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

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Ningi Pumicestone

Palmwoods Hunchy

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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

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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

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Romanticism

Green

Rationalism

Survivalism

Sustainable

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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)

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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.