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Maclurcan, D & Radywyl, N 2011, Nanotechnology and global sustainability.
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The rise of collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer systems, and not-for-profit social enterprise heralds the emergence of a new era of human collectivity. Increasingly, this consolidation stems from an understanding that big-banner issues-such as climate change-are not the root causes of our present global predicament. There is a growing and collective view that issues such as this are actually symptoms of a much more vicious, seemingly insurmountable condition: our addiction to economic, consumption, and population growth in a world of finite resources. Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability uses nanotechnology-the product of applied scientific knowledge to control and utilize matter at atomic and molecular scales-as a lens through which to explore the interrelationship between innovation, politics, economy, and sustainability. This groundbreaking book addresses how stakeholders can actively reshape agendas to create positive and sustainable futures through this latest controversial, cross-sectoral technology. It moves beyond issues of efficiency, productivity, and utility, exploring the insights of 22 contributors from around the world, whose work spans the disciplines of science and the humanities. Their combined knowledge, reinforced with various case studies, introduces an exciting prospect-how we can innovate without economic growth. This new volume in the Perspectives in Nanotechnology series is edited by Dr. Donald Maclurcan and Dr. Natalia Radywyl. Dr. Maclurcan is a social innovator and Honorary Research Fellow with the Institute for Nanoscale Technology at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Dr. Radywyl is a social researcher and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is also an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. This book is written for a wide audience and will be of part...

Mukheibir, P 2011, Small Towns, Water Access and Climate Change: Towards sustainable access to urban water services under projected climate change impacts, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany.
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Climate change does not feature prominently in the mainstream development and water management literature, so much so that robust strategies have not been developed to adapt to the projected impacts nor have the consequences of future adaptation costs on water affordability and access been investigated.This book examines the impact of climate change on water resource management in small towns. Specifically it suggests that climate change be integrated into existing planning frameworks in order that small towns build resilient strategies against projected climate change impacts. An approach is proposed for small towns to develop their water adaptation response that includes an assessment of existing responses to climate variability. By screening these against qualitative and quantitative criteria, robust strategies can be identified that will ensure sustainable water supplies under projected climate change impacts. By drawing on a case study of a small town in South Africa, it is demonstrated that the consequence of climate change impacts on water resources is indeed an economic issue when it comes to meeting projected water demand and providing an equitable service.

Bekunda, M, Cordell, DJ, Corman, J, Rosemarin, A, Salcedo, I, Syers, K & Lougheed, T 2011, 'Phosphorus & food production' in Goverse, T & Bech, S (eds), UNEP Yearbook 2011: Emerging Issues in our Global Environment, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Division of Early Warning and Assessment, Nairobi, Kenya, pp. 35-46.

Cordell, DJ & Rosemarin, A 2011, 'Det behövs en global fosforkonvention' in Johansson, RB (ed), Återvinna fosfor - hur bråttom är det?, Forskningsrådet Formas, Sweden, pp. 55-74.

Crofts, P & Prior, JH 2011, 'Oscillations in the regulation of the sex industry in New South Wales, Australia: Disorderly or pragmatic?' in Dalla, RL, Baker, LM, DeFrain, J & Williamson, C (eds), Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking, Lexington Books, Plymouth, United Kingdom, pp. 257-275.
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This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven geo-cultural areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also includes a 'global' section, which includes chapters that are globally relevant -- rather than those devoted to a particular country or geographic location. The contributors are comprised of international scholars representing a variety of fields and disciplines, with distinct and varied frames of reference and theoretical underpinnings with regard to the commercial sex industry.

Kelly, S & Pollitt, MG 2011, 'The local dimension of energy' in Jamasb, T & Pollitt, MG (eds), The Future of Electricity Demand, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 249-279.
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© Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge 2011. Introduction: More than half of the world's population lives in urban centres and this is projected to reach two-thirds by the middle of this century (OECD 2009, p. 21). Cities alone consume about two-thirds of the world's total energy production and account for more than 70 per cent of global CO2 emissions through heating, transport and electricity use (IEA, 2008c, p. 179). Many urban centres are now making strides to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and take control over energy consumption and generation. In this chapter, we postulate that some of the best opportunities for reducing energy demand and carbon emissions are through stronger involvement and leadership from local government. We show that local government can and does have a significant impact on both energy production and energy consumption and is an important participant for the implementation of distributed energy. While the theory of free-riding goes some way to explain the difficulties in getting local governments to unilaterally cut carbon emissions, it neglects to account for many of the co-benefits of implementing such policies. For instance, the costs and the benefits of carbon mitigation are difficult to measure and thus introduce large uncertainty about the aggregate economic and welfare impacts different policies may have. Such uncertainty leads to inefficient decision making and to councils adopting a ‘wait and see’ policy rather than deriving direct benefit from more immediate implementation. While such a strategy may seem rational from a unilateral perspective, in aggregate it leads to inefficient outcomes where the majority of players choose to ‘wait and see’ rather than ‘acting now’. Councils which choose not to adopt carbon-mitigation strategies are therefore ‘free-riding’ and benefiting from the knowledge and implementation strategies created by other first movers. While free-riders adopting status quo policies...

Maclurcan, D & Radywyl, N 2011, 'Nanotechnology and limits to growth' in Nanotechnology and Global Sustainability, pp. 3-19.

Maclurcan, D & Radywyl, N 2011, 'Nanotechnology without Growth' in Perspectives in Nanotechnology, CRC Press, pp. 281-298.
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Mitchell, CA, Fam, DM & Cordell, DJ 2011, 'Effectively managing the transition towards restorative futures in the sewage industry: a phosphorus case study' in Howe, C & Mitchell, C (eds), Water Sensitive Cities, IWA Publishing, UK, pp. 43-62.
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Today's urban water managers are faced with an unprecedented set of issues that call for a different approach to urban water management. These include the urgent changes needed to respond to climate change, population growth, growing resource constraints, and rapidly increasing global urbanization. Not only are these issues difficult to address, but they are facing us in an environment that is increasingly unpredictable and complex. Although innovative, new tools are now available to water professionals to address these challenges, solving the water problems of tomorrow cannot be done by the water professionals alone. Instead, the city of the future, whether in the developed or developing world, must integrate water management planning and operations with other city services to meet the needs of humans and the environment in a dramatically superior manner. This book has been developed from selected papers from 2009 Singapore Water Week Planning for Sustainable SolutionsA and also papers taken from other IWA events. It pulls together material that supports the water professionals' need for useful and up-to-date material.

Prior, J 2011, 'Neighbourhood Disadvantage' in International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, pp. 43-49.
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Neighbourhood disadvantage in late nineteenth-century industrial cities was a key concern of policy-makers. Sanitary reform, suburbanisation, and urban regeneration were implemented in an attempt to redress this emergent disadvantage through the creation of healthier environments. From the mid-twentieth century these early approaches were gradually replaced as more complex understandings emerged around the social, cultural, and economic as well as environmental factors which contributed to neighbourhood disadvantage. A consequence of this shift has been the emergence of more ‘joined-up’ approaches to redressing contemporary neighbourhood disadvantage, which are formed around wide-ranging partnerships and participation of affected residents and communities.

Prior, J & Crofts, P 2011, 'Queerying urban governance: The emergence of sex industry premises into the planned city' in Doan, P (ed), Queerying Planning Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice, Ashgate Publishing Limited, New York, pp. 185-208.
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This chapter analyzes the emergence of sex industry premises, in particular gay bathhouses, into formal land-use processes in Sydney, Australia in the late twentieth century. The chapter traces a shift in regulatory mechanisms in the last decades of the twentieth century away from explicitly moral and criminal discourses to planning policies to regulate and organize sex industry premises. This chapter details the regulatory transition of gay bathhouses from a catch-all category of disorderly premises that included other businesses such as brothels, to an official definition that differentiated bathhouses from other sex industry premises.

Prior, J & Harfield, S 2011, 'Health, Well-Being and Vulnerable Populations' in International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, pp. 355-361.
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Population groups identified as ‘vulnerable’ commonly include the socioeconomically disadvantaged, women and children, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, the homeless, and the elderly. Such vulnerability is predicated on the stresses and risks to which individuals and groups are subjected, including poverty, discrimination, subordination, lack of social support, political marginalisation, disenfranchisement, and denial of human rights. Recent interest in understanding the ways in which such populations may experience diminished well-being, increased morbidity, and premature mortality as a result of the nature, state, and location of their housing has led to a growing interest in developing means to ameliorate such conditions.

Sharpe, S 2011, 'Venture capitalists as knowledge intensive service activity providers' in Martinez-Fernandez, C, Miles, I & Weyman, T (eds), The Knowledge Economy at Work: Skills and Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Service Activities, Edward Elgar Publishing, London, pp. 214-238.

