Publications

Bangerter, P, Corder, G, Giurco, D, McLellan, B & Murphy, A 2015, 'Sustainability in plant design' in Boom, R, Twigge-Molecey, C, Wheeler, F & Young, J (eds), Metallurgical plant design, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum, Montreal, Canada, pp. 157-179.

Cordell, DJ & White, S 2015, 'Phosphorus' in Pattberg, P & Fariborz Zelli, F (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 404-415.
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Accordingly, universities around the world have added courses on global environmental governance, politics and policy to their curricula across departments and disciplines. Teaching global environmental governance, however, presents a ...

Cordell, DJ & White, S 2015, 'Phosphorus security: global non-governance of a critical resource for food security' in Pattberg, PH & Zelli, F (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 404-416.
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This comprehensive reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains 68 entries on numerous aspects across 7 thematic areas, including concepts and definitions; theories and methods; actors; institutions; ...

Florin, N, Boot-Handford, M & Fennell, P 2015, 'Calcium looping technologies for gasification and reforming' in Boot-Handford, M & Fennell, P (eds), Calcium and Chemical Looping Technology for Power Generation and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Capture, Elsevier, The Netherlands, pp. 139-152.
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter demonstrates the broad potential of applying calcium looping for reforming and gasification applications. The highly integrated processes discussed herein offer potential step-change improvements in the thermal and cost efficiency of power production integrated with CO2 capture. While there has been a considerable amount of research focussed on elaborating the underlying science, there remains scope for further work to evaluate the reaction kinetics for sorption-enhanced watergas shift and sorption-enhanced reforming, to measure the influence of impurities, and to overcome challenges associated with complex process integration.

Florin, N, Sharpe, S, Wright, S & Giurco, D 2015, 'Business models for a circular world: the case of metals' in Ludwig, C, Matasci, C & Edelmann, X (eds), Part IV Circular Economy and Decoupling, Natural Resources: Sustainable targets, Technologies, Lifestyles and Governance, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, pp. 253-259.

Halbwirth, SJ & Toohey, K 2015, 'Transferring knowledge, know-how and capability: Managing and sharing knowledge for future events' in Holt, R & Ruta, D (eds), Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy Meeting the Challenge of Major Sports Events, Routledge, UK, pp. 245-258.
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The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy addresses perhaps the most important issue in the hosting of major contemporary sporting events: the problem of ‘legacy’.

Leslie, D, Brydges, T & Brail, S 2015, 'Qualifying aesthetic values in the experience economy: The role of independent fashion boutiques in curating slow fashion' in Spatial Dynamics in the Experience Economy, pp. 88-102.
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Introduction Recent years have witnessed the growth of ‘slow fashion’. This movement has emerged as a challenge to ‘fast fashion’, a model of clothing production which is premised on bringing the latest styles to the consumer as quickly as possible and at low cost (Reinach 2005; Tokatli 2008). In order to reduce the price of clothes, production is typically located overseas in low wage countries. Recent media attention has highlighted the extreme costs of this model. In 2013, for example, 1, 129 workers died and numerous others were injured with the collapse of a building that housed multiple garment manufacturers in Bangladesh (Liljas 2013; Wong 2013). The company was making clothes for a number of retailers, including the Canadian fast fashion label Joe Fresh. Despite campaigns and protests, Joe Fresh and many other international fashion retailers continue to manufacture fast fashion clothing. However, as the controversy surrounding fast fashion continues to grow, many designers, retailers and consumers are advocating an alternative model of ‘slow fashion’ (Clark 2008; Holt 2009; Wood 2008; Leslie et al. 2014). The slow fashion movement is observed in cities around the world, and is characterized by the growth of small independent boutiques. These boutiques differentiate themselves from mainstream fashion retailers by offering customers an alternative retail experience. Independent retailers are focused on the qualification and curation of fashion apparel and lifestyle amenities through the provision of customized service, deep supplier, labour and client relationships and an emphasis on locally produced, environmentally sustainable and ethically sourced goods. In this paper we contribute to the literature on the geography of the experience economy by exploring the role of small independent retail boutiques in qualifying slow fashion goods, and in carving out alternative relationships, experiences and spaces. We highlight a growing role for new actors...

M’Cormack-Hale, FAO & Beoku-Betts, J 2015, 'General Introduction' in Prior, J & Cusack, C (eds), Religion, Sexuality and Spirituality Critical Concepts in Religious Studies Volume I: Methodology, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, New York, pp. 8-17.
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Although much has been written on many different aspects of post-conflict reconstruction, democracy building, and the role of the international community in Sierra Leone, there is no definitive publication that focuses on exploring the ways in which various interventions targeted at women in Sierra Leone have resulted in socio-economic and political change, following the Sierra Leone civil war. This special issue explores the multi-faceted subject of women’s empowerment in post-war Sierra Leone. Employing a variety of theoretical frameworks, the papers examine a broad range of themes addressing women’s socio-economic and political development, ranging from health to political participation, from paramount chiefs and parliamentarians to traditional birth attendants and refugees. An underlying argument is that post-war contexts provide the space to advance policies and practices that contribute to women’s empowerment. To this end, the papers examine the varied ways in which women have individually and collectively responded to, shaped, negotiated, and been affected by national and international initiatives and processes.

Prior, JH & Crofts, P 2015, 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-sexual: Commercial Sex' in Wright, J (ed), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, pp. 883-887.
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Forms of commercial sex extend beyond prostitution to include a broad range of businesses that produce sexual goods and services; many of these cater to a broader range of sexual predilections, and include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) consumers among their clientele. This article provides an overview of the shifting attitudes toward and culture of LGBTI commercial sex, and how the placement and access to LGBTI commercial sex within Western jurisdictions cannot be considered a simple response to patterns of supply and demand, but rather as the outcome of complex interactions of moral codes, legal structures, and other forms of regulations.

Stewart, RA, Sahin, O, Siems, R, Talebpour, MR & Giurco, D 2015, 'Performance and economics of internally plumbed rainwater tanks: An Australian perspective' in Memon, FA & Ward, S (eds), Alternative Water Supply Systems, IWA Publishing, London, United Kingdom, pp. 3-23.

Turner, A & Fyfe, J 2015, 'Quantifying mains water savings from residential rainwater tanks' in Sharma, A, Begbie, D & Gardner, T (eds), Rainwater Tank Systems for Urban Water Supply, International Water Association, London, pp. 47-72.
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The premise for mandating rainwater tanks, or implementing expensive financial incentive programs such as rebates for the installation of tanks, is that meaningful savings can be achieved from the potable water supply. Whilst there is a depth of literature on modelled and theoretical savings from rainwater tanks, there are scant studies that seek to quantify the savings from multiple household ‘real life’ examples. The primary objective of this chapter is to present three different methods for assessing the savings in mains water use from regions of Australia that have recently installed rainwater tanks. We believe all three methods are internationally applicable. Various ‘before’ and ‘after’ comparisons are presented of mains water demand resulting from either rebated or mandated rainwater tank installations. Case Study 1 is a desktop assessment that uses water utility water billing data, lot sizes and presence or absence of an internally plumbed rainwater tank (RWT) to make pair-wise statistical inferences on the range of savings from internally plumbed tanks at a scale of local authority areas. Building on Case Study 1, Case Study 2 applies known household socio-demographic data matched with their household billing data to determine a benchmark water savings. Case Study 3 focuses on the water savings derived froma city-wide rainwater tank rebate program by comparing water consumption of each individual rebated household with a statistically-matched non-rebated household. Conclusions from all the studies focus on the need for sufficiently large sample sizes, known household occupancy, and the penetration of water efficient appliances in households. Comparison of savings estimates highlighted the variability of rain tank yields between regions associated with climate, tank sizes and functionality, and connected end uses and roof area. Outdoor consumption is a critical end-use that will maximise savings. Thus factors such as potable water restrictions,...

White, S & Cordell, D 2015, 'Global phosphorus security- diet, sustainability, and food for thought' in Soeters, K (ed), Meat, The Future: How Cutting Meat Consumption Can Feed Billions More, Nicholaas G Pierson Foundation, The Netherlands, pp. 75-86.

Akbani, R, Akdemir, KC, Aksoy, BA, Albert, M, Ally, A, Amin, SB, Arachchi, H, Arora, A, Auman, JT, Ayala, B, Baboud, J, Balasundaram, M, Balu, S, Barnabas, N, Bartlett, J, Bartlett, P, Bastian, BC, Baylin, SB, Behera, M, Belyaev, D, Benz, C, Bernard, B, Beroukhim, R, Bir, N, Black, AD, Bodenheimer, T, Boice, L, Boland, GM, Bono, R, Bootwalla, MS, Bosenberg, M, Bowen, J, Bowlby, R, Bristow, CA, Brockway-Lunardi, L, Brooks, D, Brzezinski, J, Bshara, W, Buda, E, Burns, WR, Butterfield, YSN, Button, M, Calderone, T, Cappellini, GA, Carter, C, Carter, SL, Cherney, L, Cherniack, AD, Chevalier, A, Chin, L, Cho, J, Cho, RJ, Choi, Y-L, Chu, A, Chudamani, S, Cibulskis, K, Ciriello, G, Clarke, A, Coons, S, Cope, L, Crain, D, Curley, E, Danilova, L, D’Atri, S, Davidsen, T, Davies, MA, Delman, KA, Demchok, JA, Deng, QA, Deribe, YL, Dhalla, N, Dhir, R, DiCara, D, Dinikin, M, Dubina, M, Ebrom, JS, Egea, S, Eley, G, Engel, J, Eschbacher, JM, Fedosenko, KV, Felau, I, Fennell, T, Ferguson, ML, Fisher, S, Flaherty, KT, Frazer, S, Frick, J, Fulidou, V, Gabriel, SB, Gao, J, Gardner, J, Garraway, LA, Gastier-Foster, JM, Gaudioso, C, Gehlenborg, N, Genovese, G, Gerken, M, Gershenwald, JE, Getz, G, Gomez-Fernandez, C, Gribbin, T, Grimsby, J, Gross, B, Guin, R, Gutschner, T, Hadjipanayis, A, Halaban, R, Hanf, B, Haussler, D, Haydu, LE, Hayes, DN, Hayward, NK, Heiman, DI, Herbert, L, Herman, JG, Hersey, P, Hoadley, KA, Hodis, E, Holt, RA, Hoon, DSB, Hoppough, S, Hoyle, AP, Huang, FW, Huang, M, Huang, S, Hutter, CM, Ibbs, M, Iype, L, Jacobsen, A, Jakrot, V, Janning, A, Jeck, WR, Jefferys, SR, Jensen, MA, Jones, CD, Jones, SJM, Ju, Z, Kakavand, H, Kang, H, Kefford, RF, Khuri, FR, Kim, J, Kirkwood, JM, Klode, J, Korkut, A, Korski, K, Krauthammer, M, Kucherlapati, R, Kwong, LN, Kycler, W, Ladanyi, M, Lai, PH, Laird, PW, Lander, E, Lawrence, MS, Lazar, AJ, Łaźniak, R, Lee, D, Lee, JE, Lee, J, Lee, K, Lee, S, Lee, W, Leporowska, E, Leraas, KM, Li, HI, Lichtenberg, TM, Lichtenstein, L, Lin, P, Ling, S, Liu, J, Liu, O, Liu, W, Long, GV, Lu, Y, Ma, S, Ma, Y, Mackiewicz, A, Mahadeshwar, HS, Malke, J, Mallery, D, Manikhas, GM, Mann, GJ, Marra, MA, Matejka, B, Mayo, M, Mehrabi, S, Meng, S, Meyerson, M, Mieczkowski, PA, Miller, JP, Miller, ML, Mills, GB, Moiseenko, F, Moore, RA, Morris, S, Morrison, C, Morton, D, Moschos, S, Mose, LE, Muller, FL, Mungall, AJ, Murawa, D, Murawa, P, Murray, BA, Nezi, L & et al. 2015, 'Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma', Cell, vol. 161, no. 7, pp. 1681-1696.
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Baumann, C & White, S 2015, 'Collaborative Stakeholder Dialogue: A Catalyst for Better Transport Policy Choices', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 30-38.
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Policies that promote sustainable transport development are often contested among the different stakeholder groups in the policy process. The resulting conflict creates barriers to the implementation of innovative policies. This article investigates how, and under what conditions, closer communication and the resulting relationships between different stakeholders in the policy process can contribute to overcoming these challenges. By building on the findings of a case study in collaborative stakeholder dialogue in Munich, it proposes collaborative stakeholder dialogue as a pragmatic strategy to counterbalance the difference in influence competing stakeholder groups have in the policy process, and to so facilitate better choices.

