Publications

Plant, R, Maurel, P, Barbe, E & Brennan, J 2018, Les terres agricoles face à l’urbanisation —De la donnée à l’action, quels rôles pour l’information ?, Update Sciences Technologies, Éditions Quae, Versailles.
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La perte de terres agricoles liées à l’urbanisationconstitue l’une des facettes de la consommation des terres. Commencé dans lesannées 1970, ce phénomène – essentiellement dû à l’étalement urbain –prend des proportions jusque-là inégalées. Les conséquences de ces processusd’artificialisation sont multiples et portent à la fois sur la production etsur la sécurité alimentaire ainsi que sur la perte de biodiversité. Cesprocessus interrogent aussi les formes de solidarité territoriale entre lesvilles et les espaces péri-urbains et ruraux.Issu d’une collaboration scientifique lancée au début desannées 2010 entre l’Université de technologie de Sydney (University ofTechnology Sydney, UTS) et l’Institut national de recherche en sciences ettechnologies pour l’environnement et l’agriculture (Irstea), cet ouvrage abordedes points clés de la problématique de la consommation des terres en sefocalisant sur les terres agricoles en France et en Australie. Plutôt que d’offrirune analyse comparative approfondie de la planification des terres agricolespériurbaines entre les deux pays, il propose une exploration des « boîtesà outils » de l’ingénierie territoriale développées et mobilisées pourfaire face à l’enjeu de la perte de terres agricoles liée à l’urbanisation. Iloffre également un « arrêt sur image » dans un panorama de champs derecherche en pleine évolution, autant du point de vue théorique queméthodologique.

REN21 2018, Renewables 2018 Global Status Report, Paris.

Adams, J, Prior, J, Sibbritt, D, Connon, I, Dunston, R, McIntyre, E & Lauche, R 2018, 'The use of self-care practices and products by women with chronic illness' in Women’s Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Routledge, pp. 77-93.
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Adams, J, Sibbritt, D, Prior, J, Connon, I, McIntyre, E, Dunston, R, Lauche, R & Steel, A 2018, 'The role and influence of women in the workforce and practice of complementary and integrative medicine' in Adams, J, Steel, A, Broom, A & Frawley, J (eds), Women’s Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Routledge, New York, pp. 142-151.
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This chapter examines the role and significance of women across the Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) workforce and practice. It explores the contemporary environment relating to CIM in high-income countries that may help facilitate or challenge what some scholars and commentators have interpreted as a 'feminist' CIM approach to health care. It has long been acknowledged that the biomedical model of health and conventional structures of health care delivery explicitly or implicitly help maintain paternalistic power dimensions. Research suggests the circumstances also apply to CIM use with women not only identified as predominant users of CIM but also as significant agents of influence upon the CIM use of others family members, friends and wider networks alike. Moving attention beyond informal care and carer roles, research has also suggested gender dimensions to CIM practice. As identified in the brief overview provided in the chapter, the influence and role of women with regards to CIM provision/workforce, practice and consumption are considerable

Davila, F & Dyball, R 2018, 'Food Systems and Human Ecology: An Overview' in Sustainability Science: Key Issues, Routledge, USA, pp. 183-210.
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A major sustainability challenge is to feed the world’s population whilst reducingenvironmental impacts, narrowing inequities in food access, and meeting globalnutritional needs (Lawrence et al., 2010; Ingram, 2011). If this challenge is to be met,processes operating between key interacting factors must be successfully managed.These factors include the social and economic (Carolan, 2016; Dethier & Effenberger,2012), environmental (Vermeulen et al., 2012), and health and wellbeing(Friel & Ford, 2015) and occur across the food chain from production, manufactureand processing, to distribution, retail, and end consumption. Because these factorsdynamically interact to drive changes in each other, it is preferable to think of foodsystems rather than chains (Ericksen, 2008; Ingram, 2011). The goal of a food systemis, or should be, to regularly and reliably make appropriate food available at a specificscale, be it a household, town, or nation. We add the words ‘should be’ to flag that thepurpose or goal of food systems is actually contested, as discussed later.

Dawson, MC, Rosin, C & Wald, N 2018, 'Global Resource Scarcity' in Dawson, MC, Rosin, C & Wald, N (eds), Global Resource Scarcity Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation?, Routledge, UK, pp. 59-72.
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This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional bounds of the interests of competitive nation states.

Fam, D, Leimbach, T, Kelly, S, Hitchens, L & Callen, M 2018, 'Meta-considerations for Planning, Introducing and Standardising Inter and Transdisciplinary Learning in Higher Degree Institutions' in Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education, Springer International Publishing, pp. 85-102.
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Fam, D, Neuhauser, L & Gibbs, P 2018, 'Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education' in Fam, D, Neuhauser, L & Gibbs, P (eds), Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education: The Art of Collaborative Research and Collective Learning, Springer International Publishing, Dordrecht, pp. 257-274.
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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This exciting new state-of-the art book reviews, explores and advocates ways in which collaborative research endeavours can, through a transdisciplinary lens, enhance student, academic and social experiences. Drawing from a wide range of knowledges, contexts, geographical locations and internationally renowned expertise, the book provides a unique look into the world of transdisciplinary thinking, collaborative learning and action. In doing so, the book is action orientated, reflective, theoretical and intriguing and provides a place for all of these to meet and mingle in the spirit of curiosity and imagination.

Fry, J, Lenzen, M, Giurco, D & Pauliuk, S 2018, 'Chapter 10 Australian Regional Waste Footprints' in Unmaking Waste in Production and Consumption: Towards the Circular Economy, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 179-190.
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McIntyre, E, Frawley, J & Lauche, R 2018, 'Women's mental health and complementary and integrative medicine' in Adams, J, Steel, A, Frawley, J & Broom, A (eds), Women S Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Routledge, London, pp. 94-110.
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The aim of this chapter is to explore complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) use for the two most prevalent mental health conditions: depression and anxiety. The model of integrative mental health care (IMHC) is explored, and is an important model for providing optimal mental health outcomes for women. The large variability in prevalence estimates was due to a range of factors such as culture, age, area of residence (urban or rural), economic status, and gender. Mind-body medicine is an umbrella term covering a wide variety of therapeutic techniques focusing on the ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual, experiential, and behavioural factors can directly affect health. Herbal medicines have been used since antiquity for anxiety and depression symptoms, and a variety of herbs are available for these conditions with varying levels of efficacy. Evidence for the efficacy of acupuncture for mental health is very limited, and considered insufficient for depression.

McIntyre, E, Worsfold, K & Arthur, R 2018, 'The Psychological System' in Hechtman, L (ed), Clinical Naturopathic Medicine, Elsevier, Australia, pp. 1360-1403.

