Thayer robert L jr

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Sustainable City Regions: Re-localising landscapes in a global world

Thayer robert L jr, landscape review volume 9(2)p13-25

• Thayer argues that with oil becoming more scarce transport will become too expensive and globalization will start to reverse, local supplies will need to re-establish and shorter transport distances to goods will need to develop.
• Thayer puts across the prediction that with this oil shortage more people will populate the rural landscapes and cities will become more compact.
• Thayer argues that landscape has 3 main operative systems: matter, energy, and information and that the energy will deplete with oil but information will continue to grow.
• Thayer argues that the type of ownership distribution and consumption of essential goods to and from within our regions at present is not sustainable, once the oil shortage occurs these resources will have to be gained locally there will be a large effect on the local landscapes, communities and ecosystems which will be more visible to us.
• Thayer argues that with localisation, the not in my back yard attitude of resource use and extraction on the landscape like mining, mills, farms, factories, dairies, power plants, water and waist treatment facilities will not be out of sight out of mind anymore.
• Thayer refers to a term oillusion which he says is the belief that we can keep on consuming as we are and oil will never run out.
• Thayer argues that with oil shortages that energy production will become localized and will therefore be more efficient, and renewable energy production will replace non-renewable energy production.
• Thayer predicts that because of shipping costs, closer to home production will occur and the value of local product will be recognised.
• He also predicts that with oil shortage as regions draw back within themselves that a physical identity for the region will develop that differs from that of the larger nation or state , with deliberate regional design differentiation.

How this relates to waiheke

• With oil shortage been a very realistic possibility and the isolation of waiheke without oil maybe looking at sustainability today would be a move in the right direction. *As waiheke as time goes on is becoming less and less sustainable as productive land is getting eaten up by houses and people are making money by either travelling to Auckland for work or tourism which both could become threatened with an oil shortage.