Benn, S, Angus-Leppan, T, Edwards, M, Brown, P & White, S 2015, 'Changing Directions in Business Education: Knowledge Sharing for Sustainability', Building Sustainable Legacies: The New Frontier Of Societal Value Co-Creation, vol. 2015, no. 5, pp. 87-102.
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Boronyak-Vasco, L & Perry, N 2015, 'Using tradeable permits to improve efficiency, equity and animal protection in the commercial kangaroo harvest', Ecological Economics, vol. 114, no. June 2015, pp. 159-167.
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The utilisation of wildlife creates conflicts between commercial operators, landholders, traditional owners of the land, conservationists and animal protection advocates. Such conflicts are evident in Australia's utilisation of the iconic kangaroo (Macropus) species for their meat and hides. Like many wild animal industries, kangaroos are an open access resource, although restrictions built into the management regime ensure that rents are, approximately, maximised. However, resource allocation decisions and the distribution of rents reflect the values and objectives of the economically powerful stakeholders and particularly commercial processors. Thus, rents are not distributed equitably and the management regime excludes animal protection advocates from adequate participation. Thus, an external cost occurs when kangaroos are harvested that must be internalised for economic efficiency to be achieved. We propose a tradeable permit system where landholders, shooters and processors compete with ordinary citizens for the right to harvest kangaroos. This increases the private cost of harvest and internalises the external cost. It also improves the equity of rent distribution with landholders able to earn a return from kangaroos on their land. As similar issues arise in the utilisation of other wild animals, the research provides an important contribution to the literature on the economics of animal welfare.

Brown, T, Langanke, S, Ackermann, T & Teske, S 2015, 'Integrating Renewables in Jiangsu Province, China', Gas, vol. 6, pp. 1-8.
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Jiangsu province on the east coast of China currently generates the majority of its electricity from coal, resulting in high CO2 emissions and bad air quality. Current government plans would increase wind and solar photovoltaic capacity in Jiangsu to 10 GW each by 2020, covering just 5% of its electricity demand with renewable electricity. This paper describes modelling work carried out by Energynautics on behalf of Greenpeace East Asia, which shows how Jiangsu can achieve more ambitious targets for the integration of wind, solar and biomass generation by 2020 and thereby cover 14% of its electrical demand with locally-generated renewables. Simulations of the transmission network show that while some grid upgrades are necessary to integrate up to 30 GW wind capacity from coastal regions, over half of the necessary grid extensions can be avoided by using innovative new grid technologies, such as Dynamic Line Rating. Dynamic Line Rating allows network operators to raise the thermal capacities of transmission lines when there is extra cooling due to the wind, thus avoiding grid upgrades.

Brydges, T, Arribas-Bel, D & Cinnamon, J 2015, 'Review: Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities; Manufacturing a (Different) Scene, Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS, the Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences', Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 564-567.
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Chong, J, Gero, A & Treichel, P 2015, 'What Indicates Improved Resilience to Climate Change? A Learning and Evaluative Process Developed From a Child‐Centered, Community‐Based Project in the Philippines', New Directions for Evaluation, vol. 2015, no. 147, pp. 105-116.
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AbstractCommunity‐based climate change adaptation and resilience (CCAR) projects increasingly recognize that climate change impacts are localized, requiring context‐specific interventions. Conventional approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are, however, ill‐suited to understanding the impact of such CCAR interventions. To address this gap, research based on a child‐centered community‐based adaptation project in the Philippines has developed a practical and replicable process for developing evidence‐based, local‐level indicators of effective adaptation. The process assesses how the project influenced children's knowledge, advocacy efforts, and impact on policy and practice. Evidence was generated from qualitative inquiry, primarily through focus group discussions with children. The analysis included scalar ratings to help to meet quantitative reporting requirements. A detailed guide was developed for implementing agencies to systematically understand, measure, and communicate evidence. The process can also be translated to community development projects seeking to evaluate change under uncertainty.

Cordell, D & White, S 2015, 'Tracking phosphorus security: indicators of phosphorus vulnerability in the global food system', Food Security, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 337-350.
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and International Society for Plant Pathology. Phosphorus underpins global food systems by ensuring soil fertility, farmer livelihoods, agricultural productivity and global food security. Yet there is a lack of research and effective governance at global or national scales designed to ensure the future availability and accessibility of this global resource. The world’s main source of phosphorus, phosphate rock, is a finite resource that is becoming increasingly scarce, expensive and subject to geopolitical tensions as one country, Morocco, controls three-quarters of the world’s remaining high-grade reserves. Given the criticality of phosphorus and the vulnerability of the world’s food systems to phosphorus scarcity, there is a strong need to stimulate appropriate sustainable phosphorus practices and technologies, and simultaneously, to initiate effective international governance mechanisms, including policy/research coordination and accountability. Sustainability indicators are increasingly being used as tools to facilitate accountability, implementation, evaluation and communication for global sustainability challenges. This paper presents the first comprehensive set of phosphorus vulnerability and security indicators at global and national scales. Global indicators include: phosphate price, market concentration and supply risk, relative physical phosphorus scarcity and eutrophication potential. National indicators include: farmer phosphorus vulnerability, national phosphorus vulnerability, national phosphorus equity and soil phosphorus legacy. Monitoring and tracking such indicators at the national and global levels can ultimately provide evidence of key phosphorus vulnerabilities or ‘hotspots’ in the food system, support effective phosphorus governance to stimulate targeted and effective action, raise awareness of this food security challenge, and evaluate the effectiveness and performance of global o...

Cordell, D, Turner, A & Chong, J 2015, 'The hidden cost of phosphate fertilizers: mapping multi-stakeholder supply chain risks and impacts from mine to fork', Global Change, Peace & Security, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 323-343.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Without phosphorus, we could not produce food. Farmers need access to phosphate fertilizers to achieve the high crop yields needed to feed the world. Yet growing global demand for phosphorus could surpass supply in the coming decades, and the world currently largely relies on non-renewable phosphate rock that is mined in only a few countries. Morocco alone controls 75% of the remaining reserves, including those in the conflict territory of Western Sahara. While some argue that the market will take care of any scarcity, the market price of phosphate fertilizers fails to account for far-ranging negative impacts. Drawing on multi-stakeholder supply chain risk frameworks, the article identifies a range of negative impacts, including the exploitation and displacement of the Saharawi people, the destruction of aquatic ecosystems by nutrient pollution, and jeopardizing future generations' ability to produce food. This paper fills a crucial gap in understanding phosphorus impacts by mapping and discussing the nature of phosphorus supply chain risks, and the transmission of such risks to different stakeholder groups. It also identifies a range of potential interventions to mitigate and manage those risks. In addition, the paper highlights that while risks are diverse, from geopolitical to ecological, those groups adversely affected are also diverse – including the Saharawi people, farmers, businesses, food consumers and the environment. Potential risk mitigation strategies range from resource sparing (using phosphorus more sparingly to extend the life of high quality rock for ourselves and future generations), to resource diversification (sourcing phosphorus from a range of ethical sources to reduce dependence on imported phosphate, as a buffer against supply disruptions, and preferencing those sources with lower societal costs), and sharing the responsibility for these costs and consequences.

Corder, GD, Golev, A & Giurco, D 2015, ''Wealth from metal waste': Translating global knowledge on industrial ecology to metals recycling in Australia', MINERALS ENGINEERING, vol. 76, no. 15 May 2015, pp. 2-9.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. Australia's rich stocks of mineral resources have been the source of national wealth and competitive advantage in the past. However, the security of this wealth is not guaranteed into the future, and what were once considered waste materials from mining, infrastructure and products are now becoming accessible and valuable as 'above-ground' mineral resources. Globally there is growing capacity and innovation in recycling, closed-loop supply chains and Australia's role as a global leader in primary production must anticipate and adapt to the implications of a rise in the importance of recycling. However, both at a global level and in Australia, there are a broad range of factors and local influences affecting the successful application and implementation of industrial ecology beyond technical re-use solutions. This paper presents the initial outcomes from a major collaborative research project (Wealth from Waste Cluster), funded by the CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund and partner universities, focused on identifying viable options to 'mine' metals contained in discarded urban infrastructure, manufactured products and consumer goods. This paper presents initial estimates of the mass and current worth of metals in end-of-life products. Results from this analysis have identified that the value of metals in end-of-life products is more than AUD6 billion per year, and assuming existing recovery rates, the estimated potential for recovering metals from 'waste' or end-of-life products is of the order of AUD2 billion per year. In addition a metal flow analysis of the Australian economy identified that approximately half the scrap metal collected in Australia (approximately 2.5 million tonnes per year) is currently being transported overseas which potentially could be recycled in Australia if suitable technology were available.

Davila, F & Dyball, R 2015, 'Transforming Food Systems Through Food Sovereignty: An Australian Urban Context', Australian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 34-45.
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AbstractThis article draws on La Via Campesina's definition of food sovereignty and its potential for reconceptualising food as a basic human right within the dominant Australian food discourse. We argue that the educative value that emerges from urban food production in Australia stems from the action of growing food and its capacity to transform individuals’ social and environmental concerns over food systems. Community participation in urban food production can promote a learning process that generates political understanding and concerns over food systems. We use the education theories of transformative learning and critical consciousness to discuss how Australian urban food production systems can create this social and environmental support for alternative food systems. By having control over food production practices and building collective understandings of how food choices impact global food systems, elements of food sovereignty can develop in an Australian urban context.