Plant, RA, Maurel, P & Ruoso, LE 2018, 'Utilisation du concept de Service Ecosystémique pour une évaluation participative du rôle des terres agricoles péri-urbaines dans le Sud de la France [Use of the Ecosystem Service concept for a participatory assessment of the role of peri-urban agricultural land in the South of France]' in Plant, R, Maurel, P, Barbe, E & Brennan, J (eds), Les terres agricoles face à l’urbanisation —De la donnée à l’action, quels rôles pour l’information ? [Agricultural land facing urbanization — From data to action, what roles for information?], Éditions Quae, Versailles.

Plant, RA, Maurel, P, Ruoso, LE, Barbe, E & Brennan, J 2018, 'Synthèse : de la donnée à l’intelligence collective sur les terres agricoles péri-urbaines – quels rôles pour l’information, les savoirs et l’action ? [Synthesis: from data to collective intelligence on peri-urban agricultural land – what roles for information, knowledge and action?]' in Plant, R, Maurel, P, Barbe, E & Brennan, J (eds), Les terres agricoles face à l’urbanisation —De la donnée à l’action, quels rôles pour l’information ? [Agricultural land facing urbanization — From data to action, what roles for information?], Éditions Quae, Versailles.
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Keeping peri-urban farmland and associated activities close to growing urban centers is a global concern. In the face of ever-increasing demand for land development, the challenge of conserving peri-urban farmland - our main concern in this book - continues to be debated.The recent literature presents various initiatives that have, or could be, adopted to protect and conserve these lands. For example, Akimowicz et al. (2016) have critically assessed the merits of the Greenbelt Act in Ontario (USA) regarding farmers' adaptation and investment strategies. Inwood and Sharp (2012) reported on the resilience of farms in peri-urban areas by studying the succession patterns and adaptation of farms in the United States. As such, this study does not propose initiatives that could be put in place to protect and conserve peri-urban agricultural land, but rather an analysis of how to explain the maintenance of farms in peri-urban areas. From the study of conflicts around agricultural uses in the Greater Paris region, Darly and Torre (2013) analyze the experiences of farmers and the media coverage of, and present innovative mechanisms for conflict resolution.

Prior, J & Maurel, P 2018, 'Contexte: une étude comparée sur la planification spatiale de l’artificialisation des sols en France et en Australie [Context: a comparative study on the spatial planning of soil artificialisation in France and Australia]' in Plant, R, Maurel, P, Barbe, E & Brennan, J (eds), Les terres agricoles face à l'urbanisation: De la donnée à l'action, quels rôles pour l'information? [Farmland faced with urbanisation: From data to action, what part can information play?], Éditions Quae, Versailles, pp. 32-111.
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The results of this study are presented in three parts. First, wedescribe the political, legal and administrative logics that shaped thespatial planning in Australia and France. We then present theplanning tools and systems they have generated in eachcountry. In the third part, we study planning approachesspace and the instruments developed to meet the challengesspecificities of the anthropogenic artificialisation of agricultural land inperi-urban areas in Australia and France. Their concrete implementationthe local scale is then described. The conclusion opens on the question ofdata, information and their uses to support these policiesin both countries, an issue developed in the chaptersfollowing. At first, however, we present the approach anddata we used to perform this comparative study.

Prior, J, Cusack, CM & Capon, A 2018, 'The Role of Pliability and Transversality Within Trans/Disciplinarity: Opening University Research and Learning to Planetary Health' in Fam, D, Neuhauser, L & Gibbs, P (eds), Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 57-71.
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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. In recent decades, there have been calls to open university research and learning through transdisciplinarity. The inference here is that the increased specialisation of disciplines has created isolation, division, exclusion, separation and fixity within research and learning. This chapter explores the potential for openness in university research and learning through a discussion of the relationality of transdisciplinarity and disciplinarity. An examination of this relationality is valuable, given that transdisciplinarity and disciplinarity are intimately connected and co-dependent. This relationality is explored through two concepts that we argue constitute its potential to create openness in university research and learning: pliability and transversality. This chapter argues that disciplines, be they science, planning, law, health or religion, manage to be both open to change, constantly becoming-other, and universal, abstract, and eternal. Whilst this pliability of disciplinarity is often translated as disciplinary inadequacy, we argue that this pliability is a valuable component of disciplinarity, and that it provides the site for the transversality of transdisciplinarity. We explore these concepts through reference to a recent problematization of disciplinary research and learning at the human and environment nexus, which has given rise to the notion of planetary health, and its call for a substantial and urgent opening of research and learning to understand and address emerging geo-social assemblages such as the Anthropocene.

Riedy, C, Mitchell, C, Willetts, J & Cunningham, I 2018, 'Nurturing Transdisciplinary Graduate Learning and Skills Through a Community of Practice Approach' in Fam, D, Gibbs, P & Neuhauser, L (eds), Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education, Springer International Publishing, Germany, pp. 133-149.
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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. Transdisciplinary (TD) research is increasingly recognized as a crucial response to global environmental and social challenges. To support this response, there is a growing need to create spaces where graduate researchers can learn the skills and dispositions needed for effective TD research. One way to develop such skills and dispositions is by building a supportive community of practice (CoP). In this chapter, we reflect on a nested set of CoPs established at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology Sydney. ISF’s postgraduate research programme established a TD CoP in 2002 as a way to draw together a diverse group of disparate, disconnected students. We briefly outline the activities that support a TD CoP within ISF’s postgraduate programme and their links to TD skills and dispositions, before offering a detailed critical reflection on the role of our annual residential retreat in supporting mutual TD learning. Our reflection draws on feedback and evaluations conducted each year. Over the 2 days of the retreat, students and supervisors engage in thematic learning activities and discussions developed and facilitated collaboratively by the participants. Our reflections highlight the many tensions that need to be navigated in a TD CoP and point to the importance of nurturing social relations and trust as a foundation for collective TD learning. The landscape of TD research is rocky terrain for supervisors and students alike, and such terrain benefits enormously from, indeed, perhaps requires, an annual retreat or similar activity to nurture a thriving community of TD scholars.

Ross, K & Mitchell, C 2018, 'Transforming Transdisciplinarity: An Expansion of Strong Transdisciplinarity and Its Centrality in Enabling Effective Collaboration' in Fam, D, Nuehauser, L & Gibbs, P (eds), Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 39-56.
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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This chapter expands and enriches existing characterisations and premises of strong transdisciplinarity to develop the concept of “Transforming Transdisciplinarity”. Erich Jantsch’s, Basarab Nicolescu’s, and Manfred Max-Neef’s notions of strong transdisciplinarity all aim to stretch, transcend or reconstruct the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm. Other theoretical orientations linked by Jantsch, Nicolescu, and Max-Neef to strong transdisciplinarity, such as systems theory and complexity theory, also share similar intentions. However, whereas Max-Neef critiqued only the onto-epistemological premise of the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm in defining strong transdisciplinarity, these other theoretical orientations offer an extended, more holistic critique across six integrated meaning systems of which a societal paradigm or individual worldview could be comprised: cosmologies, ontologies, epistemologies, axiologies, anthropologies, and social visions. Each of these six meaning systems is quite distinct, but together they form an integrated, holistic framework, or mythic structure of a paradigm (Kauffman S, Humanity in a creative universe. Oxford University Press, New York, 2016). We argue that in order to be truly transformative, collaborative transdisciplinary researchers should make space to reflect on the power and influence of these six meaning systems in their research. After exploring the lineage of strong transdisciplinarity, we offer a (very) short synthesis of the dominant Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm’s intellectual roots, and then synthesise the alternative paradigms put forward by transdisciplinary theorists and the theoretical orientations linked to transdisciplinarity. What binds these thinkers together is their repeating call for shifting our efforts towards a process-focused, relational, complexivist paradigm, across all meaning systems or mythic structures. Their collective voice...