Ashley, K, Cordell, D & Mavinic, D 2011, 'A brief history of phosphorus: From the philosopher's stone to nutrient recovery and reuse', CHEMOSPHERE, vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 737-746.
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The element phosphorus has no substitute in sustaining all life and food production on our planet. Yet today's phosphorus use patterns have resulted in both a global environmental epidemic of eutrophication and led to a situation where the future availability of the world's main sources of phosphorus is uncertain. This paper examines the important history of human interference with the phosphorus cycle from initial discovery to present, highlighting key interrelated events and consequences of the Industrial Revolution, Sanitation Revolution and Green Revolution. Whilst these events led to profound advances in technology, public health and food production, they have fundamentally broken the global phosphorus cycle. It is clear a 'Fourth Revolution' is required to resolve this dilemma and ensure humanity can continue to feed itself into the future while protecting environmental and human health. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Atherton, A & Giurco, D 2011, 'Campus sustainability: climate change, transport and paper reduction', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 269-279.
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Purpose - This paper aims to detail the design of a campus climate change strategy, transport strategy and paper reduction strategy at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). Design/methodology/approach The approach to strategy development used desktop research and staff/student consultation to inform the development of objectives, targets and actions for each strategy. The strengths and weaknesses of the governance structures for strategy design and implementation are also discussed. Findings A selection of targets are given here, with further details of objectives and actions in the main text. Climate change: reduce emissions by 11 percent by 2012/2013, 30 percent by 2020. Transport: double the proportion of staff/student commuting trips by walking and cycling to 35 percent by 2011. Paper reduction: by 2011, decrease paper purchased by 20 percent and increasing recycled paper use to 30 percent. The momentum generated by the strategy development shows that it can play a significant role in creating a more sustainable university. Practical implications Practical guidance for universities and organisations undergoing organisational change for sustainability is given with a focus on: how to engage with staff and students to develop shared aspirations and reflect these in tangible objectives, targets and actions; and, how to evolve organisational structures to implement strategies and create a sustainable higher education institution. Originality/value The value of this work lies in the frank reflections on the processes used to engage stakeholders and develop the strategies as well as with the tangible targets and actions presented which will be of interest for other universities seeking to benchmark their own activities.

Behrisch, J, Ramirez, M & Giurco, D 2011, 'Representation of Ecodesign Practice: International Comparison of Industrial Design Consultancies', SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 1778-1791.
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Ecodesign offers significant potential to reduce the environmental impacts of products. Whilst some integration of environmental considerations into design occurs in progressive companies when engineering the product, this only represents a small share of the possible design interventions to improve the environmental performance of products. For example, developing new product concepts to fulfill needs in a less environmentally harmful way and considering user related aspects offers a large, currently under-realized potential. This paper identifies industrial design (ID) consultancies as potential agents to tackle this issue on a strategic and operational basis. The extent to which this potential is currently applied was assessed by conducting a content analysis of websites of ID consultancies in Australia, China, and Germany. How ID consultancies represent their ecodesign practice is country-specific. Despite the differences, some ID consultancies in all countries announce and/or show the capability to develop completely new concepts and to influence user related factors to improve environmental performance. This shows their potential to address current shortcomings in ecodesign practice. As ID consultancies embracing that potential still are a minority, further research should be directed to a deeper examination of barriers and stimuli for ID consultancies to take up ecodesign.© 2011 by the authors.

Bird, DK, Chagué-Goff, C & Gero, A 2011, 'Human Response to Extreme Events: a review of three post-tsunami disaster case studies', Australian Geographer, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 225-239.
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Investigating survivors' behaviour prior to, during and after a disaster provides emergency management agencies with greater understanding of the complexities which influence public response. This information can then be used to develop better community-based disaster risk-reduction strategies. In this paper, we review three posttsunami disaster case studies: the Indian Ocean tsunami (IOT) on 26 December 2004, the Java tsunami on 17 July 2006 and the South Pacific tsunami on 29 September 2009. The 2004 IOT and 2006 Java tsunami surveys involved delayed-response post-disaster research using video interviewing. The 2009 South Pacific tsunami entailed rapid-response post-disaster research using questionnaire interviews. We highlight the major outcomes of each case study and, based on these, make recommendations for improving tsunami education programs in Australia. These include educating the public about tsunami risk, natural warning signs of tsunamis and regionally specific behavioural response. To help facilitate improvements to future post-disaster research, discussion on survey-related issues from each case study is provided. © 2011 Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc.

Cook, S, Grochowski, CO, Atherton, A, Laskowitz, DT, Pervaiz, S, Buckley, E & Kamei, RK 2011, 'Developing Physician Leaders for Over 50 years: The Duke Medical Student Research Experience in the US and Singapore', Medical Science Educator, vol. 21, no. S1, pp. 53-58.
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© 2011, Springer International Publishing. Duke University has long incorporated research into its medical school curriculum. Its sister school, Duke-National University of Singapore, adopted the same model to inculcate a culture of research and develop graduates with a strong scientific foundation. The results are an impressive percentage of student publications and students pursuing academic careers.

Cooper, C & Giurco, D 2011, 'Mineral resources landscape: reconciling complexity, sustainability and technology', International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-1.
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This paper explores the complexity of the mineral resource development and sustainability problématique. The Mineral Resources Landscape presented in this paper links minerals production and consumption and connects social, ecological, technological, economic and governance domains across local, national and global scales. Using the framework to map current research shows an industry focus on 'resource availability' and developing new 'technology for processing' whilst ignoring the in use 'services and value' offered by the minerals. These overlooked areas are proposed as being integral to developing sustainable systems of Australian minerals production and consumption, across multiple scales and domains. Copyright © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Cordell, D & White, S 2011, 'Peak Phosphorus: Clarifying the Key Issues of a Vigorous Debate about Long-Term Phosphorus Security', SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 2027-2049.
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This paper reviews the latest information and perspectives on global phosphorus scarcity. Phosphorus is essential for food production and modern agriculture currently sources phosphorus fertilizers from finite phosphate rock. The 2008 food and phosphate fertilizer price spikes triggered increased concerns regarding the depletion timeline of phosphate rock reserves. While estimates range from 30 to 300 years and are shrouded by lack of publicly available data and substantial uncertainty, there is a general consensus that the quality and accessibility of remaining reserves are decreasing and costs will increase. This paper clarifies common sources of misunderstandings about phosphorus scarcity and identifies areas of consensus. It then asks, despite some persistent uncertainty, what would it take to achieve global phosphorus security? What would a 'hard-landing' response look like and how could preferred 'soft-landing' responses be achieved?© 2011 by the authors.

Cordell, D, Rosemarin, A, Schroder, JJ & Smit, AL 2011, 'Towards global phosphorus security: A systems framework for phosphorus recovery and reuse options', CHEMOSPHERE, vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 747-758.
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Human intervention in the global phosphorus cycle has mobilised nearly half a billion tonnes of the element from phosphate rock into the hydrosphere over the past half century. The resultant water pollution concerns have been the main driver for sustainable phosphorus use (including phosphorus recovery). However the emerging global challenge of phosphorus scarcity with serious implications for future food security, means phosphorus will also need to be recovered for productive reuse as a fertilizer in food production to replace increasingly scarce and more expensive phosphate rock. Through an integrated and systems framework, this paper examines the full spectrum of sustainable phosphorus recovery and reuse options (from small-scale low-cost to large-scale high-tech), facilitates integrated decision-making and identifies future opportunities and challenges for achieving global phosphorus security. Case studies are provided rather than focusing on a specific technology or process. There is no single solution to achieving a phosphorus-secure future: in addition to increasing phosphorus use efficiency, phosphorus will need to be recovered and reused from all current waste streams throughout the food production and consumption system (from human and animal excreta to food and crop wastes). There is a need for new sustainable policies, partnerships and strategic frameworks to develop renewable phosphorus fertilizer systems for farmers. Further research is also required to determine the most sustainable means in a given context for recovering phosphorus from waste streams and converting the final products into effective fertilizers, accounting for life cycle costs, resource and energy consumption, availability, farmer accessibility and pollution. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Cordell, DJ, White, S & Lindstrom, T 2011, 'Peak phosphorus: the crunch time for humanity?', The Sustainability Review, vol. 2, no. 2 (Research), pp. 1-1.

Corder, G, Giurco, D & McLellan, B 2011, 'Exploring the case for alternative energy technologies in the minerals industry', AusIMM Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 47-48.
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The significance of a cleaner energy infrastructure to strengthen the future sustainability credentials of the mining industry in Australia has been highlighted by the recent 'Vision 2040' initiative. A new approach that assists mining companies to investigate the wide range of energy related sustainability benefits and risks in a structured manner is SUS0P®. Through its application at the early stages of new projects, SUS0P case studies have been able to identify opportunities for alternative energy technologies that lead to a reduction in their risk profile. Such an example was the opportunity to test out a range of renewable energy technologies at the concept stage of a new mining project in Africa. By taking a holistic approach it was possible to couple these two opportunities to potentially mitigate a key business risk of high operating cost, of which the two largest contributors were fossil- fuel energy sources and expatriate labor costs.

