STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Andrew Butt
Position:
Assoc Professor, Sustainability and Urban
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
Global, Urban and Social Studies
Phone:
99253351
Email:
andrew.butt@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
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Research supervision
Andrew is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS) and the Centre for Urban Research (CUR) at RMIT.
Andrew is a planning educator and researcher with a focus on rural and regional planning issues. He has a background in planning practice and his current research and supervision is in the area of land use change and planning policy associated with regional Australia, food systems and peri-urban development.
Publications at Google Scholar.
Andrew undertakes teaching and research in the areas of land use planning, population change and the relationship between environment, society and policy. He is presently the Program Manager of the Master of Urban Planning and Environment and the Master of International Urban Environmental Management.
- PhD, La Trobe University
- Master of Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne
- BA (Urban Studies) Victoria University
Peri-urbanisation processes (Australia and elsewhere)
Rural and regional planning and governance
Planning practice and the profession
Andrew has worked for over 20 years in planning practice in Australia and elsewhere. More recently, he has undertaken several industry-funded research projects with government agencies in the areas of rural planning, regional development and demographic analysis.
- Buxton, M.,Butt, A. (2020). The Future of the Fringe: the crisis in peri-urban planning, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
- Winterton, R.,Butt, A.,Jorgensen, B.,Martin, J. (2019). Local government perspectives on rural retirement migration and social sustainability In: Australian Geographer, , 1 - 18
- Butt, A. (2019). Food security and planning In: The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning, Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom
- Butt, A.,Stephenson, C. (2019). Tiny houses and planning regulation for housing alternatives: the context of regional Victoria In: Australian Planner, 55, 157 - 163
- Butt, A.,Taylor, E. (2018). Smells like politics: Planning and the inconvenient politics of intensive peri-urban agriculture In: Geographical Research, 56, 206 - 218
- Rudner, J.,Butt, A.,Lobo, M. (2018). Adjudicating faith: 20 years of secular decision-making for religious spaces In: Proceedings of the 8th State of Australian Cities National Conference (SOAC 2017), Adelaide, Australia, 28-30 November 2017
- Ratnayake, R.,Butt, A. (2018). Encounters with the unfamiliar: international planning education In: International Planning Studies, 23, 51 - 64
- Budge, T.,Butt, A. (2017). Farmland preservation in Australia In: Farmland Preservation: Land for Future Generations, University of Manitoba Press, Manitoba, Canada
- Butt, A.,Fish, B. (2016). Amenity, landscape and forms of peri-urbanisation around Melbourne, Australia In: Conflict and Change in Australia S Peri-Urban Landscapes, Taylor and Francis, Oxon, United Kingdom
- Butt, A.,Budge, T.,Bello, M. (2015). Downscaling planning's fashions: network formation and application in the small city In: Proceedings of the 7th State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC 2015), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 9-11 December 2015
1 PhD Current Supervisions
- Local Government Co-ordination: Metropolitan Governance in Twenty-first Century Australia. Funded by: AHURI Research Grants 2019 (CAT 1 Generic) from (2019 to 2020)
- Enabling active travel in Australian cities by mapping shadeways. Funded by: Smart Cities and Suburbs Program - 2017 onwards from (2017 to 2020)