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{"title":"Regional Australia: Opportunities and Futures","authors":"Laura Crommelin, Nick Osbaldiston","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2023.2210700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2210700","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Regional Australia is enjoying renewed interest from policymakers, especially in parts of the country where major metropolitan areas are once again grappling with population pressures. With this interest in mind, this special issue brings together papers that examine opportunities and innovations emerging from regional areas across Australasia. In doing so we have sought to feature a range of stories about where the regions are heading, to ensure that the rich diversity of our regional areas is not overlooked in big picture debates over strategic planning and population trends.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"69 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47853661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Smart regional spaces: ready set go!","authors":"Christine Steinmetz-Weiss, Nancy Marshall, Kate Bishop, Eshita Dutia, Yuan Wei, Sophia Maalsen, R. Dowling, Alicia Baker","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2022.2151637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2022.2151637","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Smart cities have come to dominate international academic, political and industry discourse. In contrast, limited attention has been given to the ‘smartisation’ of regional and rural areas. However, simply applying smart city thinking is not the way forward. Many of the social, economic, and environmental initiatives generated by the smart city movement respond to the challenges of dense urban living. These do not necessarily translate to the spatial scales, assets, budgets, and distinct, and often opposite challenges faced by regional and rural areas, including the substantial divide in digital inclusion compared to their urban counterparts. Digital connectivity is a prerequisite for a smart transition. Parallel to improved connectivity, regional and rural areas need context-specific place-based strategies, projects, programs, and tools, to successfully engage with the smart places movement and the opportunities and benefits it has to offer. The Smart Regional Spaces: Ready Set Go! project aims to pivot the smart places movement into regional and rural New South Wales (NSW). The project pilots new tools and techniques to upskill, and empower regional councils and their communities to directly engage with smart technologies and reduce the digital divide.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"110 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47172723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transitioning towards a circular economy solar energy system in Northern Australia: insights from a multi-level perspective","authors":"Deepika Mathur, Robin S. Gregory, Muhammad Imran","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2023.2200956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2200956","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Increasing resource efficiency and decreasing waste by 2030 through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse is one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Australia is predicted to have up to 145,000 t of solar panel waste by 2030 and many large-scale solar systems are proposed to be built across Northern Australia. Research suggests that solar panel consumption and waste patterns are not dissimilar to other forms of e-waste such as mobile phones. Consequently, there is a need to rethink how the end of life of solar panels is managed. In this paper we raise the question of how Northern Australia should plan for managing solar panel waste arising from these huge installations in the future. This paper draws on the multi-level perspective, as a framework for conceptualising the transition challenges associated with promoting a circular solar energy system in the region. Adopting this approach facilitates consideration of social, technical and political drivers of solar panel waste and their implications for governance and planning in regional Australia. It is suggested that planning activities aimed at strategic, tactical and operational levels can help Northern Australia transition into a sustainable regional future. Practitioner pointers Need to develop planning system/framework/process for waste arising from solar farms. Usefulness of the multi-level perspective for identifying the range of stakeholders, barriers and drivers. Rethinking regional development of Northern Australia through a new industry space between the solar and waste sectors.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"115 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46701860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban greening beyond the major cities: insights from the ‘Naturally Cooler Towns’ initiative in Victoria’s Goulburn Murray region","authors":"J. Bush, B. Coffey, Lisa de Kleyn","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2023.2176527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2176527","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Urban greening is attracting considerable research and practical attention for its contributions to conserving biodiversity, mitigating urban heat and enhancing the liveability and sustainability of cities and urban areas. Much of the urban greening research is concentrated on major cities, with little focus on the needs and experiences with urban greening in regional cities and towns. This paper addresses this by presenting a case study of an urban greening project, ‘Naturally Cooler Towns’, focused on regional towns in north-east Victoria, Australia. The project was undertaken by the Goulburn Murray Climate Alliance, a regional alliance of local governments, catchment management authorities and a state government department. As the region faces increasing temperatures and impacts of more frequent heatwaves, the project aimed to review tree management practices and identify opportunities for increasing canopy cover with appropriate species for ‘climate adapted street trees’. We examine how urban greening is planned and implemented in these towns, and the roles of the regional alliance in providing a forum for collaborative adaptive governance. The regional alliance plays a key role as an intermediary facilitating approaches that demonstrate situatedness: credibility, salience and legitimacy. The paper contributes towards increased understandings of urban greening approaches beyond the major cities.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"84 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47925878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Migration, emerging multiculturalism and planning in rural and small town Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"A. Alam, E. Nel","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2023.2169724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2169724","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rural and small town New Zealand is undergoing significant demographic and economic transitions. Steady out-migration, economic change and population aging since the 1980s/1990s catalysed the ‘zombie town’ discourse. This parallels the rise of rural multiculturalism as a new multi-ethnic demographic makeup is distinctly visible due to diversification of immigration policies responding to regional labour and skills shortages, amenity migrations, and counterurbanisation. While having the potential to restore regional economic and cultural vibrancy, these changes lead to issues related to integration challenges for migrants as well as tensions in host communities regarding diminishing rural amenities, lifestyles, and exhaustion of the limited rural infrastructure base. Some of these dynamics have gained new momentum due to COVID-19-induced disruptions, e.g. border closure. These are occurring at the same time as broader economic, environmental and planning policy shifts disrupt rural realities and opportunities. This commentary presents initial evidence from a larger study and discusses emerging discourses related to regional New Zealand in five thematic areas – demographic disruptions and new mobilities, emerging small town realities beyond economic migration, impacts of COVID-19, economic development, and the changing governance and planning landscape. In particular we highlight the need to recognise the emerging rural multiculturalism in small town planning and development, which received little attention in the past due to planning’s historical ‘large city’ bias and other local constraints.