Davila, F & Dyball, R 2015, 'Transforming Food Systems Through Food Sovereignty: An Australian Urban Context', Australasian Journal Of Environmental Education, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 34-45.

Delaney, C & Fam, D 2015, 'The ‘meaning’ behind household rainwater use: An Australian case study', Technology in Society, vol. 42, pp. 179-186.
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Suburban rainwater tanks have the potential to reduce household mains water consumption, but simply installing the technology does not mean rainwater is automatically incorporated into everyday practices. Exploring how rainwater is conceptualised in contrast to mains water, and the way it is used in household practices, provides insights into why rainwater tank households may not be using less mains water than households without tanks. Water saving strategies that promote rainwater tanks tend to focus on installation rather than how, why and where rainwater is substituted for mains water. While there is the assumption that rainwater tank households use less mains water, an investigation of rainwater practices have revealed influential social and cultural factors that extend far beyond installing a new technology. Drawing on a household water study involving 21 interviews and 1425 surveys in the Illawarra region, Australia, practice theory principles provided insight into how rainwater was conceptualised, revealing the ‘meaning’ of rainwater as an influential factor informing its everyday use. The historical, cultural and emotional meanings of rainwater contribute to shaping its use in everyday practices. Rainwater means different things to different people and it is this spectrum of meanings that inform the range of practices, and volumes of use. This study highlights opportunities for increased integration of rainwater into household practices, which may broaden the perceived uses and usefulness, reshaping it's meaning over time.

Dong, Z, Pan, Z, An, P, Wang, L, Zhang, J, He, D, Han, H & Pan, X 2015, 'A novel method for quantitatively evaluating agricultural vulnerability to climate change', Ecological Indicators, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 49-54.
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In July 2010, Pakistan experienced severe flooding from monsoon rains. Approximately one-fifth of the country was underwater (WFP, 2010), with more than 20 million people directly affected and a death toll of almost 2,000 (Asian Development Bank, 2010). The total economic impact has been estimated at 9 to 11 billion USD (Asian Development Bank, 2010). This type of event is consistent with climate change projections, which see a temporary increase in water availability due to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, followed by a gradual decline in water availability (Cruz et al., 2007). If these projections are accurate, flooding is the short-term problem but water security will be the long-term problem for South Asia.

Gero, A, Fletcher, S, Rumsey, M, Thiessen, J, Kuruppu, N, Buchan, J, Daly, J & Willetts, J 2015, 'Disasters and climate change in the Pacific: adaptive capacity of humanitarian response organizations', CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 35-46.
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© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Climate change is likely to affect the pattern of disasters in the Pacific and, by extension, the organizations and systems involved in disaster response. This research focused on how immediate humanitarian health-related needs following disasters are met using the concept of adaptive capacity to investigate the resilience of organizations and the robustness of the broader system of disaster response. Four case study countries (Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, and Vanuatu) were chosen for deeper investigation of the range of issues present in the Pacific. Key findings were that adaptive capacity was enhanced by strong informal communication and relationships as well as formal relationships, appropriate participation of traditional leaders and churches, and recognition and support for the critical role national disaster management offices play in disaster coordination. Adaptive capacity was found to be constrained by lack of clear policies for requesting international assistance, lack of coordinated disaster assessments, and limited human resources for health in disaster response. Limitations in psychosocial support and Australian medical services to meet specific needs were observed. Finally, the research revealed that both Pacific and Australian disaster-response agencies would benefit from a strengthened ‘future’ focus to better plan for uncertainty and changing risks.

Giurco, D, Herriman, J, Turner, A, Mason, L, White, S, Moore, D & Klostermann, F 2015, 'Integrated Resource Planning for Urban Waste Management', Resources, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 3-24.
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The waste hierarchy currently dominates waste management planning in Australia. It is effective in helping planners consider options from waste avoidance or “reduction” through to providing infrastructure for landfill or other “disposal”. However, it is inadequate for guiding context-specific decisions regarding sustainable waste management and resource recovery, including the ability for stakeholders to compare a range of options on an equal footing whilst considering their various sustainability impacts and trade-offs. This paper outlines the potential use of Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) as a decision-making approach for the urban waste sector, illustrated using an Australian case study. IRP is well established in both the water and energy sectors in Australia and internationally. It has been used in long-term planning enabling decision-makers to consider the potential to reduce resource use through efficiency alongside options for new infrastructure. Its use in the waste sector could address a number of the current limitations experienced by providing a broader context-sensitive, adaptive, and stakeholder focused approach to planning not present in the waste hierarchy and commonly used cost benefit analysis. For both efficiency and new infrastructure options IRP could be useful in assisting governments to make decisions that are consistent with agreed objectives while addressing costs of alternative options and uncertainty regarding their environmental and social impacts. This paper highlights various international waste planning approaches, differences between the sectors where IRP has been used and gives a worked example of how IRP could be applied in the Australian urban waste sector.

Golev, A, Corder, G & Giurco, D 2015, 'Wealth from waste', AusIMM Bulletin, no. 4.

Golev, A, Corder, G & Giurco, D 2015, 'Wealth from waste', Ausimm Bulletin, no. 4.

Golev, A, Corder, GD & Giurco, DP 2015, 'Barriers to Industrial Symbiosis: Insights from the Use of a Maturity Grid', Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 141-153.
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SummaryThe concept of industrial symbiosis (IS) over the last 20 years has become a well‐recognized approach for environmental improvements at the regional level. Many technical solutions for waste and by‐product material, water, and energy reuse between neighboring industries (so‐called synergies) have been discovered and applied in the IS examples from all over the world. However, the potential for uptake of new synergies in the regions is often limited by a range of nontechnical barriers. These barriers include environmental regulation, lack of cooperation and trust between industries in the area, economic barriers, and lack of information sharing. Although several approaches to help identify and overcome some of the nontechnical barriers were examined, no methodology was found that systematically assessed and tracked the barriers to guide the progress of IS development. This article presents a new tool—IS maturity grid—to tackle this issue in the regional IS studies. The tool helps monitor and assess the level of regional industrial collaboration and also indicates a potential path for further improvements and development in an industrial region, depending on where that region currently lies in the grid. The application of the developed tool to the Gladstone industrial region of Queensland, Australia, is presented in the article. It showed that Gladstone is at the third (active) stage of five stages of maturity, with cooperation and trust among industries the strongest characteristic and information barriers the characteristic for greatest improvement.

Hills, TP, Gordon, F, Florin, NH & Fennell, PS 2015, 'Statistical analysis of the carbonation rate of concrete', Cement and Concrete Research, vol. 72, pp. 98-107.
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©2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The carbonation rate of concrete has implications for the lifecycle carbon emissions of concrete. This paper describes the reported effect of several variables on the rate of concrete carbonation and collates a data set of measurements published in the literature. Many studies producing predictive models for the carbonation rate constant, K, use only small data sets. 1999 measurements of carbonation depth as a function of time and other variables were collected for analysis. Models in the form ln (K) = a + bI1 + cI2 + ... have been produced by which the rate of carbonation can be predicted. Hierarchical Models were used to combine different authors' data and introduces a new explanatory variable called 'origin', which indicates whether the concrete was taken from a working structure or cast specifically for experiments. Two models of the carbonation rate using concrete properties have been produced, allowing prediction of K over a range of conditions and compositions.

Kelly, S 2015, 'Estimating economic loss from cascading infrastructure failure: a perspective on modelling interdependency', Infrastructure Complexity, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
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Infrastructure failure can cause significant disruption of economic activity. The size of economic loss is a direct function of the interdependencies between infrastructure and economic systems raising important questions about infrastructure vulnerability and resilience. Economic theory is important in this regard as it makes a distinction between damage to infrastructure (stock) and how this may transfer to losses in economic productivity (flow). In order to capture the economic consequences of infrastructure failure, various economic models have been proposed to represent the multimodal complex networks and capture the effects of cascading infrastructure failure. There is still no consensus on the correct approach for estimating economic loss. The method commonly known as input-output analysis has gained the most attention in recent years for its ability to model indirect or higher-order economic losses. The typical input-output approach has spawned an entire field of related models which include: the inoperability input-output model (IIM); Ghosh supply-side model; dynamic input-output models; key-linkages analysis; as well as inventory based models amongst others. Amongst the various methods used to model infrastructure failure this paper identifies the assumptions and shortcomings that must be overcome to produce better estimates of economic loss. Firstly, critical infrastructure systems are connected to the economy through both physical and economic linkages. Models need to capture both types of linkage to accurately represent how cascading infrastructure failure will lead to economic loss and then how sectoral losses may have an indirect impact on infrastructure systems. Secondly, input-output based approaches assume that the economic structure within an economy remains stable during a disaster and throughout the recovery process. New models are required that are able to capture substitution of goods and structural change within an economy. Thirdly, models...

Kohlitz, JP & Smith, MD 2015, 'Water quality management for domestic rainwater harvesting systems in Fiji', Water Supply, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 134-141.
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Health risks from drinking rainwater are relatively small in the developing world context, but action is needed to ensure water safety. Water safety plans (WSPs) use an approach to manage water quality that has shown signs of success with public and communal water supplies, but relatively little research has been done to investigate the application of WSPs to self-supply systems. The aim of this paper is to investigate the primary issues surrounding appropriate water quality management of domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH) systems in Fiji and consider how the principles of WSPs can be applied in this context. A qualitative research design was followed, utilising semi-structured interviews with 34 rural households and six key informants, sanitary inspections of DRWH systems and thematic data analysis. A number of challenges, including limited government resources and the limited knowledge and casual attitudes of rural rainwater consumers, constrain the practicality of adopting conventional WSPs at the household level, but steps for improvement can be taken.

Liu, A, Giurco, D & Mukheibir, P 2015, 'Motivating metrics for household water-use feedback', RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING, vol. 103, pp. 29-46.
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Motivating more sustainable water consumption is important since population growth and climate change are placing increased pressures on water supplies in Australia and elsewhere. Smart water metering creates new possibilities for feedback of detailed water-use information to householders as a signal of potential opportunities to save water, and a number of recent feedback studies have shown water saving results. However, existing literature lacks an overview of the available options for the presentation of detailed household water-use information; and research into what households understand, and value and prefer in terms of feedback. This paper introduces a framework for the possibilities for feedback; and further explores dimensions of the framework via a detailed post-intervention evaluation of a recent smart water metering trial involving detailed end-use feedback to a sample of households in New South Wales, Australia. The householder evaluation survey and interviews investigate engagement with customised water-use metrics presented during the trial, and explore wider preferences for water-use feedback. Understanding how householders relate to different types of information has an important role to play in maximising household engagement and the potential for more detailed water-use feedback to guide household water management. Therefore the framework and evaluative research findings carry implications for future deployments of residential smart water metering involving feedback. Particularly, the high level of interest and engagement of many study householders with the detailed water-use information highlights important potential for feedback, and lends support to the business case for utilities to pursue smart water metering trials and roll-outs. However, with heterogeneity of customer preferences and responses, more carefully considered approaches to water-use feedback are advised (e.g. more judicious feedback design, and potentially the use of...

