Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City: Assessing Socioeconomic Risks from Higher Urban Fuel Prices

By Jago Dodson, N. Sipe. 2005

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Global oil prices have risen markedly over the past 18 months, generating considerable speculation regarding their economic and social impacts. Cities that are highly dependent on petroleum for urban transport are likely to be most adversely affected by rising oil prices. Yet there has been little recent scholarly engagement with the socioeconomic implications of increasing oil prices. This paper develops a basic framework and methodology for assessing the socioeconomic 'oil vulnerability' of Australian cities. The paper demonstrates that there is wide spatial variability in the vulnerability of Australia's urban populations to rising fuel costs which may compound existing socio-spatial divisions and speculates on some underlying causal factors. The paper calls for better data and new methods to understand the issue.

Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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In Health

1. Jago Dodson
2. N. Sipe
3. A. Delbosc

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jago Dodson
2. N. Sipe
3. Graham Currie

In Transportation

1. Jago Dodson
2. N. Sipe
3. A. Delbosc
4. Graham Currie
5. Bert van Wee
6. T. Litman
7. K. Lucas
8. Karst T. Geurs

Citations in the corpus

• Factors influencing travel mode choice among families with young children (aged 0–4): a review of the literature (2017, background): “Purchasing a private car to manage the travel needs of an expanding household can create an ongoing financial burden (Dodson & Sipe, 2007; Mattioli, Lucas, et al., 2016).”
• Shocking the Suburbs: Urban Location, Homeownership and Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City (2008, methodology): “An earlier study by the authors (Dodson & Sipe, 2007) investigated the areas of Australian cities that would be socio-economically most affected by rising fuel prices and general price inflation through the use of an oil vulnerability index based on Census data.”
• Transport poverty and fuel poverty in the UK: From analogy to comparison (2017, unknown): “Internationally, high oil and motor fuel prices between the early-2000s and 2014 have resulted in a surge of studies on transport affordability (e.g. BBSR, 2009; Dodson and Sipe, 2007; Ferdous et al., 2010; Gertz et al., 2015; Lovelace and Philips, 2014; Motte-Baumvol et al., 2010; Nicolas et al., 2”