Ruoso, L-E 2018, 'Le concept de « politiques de l’identité de lieu » comme outil pour mieux comprendre la marginalisation des terres agricoles dans la commune périurbaine de Wollondilly, Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, Australie [The concept of ‘politics of place identity’ as a tool to better understand the marginalisation of farmlands in the peri-urban Shire of Wollondilly, New South Wales, Australia]' in Plant, R, Maurel, P, Barbe, E & Brennan, J (eds), Les terres agricoles face à l’urbanisation —De la donnée à l’action, quels rôles pour l’information? [FARMLAND FACED WITH URBANISATIONFrom data to action, what part can information play?], Quae, France, pp. 152-173.
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In this chapter, which presents some of the results developed in our thesis(Ruoso, 2018), we will try, using the concept of 'identity politics ofplace ', to show how some actors manage to marginalize agriculturein peri-urban landscapes by instrumentalising planning processes, andin particular land rezoning applications. We will also seehow this mechanism is reinforced, on the one hand, by the priority given, inplanning, population projections and housing needsarising from it, and, secondly, through the use of information, includingvalidity can be discussed, with regard to the viability of agricultural land.

Wright, S, Sharpe, S & Giurco, D 2018, 'Greening Regional Cities: The Role of Government in Sustainability Transitions' in World Sustainability Series, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 327-343.
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The scale and complexity of the ‘wicked problems’ posed by sustainability are forcing collaborations between unlikely partners. In many instances, government is choosing to play a critical role in the sustainable innovation process. Yet much of the innovation literature pushes to the fore the ingenuity of the firm, leaving government to play a secondary supporting role. Drawing on ideas from innovations and transitions theory on the role of government in supporting green niches, this paper analyses the example of an evolving biomass project in regional NSW. In particular, the paper focuses upon the role that regional government plays in supporting this community-led collaboration. Based on circular economy principles, the project aims to achieve energy independence whilst simultaneously generating bio-products for the agricultural sector. Utilising a case study methodology including in-depth semi-structured interviews with more than 20 key stakeholders from government, business and the local community, analysis of the data suggests that government is a critical actor in the innovation process; plays a multiplicity of roles across the network; and that these roles vary to a greater degree than previously suggested in the literature. A number of factors are also identified that shape these roles at different stages of the innovation process. This paper sheds new light on the critical role played by government in facilitating and leading sustainability transitions and contributes to our knowledge of sustainable innovations more broadly. It also highlights a need for more research to improve our understanding of appropriate actors at different stages of sustainability transitions.

Wynne, L & Riedy, C 2018, 'Precinct‐scale Innovation and the Sharing Paradigm' in Wilkinson, S & Remoy, H (eds), Building Urban Resilience Through Change of Use, Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, pp. 21-37.
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Urban infill development provides high‐density housing on former industrial precincts in well‐serviced areas of many cities over the past few years. This chapter focuses on how urban infill developments can support one particular set of social innovations‐the emergence of a sharing paradigm. Sharing resources, goods and services can enhance urban resilience by reducing demand for new materials and infrastructure, supporting local economies, and enhancing social networks. One of the most obvious intersections between the sharing paradigm and urban resilience is in development of cohousing. Current urban form is biased towards provision of private dwelling spaces. By sharing spaces such as communal kitchens, living areas, laundries and gardens, cohousing developments make more efficient use of space and materials. At the same time, they provide spaces in which social interaction is actively nurtured.

Abeysuriya, K, Khawaja, N, Mills, F, Carrard, N, Kome, A & Willetts, J 2018, 'Faecal sludge reuse in Birendranagar, Nepal: a case study of the world health organisation's multiple barrier approach', Water Practice and Technology, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-20.
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Abstract This case study presents an innovative initiative to facilitate safe reuse of faecal sludge (FS) by introducing the World Health Organisation's multi-barrier approach within a Farmer Field Schools framework for participatory experiential learning. A novel FS treatment process based on fermentation by ‘effective organisms’ (EM) was piloted to test the feasibility, safety and acceptability of the resulting fertilizer. Fermented FS in agricultural application was found to perform at least as well as other common fertilizers it was compared with, while its lower cost delivered higher profits per cultivated hectare. Participating farmers found it easy to prepare and use, and viewed it favourably overall. EM-based fermentation was, however, found to be insufficient as an FS treatment to render safe reuse, particularly with respect to helminth inactivation. The paper discusses strengthening the treatment barrier, and improving the application of the multi-barrier approach by the systematic consideration of non-treatment barriers using guidance from the WHO's Sanitation Safety Planning Manual. Further research to enable effective monitoring and support systems for maintaining treatment and non-treatment barriers, and for understanding long term impacts of fermented FS application is recommended. In combination, adequately treated fermented FS may be a candidate for scale up necessary for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

Abujazar, MSS, Fatihah, S, Ibrahim, IA, Kabeel, AE & Sharil, S 2018, 'Productivity modelling of a developed inclined stepped solar still system based on actual performance and using a cascaded forward neural network model', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 170, pp. 147-159.
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This paper presents a cascaded forward neural network model for predicting the productivity of a developed inclined stepped solar still system. The actual recorded data of the developed inclined stepped solar still system is used to develop the proposed model. The results of the predicted productivity are compared with that obtained from regression and linear models. In this study, three statistical error terms are used to evaluate the proposed model: root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and mean bias error (MBE). The results show that the proposedcascaded forward neural network (CFNN) model more accurately predicts the productivity of the system than the other modelsmentioned. The RMSE, MAPE and MBE values of the proposed model are 22.48%, 18.51% and −26.46%, respectively. Therefore, the CFNN model provides benefits for modelling the solar still.

Ali, SH, Foster, T & Hall, NL 2018, 'The Relationship between Infectious Diseases and Housing Maintenance in Indigenous Australian Households', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 2827-2827.
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This research aimed to identify systemic housing-level contributions to infectious disease transmission for Indigenous Australians, in response to the Government program to ‘close the gap’ of health and other inequalities. A narrative literature review was performed in accordance to PRISMA guidelines. The findings revealed a lack of housing maintenance was associated with gastrointestinal infections, and skin-related diseases were associated with crowding. Diarrhoea was associated with the state of food preparation and storage areas, and viral conditions such as influenza were associated with crowding. Gastrointestinal, skin, ear, eye, and respiratory illnesses are related in various ways to health hardware functionality, removal and treatment of sewage, crowding, presence of pests and vermin, and the growth of mould and mildew. The research concluded that infectious disease transmission can be reduced by improving housing conditions, including adequate and timely housing repair and maintenance, and the enabling environment to perform healthy behaviours.