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"132 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44010638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking population shrinkage in the Australian context: a new research agenda","authors":"Ahmed Almihdar, N. Morrison, Louise Crabtree-Hayes","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2023.2176526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2176526","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Whilst the study on the impact of shrinkage is well documented in North America and Europe, the effects of population-driven shrinkage on rural and regional communities in Australia is comparatively under-researched. This is despite existing literature on the volatility of population change in regional and rural Australia. Therefore, there is cause for establishing a typology of shrinkage in the Australian context, unpacking the different and complex economic, social and environmental causes and consequences, and therefore impacts, and establishing a framework for ongoing research. In this paper, we set out the rationale for this typology, indicating how population drivers are not only extensive, but further complicated by the as-yet-unknown impacts of COVID-19 and teleworking. Regarding policy solutions, we suggest that while mindsets are increasingly changing from a need to reverse population trends to, instead, embracing opportunities and alternative futures for many regional and rural Australian towns, we need to first establish a typology of population shrinkage that is reflective of the Australian context to ensure policy responses are locally appropriate. Practitioner pointers - Mindsets around planning policies on the impacts of population-driven shrinkage are beginning to shift towards understanding the specific socio-economic circumstances of the localised area and adopting appropriate policy instruments accordingly. - To support this nascent shift, establishing a typology of shrinkage that is reflective of the Australian context is key.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"123 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43126646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regional futures in crisis: lived experience and the generative role of intermediaries","authors":"Chrissie Gibson","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2022.2105916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2022.2105916","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As society responds to climate extremity and the COVID-19 pandemic, and as decarbonisation transforms the economy, regions will bear much of the adjustment burden. Powerful forces are re-imagining and reassembling regions, with investment in infrastructure, rare earth minerals mining and processing, green energy and battery hubs, and sovereign manufacturing capacity. While large-scale projects promise employment opportunities, transitions are unlikely to proceed smoothly – for workers, regions, or the environment. Moreover, they risk concentrating corporate power and sectoral dependencies, with limited community participation in decision-making, and amplified socio-spatial and environmental injustices. Unconvinced of the resilience contributions of such projects amidst profound climatic, geopolitical and health disruptions, this paper shifts the focus to qualitative conditions on the ground. Foregrounded are the lived experience of crises, vernacular initiatives to address crises in a more participatory, less corporatized, ‘minor’ key, and the critical roles played by intermediary actors and care networks. Amidst upheaval and trauma, regions are witnessing a host of quieter transformations: First Nations fire and land management partnerships; social enterprise formation; care practices among skilled agricultural and industrial workers; prosaic disaster response initiatives; and expanded research capacity in regional universities. Regional relationships, and the intermediary networks that sustain them, will prove vital in crisis. Beyond viewing future opportunities for regional Australia principally through large-scale infrastructural projects, planning has a distinctive role to play in mediating quotidian conditions of disruption, nurturing active, durable, and meaningful bonds between diverse regional communities, industries, and institutions. Practitioner pointers Critical scrutiny is needed of visions for regional futures overly fixated on major post-pandemic infrastructure and decarbonisation projects Beyond technical considerations, planning practice must be inclusive of lived experiences of disruption, incorporating and listening to diverse voices Informing principled planning practice, on-going qualitative research is needed to document on-the-ground conditions, intermediary relationships, and vernacular resilience capacities","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"72 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49629889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Smart heritage in local government strategic documents","authors":"D. Batchelor, M. Schnabel, M. Dudding","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2022.2116463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2022.2116463","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Local governments are applying smart discourses to resolve challenges in their jurisdictions. Smart discourses like Smart Infrastructure and Smart Mobility result from convergences of smart city discipline and traditional disciplines to deliver novel computer-led decision-making and tailored services. Over the past decade, these smart discourses have become embedded within local government strategic documents through explicit references and operational initiatives. An emerging smart discourse that local governments can adopt is forming between the smart city discipline and the heritage discipline, subsequently producing the Smart Heritage discourse. This article chronicles an investigation into the strategic relationships between the smart city and heritage disciplines within three Australian local governments. In each local government, the researchers analysed strategic smart city and heritage documents to identify shared themes, distilling the data into generalised findings that identify the state of play for Smart Heritage in these organisations. These findings suggest that Smart Heritage is emerging in local government organisations and could soon materialise in their documents alongside established smart discourses. It also signals that the intersection of heritage and technology is advancing into the policy arena, beyond previous Digital Heritage applications. Planners and policy professionals may have to adjust their thinking to accommodate this new discourse.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"49 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47244077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The economics of arrival","authors":"C. Cunningham","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2022.2055588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2022.2055588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"58 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47671598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preparing Australia for a potential surge in environmental migration","authors":"J. Bolleter, Billy Grace, R. Freestone","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2022.2116061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2022.2116061","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Projections for the number of people displaced by climate change globally are startling and vary from 100 million to 1 billion; however, a widely repeated prediction is for 200 million by the mid-twenty-first century. Although difficult to estimate, some proportion of these people will cross borders and end up in Global North countries. This paper offers a provocation on the implications for Australian cities. It reviews Australia’s significant strategic planning policies in light of a possible mid-future surge in environmental migrants and considers how such policies could better prepare Australian cities. The paper concludes that a National Urban Policy could strengthen strategic preparedness for environmental migration.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"58 1","pages":"11 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48184004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}