Resilience Analysis Of Perth Region In Western Australia

Analyze the resilience that presents in the Perth region of Western Australia.

Transforming agriculture: sustainable food in Perth city farm

Alternative housing and communities (Ecoburbia Project)

Sustainable technologies of South Fremantle Solar Farm.

Transforming agriculture: sustainable food in Perth city farm

The primary purpose of the paper is to analyze the resilience that presents in the Perth region of Western Australia. For this field report, three topics are chosen that helpful for analyzing the resilience of this Perth region by diversity, tightness, and modularity of feedback. Resilience is defined as the capacity of any economic, ecological and social system to respond as well as captive to any sorts of changes and destruction occurring in a place. About that, the paper will discuss the resilience aspects by transforming agricultural aspects regarding sustainable food in Perth city farm. In other words, with the help of this resilience, the shocks, as well as changes that take place within the whole world in today's environment, can be determined easily. Besides this, the alternative housing and communities and the sustainable technologies of South Fremantle Solar Farm will also be further discussed in this paper.                     

The field report has been used for exploring resilience in the Perth region that help to prepare a proper organized precautions for the unexpected changes or disasters in future days. From this report, an idea will be found by the need of an ecosystem for the future, the roles, and responsibility of peoples as well as the social system of this Perth area. The resilience of this region has been determined after analyzing various features such as modularity, diversity as well as the stiffness of feedback. Therefore, an analysis has been done on the resilience so that an idea has been generated about the ecosystem of this Perth region. Also, with the help of this resilience, the unexpected changes or disasters taking place due to ecosystem change in the Perth region can easily be avoided. Hence, it can be said that with the help of resilience the Perth region can easily sustain their whole condition of the ecosystem. Along with they can take proper measures to make the condition better as well as protect the place from failure too.

Sustainability is considered to the key of this resilience aspects, and the study will emphasize the features of this resilience regarding maintaining the whole situation of this Perth region. Also, the most important factor of resilience is that it forms protection that can help to reduce the rate of unexpected charges that may be generated in this Perth region in future days. Advancing technology and communication aspects makes the ecosystem more complicated and that has also given rise to various negative cause over the ecosystem. Therefore to reduce the risks of these factors about economic, social and environment approach this study will be helpful as it can provide proper ways by which the negative impact of the environment will be reduced. The study helps to reduce the challenges that may cause in the ecosystem on future by providing proper protective measures by which the issues will diminish. Also, the project is also helpful in determining the relationship between human as well as their place where they generally stay. 

Alternative housing and communities (Ecoburbia Project)

Many scholars suggested that conservation is helpful for protecting land cover areas and therefore it is an important aspect for reducing the unexpected disasters. Disasters can generate in any region and for this proper conservation is necessary. Therefore, to reduce the negative impact of environment occurring in the Perth region, conservation should be the priority of the people. It is seen that the extent of land cover, as well as land use, has been changing by the people on an international scale.  Therefore conservations aspects will help to restore the degraded nature of the ecosystem. With the proper understanding of conservation aspects, the people focused on the recovery and restoration parts of the ecosystem. Hence it can easily reduce the degraded nature of both biodiversity and ecosystem services respectively (Aronson et al., 2007, Chazdon, 2008b, Rey Benayas et al., 2008 in Holl 2011).

The city farm has chosen for this study that has been formerly used as a common garden purpose. This garden is considered as the icon of Western Australia due to its community engagement and environmental sustainability aspects respectively. Also, peoples take the initiative to work in this area as they wanted that this place should be attracted to all community of peoples (Vitek & Jackson, 1996). Some scholars suggested that people often create places and transfer it into an area that should identify their community in which they live. The community become famous only when it possesses a place in history and thereby share proper values of that respective place. The city farm of Perth is also constructed in such a manner that it easily can build its place in history.

In addition to making a place in the community city farm possess good interactive aspects between the community members, as by their feedback, they renovate their farm. With the help of feedback report, the Perth city farm has enabled to make spaces for people communication aspects through art gallery, celebration as well as hosting event, farmers market and also within the farm they make a small cafeteria which supplies organic food for people. Therefore, to reduce the environmental effects of this, proper farm concern should be needed by the people. This will help them to raise the environmentally friendly aspects of this particular place. The sustainable farms mainly useful for protecting the biodiversity aspects by growing organic agriculture and variety of crops. It also enhances the resilience approach to prevent the unexpected disaster that may generate in the future (Lotter, 2003).

