Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0344074
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Encounters with Urban Nature in Australia: An investigation into environmental values, anti-urbanism, multiculturalism, and the transition to urban sustainability. This project offers strategic basic and applied research approaches to overcoming the neglect of moral experience of ?nature? in urban environments so as to further the transition to sustainability in Australia. Working at the intersection of aesthetic, geographical, philosophical, and sociological studies of ecology, this project develops a comparative qualitative study of three Australian cities. It explores: (1) the paradoxical appeal of anti-urban environmental values to urbanites; (2) the multicultural axis of diversity in urban environmental values; (3) political sites for contesting experiences of ?nature?; and (4) policy opportunities for expression of local synergies between social and biotic well-being in urban ecosystems.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 11-2003
End Date: 05-2008
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $210,262.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social And Cultural Geography | Applied Ethics (Incl. Bioethics And Environmental Ethics) | Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology | Human Geography
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Environmental ethics | Other | Other environmental aspects |
