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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Turbulent times for urban nature: conserving and re-inventing nature in Australian cities</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Davison, Aidan</span> and <span class="person_name">Ridder, Ben</span> (2006) <xhtml:em>Turbulent times for urban nature: conserving and re-inventing nature in Australian cities.</xhtml:em> Australian Zoologist, 33 (3). pp. 306-314. ISSN 0067-2238</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_1937' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1511/1/Davison_%26_Ridder.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_1937' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_1937"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1511/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1511/1/Davison_%26_Ridder.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />4Mb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://www.rzsnsw.org.au/June06AZ.htm">http://www.rzsnsw.org.au/June06AZ.htm</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Interest in urban nature has grown rapidly over recent years in Australia, and not just amongst ecologists and conservationists. Policy makers, social scientists, community groups, the media and urban residents in general have also begun to think about, represent and interact with the 'natural' elements of cities in new ways. There has been a proliferation of perspectives about urban environments, and a proliferation of debates about the sustainable management of animals, plants, water, climate and landscapes in cities. Such debates are indicative not only of an unsettling of the terms of nature in Australia, but also of an unsettling of the terms of Australian society by global social flows. Having placed Australian cities in the context of this turbulence, the paper considers implications of the contested status of urban nature for the practice of nature conservation. It is argued that as they engage with the ideas, values and behaviours of urban residents, nature conservation professionals will be increasingly challenged to broaden their understanding of nature conservation and to question the present dominance of the goal of biodiversity conservation.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Urban nature, urban ecology, urban wildlife, nature conservation, political ecology, sociology of nature, public attitudes</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/300801.html">300000 Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences > 300800 Environmental Sciences > 300801 Environmental Management and Rehabilitation</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/300805.html">300000 Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences > 300800 Environmental Sciences > 300805 Conservation</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/310103.html">310000 Architecture, Urban Environment and Building > 310100 Architecture and Urban Environment > 310103 Urban and Regional Planning</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1511</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Aidan Davison</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">03 Aug 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1511;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1511">item control page</a></p>
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