Boot-Handford, ME, Virmond, E, Florin, NH, Kandiyoti, R & Fennell, PS 2018, 'Simple pyrolysis experiments for the preliminary assessment of biomass feedstocks and low-cost tar cracking catalysts for downdraft gasification applications', Biomass and Bioenergy, vol. 108, pp. 398-414.
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© 2017 The Authors The pyrolysis behaviour of beech wood, two rice husk variants from Brazil (BRH) and Thailand (TRH) and a solid waste water treatment residue from textile manufacture (TIR) were investigated using a lab-scale, 2-stage fixed-bed reactor at 773 K. Char yields increased and volatile yields decreased with increasing ash content. The TRH released 40% less tar than the BRH which was attributed to the substantially higher potassium content of the Thai species. The combustion reactivity of the TRH char in air at 773 K was similar to the BW char and almost double the reactivity of the BRH and TIR chars. The BW and TRH chars had a greater volume of macropores indicating that char combustion occurs predominantly through the growth and extension of the macroporous pore network. A different trend was observed for the char gasification reactivity with CO2 at 1173 K. The Ca and Mg content of the chars were found to have a more important catalytic role in the char gasification reactions with CO2. The effect of exposing volatile products from beech wood pyrolysis to elevated temperatures (973–1173 K) and sand beds containing calcined limestone or dolomite in a simulated downdraft gasification environment was also investigated. Tar yields decreased after exposure to elevated temperature and calcined limestone or dolomite. Tar cracking favoured the production of CO. CO yields were between 22 and 23 wt% at 1173 K. Calcined dolomite was slightly more effective at cracking tar than calcined limestone, eliminating 98 wt% of the tar at 1173 K.

Brydges, T 2018, '“Made in Canada”: Local production networks in the Canadian fashion industry', Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 238-249.
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The fashion industry is a highly globalized industry increasingly dominated by international firms that favour flexible, efficient supply chains in order to produce trendy clothing at the lowest price. While much of the fashion industry follows the logics of global production networks, this paper presents a case where small, independent firms have chosen instead to engage with local production networks. Drawing on interviews with 87 independent fashion designers and key informants, this paper examines the following question: In the context of global production, why do independent fashion designers choose to work locally? In answering this question, three key findings are presented: the motivations of designers who emphasize timeless design and high‐quality local manufacturing; the strategies employed by designers to cultivate exclusivity and loyalty through the distribution of their collections; and the ways in which unique consumption experiences are utilized to articulate the values of their brand to consumers. While operating outside of the traditional fashion system provides independent fashion designers with the space for creativity, innovation, and control over their brand, it will be argued it also creates challenges with respect to growth beyond their niche market.

Brydges, T & Hracs, BJ 2018, 'Consuming Canada: How fashion firms leverage the landscape to create and communicate brand identities, distinction and values', Geoforum, vol. 90, pp. 108-118.
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In the increasingly global and competitive fashion industry, firms are adopting a variety of strategies to generate value and brand loyalty. While some emphasise the quality of material elements such as inputs, local production and design, others focus on immaterial aspects such symbolic value and exclusivity. In recent years, place-branding has become an important way to create connections between people, places, and products. Yet, the processes behind this type of branding remain poorly understood. In particular, limited attention has been paid to the ways in which landscapes – in all their forms – are being incorporated into place-branding practices. Drawing on 87 interviews, participant observation and an innovative analysis of Instagram accounts, this paper examines how a range of Canadian fashion firms leverage the landscape to create and communicate brand identities, distinction and values. It demonstrates how firms of different sizes and scales construct, harness, or reimagine landscapes and/or popular stereotypes to connect with Canadian identities and consumers. It also highlights how landscape-centric branding can be combined with broader value creation strategies such as local production. In so doing, this paper brings together the economic geography literature on place branding and the cultural geography literature on landscape and identity, and makes a methodological contribution to nascent examinations of social media and visual data sources in geography.

Brydges, T, Hracs, BJ & Lavanga, M 2018, 'Evolution versus entrenchment: Debating the impact of digitization, democratization and diffusion in the global fashion industry', International Journal of Fashion Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 365-372.
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Abstract In the report The State of Fashion 2017, written by Business of Fashion and the McKinsey Institute (2016), industry executives used three words to describe the current state of the fashion industry: uncertain, changing and challenging. Indeed, the fashion industry is undergoing dramatic transformations, from digitization and the rise of ‘see now, buy now’ fashions, to brands redefining the function and timing of fashion weeks, and increasing levels of global integration and competition (Crewe 2017). As such, the fashion industry has been recognized as a valuable lens through which to explore significant and ongoing changes to the production, curation and consumption of goods, services, and experiences (Brydges et al. 2014; Brydges 2017; D’Ovidio 2015; Hracs et al. 2013; Lavanga 2018; McRobbie 2016; Pratt et al. 2012). Drawing inspiration from this stream of scholarship, we organized four sessions titled Trending Now: The Changing Geographies of Fashion in the Digital Age at the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) conference in London, 30 August – 1 September 2017. In these sessions, researchers and practitioners from a wide range of locations and disciplines – including fashion studies, media studies, cultural economics, business and geography – came together to share research related to the structures, labour dynamics, spaces, value propositions and practices of the contemporary fashion industry. While a range of issues were discussed, the sessions were connected by an overarching theme. Namely, the extent to which power in the fashion industry is expanding or consolidating. While there is a prominent discourse that states that structures, systems and spaces within the global fashion industry have been (and will continue to be) disrupted by new actors, technologies, practices and cities, we colle...

Chong, J, Winterford, K & Lederwasch, A 2018, 'Community Engagement on Water Futures: Using creative processes, appreciative inquiry and art to bring communities’ views to life', Water e-Journal, vol. 3, no. 3.
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New approaches to engaging the community are needed to navigate the increasing complexity of planning urban water systems in the face of uncertain climatic, social, economic and political futures. This paper shares an innovative approach developed in collaboration between the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, and the NSW Government’s Metropolitan Water Directorate. Our approach integrated futures visioning, Appreciative Inquiry and creative processes to engage the community on their vision for the future. Participants’ visions were also informed by technical information about the urban water system. The approach produced three “futures scenarios”, comprising annotated artworks and accompanying narrative statements

Connon, I, Prior, J & Fam, D 2018, 'Danger From the Outside in: Resident Perceptions of Environmental Contamination in Home Environments', Human Ecology Review, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 129-151.
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© 2018, Society for Human Ecology. All rights reserved. Research examining human experiences of environmental contamination highlights the significance of place in influencing responses. However, a dearth of information exists on how indoor contamination affects experiences of living with legacies of land and groundwater pollution. This paper addresses this shortfall by drawing on evidence derived from an online survey, 10 semi-structured interviews, and a focus group to examine factors associated with lifescape change in home environments. The findings suggest that perceptions of the visibility and transferability of contaminants, and whether such contaminants are located in either indoor or outdoor domestic spaces, influence residents’ experiences, in turn. Through its focus on interactions between people and pollution, this article makes an original contribution to research on the spatial dynamics of individuals’ experiences with contamination. In concluding, this paper highlights the need for public health communication to provide clear guidance aimed at reducing feelings of uncertainty within domestic spheres.