Sustainable technologies of South Fremantle Solar Farm

In order to maintain the resilience, soils are provided in the organic farm as it enables to hold the moisture content during the time of drought years and also helpful for enhancing the production rate at wet seasons (Walker and Salt, 2006). Hence, in case of any sorts of disturbances with the help of such moisture content soil the organic farm can provide better resilience in the ecosystem of the Perth region. Therefore, by this aspect, the city firm produces vegetables that are purely organic through a farmer's market that held on Saturday and also from the farm directly on other days of the week. From these proses, it is quite evident that this city farm of Perth provides various opportunities for people to live in this city and also help a person to experience nature's gift from the environment.

Also, this city market also helps the farmers to demonstrate self-sufficiency as well as diversity perspectives respectively. Feedback can be weaken for globalization and therefore the farmers are more aware of their respective actions (Hopkin, 2008). By this aspect it educates the people by learning them about the significance of organically grown food. Hence it consider as an education platform that enable the farmers to take their own decision. From this aspect, a connection has been noticed between the customer's and producers because the consumer's suggestions and feedback are helpful for developing trust within a community. Hence it is clear that resilience not help to make the diversity but it also form connections between producers and consumers. For example, growing organic vegetables by chicken poo or compost, vermin-compost, solar panel and rainwater harvesting. With the help of this resilience features the farmers of Perth city farm become support and interrelate other features related to a resilient system. Therefore the city farm help to make an alternative in terms of industrial agriculture through self-sufficient aspects and subsidizes to the localized economy that should be helpful in creating a resilient economy.          

There are many efforts taken by the private and public sectors to make our society operate more sustainably. It has also been observed that these efforts were inadequate for accomplishing the drastic decrease in consumption, inequality and environmental loss which are essential for accomplishing a sustainable society (Sherry, 2014). The co-housing is paying more attention to dimensions of the society and dynamics of the community. The urban co-housing is unique that has been made in such a way that is more dedicated towards the social, environmental and economic living sustainably. Moreover, the peoples living in the communities of the co-housing also improve their living styles and welfare. The co-housing and Ecovillage combined offer technology help to maintain sustainable resource management and support from the society to create and maintain the choices of lifestyles which are based on the best resources of the environment.   

Conservation for Protecting the Ecosystem

The project of Ecoburbia is one of the many projects which is situated in Fremantle and is a good example of co-housing. Shani and Tim have comfortably fitted more residents on the block without building any additional houses and sacrificing any space from the yard. They have turned a large and old suburban house of the 1960s into a shared space of living.  So, there are varieties of food produced an ample supply of food makes sure that food is available all through the seasons. The food production is stronger as they do not rely on one kind of crop and experiments with different kinds of vegetables and fruits. The land of Ecoburbia is used in various ways like for gardening, rearing goats and chickens and beekeeping. The resilience has been made for more self-dependency, leaner future and for giving priorities to the local rather than the imported.

The project of Ecoburbia offers space for changing values differently which might create the transformation into a sustainable manner. From my point of view, Ecoburbia provides opportunities to the residents to disconnect the growth from the welfare and reconnect the peoples with their existing location. Besides these, the residents have a sense of belonging to the living situation that attached them closely with their location with the help of rich biodiversity and their shared and common visions (Conrad, 1995). It has been rightly said that the intentional societies have like-minder peoples who share a dedication to lead their lives sustainably. Whereas Eco-villages offers sustainable processes of house buildings and advanced technology combined with the help of sustainable resource management and support from the society to create and maintain the choices of lifestyles which are based on the best resources of the environment.  

Similarly, Ecoburbia has been made by utilizing design principles of co-housing like methods of water harvesting, solar system, common home, and share spaces. The common home has the kitchen, spaces for office and meetings and guest room. It is also utilized for sharing meals and sessions of yoga. The environment-friendly homes of the project fulfill the standards of sustainable growth and utilize technology which uses renewable resources.  The main aim of the project is to prove accommodation to the peoples in smaller and sustainable homes. The resilience of the ecology and welfare of the society have the possibility of assurance, if the total loads of the human beings remain sustainable beneath the carrying capacity of the Earth (Lánczi, 2009). To live at the edge of the ecology, one has to compromise the flexibility and the humanity of the ecosystems. So, small and environment-friendly homes have little effect on the environment and greater resilient.

The Significance of Perth City Farm in Achieving Resilience

After several years of undiscriminating use of natural resources, the development of the humans requires to take into account environmental integrity as well as short-term development of the economy. The latest developments of the technology and growing concerns for the sustainable and environmental effect of utilizing conventional fuels and the progress of clean and sustainable powers production in considerable quantities from renewable sources of energy has risen the interests all over the world. The project of the solar farm in Fremantle is in progress with approvals by the draft of the energy plan of the City, its commitment of One Planet for neutral carbon within 2020 and the goal of 100% renewable powers within 2025. Fremantle continues to lead in sustainability, with the initiative of the solar farm along with the Action Plan of One Planet and future projects.

