ABSTRACT

The fixity or mobility of borders are key themes within the border studies literature and have useful critical application to urban and environmental planning through theory, pedagogy and practice. This offers potential for transformative change through the processes of re-bordering and re-orienting established boundary demarcations in ways that support and promote sustainability in a climate of change.

Planning Across Borders in a Climate of Change draws on a range of diverse case studies from Australasia, North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and offers the application of border theory, concepts and principles to planning as a critical lens. It applies this lens to a range of international case studies in key areas such as climate change adaptation, food security, spatial planning, critical infrastructure and urban ecology.

This collection fills an important gap in the border studies literature, bringing climate change considerations to bear on planning. It should be of interest to students, scholars and professionals in the field of urban and environmental planning, climate change adaptation, border studies, urban studies, human and political geography, environmental studies and development.

part Section I|44 pages

Borders in theory

chapter 2|16 pages

Rethinking borders

chapter 3|12 pages

Troubling the place of the border

On territory, community, space and place

part Section II|66 pages

Borders in (international) practice

chapter 5|15 pages

Beyond urban-rural boundaries

Encouraging inter-municipal collaboration for climate change adaptation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

chapter 6|16 pages

Crossing borders

Two contrasting approaches to interactions between natural and human ecosystems

chapter 7|17 pages

Inter-sectoral and inner-sectoral borders across critical infrastructure

Lessons from the United States and Australia

chapter 8|16 pages

Governance by re-bordering

Comparing the rescaling of territorial boundaries as a spatial governance strategy in Auckland, Brisbane/South East Queensland, Vancouver, London and Manchester

part Section III|51 pages

Australian urban borders

chapter 9|13 pages

Questions of borders and mobility

De- and re-territorialising approaches to urban and regional planning policy and governance

chapter 12|12 pages

Competing processes of border-making

Compact city planning and residents’ everyday territorialisation of home

part Section IV|43 pages

Border futures

chapter 14|16 pages

Transgressing borders

Imagining environmental justice in spatial planning

chapter 15|13 pages

Virtual borders in the online world

How e-planning helps and hinders communicative planning practice