Dangora, LM, Mitchell, C, White, KD, Sherwood, JA & Parker, JC 2018, 'Characterization of temperature-dependent tensile and flexural rigidities of a cross-ply thermoplastic lamina with implementation into a forming model', International Journal of Material Forming, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 43-52.
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Davila, F 2018, 'Human Ecology and Food Systems: Insights from the Philippines', Human Ecology Review, vol. 24, no. 1.
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Davila, F, Dyball, R & Amparo, JM 2018, 'Transdisciplinary research for food and nutrition security: Examining research-policy understandings in Southeast Asia', Environmental Development, vol. 28, pp. 67-82.
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Interacting human and environmental drivers influence food and nutrition security outcomes. The way food and nutrition security problems and solutions are understood by decision makers and researchers inevitably influences interventions in food systems. One novel way of capturing different and potentially competing understandings of food and nutrition security problems and solutions is transdisciplinary research. In this paper, we examine how Southeast Asian policy and research experts working in food and nutrition security frame challenges and solutions, and the implications of this understanding for their capacity to adopt initiatives from emerging transdisciplinary research in the region. We conducted a workshop with research and policy experts from four countries in Southeast Asia and used a systems based human ecology framework to capture the common understanding participants have of the main challenges in their food systems. The systems exercises revealed similarities in the dominant framing presented by researchers and policy makers, and of the respective agencies of key stakeholders. We found that formal government policy and training was commonly perceived as major drivers of change, with smallholder farmers viewed as passive recipients of knowledge. We also found there is ongoing interest in increasing productivity of key commodities, but there is critical awareness of the environmental consequences of production-oriented agriculture. These dominant understandings have implications for current regional initiatives in transdisciplinary research that seek to build farmer capacity, reduce inequality, and include different stakeholders in research and policy activities. We conclude by arguing that research agencies aspiring to inform policy interventions based on transdisciplinary processes will face challenges given the current dominant frames of food systems in the region. We show how human ecology and systems frameworks can guide transdisciplinary food s...

Dominish, E, Retamal, M, Sharpe, S, Lane, R, Rhamdhani, M, Corder, G, Giurco, D & Florin, N 2018, '“Slowing” and “Narrowing” the Flow of Metals for Consumer Goods: Evaluating Opportunities and Barriers', Sustainability, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1096-1096.
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Metal resources are essential materials for many consumer products, including vehicles and a wide array of electrical and electronic goods. These metal resources often cause adverse social and environmental impacts from their extraction, supply and disposal, and it is therefore important to increase the sustainability of their production and use. A broad range of strategies and actions to improve the sustainability of resources are increasingly being discussed within the evolving concept of the circular economy. This paper uses this lens to evaluate the opportunities and barriers to improve the sustainability of metals in consumer products in Australia, with a focus on strategies that “slow” and “narrow” material flow loops. We have drawn on Allwood’s characterisation of material efficiency strategies, as they have the potential to reduce the total demand for metals. These strategies target the distribution, sale, and use of products, which have received less research attention compared to the sustainability of mining, production, and recycling, yet it is vitally important for changing patterns of consumption in a circular economy. Specifically, we have considered the strategies of product longevity (life extension, intensity of use, repair, and resale), remanufacturing, component reuse, and using less material for the same product or service (digitisation, servicisation, and light-weighting). Within the Australian context, this paper identifies the strategies that have the greatest opportunity to increase material efficiency for metal-containing products (such as mobility, household appliances, and personal electronics), by evaluating current implementation of these strategies and identifying the material, economic, and social barriers to and opportunities for expanding these strategies. We find that many of these strategies have been successfully implemented for mobility, while applying these strategies to personal electronics remains the bigg...

Esham, M, Jacobs, B, Rosairo, HSR & Siddighi, BB 2018, 'Climate change and food security: a Sri Lankan perspective', Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1017-1036.
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. There is growing concern in Sri Lanka over the impact of climate change, variability and extreme weather events on food production, food security and livelihoods. The link between climate change and food security has been mostly explored in relation to impacts on crop production or food availability aspects of food security, with little focus on other key dimensions, namely food access and food utilization. This review, based on available literature, adopted a food system approach to gain a wider perspective on food security issues in Sri Lanka. It points to several climate-induced issues posing challenges for food security. These issues include declining agriculture productivity, food loss along supply chains, low livelihood resilience of the rural poor and prevalence of high levels of undernourishment and child malnutrition. Our review suggests that achieving food security necessitates action beyond building climate resilient food production systems to a holistic approach that is able to ensure climate resilience of the entire food system while addressing nutritional concerns arising from impacts of climate change. Therefore, there is a pressing need to work towards a climate-smart agriculture system that will address all dimensions of food security. With the exception of productivity of a few crop species, our review demonstrates the dearth of research into climate change impacts on Sri Lanka’s food system. Further research is required to understand how changes in climate may affect other components of the food system including productivity of a wider range of food crops, livestock and fisheries, and shed light on the causal pathways of climate-induced nutritional insecurity.

FALLETTA, J & WOODCOCK, S 2018, 'A SIMULATION STUDY OF TEXAS HOLD ’EM POKER: WHAT TAYLOR SWIFT UNDERSTANDS AND JAMES BOND DOESN’T', The ANZIAM Journal, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 55-64.
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Recent years have seen a large increase in the popularity of Texas hold ’em poker. It is now the most commonly played variant of the game, both in casinos and through online platforms. In this paper, we present a simulation study for games of Texas hold ’em with between two and 23 players. From these simulations, we estimate the probabilities of each player having been dealt the winning hand. These probabilities are calculated conditional on both partial information (that is, the player only having knowledge of his/her cards) and also on fuller information (that is, the true probabilities of each player winning given knowledge of the cards dealt to each player). Where possible, our estimates are compared to exact analytic results and are shown to have converged to three significant figures.With these results, we assess the poker strategies described in two recent pieces of popular culture. In comparing the ideas expressed in Taylor Swift’s song, New Romantics, and the betting patterns employed by James Bond in the 2006 film, Casino Royale, we conclude that Ms Swift demonstrates a greater understanding of the true probabilities of winning a game of Texas hold ’em poker.

