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6 - Planning and the natural environment

from Part II - Key Issues

Susan Thompson  and
Paul Maginn
By
Peter Williams  and
Rosemary Smart
Susan Thompson
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Paul Maginn
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Perth
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Summary

Key terms: natural environment; human impacts; environmental planning; resource; natural resource management; environmental management; sustainability; ecologically sustainable development; sustainable cities; ecosystem; ecological community; environmental impact assessment; climate change; environmental indicator; SoE reporting; bioregion; bioregional planning; biodiversity; Murray-Darling Basin.

This chapter focuses on the relationship between the natural environment and the biophysical impacts of human activity. Such human activity includes both urban settlements and broader land uses, which together constitute the ‘built environment’. The chapter’s primary concerns, therefore, are with the interaction between the natural and built environments and particularly with pertinent aspects of current environmental planning and natural resource and environmental management in Australia.

The interrelationships between human land use (particularly urbanisation), planning and the sustainable management of environmental systems have led to calls for meaningful remedial and proactive responses by governments, businesses and individuals, as well as concerns about long-term sustainability. These interrelationships are analysed in relation to the following topics:

  • fundamental concepts

  • environmental and resource management tools

  • principles for assessing human impacts on the environment

  • principles of ecologically sustainable development (ESD)

  • climate change

  • environmental indicators and state of the environment (SoE) reporting

  • planning for biodiversity

  • bioregional planning and integrated approaches to resource and environmental management (such as catchment management).

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Planning Australia
An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning
 , pp. 127 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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