ABSTRACT
Australian peri-urban areas represent a rapidly changing sociocultural landscape of population growth and changing food production capacity (Buxton et al. Choy 2006, Low Choy and Buxton 2013). Such landscapes encompass activities that increasingly reflect both urban and rural values and interests. The people who live in these landscapes and make decisions about their use and management integrate traditional agro-rural community values with those of new settlers from urban environments (Hards 2011). Therefore the integration of local with new knowledge has the potential to result in a knowledge-fusion critical to development of innovation and adaptive capacity in these linked socio-ecological systems (Folke et al. 2003, Gunderson and Holling 2002, Holling 1978).
