Securing suburbia: Oil vulnerability, planning practice and Australian cities
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Author / Source: Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe, Griffith University
Contributor: thinkingtransport
This paper investigates oil vulnerability in Australian cities and the implications of this problem for Australian urban planning and planning elsewhere.
The paper has four objectives.
- investigate the changing global petroleum supply context and potential future supply trajectories.
- use the concept of ‘oil vulnerability’ to investigate how such a changing global petroleum context might impact on cities and suburbs, with a focus on the Australia setting.
- examine current Australian planning practice to test whether metropolitan plans are addressing global petroleum supply questions.
- sets out the planning research and practice challenges and responsibilities for urban scholars and educators, both in Australia and elsewhere, in responding to the changing global petroleum context through engagement with pedagogy, policy and public debate.
This research will be useful to local governments in informing their approach to oil vulnerability and peak oil, as well and the subsequent implications for transport planning and practice.