Dean, CC, Blamey, J, Florin, NH, Al-Jeboori, MJ & Fennell, PS 2011, 'The calcium looping cycle for CO2 capture from power generation, cement manufacture and hydrogen production', CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN, vol. 89, no. 6A, pp. 836-855.
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Calcium looping is a CO2 capture scheme using solid CaO-based sorbents to remove CO2 from flue gases, e.g., from a power plant, producing a concentrated stream of CO2 (∼95%) suitable for storage. The scheme exploits the reversible gas-solid reaction between CO2 and CaO(s) to form CaCO3(s). Calcium looping has a number of advantages compared to closer-to-market capture schemes, including: the use of circulating fluidised bed reactors-a mature technology at large scale; sorbent derived from cheap, abundant and environmentally benign limestone and dolomite precursors; and the relatively small efficiency penalty that it imposes on the power/industrial process (i.e., estimated at 6-8 percentage points, compared to 9.5-12.5 from amine-based post-combustion capture). A further advantage is the synergy with cement manufacture, which potentially allows for decarbonisation of both cement manufacture and power production. In addition, a number of advanced applications offer the potential for significant cost reductions in the production of hydrogen from fossil fuels coupled with CO2 capture. The range of applications of calcium looping are discussed here, including the progress made towards demonstrating this technology as a viable post-combustion capture technology using small-pilot scale rigs, and the early progress towards a 2MW scale demonstrator. © 2010 The Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Florin, N & Fennell, P 2011, 'Synthetic CaO-based Sorbent for CO2 Capture', 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 830-838.
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The capture and purification of carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue or fuel gas underlies the cost efficiency of carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications in the power and industrial sectors and there is considerable scope for cost reduction with the development of novel capture technologies. High-temperature sorbents are seen as a 'next-generation' technology and a promising candidate is calcium oxide (CaO) derived from natural limestone, which is used in a process known as carbonate looping. This process exploits the reversible reaction between CaO and CO2 to form calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Unfortunately, sorbent derived from natural limestone loses its capacity to capture CO2 through long-term cycling, and a large amount of fresh limestone is required to maintain an acceptable CO2 capture efficiency. This work describes the development and characterisation of synthetic CaO-based sorbents, such as those incorporating a mixed calcium-aluminium oxide binder in this case produced by precipitation in a slurry bubble column. Reactivity tests using a thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) demonstrate the improved long-term CO2 uptake of the synthetic sorbent. The highest CO2 uptake observed after 30 cycles was achieved with 85 wt.% CaO and binder, which was three times higher than the observed capacity of a natural limestone (Havelock). However, contrary to TGA results, experimental results for reactivity tests conducted using a bench-scale fluidised bed reactor (FBR) showed the highest uptake for the precipitated sorbent with no binder. A decrease in uptake was observed corresponding an increase in binder loading from 0-25 wt.%, which was coupled with an increase in mass loss owing to elutriation, attributed to decrepitation during cycling. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Gero, A, Méheux, K & Dominey-Howes, D 2011, 'Integrating community based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: examples from the Pacific', Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 101-113.
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Abstract. It is acknowledged by academics and development practitioners alike that many common strategies addressing community based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation duplicate each other. Thus, there is a strong push to integrate the two fields to enhance aid effectiveness and reduce confusion for communities. Examples of community based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) projects are presented to highlight some of the ways these issues are tackled in the Pacific. Various approaches are employed but all aim to reduce the vulnerability and enhance the resilience of local communities to the impacts of climate change and disasters. By focusing on three case studies, elements of best practice are drawn out to illustrate how DRR and CCA can be integrated for enhanced aid effectiveness, and also look at ways in which these two often overlapping fields can be better coordinated in ongoing and future projects. Projects that address vulnerability holistically, and target the overall needs and capacity of the community are found to be effective in enhancing the resilience of communities. By strategically developing a multi-stakeholder and multi-sector approach, community projects are likely to encapsulate a range of experience and skills that will benefit the community. Furthermore, by incorporating local knowledge, communities are far more likely to be engaged and actively participate in the project. From selected case studies, commonly occurring best practice methods to integrate DRR and CCA are identified and discussed and recommendations on how to overcome the common challenges also presented.

Gero, A, Méheux, K & Dominey-Howes, D 2011, 'Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific', Climate and Development, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 310-327.
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Integrating community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) is identified at the policy and practical level as critical to aid effectiveness. Successful integration reduces both duplication of efforts and confusion at the community level, thus contributing to sustainable development. The challenges of integrating DRR and CCA are widely discussed from the global to the local level among policymakers, practitioners and academics alike. However, to date, little progress has been made in achieving practical solutions. By focusing on the governance aspects of DRR and CCA integration in the Pacific (with a particular focus on Fiji and Samoa), this study highlights potential pathways to overcome the separation of these two dynamic and overlapping fields. In applying the Earth System Governance framework as a novel analytical tool, we reveal that the issues of agency and architecture are especially significant as challenges to effectively integrating DRR and CCA. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.

Giurco, D, Bossilkov, A, Patterson, J & Kazaglis, A 2011, 'Developing industrial water reuse synergies in Port Melbourne: cost effectiveness, barriers and opportunities', JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 867-876.
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Urban water scarcity from ongoing drought and an increasing population are driving a range of water saving options to be explored in Melbourne (Australia). This paper assesses the cost effectiveness of five water treatment and industrial reuse options in the Fishermans Bend industrial area at Port Melbourne. In consultation with industrial stakeholders and the local water utility, the study design began by identifying potential water sources and sinks in the area. Treatment technologies for each option - using a combination of membrane bioreactors (MBR) and in some cases reverse osmosis (RO) technologies - were developed. In evaluating the potential for future implementation, the cost effectiveness ($/kiloLitre) was assessed relative to water supply augmentation and water demand management options available in Melbourne. Additionally, the opportunities and barriers for option implementation in Port Melbourne were contrasted with the Kwinana Industrial Area, Western Australia where many regional synergy projects have been undertaken. This research identifies that the future implementation of industrial ecology opportunities requires strong and ongoing stakeholder involvement as described in this paper. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Giurco, D, Cohen, B, Langham, E & Warnken, M 2011, 'Backcasting energy futures using industrial ecology', TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, vol. 78, no. 5, pp. 797-818.
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Backcasting has been widely used for developing energy futures. This paper explores the potential for using industrial ecology to guide the development of energy futures within a backcasting framework. Building on the backcasting work of Robinson [1], a seven step method is presented to embed industrial ecology principles within the development and assessment of future scenarios and transition paths toward them. The approach is applied to the case of backcasting regional energy futures in the Latrobe Valley, near Melbourne, Australia. This region has substantial brown coal deposits which are currently mined and used in coal-fired power stations to generate electricity. Bounded by a sustainability vision for the region in a carbon-constrained world, regional industrial ecologies in 2050 were backcast around three themes: bio-industries and renewables (no coal usage); electricity from coal with carbon capture and storage (low to high coal usage); and coal to products such as hydrogen, ammonia, diesel, methanol, plastics and char (demonstrating medium to high overall coal use relative to current levels). Potential environmental, technological, socio-political and economic impacts of each scenario across various life cycle stages were characterised. Results offer a platform for regional policy development to underpin deliberation on a preferred future by the community, industry and other stakeholders. Industrial ecology principles were found to be useful in backcasting for creatively articulating alternative futures featuring industrial symbiosis. However, enabling the approach to guide implementation of sustainable transition pathways requires further development and would benefit from integration within the Strategic Sustainable Development framework of Robèrt et al. [2]. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.

Giurco, D, Mason, L, Lederwasch, A, Prior, T & Daly, J 2011, 'Vision 2040: Innovation in mining and minerals', Ausimm Bulletin, vol. Feb 2011, no. 1, pp. 70-74.
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The Vision 2040: Innovation in Mining and Minerals Workshop was held in Brisbane on the November 14-15, 2010 to develop a shared vision for the future of the mining and minerals industry in Australia. Participants were given an opportunity to engage in, and contribute to, a process exploring Australia's mining and minerals industry to deliver long-term national benefit. Professor Roos, Chairman of VTT International focused on the importance of technology-based innovation, design-based innovation and business-model based innovation. Dr Herbertson, Principal, Crucible Carbon focused on technologies that have potential to significantly reduce the negative environmental impacts of the mining industry. Darryl Pearce, General Manager, Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corp addressed the changing situation of indigenous people in the future, and the impact of the changes on the Australian mineral sector. The participants focused on the reduction or elimination of adverse environmental impacts from mining and mineral processing.