In Fremantle, the solar firm is considered as to be the epitome of resilience. It is estimated that the firm occupying 8 hectares of the total space within 19.4-hectare site will generate nearly 4.9 Megawatts of the total power (Walker and Salt, 2012). It will be done by cutting the desired usage of the electric consumption by the nonrenewable energy for various commercial and community purposes. Resilience can be effectively defend to be the desired ability which bounces back after some disturbances and thus, the development of the solar firm instead of depending on non-renewable energy after occurring of the incident of the power blackout which is displaying resilience.  Moreover, it needs to be understood that the city of Fremantle is dedicated to managing the building energy efficient and to deliver all of the consumed energy along with renewable technologies.  It helps in reduction of the emissions of the greenhouse gases and contributes towards achieving the target for the federal government. On the other hand, it also contributes towards the development of a more resilient city with the help of reduction in the current losses as well as the future costs which are associated with the variations in the prices of energy.   

It is a matter of the fact that the region is planning for the use of other renewable energies like that of a wind farm within the Fremantle.  It has been seen that the website of Fremantle wind farm proposes to design for the eight turbines that are located on the mole as well as on the reclaimed land which critically aims for producing 6.4 MW electricity (Dawson, 2010).  The wind farm community main motive is only to engage the local community on its initial stages through installment and proper operational approach. It thereby build the maintenance upon completion that help improving the community economy and local economic resilience respectively. The alternative form of generating the energy reveals the resilience of the entire region as if one goes out then the rely on the other form of generation of energy. In addition, the wind and solar farm confirms self-resilience as an energy approach that not depend on fossil fuel and it produces its own energy that leads to a resilient community.       

Promoting Self-sufficiency and Diversity in the City Farm

Conclusion 

It can be concluded from the topic of sustainable agriculture, technologies and the alternative housing besides communities, that Perth is a region which remains far off resilient when compared with the other different regions. The region of Perth tries to localize their economy, their provisions, various aspects of diversity, quantity, as well as the convenience of local manufacture, will enhance the future resilience. Also, this region implements sustainability principles to generate more resilience. On the application of the features of resilience towards the bioregion, it reflects as to be a diverse and modular system having the tightness of the critical feedback which can be picked up concerning any difficult issues within the environment as well as the socioeconomic systems. So, Perth bioregion could be analyzed by Hopkins important elements of resilience.

As per the researcher, diversity connects with various elements which include a particular system, for the concerned people, businesses, species, as well as sources of food or various institutions. It is found that the bioregion of Perth retains greater diversity concerning the economic diversity, sustainable entrepreneurship, food systems along with the policies for environmental conservations.  The city of Perth resembles the economy of diverse culture including the restaurants of organic food and the farmers market. In the same way, the solar farm of Fremantle resembles renewable technology as well as the opportunities of green energy. Ecoburbia establishes the diversity with the help of social inclusion as well as the conservation of the environment. In the same way, the diversity can be explained as to be the various types of elements which helps in making a system responding to multiple challenges.  Therefore, it can be concluded that a system can be more resilient.

Moreover it has described modularity as the connection of a particular system. It also highlights the desired framework of the way of components in which they are connected. It also represents the actual capacity of these particular components for organizing themselves for facing any challenges. Hence, it possess a connection between system that helpful for interlinking one system to other so that it interwoven and easily resists the tight challenges. It is also that the city farm effectively exemplifies the desire innovation of the system of sustainable food where the people from all over the city to purchase food. In addition, there are various other farmers present in this region. With the help of intentional co-housing communities such as Ecoburbia, the social resilience where people learn to live through a sustainable manner is consider as the other modularity aspects. The solar farm of Fremantle is finding new and innovative ways within the sustainable business providing more priority wards the community.

The Role of Urban Co-housing and Ecovillage in Promoting Sustainability

The tightness of the feedback can be effectively regarded as to be significant while the evaluation of the resilience in a particular region. It also refers to the quick and efficient change on one of the parts of the impact of change that can be responded in another region. Considering more localized system the consequences of the actions of people are better by the reduction in the crossing of the threshold within the lengthening process of the feedback. Therefore, the farm of both Perth and Ecoburbia area effectively community own and regarded as to be local initiatives because as it consists of more tight feedback loops. Considering an example, when the people give off grid relating with energy, the area considered as to be more mindful regarding their consumption as they area much closer towards generation and the feedback loop remains smaller.     

So, there are important components that would handle the bioregion keen on resilience, ventures like Perth city farm, Ecoburbia, and solar farm together presents modularity and diversity that provide strength to the tightness of feedback into the system.

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