McGrail, S & Riedy, C 2015, 'Creating scenarios or creating and sustaining social worlds? Towards new sociological understandings of the use and impacts of scenario planning', International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, vol. 10, no. 2/3/4, pp. 103-103.
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© 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Many management scholars and some practitioners argue that scenario planning remains under-theorised, that it has a weak evidence base, and that, in practice, it is often too reactive. Responding to these critiques, we contribute to the development of sociologically informed scenario practices, which are more proactive (or 'transformative'). The paper is grounded in an examination of scenario practices at CSIRO (Australia's national science organisation), focussed on the Future Fuels Forum, and a theory of social fields. The case illustrates that both convening a scenario exercise and the construction and/or use of scenarios can be forms of context-specific strategic action, often aimed at inducing cooperation as part of a skilled social action. It also illustrates that the impacts of scenario exercises are influenced by the fluidity of the situation and associated field-level processes; the social skill of actors and their ability to construct and use scenarios in ways that help to solve related problems; and the outcomes of political processes. We also identify key implications for practice.

Metson, GS, Iwaniec, DM, Baker, LA, Bennett, EM, Childers, DL, Cordell, D, Grimm, NB, Grove, JM, Nidzgorski, DA & White, S 2015, 'Urban phosphorus sustainability: Systemically incorporating social, ecological, and technological factors into phosphorus flow analysis', ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY, vol. 47, pp. 1-11.
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Mitchell, C, Cordell, D & Fam, D 2015, 'Beginning at the end: The outcome spaces framework to guide purposive transdisciplinary research', FUTURES, vol. 65, no. January 2015, pp. 86-96.
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© 2014 The Authors. The framework presented in this paper offers an alternative starting point for transdisciplinary research projects seeking to create change. The framework begins at the end: it distinguishes three distinct 'transdisciplinary outcome spaces' and proposes articulating their content for purposive transdisciplinary research projects. Defining upfront the desired improvements has profound implications for how transdisciplinary research is conceived, designed, implemented and evaluated.Three key realms of transdisciplinary outcome spaces are distinguished - situation, knowledge, and learning - and elaborated: (1) an improvement within the 'situation' or field of inquiry; (2) the generation of relevant stocks and flows of knowledge, including scholarly knowledge and other societal knowledge forms, and making those insights accessible and meaningful to researchers, participants and beneficiaries; and (3) mutual and transformational learning by researchers and research participants to increase the likelihood of persistent change.Positioning the framework in the field of transdisciplinary literature reveals that much of the contestation concerning transdisciplinary research and practice may be attributable to the diverse but implicit ontological and epistemological perspectives inhabited by transdisciplinary researchers, leading to a call for more reflexive and explicit attention to these and other formative influences (i.e. sources of funding, project motivation, or locus of power).

Miyake, S, Smith, C, Peterson, A, McAlpine, C, Renouf, M & Waters, D 2015, 'Environmental implications of using ‘underutilised agricultural land’ for future bioenergy crop production', Agricultural Systems, vol. 139, pp. 180-195.
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Mohr, S, Giurco, D, Yellishetty, M, Ward, J & Mudd, G 2015, 'Projection of Iron Ore Production', Natural Resources Research, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 317-327.
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© 2014, International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. A comprehensive country-by-country projection of world iron ore production is presented along with alternative scenarios and a sensitivity analysis. The supply-driven modelling approach follows Mohr (Projection of world fossil fuel production with supply and demand interactions, PhD Thesis, http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6782, 2010) using an ultimately recoverable resource of 346 Gt of iron ore. Production is estimated to have a choppy plateau starting in 2017 until 2050 after which production rapidly declines. The undulating plateau is due to Chinese iron ore production peaking earlier followed by Australia and Brazil in turn. Alternative scenarios indicate that the model is sensitive to increases in Australian and Brazilian resources, and that African iron ore production can shift the peak date only if the African Ultimately Recoverable Resources (URR) is 5 times larger than the estimate used. Changes to the demand for iron ore driven by substitution or recycling are not modelled. The relatively near-term peak in iron ore supply is likely to create a global challenge to manufacturing and construction and ultimately the world economy.

Mohr, SH, Wang, J, Ellem, G, Ward, J & Giurco, D 2015, 'Projection of world fossil fuels by country', FUEL, vol. 141, pp. 120-135.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Detailed projections of world fossil fuel production including unconventional sources were created by country and fuel type to estimate possible future fossil fuel production. Four critical countries (China, USA, Canada and Australia) were examined in detail with projections made on the state/province level. Ultimately Recoverable Resources (URR) for fossil fuels were estimated for three scenarios: Low = 48.4 ZJ, Best Guess (BG) = 75.7 ZJ, High = 121.5 ZJ. The scenarios were developed using Geologic Resources Supply-Demand Model (GeRS-DeMo). The Low and Best Guess (BG) scenarios suggest that world fossil fuel production may peak before 2025 and decline rapidly thereafter. The High scenario indicates that fossil fuels may have a strong growth till 2025 followed by a plateau lasting approximately 50 years before declining. All three scenarios suggest that world coal production may peak before 2025 due to peaking Chinese production and that only natural gas could have strong growth in the future. In addition, by converting the fossil fuel projections to greenhouse gas emissions, the projections were compared to IPCC scenarios which indicated that based on current estimates of URR there are insufficient fossil fuels to deliver the higher emission IPCC scenarios A1Fl and RCP8.5.

Moreno, OAV, Swarr, TE, Asselin, A-C, Milà i Canals, L, Colley, T & Valdivia, S 2015, 'Implementation of life cycle management practices in a cluster of companies in Bogota, Colombia', The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 723-730.
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Mukheibir, P, Cole, C, Drinkwater, K & Abeysuriya, K 2015, 'Consultative multi-criteria decision making process for drought security', Water Practice and Technology, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 725-738.
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Water businesses have always sought to plan for drought-resilient urban water supply systems, especially in areas with extreme climate variability. The recently completed Lower Hunter Water Plan was developed to support population and business growth, and ensure reliable water supplies in drought. As well as introducing Water Wise Rules to encourage water conservation in normal conditions, the plan identified a portfolio (or combination) of drought response measures to be deployed progressively in a drought as water storage levels drop. The keys to the success of the Plan were thorough consultation with stakeholders, and collaborative analysis facilitating transparent evaluation of trade-offs among options and portfolios. A multi-criteria decision analysis process guided the assessment of the drought response options against both quantitative and qualitative criteria, and the assembly and analysis of portfolios. The process integrated the assessment of social and environmental criteria with cost effectiveness analysis, along with analysis of contextual uncertainties and risks, to determine the resilience of the options under different scenarios. The outcome was a portfolio of drought response options that best met the weighted criteria and satisfied their objectives.

Mukheibir, P, Howe, C & Gallet, D 2015, 'Institutional issues for One Water management', Advances in Water Research, vol. April-June 2015, pp. 20-22.

Murat Sahin, MS, Deepa Joshi, DJ, Gerlinde Buit, GB & Diana González-Botero, DG-B 2015, 'Menstrual hygiene management: education and empowerment for girls?', Waterlines, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 51-67.
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Nagrath, K & Maity, S 2015, 'Sustainable Benefits of a Low Carbon Cement Based Building', CALCINED CLAYS FOR SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE, vol. 10, pp. 581-581.
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Nyamwanza, A, Kayhan, AK, Pandit, MK, Haque, A, Riedy, C, Doherty-Bigara, J, Galarraga, I & Dingman, E 2015, 'The Big Question: Climate’s Biggest Losers', World Policy Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 3-7.
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Pearson, S, Lynch, AJJ, Plant, R, Cork, S, Taffs, K, Dodson, J, Maynard, S, Gergis, J, Gell, P, Thackway, R, Sealie, L & Donaldson, J 2015, 'Increasing the understanding and use of natural archives of ecosystem services, resilience and thresholds to improve policy, science and practice', The Holocene, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 366-378.
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Despite the great potential of palaeo-environmental information to strengthen natural resource policy, science and practical outcomes naturally occurring archives of palaeo-environmental and ecosystem service information have not been fully recognised or utilised to inform the development of environmental policy. In this paper, we describe how Australian palaeo-environmental science is improving environmental understanding through local studies and regional syntheses that inform us about past conditions, extreme conditions and altered ecosystem states. Australian innovations in ecosystem services research and palaeo-environmental science contribute in five important contexts: discussions about environmental understanding and management objectives, improving access to information, improved knowledge about the dynamics of ecosystem services, increasing understanding of environmental processes and resource availability, and engaging interdisciplinary approaches to manage ecosystem services. Knowledge of the past is an important starting point for setting present and future resource management objectives, anticipating consequences of trade-offs, sharing risk and evaluating and monitoring the ongoing availability of ecosystem services. Palaeo-environmental information helps reframe discussions about desirable futures and collaborative efforts between scientists, planners, managers and communities. However, further steps are needed to translate the ecosystem services concept into ecosystem services policy and tangible management objectives and actions that are useful, feasible and encompass the range of benefits to people from ecosystems. We argue that increased incorporation of palaeo-environmental information into policy and decision-making is needed for evidence-based adaptive management to enhance sustainability of ecosystem functions and reduce long-term risks.

Prior, J 2015, 'Amongst the Ruins', Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 167-185.
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© , Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Through the reflections of interviewees from New York, Montreal, and Sydney, this article investigates the affective qualities of urban ruins and the role they have played in gay male experience and identity construction from 1970 to 2000. Along with other places on the margins of regulated space, urban ruins operate as points of transition—passages from reason to myth at the interstices of ordered urban space. The article argues that the sensual feelings and memories conjured by these ruins enable alternative modes of being for gay men that stand in contrast to the more regimented modes of everyday life.

Prior, J & Crofts, P 2015, 'Is Your House a Brothel? Prostitution Policy, Provision of Sex Services from Home, and the Maintenance of Respectable Domesticity', Social Policy and Society, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 125-134.
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Policy debates on commercial sex services provide increasingly complex insights into work on the street and in large commercial sex premises, yet remain largely silent on the contribution of the domestic realm to commercial sex, despite estimates that it accounts for a significant proportion of all commercial sex transactions. Policies that affect home-based sex work are ambiguous and at times contradictory, veering from the promotion of working from home to anxieties about the assumed offensiveness of sex work. These policies have been often developed without direct consideration of home-based sex work and in the absence of evidence. Remedying this silence, this article analyses policy development for, and the experiences of, home-based sex workers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The article concludes that working from home provides sex workers with opportunities for autonomy and wellbeing that are not available in other sex service environments, with minimal amenity impacts to the community.

