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dc.contributor.authorGleeson, Brendan
dc.contributor.editorRonan Paddison (Editor-in-Chief)
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:26:32Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:26:32Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2009-11-02T05:22:12Z
dc.identifier.issn00420980
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0042098008098198
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/26342
dc.description.abstractClimate change and energy insecurity are grave threats to the stability and sustainability of human society. This paper considers the meaning of this globally manifest, yet regionally differentiated, ecological threat for Australia's urban system. It also considers the twin ecological peril of oil depletion, whose impacts may intensify to great effect the social stresses likely to emerge as climates warm. The paper intervenes in the debate that transfixes contemporary Australian urbanism: the sustainability of the suburban form in which most Australians live. A similar if not identical debate exists in North America and parts of western Europe. These discussions may be overemphasising the environmental significance of urban form and failing to apprehend the deeper socio-cultural forces that drive the (over)consumption of nature. Planning thought and practice need to loosen the grip of physical determinism on their environmental comprehension if they are to comprehend accurately the sources of, and solutions to, ecological threat. New urban scientific evidence suggests that planning's principal role in the fight against warming will be one of adaptation not mitigation. That is to say, there is no simple `spatial fix' for overconsumption.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.sagepub.com/home.nav
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom2653
dc.relation.ispartofpageto2668
dc.relation.ispartofissue13
dc.relation.ispartofjournalUrban Studies: an international journal for research in urban and regional studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume45
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchUrban Analysis and Development
dc.subject.fieldofresearchUrban and Regional Planning
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman Geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode120507
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1205
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1604
dc.titleWaking from the Dream: An Australian Perspective on Urban Resilience
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGleeson, Brendan J.


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