Kelly, S 2011, 'Do homes that are more energy efficient consume less energy?: A structural equation model of the English residential sector', Energy, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 5610-5620.
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Energy consumption from the residential sector is a complex socio-technical problem that can be explained using a combination of physical, demographic and behavioural characteristics of a dwelling and its occupants. A structural equation model (SEM) is introduced to calculate the magnitude and significance of explanatory variables on residential energy consumption. The benefit of this approach is that it explains the complex relationships that exist between manifest variables and their overall effect though direct, indirect and total effects. Using the English House Condition Survey (EHCS) consisting of 2531 unique cases, the main drivers behind residential energy consumption are found to be the number of household occupants, floor area, household income, dwelling efficiency (SAP), household heating patterns and living room temperature. In the multivariate case, SAP explains very little of the variance of residential energy consumption. However, this procedure fails to account for simultaneity bias between energy consumption and SAP. Using SEM its shown that dwelling energy efficiency (SAP), has reciprocal causality with dwelling energy consumption and the magnitude of these two effects are calculable. When non-recursivity between SAP and energy consumption is allowed for, SAP is shown to have a negative effect on energy consumption but conversely, homes with a propensity to consume more energy also have higher SAP rates. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Kelly, S & Pollitt, M 2011, 'Policy Update: What does the renewable heat incentive mean for bioenergy in the UK?', Carbon Management, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 117-121.
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Lederwasch, A, Mason, L, Daly, J, Prior, T & Giurco, D 2011, 'A vision for mining and minerals: Applying causal layered analysis and art', Journal of Futures Studies, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 203-224.
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This report provides an overview of the futures workshop, 'Vision 2040: Innovation in Mining and Minerals', which used art and causal layered analysis to develop a shared vision for Australia's minerals industry future. Vision 2040, facilitated by Prof. Sohail Inayatullah and researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney, forms part of the Commodity Futures stream in a broader program of research supported by the CSIRO's Minerals Down Under Flagship. The workshop provided mining stakeholders with an opportunity to explore how Australia's minerals industry can deliver longterm national benefit.

Mason, L, Mohr, S, Zeibots, M & Giurco, D 2011, 'Limits to cheap oil - Impact on mining', AusIMM Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 40-42.
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The price of oil also affects the demand for metals and minerals and hence the ability of mining companies to sell resources at a profit. The mining sector is a major consumer of oil products and hence the cost of producing metals and minerals is sensitive to oil prices. Specifically, oil based diesel is mixed with ammonium nitrate as the explosives commonly used in the mining industry, diesel trucks, and shovels are used to collect the ore and transport the ore to the primary processing facilities typically on the mine site. Currently, Australia imports from Malaysia and Vietnam (DRET 2010), however both of these countries reached peak oil production in 2004 and are now declining. The world is dependent on a small number of countries to ensure world oil production is adequate and less is being traded on the open market.

Mason, L, Prior, T, Mudd, G & Giurco, D 2011, 'Availability, addiction and alternatives: three criteria for assessing the impact of peak minerals on society', JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, vol. 19, no. 9-10, pp. 958-966.
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The concept of 'peaks' in the production of natural resources has attracted attention in the area of energy production, with concerns about 'peak oil' driving recent research and investment in alternative sources of energy. There are fundamental and important differences between a peak in the production of oil and peaks in the production of metalliferous minerals, but in both cases production changes from 'easier and less expensive' early in a resource's life to 'difficult and expensive' as time progresses. The impacts of this change in production circumstances require critical consideration in the governance of national and sub-national mineral endowments. This paper develops a framework for evaluating the impacts of changing patterns of mineral production. The framework considers three criteria: availability of a resource (considering its geological characteristics and geographical distribution); society's addiction to the resource (its centrality and criticality to economic, social and environmental systems); and the possibility of finding alternatives (whether the resource can be substituted or recovered). An initial assessment against these criteria provides an overview of how a production peak might affect the production of minerals in Australia and the impacts that this might have on the Australian economy. Assessing important resources against these three criteria will be imperative in future considerations regarding the roles minerals and metals play as service providers in our economic, social and environmental systems. Additionally, this analysis should prompt a reassessment of the value of minerals beyond economic measures. Indicators derived from these criteria will inform strategies that can address future changes in production characteristics - meeting challenges with strong governance, and realising opportunities with proactive policy. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

McArdle, P, Gleeson, J, Hammond, T, Heslop, E, Holden, R & Kuczera, G 2011, 'Centralised urban stormwater harvesting for potable reuse', Water Science and Technology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 16-24.
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Urban impervious areas provide a guaranteed source of runoff, especially in cities with high rainfall – this represents a source of water with low sensitivity to unfavourable climate change. Whilst the potential to reuse stormwater has long been recognised, its quality has largely limited usage to non-potable applications requiring the use of a third-pipe network, a prohibitively expensive option in established urban areas. Given recent advances in membrane filtration, this study investigates the potential of harvesting and treating stormwater to a potable standard to enable use of the potable distribution network. A case study based on the Throsby Creek catchment in Newcastle explores the issue. The high seasonally uniform rainfall provides insight into the maximum potential of such an option. Multicriterion optimisation was used to identify Pareto optimal solutions for harvesting, storing and treating stormwater. It is shown that harvesting and treating stormwater from a 13 km2 catchment can produce yields ranging from 8.5 to 14.2 ML/day at costs ranging from AU$2.60/kL to AU$2.89/kL, which may become viable as the cost of traditional supply continues to grow. However, there are significant social impacts to deal with including alienation of public land for storage and community acceptance of treated stormwater.

Mohr, S, Höök, M, Mudd, G & Evans, G 2011, 'Projection of long-term paths for Australian coal production—Comparisons of four models', International Journal of Coal Geology, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 329-341.
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Coal exports are an important source of revenue for Australia and for this reason Australian coal production and resources have been examined in detail and two recoverable resource estimates determined namely Standard and High. The Standard case calculated the likely recoverable coal resources in Australia to be 317. Gt, whereas the High scenario determined the maximal amount of recoverable coal resources at 367. Gt. Different modelling approaches (Logistic, Gompertz, Static and Dynamic supply and demand models) were used to project fossil fuel production and the projections of the relative approaches were compared. Good agreement was found between the Logistic, Static and Dynamic supply and demand models with production peaking in 2119 ± 6 at between 1.9 and 3.3. Gt/y. Contrasting these projections the Gompertz curves peak in 2084 ± 5 at 1-1.1. Gt/y. It was argued that the Logistic, Static and Dynamic models are more likely to produce accurate projections than the Gompertz curve. The production forecast is based on existing technology and constraints and a qualitative discussion is presented on possible influences on future production, namely: export capacity, climate change, overburden management, environmental and social impacts and export market issues. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.

Mohr, SH & Evans, GM 2011, 'Long term forecasting of natural gas production', Energy Policy, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 5550-5560.
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Natural gas is an important energy source for power generation, a chemical feedstock and residential usage. It is important to analyse the future production of conventional and unconventional natural gas. Analysis of the literature determined conventional URR estimates of 10,700-18,300. EJ, and the unconventional gas URR estimates were determined to be 4250-11,000. EJ. Six scenarios were assumed, with three static where demand and supply do not interact and three dynamic where it does. The projections indicate that world natural gas production will peak between 2025 and 2066 at 140-217. EJ/y (133-206. tcf/y). Natural gas resources are more abundant than some of the literature indicates. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Myllyvirta, L & Teske, S 2011, 'Energy and the sun', Economist, vol. 401, no. 8758.

Riedy, C 2011, 'Futures of the climate action movement: Insights from an integral futures approach', Journal of Futures Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 33-52.
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In this paper, I use a Wilberian integral futures approach to examine visions of the future within the climate action movement and identify sources of agreement and contention. I argue that the Wilberian approach is particularly valuable in drawing out diverse futures associated with differing levels of consciousness. Applying this approach to the climate action movement, I identify a likely future in which the continued promotion of a particular set of ecological values limits the appeal of the movement and reduces its effectiveness. An alternative future sees movement leaders working from or adopting more diverse value positions to develop movement visions that have broader appeal and support more effective results.

Riedy, C & Herriman, J 2011, 'Global Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change: Insights from World Wide Views on Global Warming in Australia', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1-29.
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On 26 September 2009, approximately 4,000 citizens in 38 countries participated in World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews). WWViews was an ambitious first attempt to convene a deliberative mini-public at a global scale, giving people from around the world an opportunity to deliberate on international climate policy and to make recommendations to the decision-makers meeting at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15) in December 2009. In this paper, we examine the role that deliberative mini-publics can play in facilitating the emergence of a global deliberative system for climate change response. We pursue this intent through a reflective evaluation of the Australian component of the World Wide Views on Global Warming project (WWViews). Our evaluation of WWViews is mixed. The Australian event was delivered with integrity and feedback from Australian participants was almost universally positive. Globally, WWViews demonstrated that it is feasible to convene a global mini-public to deliberate on issues of global relevance, such as climate change. On the other hand, the contribution of WWViews towards the emergence of a global deliberative system for climate change response was limited and it achieved little influence on global climate change policy. We identify lessons for future global mini-publics, including the need to prioritise the quality of deliberation and provide flexibility to respond to cultural and political contexts in different parts of the world. Future global mini-publics may be more influential if they seek to represent discourse diversity in addition to demographic profiles, use designs that maximise the potential for transmission from public to empowered space, run over longer time periods to build momentum for change and experiment with ways of bringing global citizens together in a single process instead of discrete national events.

