Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes

• PhD, MCRP, Bachelor of City Planning
• Senior Lecturer at Griffith University

***available free until August 23 here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275119310960?dgcid=coauthor*** Urban greenspaces provide diverse ecosystem functions, services and benefits to residents. Much commentary has been offered to date about citizens' demands for more urban greenspace. Less attention, however, has been given t...

Istanbul is a mega city of 15 million people facing various planning challenges arising from its unique geography and geology, rapid pace of growth, and historical development patterns. As the economic heart of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey for centuries it has experienced tremendous population growth and accompanied unplanned devel...

Metropolitan governance is back on the agenda in Australia as cities continue to grow and dominate the economy as well as their surrounding regions. In some sectors, however, metropolitan governance is not new. Water resources have long been governed at a metropolitan scale, even if it has not been explicitly called so. This paper uses the example...

Climate change poses significant challenges to coastal cities. Local governments around the world are using various strategies to address sea level rise and coastal flooding. Most of these responses are reactive, developed in an ad hoc manner following a specific event, but there is an increasing recognition of the need for more comprehensive and p...

Climate change will increase the intensity, duration and/or frequency of some climate-related hazards. Responsibility for adapting to such impacts of climate change in Australia has, in the main, fallen on local governments which have paid varying degrees of attention to the issue. This paper takes an integrated approach to compare the climate adap...

Rising temperatures due to climate change combined with densification of urban centres is exposing cities and their inhabitants to urban heat island (UHI) effect. UHI has serious impacts on ecosystem and human health, causes deterioration of infrastructure and economic loss, decreases air quality, and increases energy consumption. There are various...

Rising temperatures due to climate change are exacerbating the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI). UHI has serious impacts on ecosystems and human health, causes the deterioration of infrastructure and economic loss, decreases air quality, and increases energy consumption. The problem is heightened in densely populated cities. Temperatures are projecte...

Climate change poses unique challenges for the event industry, yet the industry and its key stakeholders have been slow to acknowledge the need to adapt. In Australia, local governments play an important role in event and climate change policy making. This research assessed local government event and climate policy integration in Queensland, Austra...

Local government is at the forefront of providing communities with urban greenspace, amidst responding to global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth. Much research has focused on the demands for more urban greenspace; far less has examined issues concerning supply. Better understanding of the dilemmas faced by thos...

Anthropogenic climate change and rapid urbanization are contributing to more frequent and intense urban flooding. There is widespread agreement that traditional gray infrastructure, a single‐purpose solution, fails to address the problem properly and contributes to adverse direct and indirect environmental impacts. As such, Nature‐based Solutions (...

DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2023.2190681

Climate change will impact water bodies and create significant challenges for natural resource managers. Despite the increasing impacts of climate change on water quality, the development and implementation of long-term strategic adaptation measures are seldom governmental priorities. So far, research has mainly tended to focus on the availability...

Rapid urbanisation is impacting availability of greenspace, regarded as a cornerstone of liveability in cities across the globe, presenting challenges for residents and governments alike. Scholars from fields as diverse as planning, engineering, health and psychology, are calling for more urban greenspace to remedy manifold urban challenges (e.g. s...

Much research has examined the socio-spatial distribution of, and access to, urban greenspace; the challenges of supplying greenspace, especially in periods of dynamic urban change, remain poorly understood. Multiple factors shape urban greenspace provision, however understanding the role of leadership as a factor remains somewhat elusive. Addressi...

Flying into Coolangatta Airport one sees the southern end of what is now the sixth largest city in Australia: Queensland’s Gold Coast. However, the built-up area visible from the aeroplane includes the town of Tweed Heads ( part of the Tweed Shire local government area) which is located across the state border in New South Wales. This built-up area...

Communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change need to adapt to increase their resilience. Effective government policies and plans are a key component of this transition, but they are not sufficient in themselves. The community needs to be made aware of the risks, acquire knowledge about the options that are available for a respon...

Few studies have considered greenspace governance provision from a local government perspective. This paper applies previously overlooked insights from urban planning and social research, investigate the key question: ‘how do governance factors influence the provision of greenspace in cities?’. It examines governance tools, organisational leadershi...

Resilience is an important concept in planning/policy. The diversity of theoretical conceptualisations, lack of a clear definition, and ambiguity in application to cities have made urban resilience a difficult concept to pin-down. This paper explores the dimensions of urban resilience to conceptualise and operationalise resilience, connecting theor...

