A Butt
Biographic Data
| ID | 46630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Butt |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Butt |
| SIGNATURE | BUTT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6392-5954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing the promise and performance of a ‘fit-for-purpose’ land administration system for urban areas of Rwanda
Developing countries are urged to adopt fit-for-purpose land administration (FFPLA) to address global land administration challenges under rapid urbanisation. The FFPLA has proven cost-effective in initialising the formalisation of land tenure as a key input into planning and land development. However, its long-term ability to support planning, particularly its suitability for high-value, rapidly changing urban contexts remains uncertain. This st…
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Who Gains Value from Professional Accreditation
National Urban Policy Submission
A summary of the submission from Jago Dodson and Andrew Butt to the Cities and Suburbs Unit on the Draft National Urban Policy addressing the need for a strong evidence-base and research-driven policy framework, a greater ambition for the policy, and the need for clear implementation and monitoring
A Research Translation, Implementation and Impact Strategy for the Australian Healthy Environments and Lives (Heal) Research Network
Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) is the Australian national research network established to support improvements to health, the Australian health system, and the environment in response to the unfolding climate crisis. The HEAL Network comprises researchers, community members and organisations, policymakers, practitioners, service providers, and other stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and sectors. HEAL seeks to protect and improve public…
Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia’s 21 largest cities
Spatial and area-level socioeconomic variation in urban liveability (access to social infrastructure, public transport, open space, healthy food choices, local employment, street connectivity, dwelling density, and housing affordability) was examined and mapped across 39,967 residential statistical areas in Australia's metropolitan (n = 7) and largest regional cities (n = 14). Urban liveability varied spatially, with inner-city areas more liveabl…
Local government perspectives on rural retirement migration and social sustainability
Within the policy and academic literature, the impact of rural retirement migration (RRM) on community sustainability has been questioned. This qualitative study investigated the perceived impact of retirement migration on rural social sustainability from a local government perspective. Focus groups were conducted with local government senior managers and community services staff (n = 39) across six rural local government areas in one Australian …
Smells like politics
Intensive farming is an increasing part of Australian agriculture, including in the multi-functional landscapes at the edges of Australian cities. The example of intensive "broiler" poultry production reveals the tensions that arise when sites of hyper-productivity conflict with social change in rural areas. Planning processes for intensive farming in the Australian state of Victoria are predicated on stability and consensus: on assumed static an…
Making the Blood Broil
A key challenge for planning the peri-urban internationally derives from the ability of land-use change to outstrip the development of new concepts and understandings. There are few places where this is more apparent than in the peri-urban areas of Melbourne, Australia, where applications to develop technologically sophisticated broiler or poultry farms are fiercely opposed by local residents and amenity migrants with attendant imaginaries of loc…
Motivations for retention and mobility
Since the 1990s, programmes designed to attract international skilled migrants to work and live in regional areas have been a major theme of Australian immigration policy. The success of these programmes depends not only on attracting skilled migrants to regional areas, but also on retaining them within the regions into the longer term. This article argues that residential satisfaction, and specifically economic opportunity, is important in retai…
Motivations for Retention and Mobility
The prevalence and characteristics of commuting between small towns and regional centres in regional Victoria
This article explores the characteristics of commuting between small towns and regional centres located beyond the sphere of metropolitan influence in an Australian context. In regional Australia there are a number of economic, social and demographic trends affecting small towns and regional areas. In respect to commuting, the majority of analysis has occurred within a metropolitan setting, despite the prevalence of commuting in rural and regiona…
The Prevalence and Characteristics of Commuting Between Small Towns and Regional Centres in Regional Victoria
Exploring Peri-urbanisation and Agricultural Systems in the Melbourne Region
Processes of peri-urbanisation emerge from a range of drivers that differ according to socio-economic and geographic settings. Using the Melbourne outer peri-urban region, this paper explores these processes using a set of indicator variables for four identified modes of peri-urbanisation: exurbanisation, hidden urbanisation, retiree mobility, and displaced suburbia. This paper considers the relationships between these modes and their locational …
Vulnerability to Bushfire Risk at Melbourne's Urban Fringe
The 7 February 2009 bushfires in the peri-urban region to the north of metropolitan Melbourne heralded what many have called an entirely new epoch in terms of weather-related disasters in Australia. A total of 173 people and 2000 properties were destroyed and, as with the 1939 fires in Victoria, a Royal Commission was subsequently instituted to inquire into the causes and responses to the fire. The Royal Commission has heard much evidence about a…
Maxwell Street Wedding--The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Vulnerability to Bushfire Risk at Melbourne's Urban Fringe
The 7 February 2009 bushfires in the peri-urban region to the north of metropolitan Melbourne heralded what many have called an entirely new epoch in terms of weather-related disasters in Australia. A total of 173 people and 2000 properties were destroyed and, as with the 1939 fires in Victoria, a Royal Commission was subsequently instituted to inquire into the causes and responses to the fire. The Royal Commission has heard much evidence about a…
Motivations for retention and mobility
Since the 1990s, programmes designed to attract international skilled migrants to work and live in regional areas have been a major theme of Australian immigration policy. The success of these programmes depends not only on attracting skilled migrants to regional areas, but also on retaining them within the regions into the longer term. This article argues that residential satisfaction, and specifically economic opportunity, is important in retai…
Exploring Peri-urbanisation and Agricultural Systems in the Melbourne Region
Processes of peri-urbanisation emerge from a range of drivers that differ according to socio-economic and geographic settings. Using the Melbourne outer peri-urban region, this paper explores these processes using a set of indicator variables for four identified modes of peri-urbanisation: exurbanisation, hidden urbanisation, retiree mobility, and displaced suburbia. This paper considers the relationships between these modes and their locational …
