS) and the late Professor Geoff McDonald (UQ and CSIRO).
The Post Doctoral Fellowship was jointly funded through Peter Thorburn (CSIRO) who provided consistent advice, input and support through a cheerful office space and colleagues.
Gillian Colclough served as a keen observer and capable research associate
Support and funds from: The Qld Gov Office of Urban Management and SEQ Catchments, Noel Vock of DPI&F
Brian Stockwell and his team at DPI&F provided vital interaction, insights and knowledge
Many staff members from local governments in the areas gave their information and time freely and Community members and local environmental NGO staff helped with snowball sampling and local directions
Uniquest staff at UQ, particularly Gary Heyden and Scott Visser was vital in getting the research completed
Funds for conference attendance were provided by the School of Social Sciences, USC.
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