Sea cities are at the forefront of climate change. Globally, the developed coastline of many cities is at high risk of sea level rise, coastal flooding, and storm surge. Such risks, however, can turn into important opportunities for re-imagining the future of cities and their resilience and sustainability. Despite being controversial, unsettlement,...

Climate change increases hazards for coastal cities where a large proportion of the world's population lives. Adaptation to its impacts ought to be a key focus for planning and policymaking in highly vulnerable countries like Australia. This responsibility, however, has been largely left to local councils with mixed results. This leaves substantial...

Greenspace is a fundamental attribute of cities, supporting healthy communities. Internationally, scholars and activists frequently call for more greenspace. Recent research has identified a range of factors that contribute to, or inhibit urban greenspace provision. While municipal government is most often at the heart of local urban greenspace pro...

The water sector is increasingly facing unprecedented challenges and disruptive change, as are many other sectors of the economy. Market shifts, privatisation, increasing competition, technological innovation, and changing consumer behaviour pose significant challenges for water utilities. Such factors have been disruptive to many other sectors, in...

Istanbul is a megacity of 15 million people facing various planning challenges arising from its unique geography and geology, rapid pace of growth, and historical development patterns. As the economic heart of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey for centuries it has experienced tremendous population growth and accompanied unplanned develo...

Over the past two decades, there has been an efflorescence of park and greenspace research. This trend may reflect substantial increases in urban populations globally and concomitant pressures on land resources-including greenspace. But so far research has mainly tended to focus on demand rather than supply, and specifically the practice of provisi...

Download at: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1W7XGy5jORZfW Despite the increasing risks associated with climate-related hazards, urban development in many coastal cities continues to take place on low-lying, high-risk land. Resilience is a key concept in adaptation, however, in the context of cities it is a complex phenomenon influenced by a divers...

With over half a million people, the Gold Coast is currently the sixth largest city in Australia and one of the most rapidly developing urban areas in the country. Unfortunately it is also highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and has been hard hit by storms, flooding, heatwaves, and droughts in recent years. These kinds of impacts wer...

As climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters resilience is becoming more and more important. While the need for an intergovernmental approach to adapt to climate change impacts and achieve disaster resilience is widely acknowledged, higher levels of government often delegate the responsibility to local governments...

Experiential learning, through fieldtrips and study tours, is widely recognised as an important component of education for natural and built environment disciplines. Problem-based and experiential learning within fieldtrips can promote skills development. Yet the design of the teaching and learning experience must align with learning outcomes and s...

South East Queensland region in Australia was highlighted in IPCC AR4 report as a climate change hotspot. This paper analyses the ability of the local plans and policies in place to achieve coastal climate adaptation in the City of Gold Coast in South East Queensland relative to best practice coastal climate adaptation and queries what it needs to...

With climate change the intensity, duration and/or frequency of extreme weather events are likely to increase. Local governments around the world are at the forefront of adaptation to these impacts but they struggle to respond. This is in part due to ambiguity of core concepts such as vulnerability and resilience, which makes it difficult to articu...

For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scie...

The informal waste recycling sector has been an indispensable but ironically invisible part of the waste management systems in developing countries as India, often completely disregarded and overlooked by decision makers and policy frameworks. The turn towards liberalization of economy since 1991 in India opened the doors for privatization of urban...

From a climate change perspective, Australia provides a fascinating case study. The Gold Coast is Australia's sixth largest city and is located on the coastal fringe of the state of Queensland in the north east of the country. This chapter analyses the changing fortunes of climate change adaptation governance for the Gold Coast. It briefly outlines...

In the context of accelerated global change, the concept of resilience, with its roots in ecological theory and complex adaptive systems, has emerged as the favoured framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of change. Its transfer from ecological to social contexts, however, has led to the concept being interpreted in multiple way...

Within the gamut of the neo-liberal economic ideology, private sector participation in urban service delivery is visualised as the ultimate solution to efficient and sustainable provision of the same. While private sector participation is being pushed vigorously in municipal solid waste management in Indian cities, there is a critical gap of litera...

