Shocking the Suburbs: Urban Location, Homeownership and Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City

By Jago Dodson, N. Sipe. 2008

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Energy security is receiving increasing attention from governments and scholars at the global and national scale. Petroleum security and rising fuel prices are a challenge for cities whose housing systems are highly dependent on automobile transport. This study assesses transport and socio-tenurial patterns within Australian cities to identify how the combined present and future effects of rising fuel costs, mortgage interest rates and general inflation will be spatially distributed. Using an ‘oil vulnerability’ assessment methodology based on Australian Census data, the study reveals broad-scale mortgage and oil vulnerability across the outer suburbs of Australian cities. The paper concludes with some observations about spatially equitable policy responses to ameliorate the housing and urban impacts of rising petroleum costs.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Dominik Wiedenhofer
2. J. Steinberger
3. Manfred Lenzen
4. Kate Mattingly
5. J. Morrissey
6. G. P. Peters
7. T. Wiedmann
8. Edgar G. Hertwich

In Finance

1. Kate Mattingly
2. J. Morrissey

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Steinberger
2. Manfred Lenzen
3. Kate Mattingly
4. Dominik Wiedenhofer
5. J. Morrissey

Citations in the corpus

• Housing and transport expenditure: Socio-spatial indicators of affordability in Auckland (2014, background): “Dodson and Sipe (2008) go onto express the need for further research which specifically examines the geography of CHT expenditure.”
• Energy requirements of consumption: Urban form, climatic and socio-economic factors, rebounds and their policy implications (2013, background): “urban areas, where there are also more possibilities and resources for adaptation, for instance, increased public transport use (Dodson and Sipe, 2008).”