Reimagining the Australian Suburb: Biodiversity planning in urban fringe landscapes

重新构想澳大利亚郊区：城市边缘景观的生物多样性规划

• 批准号: LP0454979
• 负责人: Prof Sarah Bekessy
• 金额: $ 26.31万
• 依托单位: RMIT University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-12-22 至 2008-08-13
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0454979
• 关键词: Reimagining; Australian; Suburb; Biodiversity; planning

Over 40% of nationally listed threatened ecological communities occur in urban areas. Accelerating urbanisation in Australia is considered one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. This threat will increase without a more strategic approach to conservation planning in urban environments. Protection of biodiversity in urban areas brings numerous societal benefits but involves complicated tradeoffs between competing land uses including housing development, agricultural production and conservation. This project builds on recent advancements in ecological modelling and mathematical optimisation to develop and test tools to facilitate transparent decisions based on optimal trade-offs between competing values. It will result in a more strategic approach to planning conservation in urban environments.

超过40%的国家级受威胁生态社区发生在城市地区。澳大利亚加速的城市化被认为是对生物多样性的最大威胁之一。如果城市环境中的保护规划没有更具战略性的方法，这种威胁将会增加。保护城市地区的生物多样性带来许多社会效益，但涉及相互竞争的土地使用之间的复杂权衡，包括住房开发、农业生产和保护。该项目建立在生态建模和数学优化的最新进展基础上，以开发和测试工具，以促进基于相互竞争的价值之间的最佳权衡的透明决策。它将产生一种更具战略性的方法来规划城市环境的保护。