Falletta, J & Woodcock, S 2018, 'A simulation study of Texas hold 'em poker: what Taylor Swift understands and James Bond doesn't', ANZIAM Journal, vol. 60, pp. 55-55.
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Ferdowsian, H, Kelly, S, Burner, M, Anastario, M, Gohlke, G, Mishori, R, McHale, T & Naimer, K 2018, 'Attitudes Toward Sexual Violence Survivors: Differences Across Professional Sectors in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo', Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 33, no. 24, pp. 3732-3748.
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Sexual violence survivors who decide to report their assault interact with health care, law enforcement, and legal and judicial professionals. Professionals’ attitudes about sexual violence and survivors play an important role in caring for survivors and in the pursuit of justice. Despite evidence showing the relationship between service provider beliefs and survivor outcomes, relatively little is known about professionals’ beliefs about sexual violence or their attitudes toward sexual violence survivors. Between June 2012 and December 2014, our study examined the beliefs and attitudes of 181 professionals from the health care, legal, and law enforcement sectors in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Rift Valley region of Kenya, areas with a high prevalence of sexual violence. To determine correlates of beliefs and attitudes about sexual violence and sexual violence survivors, multiple logistic regression models were adjusted for demographic and occupational characteristics. Respondents who agreed that survivors got what they deserved (7%) or that survivors should feel ashamed (9%) were the minority, while those who would be willing to care for a family member with a history of sexual violence (94%) were the majority. Profession was significantly associated with beliefs and attitudes about sexual violence and survivors. Law enforcement professionals were more likely than health professionals and lawyers to indicate that survivors should feel ashamed. Our findings suggest a need for interventions that adequately address potentially harmful beliefs and attitudes of some professionals serving sexual violence survivors.

Foster, T & Willetts, J 2018, 'Multiple water source use in rural Vanuatu: are households choosing the safest option for drinking?', International Journal of Environmental Health Research, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 579-589.
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Households in low- and middle-income countries commonly make use of multiple water sources. However, it remains unclear to what extent their drinking water choices are optimal from a health perspective. This matched cohort study across 10 islands in Vanuatu examined communities with both a groundwater and rainwater source to determine whether their preferred drinking option was the safest in microbial terms. In communities that preferred to drink rainwater, 56.5% of rainwater sources had 'high-risk' or 'very high risk' Escherichia coli contamination (> 10 MPN/100 mL) compared with 26.1% of groundwater sources (p = 0.092). Moreover, a preference for drinking rainwater was significantly associated with rainwater sources having 'high-risk' or 'very high risk' levels of E. coli contamination (p = 0.045). Results show that communities do not necessarily choose the safest water source for drinking. Findings also highlight the need to bolster local capacity to manage water quality risks and for Sustainable Development Goal monitoring to distinguish between protected and unprotected rainwater tanks.

Foster, T, Shantz, A, Lala, S & Willetts, J 2018, 'Factors associated with operational sustainability of rural water supplies in Cambodia', Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 1577-1588.
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This study shows handpump technology and private ownership are significant predictors of operational performance of rural water supplies in Cambodia.

Foster, T, Willetts, J, Lane, M, Thomson, P, Katuva, J & Hope, R 2018, 'Risk factors associated with rural water supply failure: A 30-year retrospective study of handpumps on the south coast of Kenya', Science of The Total Environment, vol. 626, pp. 156-164.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. An improved understanding of failure risks for water supplies in rural sub-Saharan Africa will be critical to achieving the global goal of safe water for all by 2030. In the absence of longitudinal biophysical and operational data, investigations into water point failure risk factors have to date been limited to cross-sectional research designs. This retrospective cohort study applies survival analysis to identify factors that predict failure risks for handpumps installed on boreholes along the south coast of Kenya from the 1980s. The analysis is based on a unique dataset linking attributes of > 300 water points at the time of installation with their operational lifespan over the following decades. Cox proportional hazards and accelerated failure time models suggest infrastructure failure risks are higher and lifespans are shorter when water supplied is more saline, static water level is deeper, and groundwater is pumped from an unconsolidated sand aquifer. Water point failure risks also appear to grow as distance to spare part suppliers increases. To bolster the sustainability of rural water services and ensure no community is left behind, post-construction support mechanisms will need to mitigate heterogeneous environmental and geographical challenges. Further studies are needed to better understand the causal pathways that underlie these risk factors in order to inform policies and practices that ensure water services are sustained even where unfavourable conditions prevail.

Friedlander, J & Riedy, C 2018, 'Celebrities, credibility, and complementary frames: raising the agenda of sustainable and other ‘inconvenient’ food issues in social media campaigning', Communication Research and Practice, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 229-245.
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Gero, A, Glendining, N & Jiwanji, M 2018, 'Private sector partnerships for climate change adaptation: Lessons from a Fijian case study', Development Bulletin, vol. 79, pp. 57-62.

Gero, A, Winterford, K, Megaw, T, Kauhue, E & Tangi, T 2018, 'Beyond a token effort: Gender transformative climate change action in the Pacific', Development Bulletin, vol. 80, pp. 79-84.
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Gender inequality, unequal power relations and discrimination are barriers that often prevent women, girls and people of diverse sexual and gender identities from equal representation and participation in many aspects of society. Addressing these issues in climate change programming iscrucial, given the ways in which climate change can amplify existing gender inequalities (CEDAW 2018). Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. Although the diverse cultures of the Pacific have adapted to severe weather over the millennia, the broad range and severity of climate change impacts require new interventions to ensure lives and access to basic rights are protected. All sectors and all levels of society—from local to national, rural to urban—require new ways of working to adapt to climate change. These new ways need to ensure that marginalised segments of society, including women, girls and boys, people of diverse sexual and gender identities, people with disability and indigenous people, are considered. ‘Gender transformative climate change action’ seeks to address some of these issues, by transforming underlying norms and behaviours, relations, systems and structures to ensure gender equality.

Guerrero, J, Chapman, A & Verbic, G 2018, 'Decentralized P2P Energy Trading under Network Constraints in a Low-Voltage Network', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 5163-5173.
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The increasing uptake of distributed energy resources (DERs) in distributionsystems and the rapid advance of technology have established new scenarios inthe operation of low-voltage networks. In particular, recent trends incryptocurrencies and blockchain have led to a proliferation of peer-to-peer(P2P) energy trading schemes, which allow the exchange of energy between theneighbors without any intervention of a conventional intermediary in thetransactions. Nevertheless, far too little attention has been paid to thetechnical constraints of the network under this scenario. A major challenge toimplementing P2P energy trading is that of ensuring that network constraintsare not violated during the energy exchange. This paper proposes a methodologybased on sensitivity analysis to assess the impact of P2P transactions on thenetwork and to guarantee an exchange of energy that does not violate networkconstraints. The proposed method is tested on a typical UK low-voltage network.The results show that our method ensures that energy is exchanged between usersunder the P2P scheme without violating the network constraints, and that userscan still capture the economic benefits of the P2P architecture.