Prior, JH & Cusack, CM 2015, 'Public Theologies of Love in theCivitas DeiandCivitas Terrena: Sexuality and the Transformation of Sydney, Australia 1960–2010', Theology & Sexuality, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 85-104.
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Riedy, C & Kent, J 2015, 'Australian climate action groups in the deliberative system', Environmental Politics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 363-381.
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A systemic approach to deliberative democracy de-emphasises the role of discrete deliberative experiments involving minipublics. Instead, this systemic perspective focuses attention on the quality of deliberation achieved throughout distributed governance systems. It opens up the possibility that institutions that do not appear deliberative in isolation may have a positive impact on deliberation at a system scale. This systemic perspective is drawn on here to assess the role of climate action groups (CAGs) within Australia’s deliberative system on climate-change response. These self-organised, voluntary groups, made up of like-minded people with a shared concern about climate change, do not meet traditional criteria for advancing deliberation. Unrepresentative and lacking discursive diversity, they nevertheless advanced the quality of public deliberation by bringing new voices and preferences into public deliberation, holding decision makers accountable and acting as trusted information sources for at least some citizens. From a deliberative-systems perspective, self-organised, unrepresentative, but persistent groups such as CAGs may offer more fruitful sites for increasing public deliberation on climate change than temporary minipublics.

Ruoso, L-E, Plant, R, Maurel, P, Dupaquier, C, Roche, PK & Bonin, M 2015, 'Reading Ecosystem Services at the Local Scale through a Territorial Approach: the Case of Peri-Urban Agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France', Ecology and Society, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1-16.
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© 2015 by the author(s). In recent years, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become a major paradigm for natural resource management. While policy-makers demand “hard” monetary evidence that nature conservation would be worth investing in, ongoing attempts are being made to formalize the concept as a scientifically robust “one size fits all” analytical framework. These attempts have highlighted several major limitations of the ES concept. First, to date, the concept has paid little attention to the role of humans in the production of ES. Second, the ongoing formalization of the ES concept is turning it into a “technology of globalization,” thereby increasingly ignoring the socio-cultural context and history within which ecosystems emerge. Third, economic valuation has been shown to limit local stakeholders in expressing their daily and immediate ways of interacting with their environment over and beyond extrinsic motivation provided by financial gains. We address these three limitations by analyzing a social evaluation of the roles of peri-urban farmland from a territorial perspective. Our case study is the Thau lagoon in southern France. We conducted in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders and ran two participatory workshops. Using a territorial meta-model that distinguishes three levels— physical, logical, and existential—stakeholder data were analyzed to unravel the interplay of territorial elements at these three levels that gives rise to ES in two broad categories: food production and aesthetic landscape. The coupling of ES and territory concepts opens up several novel analytical perspectives. It allows partitioning of ES in a manner that “re-contextualizes” them and gives insight about both their physical constituents and their meaning at the territorial level. Additional research should incorporate the dynamics of service demand and supply, and further investigate options for implementation.

Sebastian, I 2015, 'Doing Business in a Well-Being Economy', Building Sustainable Legacies: The New Frontier Of Societal Value Co-Creation, vol. 2015, no. 5, pp. 17-41.
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Thornton, N & Riedy, C 2015, 'A participatory mixed methods approach to researching household water use in Gosford, Australia', ACME, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 673-687.
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This paper argues that a participatory mixed methods approach is more suitable to develop insights into everyday water practices than conventional quantitative end-use studies or stand-alone qualitative behavioural studies. Combining quantitative and qualitative studies provides accurate data on the prevalence and impact of practices, as well as insights into the meanings inherent in household practices. Further, we argue that co-participation in practices during the research is a critical methodological addition to help participants to access meanings and to correlate quantitative data with practices. Our argument is illustrated with reference to a household water use study of forty-eight homes from Gosford City, Australia between May 2008 and July 2009.

Vivekananthan, C & Mishra, Y 2015, 'Stochastic Ranking Method for Thermostatically Controllable Appliances to Provide Regulation Services', IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1987-1996.
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Vivekananthan, C, Mishra, Y & Li, F 2015, 'Real-Time Price Based Home Energy Management Scheduler', IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 2149-2159.
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Wang, J, Feng, L, Steve, M, Tang, X, Gail, TE & Mikael, H 2015, 'China's unconventional oil: A review of its resources and outlook for long-term production', Energy, vol. 82, pp. 31-42.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Due to the expected importance of unconventional oil in China's domestic oil supply, this paper first investigates the four types of China's unconventional oil resources comprehensively: heavy and extra-heavy oil, oil sands, broad tight oil and kerogen oil. Our results show that OIP (Oil-in-Place) of these four types of resources amount to 19.64Gt, 5.97Gt, 25.74Gt and 47.64Gt respectively, while TRRs (technically recoverable resources) amount to 2.24Gt, 2.26Gt, 6.95Gt and 11.98Gt respectively. Next, the Geologic Resources Supply-Demand Model is used to quantitatively project the long-term production of unconventional oil under two resource scenarios (TRR scenario and Proved Reserve+Cumulative Production scenario). Our results indicate that total unconventional oil production will peak in 2068 at 0.351Gt in TRR scenario, whereas peak year and peak production of PR (proved reserves)+CP (Cumulative Production) scenario are 2023 and 0.048Gt, significantly earlier and lower than those of TRR scenario. The implications of this growth in production of unconventional oil for China are also analyzed. The results show that if the TRR scenario can be achieved, it will increase total supply and improve oil security considerably. However, achieving the production in TRR scenario has many challenges, and even if it is achieved, China will still need to rely on imported oil.

Abeysuriya, KR, Kome, A & Willetts, J 1970, 'Enabling investment in urban sanitation services through the sustainable full cost recovery principle', Website proceedings of 38th WEDC International Conference, Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) International Conference, WEDC, Loughborough University, UK, pp. 1-7.
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Limited access to capital to invest in sanitation is key amongst a range of complex reasons that result inextensive lack of adequate sanitation services. Financing upfront investment has been identified as aparticular knowledge gap for many sanitation practitioners. This paper discusses a project to enableparticipatory learning about financing investment in sanitation infrastructure services for sectorpractitioners. Findings from a desktop review were deliberated upon through an online discussionleading to fresh insights. The study recognised that leveraging revenue sources beyond tariffs is key tosecuring the relatively large amounts of upfront finance required, reflecting a departure from the ‘fullcost recovery through tariffs’ paradigm. The new paradigm calls for greater commitment from local andnational governments to support ongoing sanitation service provision, and ‘sustainable full costrecovery’ of lifecycle costs through a combination of four potential revenue streams (4Ts) – Tariffs fromusers, Taxes from government, Transfers from donors and Trade profits from the reuse of waste-derivedproducts.

Al-obaidi, T 1970, 'A01 Health Impact Assessment in Transport: An experience of a practitioner for the first time and what could help', Journal of Transport & Health, Elsevier BV, pp. S5-S5.
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Cordell, DJ 1970, 'The role of nutrient recovery in achieving food security', International Dry Toilet Conference, Tampare, Finland.

Daly, M 1970, 'Practicing sustainability: Lessons from a sustainable cohousing community', State of Australian Cities Conference 2015: Refereed Proceedings, State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, SOAC, Gold coast, Queensland.

Dunford, S, Lee, C, Jacobs, B & Neirinckx, A 1970, 'The Towards a Resilient Sydney project: from Collective Assessment to Strategic Frameworks', State of Australian Cities Conference 2015: Refereed Proceedings, State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, SOAC, Queensland.
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At SOAC 2013, we presented on the Towards a Resilient Sydney (TARS) project, a partnership between the NSW environment and planning agencies to assess the regional vulnerability of government services to climate change and identify responses and opportunities to adapt (Lee et al 2013). Now two years later we reflect on the results of this participatory learning process, which engaged over 270 government participants, from 31 Metropolitan Local Government Areas, 37 State agencies and 7 Commonwealth agencies. We will report on how the process sought to improve resilience and minimise impacts in local communities by: building adaptive capacity; influencing decision making; and promoting collective actions. The paper explores key questions of how qualitative evidence and collective outputs are interpreted and implemented, and how strategic frameworks can account for and foster “on ground” adaptation action.

Fam, DM, Ross, K & Mitchell, CA 1970, 'Translating storytelling into principles for designing dry sanitation in rural native Alaskan communities', International Dry Toilet Conference, Tampere, Finland.

Florin, N, Hills, T, Zheng, L & Fennell, P 1970, 'Characteristics and performance of Portland cement made from looped sorbent from CaL process', 6th IEA High Temperature Solids Looping, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

Ibrahim, IA, Mohamed, A & Khatib, T 1970, 'Modeling of photovoltaic array using random forests technique', 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), IEEE, pp. 390-393.
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Ibrahim, IA, Mohamed, A & Khatib, T 1970, 'Optimal modeling and sizing of a practical standalone PV/battery generation system using numerical algorithm', 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), IEEE, pp. 43-48.
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Kohlitz, J, Chong, J & Willetts, J 1970, 'Government-led monitoring of water, sanitation and hygiene service adaptation to climate change', IDEAS Global Assembly 2015, Bangkok, Thailand.

Liu, A, Giurco, D & Mukheibir, P 1970, 'Household water-use feedback: moving forwards towards sustainable urban water', International Conference on Sustainable Water Management, Murdoch University, pp. 1-8.
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Sustainable water management is becoming increasingly essential in an age characterised by rapid population and urban growth, industrial development and climate change. Opportunities to promote conservation and water-use efficiencies remain attractive in directly reducing water demand. Smart water metering and the provision of detailed water-use feedback to consumers present exciting new opportunities for improved urban water management. This paper explores two smart water metering trials in New South Wales, Australia, which provided household water consumption feedback via (i) paper end-use reports and (ii) an online portal. This combination enabled a deeper exploration of the various impacts of detailed feedback enabled via smart water metering, while simultaneously extending experience of the practical issues and challenges involved. The positive effects uncovered by the research present an important opportunity for smart water metering feedback to contribute towards more sustainable urban water management. Their summary contributes empirical evidence on the impacts for water utilities considering embarking on the smart water metering journey with their customers. The identification of future research and policy needs sets an agenda for smart water metering to promote a sustainable digital urban water future. A more coordinated approach to feedback programs is called for between the water industry and research to ensure very clear business and sustainability objectives are met. Utilities should also aim to integrate the design and plans for advanced feedback programs at the outset of smart meter implementations.

MacArthur, J, Riggs, FC & Chowdhury, R 1970, 'Disruptive design in sanitation marketing : lessons from product and process innovations in Bangladesh', 38th WEDC International Conference, © WEDC, Loughborough University, pp. 1-7.
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Based in Dhaka, the Sanitation Marketing (SanMark) team at iDE – Bangladesh, is harnessing principles of disruptive innovation to change the landscape of how latrines are produced and sold to rural households. iDE’s Bangladesh SanMark Pilot (BSMP) project (2012-2014) aimed to develop a proof of concept around private-sector led delivery of customer-oriented improved sanitation technologies through three phases: i) identification of existing disruptee conditions, ii) support of an “entry point” innovation that generated key “disruptive design principles”, and iii) robust ideation and prototyping of a disruptor system grounded in the design principles. Through these phases, the project experienced an initial “entry point innovation” through the plastic SaTo® Pan. The resulting design principles then informed development of the disruptor system of the plastic “Sanitation in a Box” (SanBox) offset plastic latrine, a promising sanitation product grounded in a scalable business model connecting grassroots latrine producers to a national supply chain.