Smells like politics
Intensive farming is an increasing part of Australian agriculture, including in the multi-functional landscapes at the edges of Australian cities. The example of intensive "broiler" poultry production reveals the tensions that arise when sites of hyper-productivity conflict with social change in rural areas. Planning processes for intensive farming in the Australian state of Victoria are predicated on stability and consensus: on assumed static an…
Local government perspectives on rural retirement migration and social sustainability
Within the policy and academic literature, the impact of rural retirement migration (RRM) on community sustainability has been questioned. This qualitative study investigated the perceived impact of retirement migration on rural social sustainability from a local government perspective. Focus groups were conducted with local government senior managers and community services staff (n = 39) across six rural local government areas in one Australian …
Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia’s 21 largest cities
Spatial and area-level socioeconomic variation in urban liveability (access to social infrastructure, public transport, open space, healthy food choices, local employment, street connectivity, dwelling density, and housing affordability) was examined and mapped across 39,967 residential statistical areas in Australia's metropolitan (n = 7) and largest regional cities (n = 14). Urban liveability varied spatially, with inner-city areas more liveabl…
Maxwell Street Wedding--The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Vulnerability to Bushfire Risk at Melbourne's Urban Fringe
The 7 February 2009 bushfires in the peri-urban region to the north of metropolitan Melbourne heralded what many have called an entirely new epoch in terms of weather-related disasters in Australia. A total of 173 people and 2000 properties were destroyed and, as with the 1939 fires in Victoria, a Royal Commission was subsequently instituted to inquire into the causes and responses to the fire. The Royal Commission has heard much evidence about a…
The prevalence and characteristics of commuting between small towns and regional centres in regional Victoria
This article explores the characteristics of commuting between small towns and regional centres located beyond the sphere of metropolitan influence in an Australian context. In regional Australia there are a number of economic, social and demographic trends affecting small towns and regional areas. In respect to commuting, the majority of analysis has occurred within a metropolitan setting, despite the prevalence of commuting in rural and regiona…
The Prevalence and Characteristics of Commuting Between Small Towns and Regional Centres in Regional Victoria
Exploring Peri-urbanisation and Agricultural Systems in the Melbourne Region
Processes of peri-urbanisation emerge from a range of drivers that differ according to socio-economic and geographic settings. Using the Melbourne outer peri-urban region, this paper explores these processes using a set of indicator variables for four identified modes of peri-urbanisation: exurbanisation, hidden urbanisation, retiree mobility, and displaced suburbia. This paper considers the relationships between these modes and their locational …
Motivations for retention and mobility
Since the 1990s, programmes designed to attract international skilled migrants to work and live in regional areas have been a major theme of Australian immigration policy. The success of these programmes depends not only on attracting skilled migrants to regional areas, but also on retaining them within the regions into the longer term. This article argues that residential satisfaction, and specifically economic opportunity, is important in retai…
Motivations for Retention and Mobility
Making the Blood Broil
A key challenge for planning the peri-urban internationally derives from the ability of land-use change to outstrip the development of new concepts and understandings. There are few places where this is more apparent than in the peri-urban areas of Melbourne, Australia, where applications to develop technologically sophisticated broiler or poultry farms are fiercely opposed by local residents and amenity migrants with attendant imaginaries of loc…
Smells like politics
Intensive farming is an increasing part of Australian agriculture, including in the multi-functional landscapes at the edges of Australian cities. The example of intensive "broiler" poultry production reveals the tensions that arise when sites of hyper-productivity conflict with social change in rural areas. Planning processes for intensive farming in the Australian state of Victoria are predicated on stability and consensus: on assumed static an…
Local government perspectives on rural retirement migration and social sustainability
Within the policy and academic literature, the impact of rural retirement migration (RRM) on community sustainability has been questioned. This qualitative study investigated the perceived impact of retirement migration on rural social sustainability from a local government perspective. Focus groups were conducted with local government senior managers and community services staff (n = 39) across six rural local government areas in one Australian …
Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia’s 21 largest cities
Spatial and area-level socioeconomic variation in urban liveability (access to social infrastructure, public transport, open space, healthy food choices, local employment, street connectivity, dwelling density, and housing affordability) was examined and mapped across 39,967 residential statistical areas in Australia's metropolitan (n = 7) and largest regional cities (n = 14). Urban liveability varied spatially, with inner-city areas more liveabl…
A Research Translation, Implementation and Impact Strategy for the Australian Healthy Environments and Lives (Heal) Research Network
Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) is the Australian national research network established to support improvements to health, the Australian health system, and the environment in response to the unfolding climate crisis. The HEAL Network comprises researchers, community members and organisations, policymakers, practitioners, service providers, and other stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and sectors. HEAL seeks to protect and improve public…
Who Gains Value from Professional Accreditation
National Urban Policy Submission
A summary of the submission from Jago Dodson and Andrew Butt to the Cities and Suburbs Unit on the Draft National Urban Policy addressing the need for a strong evidence-base and research-driven policy framework, a greater ambition for the policy, and the need for clear implementation and monitoring
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Assessing the promise and performance of a ‘fit-for-purpose’ land administration system for urban areas of Rwanda
Developing countries are urged to adopt fit-for-purpose land administration (FFPLA) to address global land administration challenges under rapid urbanisation. The FFPLA has proven cost-effective in initialising the formalisation of land tenure as a key input into planning and land development. However, its long-term ability to support planning, particularly its suitability for high-value, rapidly changing urban contexts remains uncertain. This st…
Political science (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Regional science (6 works) · Rural development and sustainability (5 works)