Reimagining the Australian Suburb: Biodiversity planning in urban fringe landscapes

超过40%的国家濒危生态群落出现在城市地区。澳大利亚的加速城市化被认为是对生物多样性的最大威胁之一。如果在城市环境中不采取更具战略性的保护规划方法，这种威胁将会增加。保护城市地区的生物多样性带来了许多社会效益，但涉及到住房开发、农业生产和保护等相互竞争的土地利用之间的复杂权衡。该项目以生态建模和数学优化方面的最新进展为基础，开发和测试工具，以促进基于竞争价值之间最佳权衡的透明决策。这将产生一种更具战略性的方法来规划城市环境中的保护。

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.