Macarthur, JN 1970, 'To seal or not to seal', FSM3, pp. 1-2.

McGee, CM & Wynne, L 1970, 'Regenerating the Suburbs: A model for compact, resilient cities', Website proceedings of SOAC, State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, SOAC, Gold Coast, pp. 1-10.
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Australia’s major cities face a number of growing challenges, such as accommodating population growth while containing urban sprawl, catering for an ageing population and keeping housing affordable. Cities must reduce their ecological footprint to remain liveable, resilient and economically competitive. Yet accommodating increased densities in urban areas is a fraught issue that often sees planners, developers and local communities in conflict. Meanwhile, housing affordability is in crisis, fuelled by an inadequate supply of housing close to jobs and a taxation system that favours investors. The Reserve Bank has suggested “the answer.. lies in more innovative and flexible use of the land that we have so that the marginal cost of adding more stock of dwellings is lower.” This paper explores a model for compact urban living that helps to address a range of these challenges. It’s a mainstream, small-scale adaptation of the ‘co-housing’ concept: single-dwelling suburban blocks are adapted to accommodate 2 or 3 smaller dwellings with some shared spaces, reducing the overall physical and environmental footprint per household. Households are likely to come together through their own social networks. This is just one solution in a broader suite of necessary planning approaches, but is affordable, in step with changing household structures and social trends, and may hold a key to ‘humanising’ density increases in urban/ suburban areas. It may also help to enable an informal ‘sharing economy’ that could reduce living costs and improve economic resilience. Despite the potential, this model is not well enabled via current regulatory systems. This paper explores the opportunities and barriers, with a focus on the NSW planning system, and recommends greater flexibility in some key planning instruments.

McLellan, B, Florin, N, Giurco, D, Kishita, Y, Itaoka, K & Tezuka, T 1970, 'Decentralised energy futures: the changing emissions reduction landscape', 22ND CIRP CONFERENCE ON LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING, CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference, Elsevier, Sydney, pp. 138-143.
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© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. The world is witnessing an energy revolution as renewables become more competitive and energy security becomes a high priority for an increasing number of countries. This development is changing the point along the supply chain ripe for reducing emissions. Whereas carbon capture and storage (CCS) coupled to coal or gas power production offers the potential to decarbonise the current centralised power systems, this relies on a significant increase in electrification to achieve deep emission reductions beyond the power sector, including industrial emissions and transportation. At the same time there is a trend towards decentralised industrial processes, e.g., driven by cost reductions in decentralised production systems and miniature processing plant. New strategies for reducing emissions from decentralised industrial and energy emission point sources will be increasingly important. This paper evaluates different emission reduction strategies that may be relevant to a decentralised energy and manufacturing future, including increased electrification, energy storage, renewable energy and renewable feedstock. Systemic opportunities or barriers and considerations of policy and decentralised decision-making are examined.

McLellan, B, Giurco, D, Corder, G, Golev, A, Kishita, Y & Sharpe, S 1970, 'Mineral-Water-Energy Nexus: Implications of Localized Production and Consumption for Industrial Ecology', The Tipping Point: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity, 21st International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference: The Tipping Point: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity, Geelong, Australia.
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Urban and remote areas are increasingly using decentralised systems for renewable energy production and storage, as well as for water harvesting and recycling and to a lesser extent for product manufacture via 3D printing. This paper asks two questions – how will these developments affect (i) the end-uses of minerals, including critical minerals and (ii) the implications for industrial ecology and the development of a sound materials cycle society. We find a trade-off between using higherperformance critical minerals in low concentrations which are complex to recycle, and unalloyed, standardised materials for increased effectiveness across multiple reuse cycles. Design and operational challenges for managing decentralised infrastructure are also discussed as their uptake approaches a tipping point.

Mitchell, C & Sherwood, J 1970, 'A DISCRETE MESOSCOPIC FINITE ELEMENT MODEL USED TO LINK THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS TO THE FINAL PART STIFFNESS', 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITE MATERIALS, 20th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM), AALBORG UNIV PRESS, DENMARK, Copenhagen.

Mitchell, C, Ross, KE & Abeysuriya, K 1970, 'Partnership for sustainable air limbah outcomes as skala lokal', Indonesia International Water Week, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mitchell, CA, Cordell, D & Fam, D 1970, 'Designing transdisciplinary research for preferred outcomes: The ‘outcome spaces framework’', International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2015 'Sustainability and health: emerging topics and new challenges for inter- and transdisciplinary research', TDNet, Basel, Switzerland.
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The framework presented in this paper offers an alternative starting point for transdisciplinary research projects seeking to create change. The framework begins at the end: it distinguishes three distinct ‘transdisciplinary outcome spaces’ and proposes articulating their content for purposive transdisciplinary research projects. Defining upfront the desired improvements has profound implications for how transdisciplinary research is conceived, designed, implemented and evaluated.Three key realms of transdisciplinary outcome spaces are distinguished – situation, knowledge, and learning – and elaborated: (1) an improvement within the ‘situation’ or field of inquiry; (2) the generation of relevant stocks and flows of knowledge, including scholarly knowledge and other societal knowledge forms, and making those insights accessible and meaningful to researchers, participants and beneficiaries; and (3) mutual and transformational learning by researchers and research participants to increase the likelihood of persistent change.Positioning the framework in the field of transdisciplinary literature reveals that much of the contestation concerning transdisciplinary research and practice may be attributable to the diverse but implicit ontological and epistemological perspectives inhabited by transdisciplinary researchers, leading to a call for more reflexive and explicit attention to these and other formative influences (i.e. sources of funding, project motivation, or locus of power).

Mukheibir, P & Currie, L 1970, 'Institutional Challenges for Achieving a Whole of Water Approach – The City of Sydney Response', European Water Resources Association, 9th World Congress, Water Resources Management in a changing World: Challenges and Opportunities, EWRA, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Urban water managers and policy makers are struggling with the challenge of transitioning to an approach that considers a whole of urban water approach, where water planning and the urban form are considered in an integrated manner. The recent drive for liveable cities, where water is used to enhance the urban landscape through reuse and stormwater management, has seen a shift in focus. This has brought a number of challenges to bear on institutions charged with water planning and management at strategic, tactical and operational levels.Five central challenges have emerged from the research undertaken by ISF, viz.: Legislations and regulations that are prescriptive, overlapping and inconsistent Economic and financial systems that are restrictive and traditional Planning that is uncoordinated and non-collaborative Organisational and professional cultures that are siloed and inflexible Citizens engagement that is uncoordinated, technical and uninspiringDrawing on the approach adopted by the City of Sydney, the paper will illustrate how a number of these challenges were overcome by local council in their attempt to achieve liveability goals, make the city more resilient to climate change, and reduce pollution levels in the water ways and harbour. The City undertook a consultative process to develop a decentralised water master plan that would both drive and guide future recycling, stormwater management, and pollution control initiatives. Six transferable lessons and enabling actions were identified that will have relevance to other cities and urban planners aiming to achieve a whole water approach and liveable cities.

Peterseim, JH & Veeraragavan, A 1970, 'Solar Towers with Supercritical Steam Parameters - is the Efficiency Gain worth the Effort?', Energy Procedia, Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Annual Conference, Elsevier BV, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1123-1132.
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© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. The concentrating solar power (CSP) industry is working intensively on cost reductions to increase the economic competitiveness of CSP plants. Efforts include new power plant concepts, optimised component manufacturing, as well ashigher steam parameter and these indeed lead to cost reductions over the last years. However, further improvements are required and this paper analyses the impact of supercritical steam parameters in CSP plants. A few decades ago the coal industry moved from subcritical Rankine cycle power plants, currently all CSP plants operate at subcritical conditions, to supercritical steam parameters to improve cycle efficiency. Many supercritical coal plants are now in commercial operation with significant engineering experience available in regards to plant design, construction and operation. The CSP industry can use this expertise to reproduce the benefits in their plants but some challenges also exist. Currently, supercritical CSP steam has only been shown at demonstration scale and the upscale to the smallest turbine size for supercritical parameters, being 250 MWe steam turbine capacity, is very significant. This paper compares three different 250 MWe (net) solar tower scenarios, one with subcritical and two with supercritical steam parameters. One supercritical power plant scenario is based on a novel high temperature stable molten salt that allows steam parameter of 620°C at 280 bar and the second uses current molten salt and natural gas to reach supercritical conditions. The analysis shows that the net plant cycle efficiency can be raised from 41.3% in a subcritical to 44.2% in a supercritical concept, which translates into a levelised cost of electricity reduction of 4.3%.

Ruoso, L, Plant, R, Jacobs, B & Maurel, P 1970, 'Peri-Urban Areas as Spaces of Conflicting Identities: The Role of Landscape and Place', 21st International Symposium on Society and Resource Management: Understanding and Adapting to Change, International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Charleston, USA.

Sahin, O, Stewart, R, Turner, A, Giurco, D & Porter, M 1970, 'Systems model for optimising the long-term water supply system of a major city considering the competing goals of water security and flooding risk', 10th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 10th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Sebastian, I 1970, 'Business and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Gross National Happiness Economy: Insights from Bhutan', Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society, 26th Annual IABS Conference Pura Vida: Realizing Eudemonia in Business and Society, International Association for Business and Society, Costa Rica, pp. 24-38.
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The current debate around better measures of progress and going ‘beyond-Gross Domestic Product (GDP)’ raises the question of implications for businesses and their sustainability efforts. Bhutan, with its Gross National Happiness (GNH) development approach provides an interesting case to investigate businesses in an economy focused on improving the conditions for wellbeing and happiness in society, alongside the goal of growing GDP. This study explores if and how GNH influences business conduct and sustainability efforts in Bhutan. It also investigates Bhutanese business and government leaders perceptions of the concept of GNH in relation to concepts such as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS). Some preliminary findings include that the Bhutanese value-system forms the foundation of business leaders’ world-views and influences their business conduct and decision-making more than therecent formulation of the GNH framework. A comparison of the CSR, CS and GNH frameworks shows however that the GNH model has the potential to offer a sustainability framework that goes beyond-CSR.

Thomson, J, Mukheibir, P, Plant, R & Prior, T 1970, 'Expanding our understanding of Early Warning Systems: A case study of general system resilience from within ASEAN', Australian-New Zealand Disaster & Emergency Management Conference, Gold Coast.

