Transitions : pathways towards sustainable urban development in Australia / editor, Peter Newton.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2008.Description: 1 vISBN:

9780643094192

DDC classification:

307.760994 22

Partial contents:

Transitioning to Sustainable Urban Development / Peter Newton and Xuemei Bai Climate Change / Kevin Hennessy Resource Consumption and Resource Depletion / Graham Turner and Barney Foran Energy Security, Oil Vulnerability and Cities / Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe The Oil Transition / Peter Newman Globalisation / Frank Stilwell and Kirrily Jordan Tourism / Larry Dwyer, et al. Consumers in 2020 / Alicia Payne, Ann Harding and Quoc Ngu Vu Demographic Transitions / Peter McDonald Future Urban Population and Settlement Transitions / Graeme Hugo Metropolitan Evolution / Peter Newton Sea Level Rise / John Church, et al. Flood / Deborah Abs Drought and High Temperature Extremes: Effects on Water and Electricity Demands / Mark Howden and Steve Crimp Bushfire / Robert Leicester and John Handmer Biodiversity / Mark Mcdonnell and Kelly Holland Biosecurity / David Cook, et al. Natural Hazards and Property Loss / Ryan Crompton, et al. Community Health / Perri Timmins, Justin Graf and Kuldeep Bhatia Community Social and Human Capital / Scott Baum and Geoff Woolcock Energy Futures / Paul Graham, Luke Reedman and Josephine Cheng Biofuels / Deborah O?Connell, et al. Solar Energy / Chris Fell, et al. Wind Energy / Peter Coppin Hydrogen Energy / Andrew Dicks and David Rand Distributed Energy Systems / Terry Jones Energy-efficient Housing and Sub-division Design / Michael Ambrose Transitions in Transport / David Lamb Urban Water Futures / Andrew Speers Integrated Urban Water Management / Shiroma Maheepala and Jane Blackmore Decentralised Water and Wastewater Systems / Clare Diaper, Ashok Sharma and Grace Tjandraatmadja The Water-efficient City: Technological and Institutional Drivers / Matthew Inman Changing Attitudes to Urban Water Use and Consumption / Geoffrey Syme and Blair Nancarrow Cradle-to-cradle Manufacturing / Martmut Kabernick, Scott Ibbotson and Sami Kara Eco-industrial Development / David Batten, et al. Urban Form, Sustainability and Lifestyles in 21st Century Cities / Jan Scheurer The Urban Environment and Health / Anthony McMichael Smart Development: Designing the Built Environment for Improved Access and Health Outcomes / Ryan Falconer and Billie Giles-Corti Transitions to Smart, Sustainable Infrastructure / Leanne Hardwicke Critical Foundations: Providing Australia?s 21st Century Infrastructure / Michael Regan Government and Sustainability Reporting / Marcia Nugent and Phil Hughes Sustainable Corporations / Francis Grey Community Engagement and Behaviour Change / Anne Langworthy and Charlotte Brunt Transitioning to the Simpler Way / Ted Trainer Designing and Innovating a Sustainable Society / Peter Ellyard.

Summary: "Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified in the 2006 Australia State of Environment Report as well as several other national-level reports (Sustainable Cities 2005). Principal among them are a resource-constrained world (oil, water, food, skilled labour, materials) and a carbon-constrained world (linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy) both of which will strongly shape urban development this century compared to the last. This book seeks to clearly identify 21st century challenges to Australia's cities and regions that flow from these global influences and identify potential solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyle activities and consumption patterns. The book is about outlining pathways to the future in each area."--Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	307.760994 TRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900182891

Includes index.

"Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified in the 2006 Australia State of Environment Report as well as several other national-level reports (Sustainable Cities 2005). Principal among them are a resource-constrained world (oil, water, food, skilled labour, materials) and a carbon-constrained world (linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy) both of which will strongly shape urban development this century compared to the last. This book seeks to clearly identify 21st century challenges to Australia's cities and regions that flow from these global influences and identify potential solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyle activities and consumption patterns. The book is about outlining pathways to the future in each area."--Provided by publisher.

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