Riedy, C & McGregor, I 2011, 'Climate Governance is Failing Us: We All Need to Respond', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1-9.
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Peer reviewed introduction to the Special Issue on Global Climate Change Policy: Post-Copenhagen Discord, guest edited by Chris Riedy and Ian M. McGregor, University of Technology, Sydney.

Schroder, JJ, Smit, AL, Cordell, D & Rosemarin, A 2011, 'Improved phosphorus use efficiency in agriculture: A key requirement for its sustainable use', CHEMOSPHERE, vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 822-831.
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Mineral phosphorus (P) fertilizers processed from fossil reserves have enhanced food production over the past 50. years and, hence, the welfare of billions of people. Fertilizer P has, however, not only been used to lift the fertility level of formerly poor soils, but also allowed people to neglect the reuse of P that humans ingest in the form of food and excrete again as faeces and urine and also in other organic wastes. Consequently, P mainly moves in a linear direction from mines to distant locations for crop production, processing and consumption, where a large fraction eventually may become either agronomically inactive due to over-application, unsuitable for recycling due to fixation, contamination or dilution, and harmful as a polluting agent of surface water. This type of P use is not sustainable because fossil phosphate rock reserves are finite. Once the high quality phosphate rock reserves become depleted, too little P will be available for the soils of food-producing regions that still require P supplements to facilitate efficient utilization of resources other than P, including other nutrients. The paper shows that the amounts of P applied in agriculture could be considerably smaller by optimizing land use, improvement of fertilizer recommendations and application techniques, modified livestock diets, and adjustment of livestock densities to available land. Such a concerted set of measures is expected to reduce the use of P in agriculture whilst maintaining crop yields and minimizing the environmental impact of P losses. The paper also argues that compensation of the P exported from farms should eventually be fully based on P recovered from 'wastes', the recycling of which should be stimulated by policy measures. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Teske, S, Pregger, T, Simon, S, Naegler, T, Graus, W & Lins, C 2011, 'Energy [R]evolution 2010—a sustainable world energy outlook', Energy Efficiency, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 409-433.
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van Zijll de Jong, SL, Dominey-Howes, D, Roman, CE, Calgaro, E, Gero, A, Veland, S, Bird, DK, Muliaina, T, Tuiloma-Sua, D & Afioga, TL 2011, 'Process, practice and priorities — key lessons learnt undertaking sensitive social reconnaissance research as part of an (UNESCO-IOC) International Tsunami Survey Team', Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 107, no. 1-2, pp. 174-192.
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The 29 September 2009 South Pacific tsunami has had a lasting impact upon local coastal villages and global collaborative research efforts. Locally, the impact of the tsunami is one of the most severe disasters Samoa has experienced in the last several decades. Within one week of the event, 143 people died. Approximately 6000 traumatized men, women and children - terrified of the sea - refused to return to live or work in their rural, coastal villages, which in turn has had broad consequences for humanitarian emergency relief distribution networks and early recovery planning efforts.Researchers came from all over the world to participate in the UNESCO International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Samoa International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST). Focusing on the need for interdisciplinary research, for the first time, a social impact assessment team (SIT) was expressly invited to participate. Within days of the tsunami, a group of Australian, New Zealand, American, Fijian, and Japanese disaster researchers began to discuss how they might develop a social science reconnaissance research plan using innovative approaches and best practice.This paper presents an overview of challenges faced by the social impact assessment team with a focus on lessons to be learnt from this experience. We discuss the need to clarify project boundaries, develop a core research agenda and project milestones, and develop day-to-day fieldwork work plans and at the same time be sensitive to the emotional needs of the interviewees as well as the researchers. We also make several practical suggestions for future social reconnaissance research with a set of recommendations to support disaster researchers as they plan their own research projects.The inclusion of a social impacts assessment group within a UNESCO-IOC ITST was a valuable response to the increasing need for responsible social research in sensitive topics of post-disaster analysis. Social scientists are aware that disaster so...

White, S & Cordell, DJ 2011, 'Phosphorus: A crisis we do not have to have', Australian R&D Review, vol. Feb - Mar, pp. 10-11.
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Widyawati, M, Church, TL, Florin, NH & Harris, AT 2011, 'Hydrogen synthesis from biomass pyrolysis with in situ carbon dioxide capture using calcium oxide', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 4800-4813.
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Hydrogen (H2) and other gases (CO2, CO, CH 4, H2O) produced during the pyrolysis of cellulose, xylan, lignin and pine (Pinus radiata), with and without added calcium oxide (CaO), were studied using thermogravimetry-mass spectrometry (TG-MS) and thermodynamic modeling. CaO improved the H2 yield from all feedstocks, and had the most significant effect on xylan. The weight loss of and gas evolution from the feedstocks were measured over the temperature range 150-950 °C in order to investigate the principle mechanism(s) of H2 formation. Without added CaO, little H2 was produced during primary pyrolysis; rather, most H2 was generated from tar-cracking, reforming, and char-decomposition reactions at higher temperatures. When CaO was added, significant H2 was produced during primary pyrolysis, as the water-gas shift reaction was driven toward H2 formation. CaO also increased the formation of H2 from reforming and char gasification reactions. Finally, CaO increased the extent of tar cracking and char decomposition, and lowered their onset temperatures. The production of H2 from pine over the course of pyrolysis could be modeled by summing the H2 evolutions from the separate biomass components in relevant proportions. © 2010, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Arunprasanth, S, Vivekanandan, C, Atputharajah, A & Fernando, MARM 1970, 'Integrated solution for power system stability improvement: Case studies on IEEE 12 Bus and Sri Lankan transmission networks', 2011 6th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, 2011 IEEE 6th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), IEEE, pp. 398-403.
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Behirsch, J, Ramirez, M & Giurco, D 1970, 'ECODESIGN IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN CONSULTANCIES - COMPARING AUSTRALIA, CHINA, GERMANY AND THE USA', PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN (ICED 11): IMPACTING SOCIETY THROUGH ENGINEERING DESIGN, VOL 5: DESIGN FOR X, DESIGN TO X, International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), The Design Society, The Design Society, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 1-11.
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This paper presents the results of an empirical study, investigating the uptake of ecodesign by industrial design consultancies (ID consultancies) in Australia, China, Germany and the USA. Designing products for a low environmental load, usually termed as ecodesign, offers high potential to reduce the environmental impact of our society, aiming for a sustainable development. However, there still appears to be no widespread uptake of ecodesign into product development praxis by industrial designers, with most ecodesign activity focusing on the engineering phase. Especially seldom are the necessary radical interventions to significantly improve the environmental performance of products. The literature review revealed that ID consultancies might be in a position to improve this situation. This paper presents the findings of a website content analysis, investigating the extent of ecodesign uptake by ID consultancies in Australia, China, Germany and the US. Those four countries were chosen to see if different, country specific frameworks impact on the attitude of ID consultancies towards ecodesign. The paper verifies that ID consultancies have a high potential to improve ecodesign uptake by using their influence especially on early phases of the product development process and by addressing also non engineering related issues for ecodesign. This potential does not appear to be fully embraced yet. The paper concludes by identifying the highest representation of ecodesign on websites of Australian ID consultancies and the lowest on websites of Chinese ID consultancies. The way ID consultancies practice ecodesign is very country specific. Understanding the differences and developing recommendations how ID consultancies can better unfold their ecodesign potential requires deeper investigations in the case specific factors. Copyright © 2002-2012 The Design Society. All rights reserved.

Carrard, N, Willetts, J, Retamal, M, Paddon, M, Mitchell, C, Nguyen, HT & Nguyen, DGN 1970, 'Towards sustainability for urban sanitation: Selecting sanitation systems in Can Tho, Vietnam', Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

Chong, J, Asker, SA & Plant, R 1970, 'Value-based land remediation: A case study of EU-funded contaminated site rehabilitation of Lami Dump, Fiji', CleanUp 2011, Adelaide, South Australia.

Cooper, C & Giurco, D 1970, 'Mineral resources landscape: assessing sustainability for the case of deep sea mining', Proceedings of Sustainability through Resource Conservation and Recycling '11, 2nd International Symposium on Sustainability through Resource Conservation and Recycling '11 (SRCR '11), Minerals Engineering International (MEI), Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

Cordell, DJ 1970, 'Global phosphorus scarcity: Challenges and opportunities for food security', Sustainable Phosphorus Summit, Arizona, USA.

Fam, DM, Mitchell, CA, Abeysuriya, K & Lopes, A 1970, 'Facilitating social learning in transdisciplinary collaboration: a socio-technical experiment in implementing sustainable sanitation', 55th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, All together now - working across disciplines: People, principles and practice, International Society of Systems Scientists, Hull, UK.

Florin, N, Dean, C, Al-Jeboori, M & Fennell, PS 1970, 'Activation of limestone derived sorbent for CO2 capture', Carbon Capture Research Event CO2Chem Network and the UK Carbon Capture & Storage Community, East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham.

Florin, N, Donat, F & Fennell, PS 1970, 'Influence of High-Temperature Steam on the Reactivity of CaO Sorbent', IEA High Temperature Solids Looping, Vienna.