Hubbard, P & Prior, J 2018, 'Law, pliability and the multicultural city: Documenting planning law in action', The Geographical Journal, vol. 184, no. 1, pp. 53-63.
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In this paper we focus on the deployment of certain techniques that are central to municipal law's attempt to impose order on the city, namely, development control, zoning, and change of use regulation. Drawing on the notion of inter‐legality, we argue that such practices can never be consistent or universal, and instead need to be sufficiently pliable to recognise the diversity of legal norms, assumptions and practices evident in a multicultural city. We demonstrate this with reference to the resolution of urban land‐use conflict in Sydney (Australia) showing how planning decisions have need to demonstrate flexibility within the law to achieve outcomes that are sensitive to local contingency and informed by notions of spatial justice. In conclusion we suggest that attempts to make municipal law more consistent or unified are problematic given situated discretion is required to produce cities more open to difference and diversity.

Huynh, E, Araña, JE & Prior, J 2018, 'Evaluating residents' preferences for remediation technologies: A choice experiment approach', Science of The Total Environment, vol. 621, pp. 1012-1022.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The choice of technologies used to remediate contaminated environments is increasingly made through engagement with a multitude of stakeholders including affected residents. Despite this, little is known about how residents perceive remediation technology applications. In this study a choice experiment is designed to explore ways of understanding and measuring residents’ preferences for different remediation technologies approaches using a sample of 944 residents in New South Wales, Australia. Analysis reveals that the residents’ acceptability of remediation technologies can be explained by both the efficacy of the technology in improving the environmental quality of the community, and the reputational value of the technology. In particular it is found that residents prefer Monitor Natural Attenuation and Bioremediation to other remediation technologies. In particular they are willing to pay an increase in yearly taxes of $44.60 and $41.15 respectively for implementing such technologies instead of alternative remediation technologies like Chemical remediation.

Ibrahim, IA, Khatib, T, Mohamed, A & Elmenreich, W 2018, 'Modeling of the output current of a photovoltaic grid-connected system using random forests technique', Energy Exploration & Exploitation, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 132-148.
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This study presents a prediction technique for the output current of a photovoltaic grid-connected system by using random forests technique. Experimental data of a photovoltaic grid-connected system are used to train and validate the proposed model. Three statistical error values, namely root mean square error, mean bias error, and mean absolute percentage error, are used to evaluate the developed model. Moreover, the results of the proposed technique are compared with results obtained from an artificial neural network-based model to show the superiority of the proposed method. Results show that the proposed model accurately predicts the output current of the system. The root mean square error, mean absolute percentage error, and mean bias error values of the proposed method are 2.7482, 8.7151, and −2.5772%, respectively. Moreover, the proposed model is faster than the artificial neural network-based model by 0.0801 s.

Ilankoon, IMSK, Tang, Y, Ghorbani, Y, Northey, S, Yellishetty, M, Deng, X & McBride, D 2018, 'The current state and future directions of percolation leaching in the Chinese mining industry: Challenges and opportunities', Minerals Engineering, vol. 125, pp. 206-222.
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China is one of the most rapidly growing economies in the world and this growth is underpinned by growing demand for natural resources to meet base and precious metals and energy requirements. Even though China is currently the largest producer of several mined commodities, such as gold and the rare earth elements, meeting the future demands for metal consumption will require China to either develop new mining projects or increase material imports. In terms of nuclear energy requirements the country still depends on uranium imports. To meet this growth in Chinese demand, there has been a strong interest in technologies suited for mining and processing of low grade ore bodies. Percolation leaching methods have been very effective in extracting metals from low grade ores, which could not otherwise be economically extracted. Percolation leaching techniques, such as heap leaching, dump leaching, bio-leaching and in-situ leaching have been extensively employed in the Chinese mining industry in recent decades, primarily to extract gold, copper, rare earth elements and uranium. This paper discusses the application of various percolation leaching techniques in the Chinese mining industry and offers a scientific and extensive literature overview on technological developments in commercial percolation leaching operations in China. It also presents the current challenges of percolation leaching and recent technological and research developments and regulatory frameworks pertaining to the application of percolation leaching in China. The future directions of percolation leaching in the Chinese mining industry will also be presented to extract the low grade natural resources both economically and in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Jacobs, B, Boronyak, L, Mitchell, P, Vandenberg, M & Batten, B 2018, 'Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for national parks: Adaptive management pathways under dynamic risk', Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 89, pp. 206-215.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Government seeks to manage public protected areas, such as national parks, to conserve high-quality wildlife habitats and provide essential ecosystems services at risk of permanent damage or extinction from climate change. The complexity of the organizational structure required to deliver this breadth of functions, coupled to uncertainty surrounding the onset and severity of climate impacts at local scale, impedes planning for climate change. This paper describes the development of an adaptation planning tool and its application in a pilot planning process for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the agency of the New South Wales (NSW) Government (Australia) responsible for management of national parks and public conservation reserves. The process involved close engagement in knowledge co-production in participatory workshops, and employed two complementary techniques, adaptive pathways and risk assessment. It successfully elicited tacit knowledge of agency staff about the range of interventions available, the need for management practices to evolve, and of discontinuities in management pathways in a dynamic risk environment. Findings suggest that management effort across the NSW reserve system will increase as climate risk rises. Consequently, government will need to respond to increased demand for resources, for better targeting of those resources, and for management innovation in how resources are deployed to support adaptation that is both anticipatory and transformative.

Joosse, S & Brydges, T 2018, 'Blogging for Sustainability: The Intermediary Role of Personal Green Blogs in Promoting Sustainability', Environmental Communication, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 686-700.
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Khan, NT, Kim, YH & Kim, YB 2018, 'The dynamic impact of low-cost carriers on full-service carriers and the tourism industry of South Korea: a competitive analysis using the Lotka–Volterra model', Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 656-666.
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Kohlitz, JP, Rostiani, R, Indarti, N, Murta, J & Willetts, J 2018, 'Sludge removal enterprises in Indonesia: factors affecting entrepreneurial success', Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 246-256.
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Abstract Faecal sludge removal is critical for the long-term functionality of on-site sanitation facilities and sustained sanitation outcomes. Private enterprises are important players in providing sludge removal services in Indonesia and other countries where government does not do so. However, the extent to which sludge removal entrepreneurs can fulfil this role depends on the viability, or success, of their enterprises. This paper investigates factors linked to the success of sludge removal enterprises in Indonesia, including traits of the entrepreneurs, characteristics of the enterprises and contextual challenges. These factors and levels of success were examined from data collected from structured interviews with 24 sludge removal enterprises across six cities in Indonesia. This research found that higher levels of success were significantly associated with entrepreneurs that had previous work experience of any kind, made higher upfront investments and did not involve their family members in the management of the enterprise. Participants most frequently identified high costs of capital, high levels of competition and insufficient time to spend on the enterprise as challenges to success. These findings provide important evidence for how civil society organisations and governments in Indonesia and elsewhere may best provide a conducive enabling environment for enterprise roles in sludge removal.

