Encounters with Urban Nature in Australia: An investigation into environmental values, anti-urbanism, multiculturalism, and the transition to urban sustainability

该项目为克服忽视自然的道德体验提供了战略性、基础性和应用性的研究方法。在城市环境中，以推动澳大利亚向可持续发展过渡。这个项目结合了美学、地理学、哲学和社会学的生态学研究，对澳大利亚的三个城市进行了比较定性的研究。它探讨了：(1)反城市环境价值观对城市居民的矛盾吸引力；(2)城市环境价值观的多元文化轴心；(3)争夺自然经验的政治场所；以及(4)在城市生态系统中表达社会和生物福祉之间的地方协同效应的政策机会。

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.