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Sustainable Affordable Housing - Submission to Inquiry into First Home Ownership

Tarlo Keith; Mcgee Caitlin; Campbell Sally; Cheney Helen; Goldie Cassandra; Lansbury Nina; Chen Doreen; Waugh Noelle (Productivity Commission, 2003)

The Institute welcomes this opportunity to submit comments to the Commission¿s Inquiry evaluating the affordability and availability of housing for first home buyers. The Institute for Sustainable Futures is a self-funded ...
Urban water demand forecasting and demand management: Research needs review and recommendations

White Stuart; Robinson Jim; Cordell Dana; Jha Meenakshi; Milne Geoffrey (Water Services Association of Australia, 2003)

Urban Water Demand Forecasting and Demand Management - Research Needs Review and Recommendations This study undertook a preliminary investigation of current research into urban water demand. The objective was to conduct a ...
Valuing the role of aquatic resources in livelihoods: Economic aspects of community wetland management in Stoeng Treng Ramsar Site, Cambodia

Chong Joanne (IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Ecosystems and Livelihoods Group Asia, 2005)

Wetlands are vital to the livelihoods of hundred of millions of people residing in the Lower Mekong region, and particularly to the food security of many of the rural poor. There are many stakeholders with interest in the ...
Beyond Recycling - An Integrated Waste Management Framework for Local Government - Part A: Developing an Integrated Waste Management Strategy and Empowering the Community

White Stuart; Cordell Dana (Local Government and Shires Associations of New South Wales, 2005)

Although the Australian community is concerned about the environment and committed to kerbside recycling, Australia creates more waste per person than almost any other country. Substantial increases in the cost of waste ...
Review of the Metropolitan Water Plan: Final Report

White Stuart; Campbell David; Giurco Damien; Snelling Caroline; Kazaglis Alexander; Fane Simon (Metropolitan Water, 2006)

This report was commissioned by the NSW Cabinet Office to review the Metropolitan Water Plan 2004 (DIPNR, 2004a), and was undertaken by the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney and ACIL ...
Climate change and water use of native vegetation

Macinnis-Ng Catriona; Eamus Derek (Land and Water Australia, 2009)

Under climate change conditions Australia will generally be hotter and, for many parts of the country drier. Vegetation water use is strongly influenced by soil moisture availability (which is influenced by rainfall) and ...
Carbon uptake and water use of vegetation

Macinnis-Ng Catriona; Eamus Derek (Land & Water Australia, 2009)

Accumulation and storage of carbon in trees is one method of sequestration which may help offset increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, for every molecule of CO2 absorbed by a leaf, up to a thousand molecules ...
The increasing density of shrubs and trees across a landscape

Macinnis-Ng Catriona; Eamus Derek (Land and Water Australia, 2009)

Woody thickening is a global phenomenon whereby the density of trees and woody shrubs is increasing in the landscape. Although most commonly seen in arid and semi-arid landscapes, it also occurs in other environments. This ...
Ocean acidification: A prognosis and treatment for this eclipsing issue in marine ecotoxicology

Jeffree Ross (Wiley-Liss, Inc., 2009)

In the face of the near-future loss of significant calcified ecosystems (e.g., corals) and valuable commercial shellfish species, should ecotoxicologists continue to study, for example, the nuances of using bivalves for ...
Identifying groundwater dependent ecosystems

Eamus Derek (Land and Water Australia, 2009)

Groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are important elements in the landscape that require access to groundwater to maintain their health and vigour. They are important because of their conservation, biodiversity, ...
Working effectively with women and men in water, sanitation and hygiene programs: Learnings from research on gender outcomes from rural water, sanitation and hygiene projects in Vanuatu and Fiji

Halcrow Gabrielle; Rowland Claire; Willetts Juliet; Crawford Joanne; Carrard Naomi (International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) and Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, 2010)
Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific: The challenge of integration. ATRC-NHRL Miscellaneous Report 4

Gero Anna; Meheux Kirstie; Dominey-Howes Dale (Australian Tsunami Research Centre and Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, University of New South, 2010)

Integrating community based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) is identified at the policy and practical level as crucial to aid effectiveness. Successful integration reduces both duplication ...
Clean technology applications in tourism accommodation

Daly Jane; Glassmire John; Langham Edward; Paddon Michael (Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre, 2010)

This manual provides information and guidance on clean energy technologies and approaches for tourist accommodation. The main goal in producing the manual is to promote clean energy in small to medium accommodation ...
Recent advances in remote sensing of ecosystem structure and function

Huete Alfredo; Glenn Edward (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2011)

Earth-observing remote sensing technologies are becoming widely adopted within the resource management, ecosystem sciences, and sustainable development communities. Satellite data offer unprecedented capabilities to capture ...
Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians and Sydney's Georges River parks and green spaces

Cadzow Allison; Byrne Denis; Goodall Heather; Wearing Stephen (UTSePress, 2011)

Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians and Sydney's Georges River parks and green spaces, has been created by talking with the Vietnamese Australians who live around the Georges River and who often visit its parklands. They ...

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