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Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Sydney's 'Invisible' Farmers -- 1.1 Sydney's Market Gardens: A Cultural Economy of Farming on the Fringe -- 1.2 Protecting Sydney's Market Gardens -- 1.2.1 The History of CALD Market Gardeners in Sydney -- 1.3 Re-Visioning the City from the Edge: Cultural Complexity and Urban Agriculture -- 1.3.1 Speaking from the Fringe -- 1.3.2 Recognition: Determining the Efficacy and Relevance of Prevailing Preservation Discourses -- 1.4 Into the Field … -- 1.5 Chapter Outlines -- References -- Chapter 2: Growing Sydney

AbstractState governments, often described as "laboratories of democracy," design and implement many public policies, but this moniker also implies course correction when initial efforts fail. But how do states learn from failure? Existing hypotheses about policy learning and broad research capacity are insufficient. Using case studies of failed juvenile justice policies in Texas and Washington, I explore when failure acknowledgment occurs at all. I argue that a state's bureaucratic capacity to gather data—distinct from its analytical capacity—is necessary for public officials to acknowledge failure, highlighting the impact of policy and institutional design on evidence-based policy making and policy corrections.

This report was conducted to give a holistic insight into the impact of Timorese seasonal workers in the Australian Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) on development in Timor-Leste. The report will also be used to compliment a brief produced by the Timorese Embassy on seasonal workers in Australia. The paper has been split into three primary sections along a migration systems approach. Firstly it aims to give the reader an insight into key migration theoretical debates, secondly to explore the SWP workers micro level impacts, and thirdly the impacts for Timor-Leste of the SWP at the macro level. The results of this report were attained through a mixed-method approach combining primary interviews with key stakeholders including four Timorese seasonal workers, Timorese governmental officials, the Head of the Seasonal Worker Program at the Australian Department of Employment, and employer testimonials. These primary data sources were combined with statistical data and labour migration theoretical research. This report argues that the benefits of the SWP are substantial and positively impact all key stakeholders including the seasonal workers themselves and their local communities, program employers, Australian-Timorese governmental relations, and Timor-Leste more broadly as the sending country. Migrating workers benefit from higher wages, receiving countries from more employment and a larger GDP, and sending countries from remittances (both economic and socio-political) as well as returning migrant contributions to society. The report did however identify several areas where improvements could be made to expand program benefits. These included: streamlining Timorese governmental financial processes (particularly in the early stages of the placement process), the creation of a "pool" worker recruitment system in Timor-Leste, increased marketing of Timorese seasonal workers directly to prospective Australian employers, bulk data collection of SWP worker statistics, and financial management training for workers in the SWP.

In Australia, as in other Western countries, peri-urban farmland is increasingly being considered a public good, contributing to urban sustainability and climate change mitigation. To retain local food production, advocates have called for the implementation of farmland protection policies that restrict urban development, such as exclusion zoning. Many such policies have been abandoned due to protests, often from the very people the policies are ostensibly intended to protect - farmers. Examining the failure of Sydney's latest 'green zones' through a political ecology lens, this paper challenges the prevailing narrative that these protests indicate a lack of community support for the ideal of farmland protection. The failure of the green zones was one of political process, specifically the lack of consultation with Sydney's culturally and linguistically diverse small-scale farmers, rather than community rejection of the principle of protection. Interview responses from farmers suggest that a bottom-up approach to policy-making would have yielded alternative and more successful approaches to maintaining farming on the fringe. This paper concludes that ensuring small-scale farmers have access to and agency in the environmental decision-making process generates options for farmland protection policy that move beyond a housing-versus-farming dichotomy. � 2013 Institute of Australian Geographers.

Western cities are becoming increasingly culturally diverse through the intersection of processes such as international migration and the political resurgence of Indigenous peoples. The challenge remains, however, to shift from physical copresence to equal rights to the city. This article explores this challenge in an empirical case study of Aboriginal participation in plans for urban development on the fringe of Sydney, Australia's largest city. The findings from this research highlight the limits of official attempts at recognition that focus on a narrow definition of culture to the detriment of economic and political equity. It provides empirical support for a reconceptualization of recognition to incorporate redistribution in order to redress historical marginalization and dispossession that currently limit participation in the urban polity for diverse groups. � The Author(s) 2013.

Western cities are becoming increasingly culturally diverse through the intersection of processes such as international migration and the political resurgence of Indigenous peoples. The challenge remains, however, to shift from physical copresence to equal rights to the city. This article explores this challenge in an empirical case study of Aboriginal participation in plans for urban development on the fringe of Sydney, Australia's largest city. The findings from this research highlight the limits of official attempts at recognition that focus on a narrow definition of culture to the detriment of economic and political equity. It provides empirical support for a reconceptualization of recognition to incorporate redistribution in order to redress historical marginalization and dispossession that currently limit participation in the urban polity for diverse groups. � The Author(s) 2013.

In Australia, as in other Western countries, peri-urban farmland is increasingly being considered a public good, contributing to urban sustainability and climate change mitigation. To retain local food production, advocates have called for the implementation of farmland protection policies that restrict urban development, such as exclusion zoning. Many such policies have been abandoned due to protests, often from the very people the policies are ostensibly intended to protect - farmers. Examining the failure of Sydney's latest 'green zones' through a political ecology lens, this paper challenges the prevailing narrative that these protests indicate a lack of community support for the ideal of farmland protection. The failure of the green zones was one of political process, specifically the lack of consultation with Sydney's culturally and linguistically diverse small-scale farmers, rather than community rejection of the principle of protection. Interview responses from farmers suggest that a bottom-up approach to policy-making would have yielded alternative and more successful approaches to maintaining farming on the fringe. This paper concludes that ensuring small-scale farmers have access to and agency in the environmental decision-making process generates options for farmland protection policy that move beyond a housing-versus-farming dichotomy. � 2013 Institute of Australian Geographers.

Western cities are becoming increasingly culturally diverse through the intersection of processes such as international migration and the political resurgence of Indigenous peoples. The challenge remains, however, to shift from physical copresence to equal rights to the city. This article explores this challenge in an empirical case study of Aboriginal participation in plans for urban development on the fringe of Sydney, Australia's largest city. The findings from this research highlight the limits of official attempts at recognition that focus on a narrow definition of culture to the detriment of economic and political equity. It provides empirical support for a reconceptualization of recognition to incorporate redistribution in order to redress historical marginalization and dispossession that currently limit participation in the urban polity for diverse groups.

This book provides examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability, and explains how others can emulate their success. Arguing that the process of introducing change--whether converting to renewable energy or designing compact development--is critical to success, the authors outline why well-intentioned proposals often fail to win community approval, and why an integrated approach--not "single-issue" initiatives--can surmount challenges of conflicting priorities, scarce resources, and turf battles. Key to success is a democratic "bottom-up" change process, and clear guiding sustainability principles such as the Natural Step framework.--From publisher description