This document summarizes a presentation on environmental values in peri-urban landscapes. It discusses: - Peri-urban areas provide innovation and diversity through social interactions and knowledge sharing between urban and rural communities. - A survey of residents in peri-urban areas of South East Queensland examined relationships between environmental ideals, ideologies, practices, and property size. - Larger property owners tended to have different views than smaller property owners on environmental discourse frameworks and land management solutions. - Maintaining diverse social and environmental values across the landscape is important for resilience and integrating land use planning with community needs.

1. Environmental values
in peri-urban landscapes
Angela Wardell-Johnson

2. Peri-urban landscapes
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Are a complex zone providing sources of
innovation and diversity
These communities provide innovation
and adaptive capacity
• through the interactions of social capital
• knowledge diversity
Maintaining a balance of landscape values
through context and place-based sense
of place

3. This presentation…
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Provides an overview of results from a
survey of people living in peri-urban
SEQ
Addresses questions on relationships
between:
environmental ideals, ideology and practice
• in relation to property activities and property
size

4. The catchments…
Noosa Cooroy
Palmwoods Hunchy
Ningi Pumicestone
Lockyer Laidley
Upper Bremmer
Rocky Point
Beaudesert
Mackenzie, Whelan et al. 2006.
Emu Creek

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Three pillars of wisdom
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Scientific
Local
Indigenous
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Place
Identity
Interest
Community - three
forms
Status Quo
Subjugated
Subject
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Captured
Critical
Two interactions
Conflict
• Cognitive:
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Three communities
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People have different definitions and
judgements of a situation
Values:
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Goals and outcomes are in dispute
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Relative cost and benefits of a situation
Interest:
Relationship:
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The winners and losers in the exercise
of power
Three socio-geographic scales
• Micro
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family & close friends at local scale
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community and regional scale
Meso
Macro
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society, institutions and abstract/
global scale
Duane 1997, Guattari 2000, Winter 2000, Wardell-Johnson 2011
Scientific & practice engagement framework

6. The participants
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How old are you?
80+ yrs old
40-64 yrs old
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18-24 yrs old
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20
40
SEQ CATI
60
80
100
CS
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How long have you lived on this property?
<2 years
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2 - 5 years
5 - 10 years
10 - 20 years
>20 years
AllMyLife
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10
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
CS%
SEQ CATI%
CATI sampling 0.025% of
total population in the SLA
for each focus catchment
5447 participants
contacted
1009 interviews completed
response rate of 19%
CS distributed 365 surveys
by mail and by hand
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123 returned
response rate of 34%.

7. Q: environmental ideals, ideology and practice:
in relation to property activities and property size
A stratified
ontology
• Ideals
• Personal & individual
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Discourse frameworks
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• Ideology
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• Practice
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• Collective & shared
• Intersection of ideals
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& ideology
Based on experience
Draws on history &
memory
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Agents and their motives
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Who are the agents?
What are the framing structures?
Metaphors and Rhetoric
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What strategies and devices are
used to convince others?
Agents and their motives
Dryzek 1997; Wardell-Johnson 2007
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Who are the agents?
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What strategies and devices are used
to convince others?
What are the framing structures?
Metaphors and Rhetoric

8. A conceptual model
Green
Romanticism
Ecological
Green
Rationalism
Survivalism
Environmental
Rationalism
Technological
Sustainable
Development
Environmental
Problem Solving
Dryzek 1997; Harré et al 1999; Benton & Short 1999, Wardell-Johnson 2007
Discourses of the Environment:

9. Ideology of the environment
Environmental Discourse: ideology
Green Romantic Ideology
Green Rational Ideology
Sustainable Development Ideology
Survivalism Ideology
Technical Problem Solving Idology
Rational Ideology
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10
20
30
CS%
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40
50
60
70
80
90
100
CATI%
classification of six statements
“How do you think we should manage the
environment?” (CATI)
“How do you think we should manage land in this
area?” (CS)

10. Column fusion dendrogram
ENVIRIONMENTAL
RATIONALISM
SUSTAINABILITY
GREEN ROMANTIC

11. Property activities and discourse frameworks
The dots represent people
in the survey
Colours=social
assemblages with
similar responses
Catchment
surveys
•Most delivered
personally
•45 minutes to
complete
•123 returned
•34% response
rate
•stess 0.1794 in
3 dimensions
Statistically critical vector showing
positive association label end, and
negative association in the
opposite space

12. Property activities and discourse frameworks
The dots represent people
in the survey
Colours=social
assemblages with
similar responses
Statistically critical vector showing
positive association label end, and
negative association in the
opposite space

13. A: environmental ideals, ideology and practice
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Property size acts as a predictor
• for environmental discourse value frameworks
• for the solutions to environmental planning in
diverse landscape and land use values
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long term viability of commercial agriculture
in the proximity of the SEQ metropolis
hinges on
• The divide between people who live on larger
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properties
those who live on small properties (less then
10ha)

14. Role of values
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Values and landscapes values
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Diversity of value frameworks
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role in defining enterprise, landscape health assessment and
institutional frameworks
representative of complex peri-urban social landscape
potentially integrating knowledge systems through social
processes
value frames support shift from multi-framings to a fusion,
adaptive capacity
mix of production and environmental care to
integrate across the landscape beyond individual
properties

15. Conclusions
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The integration of social values in planning is
critical to maintain biological and food
security and ultimately systemic resilience
Effective integration of resource
management and social planning requires
focus on context
SEQ epitomises a rich and diverse community
with social values well beyond the traditional
life-styler – farmer divide

16. Acknowledgements
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The initiative to conduct this research 
lies with Professor Janelle Allison
(then of UQ, and now of UTAS) and the
late Professor Geoff McDonald (UQ
and CSIRO).
The Post Doctoral Fellowship was
jointly funded through Peter Thorburn
(CSIRO) who provided consistent
advice, input and support through a
cheerful office space and colleagues.
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Gillian Colclough served as a keen
observer and capable research
associate
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Support and funds from: The Qld Gov
Office of Urban Management and SEQ
Catchments, Noel Vock of DPI&F
Brian Stockwell and his team at DPI&F
provided vital interaction, insights and
knowledge
Many staff members from local
governments in the areas gave
their information and time freely
and Community members and
local environmental NGO staff
helped with snowball sampling and
local directions
Uniquest staff at UQ,
particularly Gary Heyden and
Scott Visser was vital in getting
the research completed
Funds for conference attendance
were provided by the School of
Social Sciences, USC.