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Abstract
Rural regions in post-industrial countries confront significant new challenges, particularly in relation to climate, biodiversity, unconventional resource development and energy. Yet at a time when the contours of these challenges are still being sketched, and preliminary, planned interventions undertaken, the practice of rural planning finds itself at a low ebb. We examine two ‘critical cases’, one each from Australia and the USA, to explore the issues and options for capacity of rural regional planning to surmount these new challenges. Our examination indicates the urgent need for a renewed discourse on rural regional planning.
Acknowledgements
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 10th International Urban Planning & Environment Symposium, Sydney, 24–27 July 2012. The authors wish to thank Fritz Steiner, Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas, Austin, for his comments. It was also presented at the Joint Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Dublin, 15–19 July 2013. The work was supported by a University of Queensland Travel Award.