Human settlements
Theme commentary
Professor Peter W. Newton, Swinburne University of Technology
prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee at CSIRO, 2006
This document was commissioned for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee. This and other commissioned documents support the Committee's Report but are not part of it.
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Contents
- Introduction
- External pressures on human settlements
- Settlement induced pressures on built and natural environments
- Liveability of human settlements
- Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Population change in the mega-metropolitan regions
- Appendix 2: Definition of mega-metropolitan regions
- Appendix 3: Key transitions
- Appendix 4: Definition of Singleman’s industry classes
- References
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Peer reviewers
Peter Maganov
Andrew Montgomery
Citation
Newton, PW 2006, ‘Human settlements’, theme commentary prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra, <http://www.deh.gov.au/ soe/2006/commentaries/settlements/index.html>
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