Australian Environmental Planning - 9781138000704

Taylor & Francis

Australian Environmental PlanningChallenges and Future Prospects\nAuthor(s): Jason Byrne, Neil Sipe, Jago Dodson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138000704, 978-1138000704\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Planning Institute of Australia's 2015 Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award!\n\nAustralians from all walks of life have begun to realise the nations cities cannot sustain profligate growth indefinitely. Dwindling water supplies, failing food bowls, increased energy costs, more severe bushfires, severe storms, flooding, coastal erosion, rising transport expenses, housing shortages and environmental pollution are now daily news headlines. Australias cities may have reached their ecological limits: a new model for planning the places we live is needed.\n\nUnderstanding the natural cycles of the city is just as important to planning our cities as knowledge of local ordinances, indeed much more so. A profound knowledge o.