Usher, J, Higgens, A, Ross, K, Dunstan, C & Paevere, P 1970, 'Impacts of policy on electric vehicle diffusion', Atrf 2015 Australasian Transport Research Forum 2015 Proceedings, Australasian Transport Research Forum, ATRF, Sydney, Australia.
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Selection and design of appropriate government policies to support electric vehicle (EV) adoption can be aided by modelling the future impact of policy instruments relative to a given baseline estimate. This paper highlights the innovative application of a diffusion model to analyse complex impacts of EV policy instruments on future incremental EV uptake. Several versions of four key policy instruments are tested in the model: linking electric vehicle sales to Renewable Electricity Purchases (RE-EV), financial subsidies, smart charging incentives and a common cost metric to educate consumers about the lifetime costs of EVs. Market share between battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) were forecasted out to the year 2034 across all 1.5 million households in the state of Victoria, Australia. The RE-EV scenario had the strongest performance in terms of economic and societal indicators. Non-subsidy policy instruments can also support uptake of EVs, especially in the case of encouraging BEV adoption. We found feebate scenarios were more effective policies than rebates. Rebate and feebate scenarios applied within the 2014-2019 timeframe compared better than those with longer timeframes. Our analyses showed how combined policy scenarios not only further improved EV uptake but also allowed government to fund rebates through feebate income.

Willetts, JR, Murta, J, Gero, A, Carrard, N & Harris, D 1970, 'Political economy influences on enterprise engagement in Indonesia, Vietnam and Timor-Leste', Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services Beyond 2015: Improving Access and Sustainability, Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) International Conference, WEDC Loughborough University, UK, Loughborough University, UK, pp. 1-7.

Winterford, KH 1970, 'The Theory of Change approach in practice: lessons learned in evaluating an international advocacy campaign', Australasian Evaluation Society Conference 2015, Melbourne, Australia.

Al’Afghani, MM, Paramita, D, Mitchell, C & Ross, K 2015, Review of Regulatory Framework for Local Scale “Air Limbah”.

Boronyak, LJ, Ben-Ami, D & Ramp, D Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, Kanganomics: a socio-economic assessment of the commercial kangaroo industry, Sydney, Australia.

Chong, J, Abeysuriya, K, Hidayat, L, Sulistio, H, Ross, K & WIlletts, J Report prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Kemitraan Partnership for Governance Reform and SNV Indonesia for the Australian Aid Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative (IndII). 2015, Strengthening governance arrangements for small city and town sanitation..

Chong, J, Ross, K, Abeysuriya, K, Hidayat, L, Sulisto, H, Suartana, N, Carreiro, M & Willetts, J 2015, Strengthening governance arrangements for small city and town sanitation in Sumatra, Indonesia – a selection of key themes for local governments and policy makers. A Briefing Paper..
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This project brief summarises key themes from research that investigated local government governance and institutional arrangements for sanitation (wastewater) planning, budgeting and implementation in small cities and towns in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Chong, J, Treichel, P, Gero, A, Nuestro, R, McDonough, J, Azucena, W, Abes, J & Abogado, N 2015, Child-Centred Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines: Guidance document for Local-level indicators: A process to help understand how children and their communities are adapting to climate change.
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How do we know if a climate change program has helped children and their communities adapt to the impacts of climate change? What does successful adaptation look like from the perspective of children, youth and their communities? This guidance document provides details of a focus group discussion (FGD) process and tools, including additional interview questions and an analysis guide, to help practitioners answer these questions – specifically, to understand how children and their communities have been supported to adapt to climate change, through participation in the Australian Aid-funded Child-Centred Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation (CC-CBA) Project in the Philippines. The process in this guidance document, including FGD questions, has been field-tested with children and their communities and iteratively refined over the course of this project. The framework for answering these questions is based on local-level indicators of climate change adaptation. These indicators are intended to help understand changes and progress as a result of project activities. The FGD process is thus qualitative. Some indicators can also be translated through scalar (quantitative) measures.

Chong, J, Triechel, P, Gero, A, Nuestro, R, McDonough, J, Acuzena, W, Abes, J & Abogado, N 2015, Child-Centred Community-Based Adaptation in the Philippines: Local Indicators Guidance Document.

Coburn, AW, Kelly, Evan, T, Foulser-Piggott, R, Ralph, D, Ruffle, SJ & Yeo, JZ ; Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge 2015, World City Risk 2025: Part I Overview and Results, Cambridge Risk Framework series, pp. 1-25.
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Main report providing an overview of the World City Risk 2025 analysis and key results. It describes the outline methodology and key principles, results and conclusions, validation and comparison with other studies, and some sensitivity studies for mitigating risk and potential for climate change to increase catastrophe risk.

Coburn, AW, Kelly, Evan, T, Foulser-Piggott, R, Ralph, D, Ruffle, SJ & Yeo, JZ Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge 2015, World City Risk 2025: Part II Methodology Documentation, Cambridge Risk Framework series, pp. 1-27.
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This working paper documents the methodology used for the World City Risk 2025 analysis. It describes how cities were selected, GDP projections, and vulnerability and resilience assessed. It outlines the catastronomics methodology and how the risk atlas was compiled.

de Otto, S, Bevaqua, M, Ferrán, F, Teske, S, Simon, S & Gils, HC Greenpeace Espana 2015, Energy [R] evolution for the Canary Islands-Energy design for sustainable islands.

Downes, J, Norris, K & Rutovitz, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, 2015 Green Electricity Guide Methodology and Results, pp. 1-38, Sydney, Australia.
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The Green Electricity Guide helps to inform Australians about which electricity retailers are really as ‘green’ as they say they are. It is the only independent analysis and ranking of the environmental performance of all electricity retailers around Australia. It is an important source of information for consumers keen to support retailers who align with their values. In 2014 the first edition of the online Guide was produced by TEC and Greenpeace, using earlier ISF research as one of main the inputs to the ranking criteria. The Guide ranked 20 retailers against 7 criteria and has been visited by over 100,000 people. In 2015, ISF was contracted to update the Guide's methodology and rankings. The cost of the work was partly funded by an Advocacy grant from Energy Consumers Australia. In addition, ISF, TEC and Choice all contributed in-kind support to the project. ISF reviewed the 2014 Guide criteria and rankings, and then conducted background research to identify additional criteria and sub-criteria to expand the 2015 Guide to more comprehensively assess the 'green' credentials of Australia's electricity retailers. ISF developed a survey for retailers to capture the required information for the rankings. Information provided by retailers was then supplemented by and verified against desktop research of company websites, company reports and public reports conducted in September 2015. Each retailer's data was assessed and scored, to determine a final score and ranking for 2015. The rankings are available online at www.greenelectricityguide.com.au

Feenstra, M, González, A, Guðjónsdóttir, S, Nieuwenhuijse, I, Soeters, E, Delft University of Technology & SkyNRG Delft University of Technology 2015, Conceptual design project: Renewable jet fuel from lignin-rich waste streams of the paper and pulping industry, Delft.

Florin, N, Madden, B, Sharpe, S, Benn, S, Agarwal, R, Perey, R & Giurco, D University of Technology Sydney 2015, Shifting Business Models for a Circular Economy: Metals Management for Multi-Product-Use Cycles, pp. 1-90, Sydney, Australia.
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The overarching aim of this report is to explore how the Australian metals and minerals sector could embrace new business models and build on its strengths to harness new value in a global economy orientated more towards sustainable futures

Foster, T, Hope, R & Thomson, P Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University 2015, Insuring against rural water risk: Evidence from Kwale, Kenya, Oxford.

Fyfe, J, McKibbin, JL, Mohr, S, Madden, B, Turner, A & Ege, C Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney 2015, Evaluation of the Environmental Effects of the WELS Scheme, pp. 1-103, Report prepared for the Australian Commonwealth Government Department of the Environment by UTS-ISF.
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The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney, undertook a review of the environmental effects of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) Scheme on behalf of the Australian Government Department of the Environment.The review analysed several facets of the Scheme, including:• the interactions between WELS and other urban water policies• changes in the products registered and sold since the commencement of WELS• changes in water consumption since the commencement of WELS• energy, greenhouse and household bill impacts associated with reduced water consumption

Gero, A & Winterford, KH 2015, Pohnpei Joint State Action Plan for Disaster Risk Managementand Climate Change, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.

Gero, A, Murta, J, Trieu Thanh, D, Ha Ly, B & Willetts, JR 2015, Motivators and Barriers for sanitation enterprises in Vietnam, Enterprise in WASH – Research Report 5.

Harman, B, Cunningham, R, Cvitanovic, C, Jacobs, B & Measham, T CSIRO 2015, Community based perspectives on climate change and adaptation in the Shoalhaven region, pp. 1-36, Australia.
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This report contributes to the broader project of the Science-Policy-Community Theme within the Adaptive Communities Node of the NSW OEH Adaptation Research Hub. The main objective of the project is to understand the interaction between the formal and informal networks within different communities, with a view towards developing a range of targeted options for policy makers to engage more effectively with local communities in relation to climate change adaptation. The report presents findings from 24 interviews conducted between March and April 2014 in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales.

Harman, B, Cunningham, R, Jacobs, B, Measham, T & Cvitanovic, C CSIRO, Australia 2015, Engaging local communities in climate adaptation: a social network perspective from Bega Valley, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 1-42, Sydney.

Ison, N, Langham, E & et, A Prepared by Coalition for Community Energy for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. 2015, Behind the Meter Community Solar Models (Appendix E of the National Community Energy Strategy), Sydney.

Ison, N, Langham, E & et, A Report prepared by Coalition for Community Energy for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. 2015, National Community Energy Strategy, Sydney.

Jacobs, B & Boronyak-Vasco, L Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney 2015, Natural Resources Planning for Climate Change: Extreme Climate Events and Communities, Report prepared for South East Local Land Services by UTS-ISF.

Jacobs, B, Nelson, R, Kuruppu, N & Leith, P University of Technology and University of Tasmania 2015, An Adaptive Capacity Guide Book: assessing, building and evaluating the capacity of communities to adapt in a changing climate, pp. 1-27, Sydney.
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A capacity to adapt to change is essential for managing Australia’s natural resources. The individuals, communities and organisations who manage our natural resources all have an innate capacity to adapt to change. Changes in climate, markets and technology have shaped the way we adapt the management of natural resources in urban, rural and coastal landscapes. Some of these changes are predictable and easy to manage. Others are expected, but their timing and magnitude are uncertain. Whatever the future holds, this guide can be used to build our capacity to meet future change with confidence.

Kelly, Chaplin, A, Coburn, AW, Copic, J, Evan, T, Neduv, E, Ralph, D, Ruffle, SJ, Schwendner, P, Skelton, A & Yeo, ZY Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge 2015, Stress Test Scenario: Eurozone Meltdown, Cambridge Risk Framework series, pp. 1-36.
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An illustration of the risks posed by a plausible but extreme Eurozone Meltdown financial catastrophe. The sudden exit of Italy from the Eurozone triggers a cascade of sovereign debt defaults in vulnerable European states.

Kelly, Coburn, AW, Copic, J, Evan, T, Neduv, E, Ralph, D, Ruffle, SJ, Shaghaghi, A, Skelton, A & Yeo, ZY Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge 2015, Stress Test Scenario: Global Property Crash, Cambridge Risk Framework Series, pp. 1-40.
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An illustration of the risks posed by a plausible but extreme Global Property Crash financial catastrophe. A sudden loss of confidence in the boom markets of South East Asia triggers a housing market collapse that impacts mortgage and non-mortgage assets worldwide.

