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Pathways Towards Sustainability: The Australian Approach

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  • Ton Buhrs
  • Graeme Aplin

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Following its rise to international prominence, sustainability has become an official principle or goal in many countries. Due to contextual differences, countries have followed different paths in the pursuit of sustainability. Approachescan be classified into three categories: green planning; institutional reform; and social mobilization. None of these courses on its own is likely to achieve sustainability. Yet, countries often appear to develop a path dominated by one of these approaches. This paper focuses on Australia, sketches the extent to which green planning, institutional reform and social mobilization have been playing a role in the pursuit of sustainability, and illustrates the difficulties of developing a pathway that combines these approaches.

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  • Ton Buhrs & Graeme Aplin, 1999. "Pathways Towards Sustainability: The Australian Approach," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 315-340.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:42:y:1999:i:3:p:315-340
    DOI: 10.1080/09640569911118
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    1. Matthews, Tony & Marston, Gregory, 2019. "How environmental storylines shaped regional planning policies in South East Queensland, Australia: A long-term analysis," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 476-484.
    2. Julia Zelikova, 2013. "Successful aging: a cross-national study of subjective well-being later in life," HSE Working papers WP BRP 21/SOC/2013, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    3. Holmes-Watts, Tania & Watts, Scotney, 2008. "Legal frameworks for and the practice of participatory natural resources management in South Africa," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(7-8), pages 435-443, October.
    4. Anna Firsova & Roslyn Taplin, 2009. "Australia and Russia: How do their environmental policy processes differ?," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 407-426, April.

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