Sleepwalking to disaster? A critical history of land-use, transport planning and decision-making reviewed against climate-change priorities in Victoria

The thesis is a critical study of the historical basis for inter-sectoral conflict between land-use, transport and environment through the lens of ideology and power relations. The research found the conflict is well entrenched and founded on an ideological privileging of economic drivers in the fossil-fuel sectors which has `locked-in' high-carbon land-use and transport programs and `locked-out' adaptation decarbonisation capability for Australian cities. This critical history shows how instruments that had been originally established to protect the environment now facilitate extreme inter-sectoral conflict that constitutes a form of symbolic violence, through misrepresentation and mis-recognition of environmental impacts.