Logo image
Back
Resilience in the Transition Landscapes of the Peri-urban: From ‘Where’ with ‘Whom’ to ‘What’
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Resilience in the Transition Landscapes of the Peri-urban: From ‘Where’ with ‘Whom’ to ‘What’

R Beilin, N Reichelt and Tamara S Sysak
Urban Studies, Vol.52(7), pp.1304-1320
2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013505654
url
https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013505654View
Published Version

Abstract

Australia landscape sociology peri-urban resilience transition landscapes
In this paper, the peri-urban is conceptualised as a territory to analyse the tensions associated with governments pursuing various agendas in isolation from those inhabiting these spaces. Two peri-urban vignettes are drawn together and Taylor's conception of a 'social imaginary' is used to recognise the conundrum for government planners, as well as to support the narratives about the social and ecological meaning of what local in-migrants are doing in the landscape. A resilience framework assists in clarifying system boundaries and the concept of social-ecological memory is used to interrogate how practices emerge within the various social imaginaries. The findings emphasise that this combination of tropes assists in acknowledging the rich, social imaginaries of local people 'making' the new landscapes. It is argued that acknowledging and incorporating their interests requires engaging with local networks and, more strategically, conceding that the social imaginaries of the peri-urban can be co-constructed for other strategic landscape outcomes. © 2013 Urban Studies Journal Limited.

Details

Metrics

941 Record Views
27 Times Cited - Web of Science

InCites Highlights

These are selected metrics from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool, related to this output

Web Of Science research areas
Environmental Studies
Urban Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This output has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:

#2 Zero Hunger

Source: InCites

Logo image