Florin, N, Donat, F & Fennell, PS 1970, 'Influence of high-temperature steam on the reactivity of CaO sorbent', 1st International Workshop on Oxy-fuel fluidised bed combustion, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Giurco, D 1970, 'Interview with Damien Giurco on strategies to reduce rare earths environmental impact and where you should look toward for industry insight (podcast)', Rare Earths and Strategic Metals 2011, Sydney.

Giurco, D, Boyle, TM, White, S, Clarke, B & Houlihan, P 1970, 'Demand management: influence of new supply infrastructure and declining perceptions of scarcity', 4th National Water Efficiency Conference, Melbourne, Victoria.

Giurco, D, Mason, LM, Lederwasch, AJ, Prior, TD & Daly, JG 1970, 'Mining, minerals and innovation: Building long term value for Australia', AMEC Convention 2011, Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC), Perth, WA, pp. 1-22.

Gothe, J, Leung, T, Lim, RP, Phyu, YL, Plant, R & Walker, JR 1970, 'Advocating for Biodiversity in the Hawkesbury Nepean River: critical research practices of visual communication design', Geography on the Edge, Institute of Australian Geographers, University of Wollongong, pp. 1-47.

Hellwig, U, Peterseim, J & Widera, P 1970, 'Water circulation calculation for concentrated solar thermal plants', Proceedings from SolarPACES 2011: Concentrating solar power and chemical energy systems, SolarPACES 2011: Concentrating solar power and chemical energy systems, SolarPACES, Granada, Spain, pp. 1-8.

Heslop, E 1970, 'Centralised Urban Stormwater Harvesting for Potable Reuse', Ozwater'11, Adelaide, Australia.

Lederwasch, AJ, Prior, JH, Boydell, S, Chong, J & Plant, R 1970, 'Opportunities for value creation: An institutional analysis of remediation decision-making processes at three Australian sites', CleanUp 2011, Adelaide, South Australia.

Mason, LM, Giurco, D, Prior, TD & Mudd, GM 1970, 'Sustainable mineral resource nanagement: Understanding long-term national benefit and reconciling competitiveness and concern through national sustainability reporting', ICOSSE'11: Second International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Memary, R, Giurco, D, Prior, TD, Mason, LM, Mudd, GM & Peterseim, J 1970, 'Clean energy and mining - future synergies', Proceedings of the Second International Future Mining Conference 2011, International Future Mining Conference and Exhibition, The AusIMM (The Mineral Institute), Sydney, Australia, pp. 217-226.
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The environmental and economic impacts of a signifi cant dependence on fossil fuels are affecting the future of sectors such as of mining. These impacts are prompting the Australian Government to seek solutions for reducing its dependence on fossil fuels more generally, such developing clean energy and improving energy effi ciency. However, limited research has been undertaken to assess the potential synergies between clean energy and mining in an uncertain global future. This paper analyses current energy use by mining in Australia and reviews the drivers and opportunities for energy effi ciency and cleaner energy technologies to be coupled to mining under three future scenarios. Linkages between mining and clean energy are investigated for three global scenarios for mining and metals to 2030, developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), namely Green Trade Alliance, Rebased Globalism and Resource Security. These scenarios are applied to assess how they could change the barriers, opportunities and trade-offs required for the development of a more sustainable energy sources by the minerals industry in Australia.

Miyake, S, Renouf, M, Peterson, A, McAlpine, C & Smith, C 1970, 'Framework for evaluating the environmental consequences of bioenergy-driven land-use changes at local and regional scales', IEA Bioenergy Workshop on Quantifying and managing land use effects of Bioenergy, Campinas, Brazil.

Mohr, S, Höök, M, Mudd, G & Evans, G 1970, 'Projection of Australian coal production - Comparisons of four models', 28th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference 2011, PCC 2011, Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, pp. 2701-2723.
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Coal exports are an important source of revenue for Australia and for this reason Australian coal production and resources have been examined in detail. Two recoverable resource estimates, a Standard case and a High case, were determined. The Standard case calculated the likely recoverable coal resources in Australia to be 317 Gt, whereas the High scenario determined the maximal amount of recoverable coal resources at 367 Gt. The study performed forecasting by use of curve-fitting with Logistic and Gompertz curves as well as Static and Dynamic versions of a supply and demand model based on real world mineral exploitation. The different modelling approaches were used to project fossil fuel production and the outlooks were compared. Good agreement was found between the Logistic, Static and Dynamic supply and demand models with production peaking in 2119±6 at between 1.9 and 3.3 Gt/y. Contrasting these projections the Gompertz curves peak in 2084±5 at 1-1.1 Gt/y. It was argued that the Logistic, Static and Dynamic models are more likely to produce accurate projections than the Gompertz curve. The production forecast is based on existing technology and constraints and a qualitative discussion is presented on possible influences on future production, namely: export capacity, climate change, overburden management, environmental and social impacts and export market issues.

Moore, DD & Cordell, DJ 1970, 'Landfills: Sustainability costs and challenges of waste management', CleanUp 2011, Adelaide, South Australia.

Morrison, KC & Giurco, D 1970, 'The future of Australia's mineral wealth: Leasing to support an ageing population', Proceedings of the Second International Future Mining Conference 2011, International Future Mining Conference and Exhibition, AusIMM, University of NSW, Sydney, pp. 227-234.

Mudd, GM, Giurco, D, Memary, R, Mason, LM & Prior, TD 1970, 'Peak minerals: characterising impacts and future options', Proceedings of Sustainability through Resource Conservation and Recycling '11, 2nd International Symposium on Sustainability through Resource Conservation and Recycling '11 (SRCR '11), Minerals Engineering International (MEI), Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

Mukheibir, P 1970, ''Resilience' - the new 'sustainability'', LGSA Water Management Conference 2011, Grafton, NSW.

Mukheibir, P 1970, ''Resilience': the new 'sustainability'', Proceedings of the LGSA 2011 Water Management Conference, LGSA 2011 Water Management Conference, LGSA (Local Government and Shires Association), Grafton, NSW, pp. 1-19.

Oliva, SJ & MacGill, IF 1970, 'Estimating the economic value of distributed PV systems in Australia', 2011 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, 2011 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT Australia), IEEE, pp. 1-8.
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Australian commitment to reduce CO 2 emissions by 2020 has risen a set of policies that attempts to promote investments in low emission technologies in the electricity sector. Given the excellent solar resources in this country, PV systems have been subsidised through a state and territory-based feed-in tariffs scheme (FiTs) whose design doesn't take into account many of the positive externalities that this energy offers. This paper discusses on the full value of electricity generated by PV systems (PVelec) coupled with an economic analysis of this value for a residential PV system located in Sydney. The outcomes show that its investment is economically beneficial when social discount rates are applied under the current technology and costs whereas a discussion of the results provides some insights to potential FiTs improvements. © 2011 IEEE.

Plant, R 1970, 'Session Report: Do ecosystem services provide a common language to facilitate participation in water management', Resilience 2011 - Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change, Resilience 2011 - Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change, Arizona State University, Texas, USA, Arizona State University, Texas, USA, pp. 1-6.

Plant, R 1970, 'Value-based land remediation - opportunities for the remediation industry', CleanUp 2011, Adelaide, South Australia.

Plant, R & Ryan, P 1970, 'Ecosystem services and valuation in catchment management and NRM', AWA Catchment Management Conference, Wangaratta, Victoria.

Plant, R, Walker, JR, Rayburg, SC, Gothe, J, Leung, TM, Phyu, YL & Lim, RP 1970, 'The 'Social Life of Pesticides': How organised irresponsibility in the Greater Sydney Basin threatens the biodiversity of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River', Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Conference Wollongong 2011, Wollongong, NSW.

Prior, JH, Lederwasch, AJ & Plant, R 1970, 'From liability to value: Analysis of land remediation decision-making processes in two Australian cities', Proceedings of the Fifth State of Australian Cities National Conference 2011, State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, Australian Cities and Regions Network (ACRN), Melbourne, pp. 1-12.

Retamal, M, Willetts, I, Mitchell, C & C'arrard, N 1970, 'Modelling costs for water and sanitation infrastructure: Comparing sanitation options for Can Tho, Vietnam', The Future of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Low-Income Countries: Innovation, Adaptation and Engagement in a Changing World - Proceedings of the 35th WEDC International Conference, WEDC International Conference, Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC): Loughborough University, Loughborough University, UK, pp. 1-8.
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Cost effectiveness analysis is a useful tool for comparing water and sanitation infrasfructure options. This method was used to compare a range of sanitation options for the rapidly developing area of South Can Tho in Vietnam. The costs of cenfralised, semi-cenfralised and decenfralised sewer systems were analysed along with several different freatment and sfream separation technologies. The process of estimating and modelling costs can be challenging as considerable data is required, however, by using a variety of cost estimation methods it was possible to undertake a detailed costing assessment to compare very different infrasfructure options over their lifetimes and with reference to the service they provide. The results, which detail net present values and levelised costs in addition to a range of financial perspectives can provide a valuable basis for decision making.

