200852 Innovation, Creativity and Foresight

Quarter 1, 2020 – WSU SCC

Group Report

“Sustaining, Regenerating, and Innovating Australia, 2035-45”

<<Working Theory Framework>>

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Working Theory Framework

Towards the renaissance, innovation, and sustainability of Australia, 2030-45, land use will require critical considerations because sustainability and regeneration initiatives will require the proper utilisation of land resources. The working theory framework relating to land use in the Australia context derives from the theories of sustainable land use. These theories are founded on the premise that land-use practices should be economical, uphold environmental conservation, and encourage the use of contemporary technologies that drive effective and sustainable land utilisation. So, the working theory framework emphasises land management efficiency, land economics, land-use evaluation, land-use technologies and methodologies, land markets, and adherence to land-use regulations and policies as shown below.

Land-use Working Theory Framework

Land management efficiency

Land-use technologies and methodologies

Land-use evaluation

Land economics

Land markets

Land-use regulations and policies

Land-use Working Theory Framework

Land management efficiency

Land-use technologies and methodologies

Land-use evaluation

Land economics

Land markets

Land-use regulations and policies

The successful regeneration, innovation, and sustainability of Australia in the next 20-30 years will require addressing several land-use challenges. These challenges include land consumption demands and pressure on agricultural land due to population growth, land trading problems in the land markets, land management policy issues, and technology influences on land consumption. Looking at this working theory model diagram, the components of the framework will help in addressing these challenges adequately.

The establishment and deployment of effective land-use evaluation criteria will ensure that Australian land performance is assessed for specific purposes such as transport and housing infrastructure, agriculture, reaction, water management, and other purposes that need consideration during the execution and interpretation of land-use surveys (Giupponi and Zen 2016; Larsson 2010). Proper and efficient land management will involve applying a methodological paradigm of integrated models, methods, and classifications, sequential evaluation procedures, and indicator systems to determine proper land use for different purposes as Auzins, Geipele, and Stamure (2013) suggest. As regards land markets, the working theory framework emphasises that Australian land authorities should regularly update land-use regulations and policies to ensure they provide a firm foundation for ethical practices in the buying and selling of land. Land-use policies and regulations will also need revamping to provide a fundamental framework for ethical zoning, regional physical development, and efficient land resource usage towards realising as regenerated, innovated, and sustainable Australia.

This framework also highlights the need to employ land-use technologies and methodologies in land-use governance and management. New technologies in land-use governance will entail employing land consolidation and rehabilitation technologies (geographic information systems, global positioning systems, and remote sensing technologies), ecological planning and design of landscapes, and land information system to ensure optimal and socially desirable land utilisation that meet new population land demands. Other technologies will involve those used in analysing land use/cover change (LUCC). These include technologies for LUCC detection, forecasting, and monitoring, modelling LUCC spatial-temporal characteristics, predicting microclimate development, and biochemical and phenological responses to LUCC (Brown et al, 2012; Mallupattu, Reddy, and Reddy 2013).

Lastly, the framework reflects the essence of ensuring land economics. Land economics will encompass the management of land availability, prices, demand, consumption, and competition to ensure that these aspects influence the distribution, nature, and patterns of land use positively within the land market mechanisms for land sustainability.

REFERENCES

Auzins, A, Geipele, I, and Stamure, I 2013, ‘Measuring land-use efficiency in land management,’ In Advanced Materials Research (Vol. 804, pp. 205-210). Trans Tech Publications Ltd.

Brown, DG, Walker, R, Manson, S, and Seto, K 2012, ‘Modelling land use and land cover change,’ In Land change science (pp. 395-409). Springer, Dordrecht.

Giupponi, C, and Zen, M 2016, ‘Methods and tools for developing virtual territories for scenario analysis of agro-ecosystems,’ Italian Journal of Agronomy, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 9.

Larsson, G 2010, Land management as public policy, University Press of America.

Mallupattu, PK, Reddy, S, and Reddy, J 2013, ‘Analysis of land use/land cover changes using remote sensing data and GIS at an Urban Area, Tirupati, India,’ The Scientific World Journal, 2013.