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in Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Julie Newman

in Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Julie Newman

Combined pressures from climate change, resources demand and environmental degradation could lead to the collapse of marine systems and increase the vulnerability of populations dependent on them. In this paper an adaptability envelope framework is applied to investigate how governance arrangements may be addressing changing conditions of marine so...

Researchers have found that open space provision (e.g. parkland) is vitally important for meeting the social, economic and environmental needs of urban populations globally. The international literature on park provision identifies many factors that influence a local government's ability to provide adequate parkland including political agendas, gov...

Evidence of climate change is overwhelming and South East Queensland is highly vulnerable to its impacts. The need for a collaborative approach for developing and implementing effective local climate change adaptation plans has been widely acknowledged in the literature, yet, on the ground examples are still limited in number. Noosa Climate Action...

Most cities in the world have a central business district (CBD) developed organically but there are some exceptions. The city of Gold Coast is distinctive in the Australian landscape for not having a traditional city centre. What makes it unique, however, is the council's attempt to create a new centre, through the Southport Priority Development Ar...

There is increasing concern about climate change and its impacts on both the natural and built environment. Climate change considerations, although still not fully integrated, have become an important part of disaster risk management worldwide. Australia has witnessed many extreme weather events in the past and will witness more in the future as th...

One of the distinctive features of Gold Coast urbanisation is its historically ad hoc approach to development with little or no strategic planning to guide it. Many have commented on the lack of planning on the Gold Coast calling it 'an experiment in freedom' or 'free enterprise city'. Following a major restructuring of the Queensland's local counc...

This paper compares the urbanization and planning in the two sunshine states of Florida and Queensland highlighting the similarities and differences, evaluates how effective the growth management programs have been, and examines the recent changes and the challenges they bring to the respective states.

Utilising the case study of the Gold Coast, Australia, this paper aims to discuss city identity and the role of branding in the formation of the city image and explore whether residents and tourists perceive identity of a city differently. The paper views place identity from the perspective of modern practices of place marketing and branding, rathe...

The Gold Coast is the sixth largest city in Australia and one the fastest developing regions in this country. It is also, however, highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and recent extreme weather events have given an indication of the increasing risk to both people and the built environment. The seriousness of these issues has been det...

In the Australian landscape the Gold Coast is famous for its development without a plan. The rapid growth of the city was undoubtedly developmentally driven and the white shoe brigade's coalition with the pro-development state government in shaping the city is well known. The Gold Coast is also unusual for not having a traditional central business...

Studio pedagogy is intrinsic to most education programmes within the built environment higher education sector. As student numbers increase and academic institutions place pressure on staff to achieve more with less, improve student retention and heighten the first year experience, appropriate and effective pedagogies become critical. Consequently,...

At first glance the built environments of South Florida and South East Queensland appear very similar, particularly along the highly urbanized coast. However this apparent similarity belies some fundamental differences between the two regions in terms of context and the approach to regulating development. This paper describes some of these key diff...

South East Queensland (SEQ)has experienced voracious growth over the past five decades. Spanning some 200 km, this sprawling subtropical coastal conurbation is beginning to reach its ecological and socio-political limits. Over the last decade there have been concerted efforts to manage this growth with a new regime of plans and policies, but climat...

For more than two decades scientists have been warning governments at all levels about the serious risks posed by climate change. For the last few years the issue has been prominently covered by the media and there has been a consistently strong public demand for action. Despite this, successive governments have struggled to develop and implement r...

The Gold Coast City, Queensland, is one of Australia's most famous tourist destinations. Its sub-tropical climate and coastal location attract over eleven million visitors each year. Its reputation as a major holiday destination has contributed to its growing economy and its attractiveness for tourism and retirement.. Over time, Gold Coast City tra...

South East Queensland, Australia and Florida, USA, have distinct similarities in terms of physical characteristics such as geography and climate as well as population growth trends, development history and structure. Both states are experiencing higher than average growth rates within their respective countries as a result of being desirable touris...

The Suwannee River Partnership began in 1998 as a government-led voluntary effort by agricultural producers and conservation groups to avert a water quality crisis through incentive-based reduction of nutrient discharges. With key stakeholders reluctant to participate and their scope of authority constrained by legislation, the water managers desig...

Regional planning and management are problematic in many countries. Control over land and natural resources is fragmented among different levels of government and agencies with narrow missions. Interorganizational collaboration is advocated as a solution, but research to date has predominantly involved case studies with little theoretical rigor. Th...