AUSTRALIAINTERNAL migrationLAND settlement patternsREGIONAL developmentPOPULATION dynamicsGOVERNMENT policyEMIGRATION & immigrationSUBURBANIZATIONCITIES & townsThe distribution of population between metropolitan regions and their rural counterparts is a topic of interest, due to the growth pressures in large c...
Urban Settlement Patterns AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION · The cultivation of plants and domestication of animals that likely started in the Middle East about 10 000 years ago. · The mechanization of labour which allowed greater output with less people and food surpluses were created. This allowed people ...
In Australia the past 50 years has seen a movement to rural and coastal areas with housing that is positioned within forested areas, located a few hours from big cities, called ‘sea change’ or ‘tree change’ settlement37. Peri-urban development is now 15% of Australian settlements and rur...
In Australia, World War II had demonstrated the vulnerability of the poorly populated northern part of the country. The war was followed by a drive to develop those vulnerable parts to encourage their settlement. As there was an almost complete absence of mapping, the Commonwealth Scientific and ...
Barber highlighted that property, as we refer to today in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, is a new concept to both lands from a longer historical perspective; there being no concept of alienable land ownership inte reoMāori, which has another way of relating to the earth as expressed by...
(2010) Workplace restructuring and urban form: the changing national settlement patterns of the Canadian workforce, Journal of Urban Affairs, 32(1), pp. 25-53.Moos, M., Skaburskis, A., 2009. Workplace restructuring and urban form: The changing national settlement patterns of the Canadian ...
Climate warming disproportionately impacts countries in the Global South by increasing extreme heat exposure. However, geographic disparities in adaptation capacity are unclear. Here, we assess global inequality in green spaces, which urban residents cri
We present a new study examining the dynamics of global urban building growth rates over the past three decades. By combining datasets for 1,550+ cities from several space-borne sensors—data from three scatterometers and settlement-built fraction based
personal traits and living circumstances—play a larger role in the migration patterns of RUMs in China. China has been using the Hukou (household registration) system since 1958 in order to regulate social protection, maintain social stability, and regulate internal migration between rural and urban...
The journal also aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of the two-way interactions between urbanisation processes and patterns and environmental changes at the local, regional, and global scales. In addition to mitigation and adaptation concerns, these interactions also include related social and ...