Kirsch, C, Jackson, M, Langham, E & Ison, N Report prepared for ARENA by E2Q and Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. 2015, Community Energy Collective Impact Assessment (Appendix C of the National Community Energy Strategy), Sydney.

Langham, E, Ison, N & Madden, B Prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, Community Energy Cost Analysis and Cost Reduction Potential (Appendix F of the National Community Energy Strategy), Sydney.

MacArthur, J 2015, Handpump Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seeking a Champion.

Mason, N, Ross, K & Mitchell, C 2015, A case study analysis of formal and informal institutional arrangements for local scale wastewater services in Indonesia.

McIntosh, L, Rutovitz, J & Langham, E Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, Local Network Charges and Local Electricity Trading: Market Scan, pp. 1-42, Sydney, Australia.
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This report provides an overview of current literature and information relating to local network charges, local electricity trading (also called virtual net metering or VNM), and virtual power stations. The focus is information particularly relevant to Australia, as well as global precedents in each area.

McIntosh, L, Rutovitz, J & Langham, E Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, Renewable power options enabled by Local Electricity Trading., pp. 1-31, Sydney, Australia.
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The paper is prepared as part of an Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) funded research project led by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Facilitating Local Network Charges and Virtual Net Metering and a project funded by the Victorian Government Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), Virtual Renewable Power Stations. A key task in the ISF project is to run five virtual trials of Local Electricity Trading (LET)1 and local network charges, one of which will take place in the Moira Shire and Swan Hill Rural City Council areas in regional Victoria. The Moira and Swan Hill trial will examine either the business model for a one-to-many (Community Power Station) or for a many-to-one (also called a Virtual Power Station, or VPS). Both of these models are likely to be enabled if Local Electricity Trading becomes commonly available. The primary interest of the Councils is to improve the resilience of the local economy by retaining energy spending within the area, to increase the capacity of local renewable energy generation and to enable local residents and businesses to participate in the renewable energy generation. The purpose of this paper is to assist the Councils to choose which model to take forward into a trial.

Mitchell, C, Ross, K, Abeysuriya, K, Puspowardoyo, P & Wedahuditama, F ISF, UTS 2015, Effective governance for the successful long-term operation of community scale air limbah systems: Mid-term Observations Report, Sydney, Australia.
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Prepared by the ISF, UTS as part of the Australian Development Research Award Scheme.

Mitchell, C, Ross, KE & Abeysuriya, K ISF-UTS 2015, An analysis of performance data for local scale wastewater services in Indonesia, pp. 1-1, Sydney, Australia.

Mukheibir, P IWA Publishing 2015, Institutional Issues for Integrated ‘One Water’ Management, no. SIWM2T12.
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The looming capital investment required to refurbish aging infrastructure, upsizing and upgrading existing infrastructure, as well as building new infrastructure to meet growing demands through urbanization and densification is putting financial strain on utilities and local government institutions. This together with the impending impact of climate change and increased resource insecurity and variability will mean that planners and decision makers will need to adopt a new way of thinking and pooling resources. Customers are also demanding a whole society approach where water sensitive urban design and sustainable urban water management addresses all the needs of the urban landscape. A One Water approach is expected to bring together all these water streams through workable institutional arrangements and management. However, urban water planners and policymakers around the world are wrestling with the challenge of transitioning to a One Water approach, or as defined in the report as the One Water paradigm. Foremost of these is the inertia associated with the dominant paradigm of centralized systems and siloed institutions. This dominant paradigm results in the lack of engineering and community understanding of the benefits of integrated systems, such as lower costs, higher resilience to extreme events, more localized availability of water for reuse, etc. A further significant challenge is the complex structure of regulations that currently exist separately for water supply, wastewater and stormwater management. This report outlines the challenges that have been faced to date, and suggests enabling strategies and actions that could be deployed at both the implementation and policy levels. These are illustrated through a range of case studies and supported by a review of published literature. To support planners and policymakers, a Framework for Transitioning to a One Water approach is presented which organizes the range of enabling actions required to make the tra...

Mukheibir, P & Howe, C Water Environment Research Foundation 2015, Pathways to One Water: A guide for institutional innovation.
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The primary audiences for this guide are urban water professionals and local government leaders. However, this guide is also targeted at urban planners, academics, developers, architects, regulators, funding agencies and nongovernmental organizations, as well as the building and infrastructure trades. All of these groups will need to be engagedto truly achieve a One Water outcome.The guide includes:■ A description of how cities are moving into a new generation of infrastructure ■ An introduction to One Water and a summary of the key institutional challenges in moving to this approach ■ Key elements of institutions that have embraced a One Water approach ■ Case study snapshots of innovative initiatives taken by organizations ■ Examples of institutional change at the regional, city and utility level ■ Finally, how an individual, an organization or an association might take action or influence change toward a One Water approach

Murta, J, Gero, A & Willetts, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2015, Motivators and barriers for water enterprises in Vietnam, Enterprise in WASH – Research Report 4.

Murta, J, Indarti, N, Rostiani, R & Willetts, JR Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2015, Motivators and barriers for water sanitation enterprises in Indonesia, Enterprise in WASH – Research Report 3.

Prior, JH & Wynne, L 2015, Overall Survey Report: Societal Perceptions and Acceptability of Remediation Technologies Research Project, no. 12, prepared for CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, by Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Prior, JH, Huynh, E & Bradford, G 2015, Choice Survey Report on Socially Efficient Remediation Policies: Societal Perceptions and Acceptability of Remediation Technologies Research Project, no. 11, prepared for CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, by Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Ralph, D, Chaplin, A, Coburn, AW, Copic, J, Evan, T, Kelly, Neduv, E, Ruffle, SJ, Skelton, A & Yeo, ZY Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge 2015, Stress Test Scenario: Dollar Deposed, Cambridge Risk Framework series, pp. 1-36.
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An illustration of the risks posed by a plausible but extreme Dollar Deposed financial catastrophe. The rapid development of the Chinese domestic economy ultimately destabilizes the value of the dollar. The Chinese renminbi supplants the greenback as the reserve currency of choice.

Riedy, CJ, Jackson, M, Berry, F, Harris, B, Matyus Flynn, S, Saintilan, C & Levine, D 2015, GreenPower Program Public Consultation Paper.

Ruffle, S, Kelly, Leverett, E, Copic, J, Evan, T, Tuveson, M, Coburn, AW, Ralph, D & Beecroft, N Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge 2015, Business Blackout – The insurance implications of a cyber attack on the US power grid, Emerging Risk Report, pp. 1-68.

Rutovitz, J, Dominish, E & Downes, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, Calculating global energy sector jobs: 2015 methodology, pp. 1-48, Sydney, Australia.

Rutovitz, J, Langham, E, Atherton, A & McIntosh, L Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, Building a Level Playing Field for Local Energy: Local Network Charges and Local Electricity Trading Explained, pp. 1-21, Sydney, Australia.

Willetts, J & Murta, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2015, Motivations, barriers and opportunities for water and sanitation enterprises in Timor-Leste, Enterprise in WASH – Research Report 6.

Willetts, J, Gero, A, Susamto, AA, Sanjaya, MR, Thanh, DT, Mohr, S, Murta, J & Carrard, N Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2015, Sanitation value chains in low density settings in Indonesia and Vietnam, Enterprise in WASH - Working Paper 3, Sydney, Australia.

Willetts, J, Susamto, A, Sanjaya, M, Murta, J & Carrard, NR 2015, Sanitation value-chain in Nusa Tenggara Timur Indonesia, Enterprise in WASH – Research Report 1, University of Technology Sydney.

Willetts, JR, Gero, A, Murta, J, Trieu Thanh, D & Mohr, S Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2015, Sanitation value chains in low density settings in Vietnam, Enterprise in WASH – Research Report 2.

Wilmot, K, Zeibots, M & Bitzios, D 2015, Waverley People Movement Places Study Characteristics and Issues Report Presentation, NSW.

Winterford, K, Downes, J & Chong, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2015, World Vision's Global Advocacy Campaign Child Health Now: A review of the campaign model and contribution to World Vision advocacy capacity. Phase 1 Evaluation Report., pp. 1-64, Sydney.

Winterford, KH & Willetts, J 2015, Exploring the link between child and youth participation and development effectiveness, Sydney, Australia.

Yeo, ZY, Coburn, AW, Copic, J, Evan, T, Kelly, Neduv, E, Ralph, D, Ruffle, SJ & Skelton, A Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge 2015, Stress Test Scenario: High Inflation World, Cambridge Risk Framework Series, pp. 1-36.

Cordell, DJ 2015, 'Phosphorus vulnerability in the global food system'.

Ellem, G, Giurco, D, Ward, J & Mohr, S 2015, 'Four ways to boost Australia’s economy that can help the climate'.

Florin, N, Giurco, D & Dominish, E 2015, 'Resource productivity: four ways Australia can keep the good times rolling'.

Gero, A, Thiessen, J, Willetts, J & Rumsey, M 2015, 'Beyond Cyclone Pam: identifying Vanuatu’s strengths and needs', The Conversation.

Giurco, D & Wardle, C 2015, 'The resource revolution: Activating the transition'.

Khara, T 2015, 'What are consumer attitudes in urban India like towards ethical food products and what influences their attitudes?'.
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore attitudes among India’s young urban middle-class consumers towards ethical foods, and understand what might influence these attitudes. As the levels of education and disposable incomes rise, and the urban Indian consumer encounters a greater array of product choices in the marketplace, thisstudy aims to understand the perceived significance of ethical foods in India. The results from this study revealed a range of spontaneous perceptions and associations relating to the term ethical foods. These included mainly religious, cultural and health-related associations. Furthermore, these definitions appeared to be shaped by India’s unique sociocultural traditions, norms and contexts. These findings will be subsequently discussed in detail in this paper.

Mukheibir, P & Kohlitz, J 2015, 'Pacific islands are not passive victims of climate change, but will need help', The Conversation.

Peterseim, J & Peterseim, J 2015, 'Increasing solar tower competitiveness: An analysis of different supercritical steam concepts', CSP Today.
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The CSP industry is working intensively to improve its competitiveness and it has made great efforts, ranging from component manufacturing optimisation and lower parasitic consumption to higher cycle efficiency. These have indeed led to significant cost reductions over the last years.

Riedy, CJ 2015, 'Governing transformation: The case of the collaborative economy'.
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Presentation at Transformation2015 Conference, Stockholm

Riedy, CJ 2015, 'Governing transformation: The case of the collaborative economy'.
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Conference presentation at Canberra Earth System Governance Conference 2015

Riedy, CJ 2015, 'Inspiring transformation: The art of positive futures'.
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Presentation at Transformations2015 conference, Stockholm

Yeomans, W, Fam, D & White, S 2015, 'Case study analysis of niche energy service innovations at the precinct scale – Actors, factors and levels influencing future city-scale transformation'.