Retamal, ML, Nguyen, DGN, Willetts, JR, Mitchell, CA & Carrard, NR 1970, 'Comparing household water end-use data from Vietnam and Australia: Implications for water and wastewater planning', Proceedings from Efficient '11 - 6th IWA Specialist Conference on Efficient Use and Management of Water, Efficient '11 - 6th IWA Specialist Conference on Efficient Use and Management of Water. Water Demand Management: Challenges & Opportunities, International Water Association, Dead Sea, Jordan, pp. 1-12.

Riedy, C 1970, 'Engaging communities in climate change response - workshop presentation', Inter-jurisdictional Marketing Group Workshop, Sydney.

Riedy, C 1970, 'Supervising in five dimensions: An Integral Approach to research supervision', Showcasing Research Supervision: Experiences, Reflection, Transformation, SuperVision 2011, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, pp. 106-107.

Riedy, C 1970, 'Teaching geography for the next decade', Association of Independent Schools Geography Conference, Sydney.

Rosemarin, A, Schroder, JJ, Dagerskog, L, Cordell, DJ & Smit, BL 1970, 'Future supply of phosphorus in agriculture and the need to maximise efficiency of use and reuse', Proceedings of the International Fertiliser Society Meetings, International Fertiliser Society, Leek, UK, pp. 1-27.

Searle, GH, Boydell, S, Crofts, P, Hubbard, P & Prior, JH 1970, 'The local impacts of sex industry premises: Imagination, reality and implications for planning', Proceedings of the World Planning Schools Congress 2011, World Planning Schools Congress, Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), Perth, Western Australia.
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This paper uses survey data to investigate the community impacts of relatively liberal planning regulation of sex industry premises that has been instituted in Sydney. In this, it explores the contested relationship between community attitudes to sex premises, planning controls over such premises, and real world impacts arising from the application of these controls. The paper first looks at how the range of planning impacts from sex industry premises that were perceived in the past have framed the construction of present planning controls to regulate the sex industry in two Sydney local government areas (one inner and one middle). Survey perceptions of a sample of current residents and commercial firms located close to sex industry premises about possible impacts, as well as perceptions of sex premises in general, are described. The scope of impacts and perceptions measured draws on a range of research from legal studies, property and planning studies, and sociology. The findings are set against the operative planning controls and the assumptions and desired outcomes inherent in them in order to evaluate the appropriateness of the controls. The paper concludes with suggestions for amendments to controls that more closely reflect community perceptions of actual sex industry impacts rather than perceptions of assumed impacts, and reflections on the nature of the intersection of community attitudes to sex premises, planning controls, and the ensuing level and type of actual community impacts.

Taylor, C & Plant, R 1970, 'Recognising the broader public benefits of aquatic systems in water planning', 14th International Riversymposium, Brisbane, Australia.

White, S, Cordell, DJ, Herriman, J, Moore, DD, Gero, A & Mason, LM 1970, 'Local government and landfill futures', Proceedings of ACELG's Local Government Researchers Forum 2011, ACELG's Local Government Researchers Forum 2011: Local governance in transition, Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-13.

White, S, Retamal, ML, AbuZeid, KM, Elrawady, MH & Turner, AJ 1970, 'Integrated resource planning in Alexandria, Egypt', Proceedings of Efficient '11 - 6th IWA Specialist Conference on Efficient Use and Management of Water, Efficient '11 - 6th IWA Specialist Conference on Efficient Use and Management of Water. Water Demand Management: Challenges & Opportunities, International Water Association, Dead Sea, Jordon, pp. 1-8.

Willetts, J 1970, 'Novel approaches to aid in the Solomons: Putting NGO partnerships and strengths-based approaches into action', Australian Approaches to Development Conference, Melbourne.

Willetts, JR 1970, 'Working effectively with women and men to improve the sustainability of WASH Programs (audio of presentation)', WASH 2011 Conference: Towards sustainability in water, sanitation and hygiene, Brisbane, Australia.

Willetts, JR 1970, 'Working effectively with women and men to improve the sustainability of WASH Programs (slide presentation)', WASH 2011 Conference: Towards sustainability in water, sanitation and hygiene, Brisbane, Australia.

Willetts, JR, Crawford, PW & Bailey, B 1970, 'Evaluator-evaluatee: Broadening the engagement', The Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) 2011 International Conference: Evaluation and Influence, Sydney, Australia.

Willetts, JR, Crawford, PW & Bailey, B 1970, 'Increasing influence through broadening the engagement between evaluator and evaluated', The Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) 2011 International Conference: Evaluation and Influence, Sydney, Australia.

Willetts, JR, Crawford, PW & Winterford, KH 1970, 'The place of appreciative approaches in evaluation', The Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) 2011 International Conference: Evaluation and Influence, Sydney, Australia.

Winterford, KH 1970, 'Evaluating for generative change: Citizen participation for accountability', The Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) 2011 International Conference: Evaluation and Influence, Sydney, Australia.

Winterford, KH 1970, 'What happened here...? Experiences of citizens and states increasing accountabilities for improved services', ACFID - Universities Linkage Network Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Behrisch, JC, Ramierez, M & Giurco, D Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Ecodesign Report: results of a survey amongst Australian industrial design consultancies, Sydney, Australia.

Ben-Ami, D, Boom, K, Boronyak, LJ, Croft, DB, Ramp, D & Townend, C THINKK, the kangaroo Think Tank, UTS 2011, Welfare implications of commercial kangaroo harvesting: Do the ends justify the means?, pp. 1-49, Sydney, Australia.

Carrard, NR Institute for Sustainable Futures 2011, The Civil Society WASH Learning Events and Case Studies, pp. 1-46, Sydney, Australia.

Dunstan, C, Boronyak, LJ, Langham, E, Ison, N, Usher, J, Cooper, C & White, S Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Think small: The Australian decentralised energy roadmap: Issue 1, December 2011, pp. 1-110, Sydney, Australia.

Dunstan, C, Cooper, C, Glassmire, J, Ison, N & Langham, E Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Evaluating Costs of Decentralised Energy, Working Paper 4.3 (ver. 2), Sydney.

Dunstan, C, Daly, J, Langham, E, Boronyak, L & Rutovitz, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Institutional Barriers to Intelligent Grid, Working Paper 4.1, Version 3, Sydney.

Dunstan, C, Ghiotto, N & Ross, K Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Report of the 2010 survey of Electricity Network Demand Management in Australia, pp. 1-44, Sydney, Australia.

Dunstan, C, Langham, E, Ross, KE & Ison, N ISF-UTS 2011, 20 Policy Tools for Developing Distributed Energy, Working Paper 4.2, Ver. 2, pp. 1-48, Sydney, Australia.

Dunstan, C, Ross, K & Ghiotto, N Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Barriers to demand management: A survey of stakeholder perceptions, pp. 1-51, Sydney, Australia.

Dunstan, C, Usher, J, Ross, K, Christie, L & Paevere, PJ Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 2011, Supporting electric vehicle adoption in Australia: Barriers and policy solutions, pp. 1-156, Victoria, Australia.

Fane, SA, Retamal, ML, McKibbin, JL & May, D Institute for Sustainable Futures 2011, Case study: Integrated resource planning for urban water - Wagga Wagga, pp. 1-78, Sydney.

Fane, SA, Turner, AJ, McKibbin, JL, May, D, Fyfe, J, Chong, J, Blackburn, N, Patterson, JJ & White, S Australian National Water Commission 2011, Integrated resource planning for urban water - resource papers, pp. 1-206, Canberra.

Ghiotto, N, Dunstan, C & Ross, K Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Distributed generation in Australia: A status review, pp. 1-28, Sydney, Australia.

Hope, R, Foster, T, Money, A, Rouse, M, Money, N & Thomas, M Oxford University 2011, Smart Water Systems: Final Technical Report to UK Department for International Development, Oxford.

Ison, N, Rutovitz, J & Harris, S Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, NSW business energy prices to 2020: final report, pp. 1-23, Sydney, Australia.

Ison, N, Usher, J, Cantley-Smith, RM, Harris, SM & Dunstan, C Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS and Monash University Faculty of Law 2011, The NEM Report Card: How well does the National Electricity Market serve Australia?, pp. 1-158, Sydney.

Kelly OFGEM 2011, USA Transmission company model description. Technical Report, United Kingdom.

Kuruppu, N, McGee, CM, Murta, J, Prendergast, J, Prior, JH, Prior, TD, Retamal, ML, Usher, J & Zeibots, ME 2011, Sustainability strategy for the North Ryde Station Precinct Project: Infrastructure and subdivision, prepared for Transport Construction Authority, by Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Langham, E, Dunstan, C & Mohr, S Prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS as part of the CSIRO Intelligent Grid Research Program. 2011, Mapping Network Opportunities for Decentralised Energy: The Dynamic Avoidable Network Cost Evaluation (DANCE) Model, iGrid Working Paper 4.4, Sydney.

Langham, E, Dunstan, C, Cooper, C, Moore, DD, Mohr, SH & Ison, N Institute for Sustainable Futures 2011, Decentralised Energy Costs and Opportunities for Victoria, pp. 1-136, University of Technology, Sydney.

Langham, E, Prendergast, J & Dunstan, C Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Frasers to UTS water and energy linkages: concept feasibility investigation, Prepared for UTS and Frasers Broadway by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS in partnership with Waterman AHW and WSP Lincolne Scott.

Mason, LM, Lederwasch, AJ, Daly, JG, Prior, TD, Buckley, A, Hoath, A & Giurco, D Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Vision 2040: Mining, minerals and innovation - A vision for Australia's mineral future, pp. 1-28, Sydney.

Mason, LM, Lederwasch, AJ, Prior, TD & Giurco, D Institute for Sutainable Futures, UTS 2011, Vision 2040: Mining, minerals and innovation. Consultation Paper May 2011, Sydney.

McInnes, R, de Groot, J, Plant, R, Chong, J & Olszak, C Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA) 2011, Managing catchments as business assets: An economic framework for evaluating control measures for source water protect (Research Report No. 83), pp. 1-69, Sydney, Australia.

Mitchell, CA, Cordell, DJ, Boyle, TM & Jackson, ML Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Australian Green Infrastructure Council Infrastructure sustainability rating tool: Water category, Sydney.

Mitchell, CA, Fam, DM & Abeysuriya, K Institute of Sustainable Futures 2011, Mutual Learning for Social Change: Using social research to support the introduction of urine diverting toilets in the Kinglake West Sewerage Project, pp. 1-23, Sydney.

Mukheibir, P & Giurco, D Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Understanding apparent water losses through non-registration of domestic meters: The relevance for non-revenue water and meter replacement policies, pp. 1-24, Sydney.

Mukheibir, P & Mitchell, CA Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Planning for resilient water systems - a water supply and demand investment options assessment framework, pp. 1-37, Sydney.
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The Managing Directors of the four Melbourne water businesses have set out a clear vision for the future role of water in shaping a sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy city. The Melbourne Water Supply Demand Strategy (WSDS) is a 50-year strategy to balance the supply of water to meet Melbourne’s consumptive, environmental, industrial and agricultural water needs. The strategy examines long-term future supply augmentations for the city. The last Melbourne WSDS was completed in 2006. The next Melbourne WSDS is due for completion in March 2012, and is one of the key mechanisms through which the Managing Directors’ vision can be achieved. The Institute for Sustainable Futures was contracted by the Smart Water Fund to develop an options assessment framework for the preparation of water supply demand investment strategies, including the forthcoming WSDS, that will meet the MDs’ broad vision. This options assessment framework brief indicates there is now widespread recognition across the Melbourne water businesses that a generational shift is required away from conventional deterministic planning towards more flexible and adaptive planning and management. This shift is being driven by the need to maintain water security in the face of increasing uncertainty in key determinants of water businesses, as well as by increasing determination to broaden the objectives that a water system should meet. For example, the recent dry period highlighted that the role of water in a city is wider than that of a commodity. In addition, feedback from key city stakeholders indicates that there is an opportunity for the water sector to play a larger role in actively shaping the future of our city.

Paddon, M, Prior, JH, Herriman, J, Chong, J, Moore, D & Boyle, T 2011, Australian tourism sustainability performance indicators report: Presenting the framework, no. 1, prepared for Sustainable Tourism CRC, by Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Paddon, M, Prior, JH, Herriman, J, Chong, J, Moore, D & Boyle, T 2011, Australian tourism sustainability performance indicators: Detailed indicator framework, no. 3, prepared for Sustainable Tourism CRC, by Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Paddon, M, Prior, JH, Herriman, J, Chong, J, Moore, D & Boyle, T 2011, Australian tourism sustainability performance indicators: Preparing the framework, no. 2, prepared for Sustainable Tourism CRC, by Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Partridge, EY, Chong, J, Herriman, J, Daly, JG & Lederwasch, AJ Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, City of Sydney indicator framework, Sydney, Australia.

Prior, TD, Asker, SA & Plant, R Institute for Sustainable Futures 2011, Australian cotton futures: Final summary report, pp. 1-8, Sydney, Australia.

Riedy, C & Daly, JG Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Review of ATN greenhouse gas reduction targets: Final report, Sydney.

Rutovitz, J, Harris, SM, Kuruppu, N & Dunstan, C Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Drilling down: Coal seam gas - a background paper, pp. 1-83, Sydney, Australia.

Rutovitz, J, Ison, N, Langham, E & Paddon, M Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Electrical trades in the green economy: analysis of the NSW energy sector to 2020, pp. 1-60, Sydney, Australia.

Rutovitz, J, Langham, E, Ison, N & Dunstan, C Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Parkes Shire Council: Distributed energy plan - information sheet, pp. 1-2, Sydney.

Rutovitz, J, Langham, E, Ison, N & Dunstan, C Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Parkes Shire Council: Distributed energy plan - report, pp. 1-64, Sydney.
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Parkes Shire Council (PSC) is investigating the options to reduce energy use and generate local energy from renewable or low carbon sources, with the aim of delivering significant financial and environmental benefits. To this end, PSC commissioned the Institute for Sustainable Futures to produce a Distributed Energy Plan to form part of PSCs Sustainable Water and Energy Plan (SWEP). ISF undertook a high level assessment of the energy options by assigning indicative costs and comparing them with projected increases in NSW electricity prices, and assessing risks and benefits in the Parkes context. Six options were selected for further investigation in consultation with PSC. Implementing the proposed Distributed Energy Plan could provide significant economic, social and environmental benefit to both PSC and the wider Parkes community, enabling PSC to invest more in other essential community services and programs. It will directly reduce councils own emissions and costs, and increase the profile of sustainable and low carbon technologies. An important element of the plan is to ensure that the Parkes community is informed about the energy actions implemented, enabling businesses, organisations and residents to learn from the Councils experience. There may be potential in the future to facilitate community implementation of distributed energy, for example by arranging or facilitating bulk purchase cooperatives, so that residents can gain access to the same cost effective solutions as PSC itself.

Teske, S Brussels and Amsterdam: European Renewable Energy Council and Greenpeace 2011, The advanced energy [r] evolution: Asustainable energy outlook for South Africa.

Usher, J, Horgan, CR, Dunstan, C & Paevere, PJ Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 2011, Plugging in: A technical and institutional assessment of electric vehicles and the grid in Australia, pp. 1-90, Victoria, Australia.

Willetts, J, Carrard, N, Gero, A, Abeysuriya, K & George, A UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures 2011, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector Briefs for 20 countries, Sydney, Australia.

Willetts, JR & Wicken, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, WASH Conference 2011 Report, pp. 1-17, Sydney, Australia.

Willetts, JR, Bailey, B & Crawford, PW Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Civil Society Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Fund - Independent progress report, pp. 1-40, Sydney, Australia.

Willetts, JR, Carrard, NR & Asker, SA Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Exploring processes for participation and accountability: A learning paper, pp. 1-25, Sydney, Australia.
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This Learning Paper is about mechanisms and processes for participation and accountability (P&A) in the Solomon Islands (SI) community development sector. The paper draws on experiences of six non- government organisations (NGOs) under the AusAID-funded Solomon Islands NGO Partnership Agreement (SINPA) running from 2009-2014.

Willetts, JR, Carrard, NR, Asker, SA & Winterford, K Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2011, Exploring SINPA's strengths-based practice: A learning paper, pp. 1-27, Sydney, Australia.

Cordell, DJ, White, S & Prior, TD 2011, 'Securing phosphorus: food for thought, and food for the future', The Conversation Media Trust.

Kelly, S 2011, 'The Question'.

Niklas, S 2011, 'Using social network analysis to study adaptive capacity of actors engaged in CO2 sequestration policies in natural ecosystems in Northern Bavaria, Germany'.
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Climate change mitigation demands the implementation of policies concerning CO2 sequestration in natural ecosystems. Forests and wetlands particularly have significant potential for carbon dioxide sequestration. The successful adaptation of climate change policies regarding CO2 sequestration in natural ecosystems, calls for the active involvement of stakeholders from numerous sectors at multiple administrative levels. This study investigates the social network of actors engaged in forestry and nature conservation in Northern Bavaria, Germany. The actors included governmental organisations, environmental non-governmental organisations, research institutions and private stakeholders, operating at local, regional and state level. Social Network Analysis was applied to generate a communication and a collaboration network and to identify the connections, links and the attitude of the political actors. The relationships between an actor’s position in the network and their adaptive capacity are examined. It is found that an actor’s position in the network determines its contribution to current environmental problems. Particularly, actors sitting on central positions have the human, financial and political resources to handle external structural changes, and are therefore better at adapting to new climate policies.

Wilhelm, I, Teske, S & Massonet, G 2011, 'Solar photovoltaic electricity empowering the world'.
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This report aims at providing a clear and comprehensible description of the current status of the developing photovoltaic power generation worldwide and its untapped potentials and growth prospects in the coming years.