Leahy, C, Winterford, K, Willetts, J, Nghiem, PT, Leong, L & Kelleher, J 2018, 'Research collaboration for impact evaluation: A study of gender andWASH in central Vietnam', Development Bulletin, vol. 79, pp. 39-42.

Lee, T & Wakefield-Rann, R 2018, 'Design Philosophy and Poetic Thinking: Peter Sloterdijk’s Metaphorical Explorations of the Interior', Human Ecology Review, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 153-170.
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© 2018, Society for Human Ecology. All rights reserved. This article makes the argument that Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophy provides a useful and thought-provoking basis for studies of contemporary indoor ecologies. Sloterdijk’s philosophy is distinctively attentive to the various environments in which humans exist and of the ecological situation of beings in general. The notions of interiority explored in Sloterdijk’s work, particularly the third volume of his Spheres trilogy Foams (2016), provide important tools for conceptualizing the changing nature of indoor spaces and contemporary modes of being in the world. Sloterdijk’s approach to philosophical analysis exhibits a number of interrelated advantages that mesh well with the ambitions of human ecology, particularly in relation to indoor ecological conditions. These include his sustained conceptual exploration of technological and scientific developments, his distinctive use of rhetoric and philosophy in the characterization of human agency, and the close attention he pays to the relationship between being and design. This article unpacks the value of these perspectives through a sustained attention to Spheres III: Foams and aims to demonstrate why Sloterdijk’s work provides an invaluable philosophical tool kit to foreground and unite scholarship in diverse fields exploring the relationship between interior spaces, human perception, and society.

Liu, A & Mukheibir, P 2018, 'Digital metering feedback and changes in water consumption – A review', Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 134, pp. 136-148.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. This review paper investigates the way information is provided to customers through the use of digital water metering and customer engagement, and its impact on water consumption. A review of 25 published detailed customer water-use information feedback studies was undertaken, along with interviews with five water utilities located internationally with practical experience in digital metering rollouts. The results of the review revealed mean savings across all the studies of 5.5%, within the 10th–90th-percentile envelope of 3.0%–8.0% savings (excluding the extreme outliers). The range of savings was found to vary across each of the various parameters investigated, with no single intervention approach clearly standing out as best practice. With large scale rollouts, for which little literature is available, it is typically difficult to attribute the savings to feedback programs alone, since other factors may have influenced the outcomes, and are difficult to account for or were not included in the literature. To better understand and evaluate the impact of a feedback program, and optimise its operation, a well-designed evaluation and related implementation plan should be considered in conjunction with a digital metering rollout. Discrete interventions should be monitored against a control group (or groups) to assess uptake, response and persistence over time (of both uptake and savings), in order to refine a program over the business case period.

McIntyre, E, Prior, J, Connon, ILC, Adams, J & Madden, B 2018, 'Sociodemographic predictors of residents worry about contaminated sites', Science of The Total Environment, vol. 643, pp. 1623-1630.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The management and remediation of contaminated environments increasingly involves engagement with affected local residents. Of late, risk communication tools and guidelines have drawn attention to the stress and concern of residents as a result of heightened awareness of localised contamination and the need to address these less visible impacts of contamination when engaging with affected communities. Despite this emerging focus, there is an absence of research exploring the factors that predict resident worry about neighbourhood contamination. This paper aims to address this shortcoming by drawing on data from a cross-sectional survey of 2009 adult residents in neighbourhoods near 13 contaminated sites across Australia. Ordered logistic regression was used to determine the sociodemographic, environmental, and knowledge-based factors that influence residents’ degree of worry. The findings suggest age, gender and income significantly affect residents’ degree of worry. Being knowledgeable about the contaminant and having a stronger perception of a sense of place within a particular neighbourhood were associated with lower degrees of worry. Type of contaminant also impacted resident worry, with residents being less likely to worry about solvents and metals than other types of contaminants. Our analyses suggest resident worry can be reduced through improving access to accurate information and the development of specific risk reduction strategies tailored to each neighbourhood and aimed at the heterogeneous distribution of worry amongst residential populations.

Metson, GS, Cordell, D, Ridoutt, B & Mohr, S 2018, 'Mapping phosphorus hotspots in Sydney’s organic wastes: a spatially explicit inventory to facilitate urban phosphorus recycling', Journal of Urban Ecology, vol. 4, no. 1.
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©The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press. Phosphorus is an essential element for food production whose main global sources are becoming scarce and expensive. Furthermore, losses of phosphorus throughout the food production chain can also cause serious aquatic pollution. Recycling urban organic waste resources high in phosphorus could simultaneously address scarcity concerns for agricultural producers who rely on phosphorus fertilisers, and waste managers seeking to divert waste from landfills to decrease environmental burdens. Recycling phosphorus back to agricultural lands however requires careful logistical planning to maximize benefits and minimize costs, including processing and transportation. The first step towards such analyses is quantifying recycling potential in a spatially explicit way. Here we present such inventories and scenarios for the Greater Sydney Basin's recyclable phosphorus supply and agricultural demand. In 2011, there was 15 times more phosphorus available in organic waste than agricultural demand for phosphorus in Sydney. Hypothetically, if future city residents shifted to a plant-based diet, eliminated edible food waste, and removed animal production in the Greater Sydney Basin, available phosphorus supply would decrease to 7.25 kt of phosphorus per year, even when accounting for population growth by 2031, and demand would also decrease to 0.40 kt of phosphorus per year. Creating a circular phosphorus economy for Sydney, in all scenarios considered, would require effective recycling strategies which include transport outside of the Greater Sydney Basin. These spatially explicit scenarios can be used as a tool to facilitate stakeholders engagement to identify opportunities and barriers for appropriate organic waste recycling strategies.

Mills, F, Willetts, J, Petterson, S, Mitchell, C & Norman, G 2018, 'Faecal Pathogen Flows and Their Public Health Risks in Urban Environments: A Proposed Approach to Inform Sanitation Planning', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 181-181.
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Public health benefits are often a key political driver of urban sanitation investment in developing countries, however, pathogen flows are rarely taken systematically into account in sanitation investment choices. While several tools and approaches on sanitation and health risks have recently been developed, this research identified gaps in their ability to predict faecal pathogen flows, to relate exposure risks to the existing sanitation services, and to compare expected impacts of improvements. This paper outlines a conceptual approach that links faecal waste discharge patterns with potential pathogen exposure pathways to quantitatively compare urban sanitation improvement options. An illustrative application of the approach is presented, using a spreadsheet-based model to compare the relative effect on disability-adjusted life years of six sanitation improvement options for a hypothetical urban situation. The approach includes consideration of the persistence or removal of different pathogen classes in different environments; recognition of multiple interconnected sludge and effluent pathways, and of multiple potential sites for exposure; and use of quantitative microbial risk assessment to support prediction of relative health risks for each option. This research provides a step forward in applying current knowledge to better consider public health, alongside environmental and other objectives, in urban sanitation decision making. Further empirical research in specific locations is now required to refine the approach and address data gaps.

Mitchell, C, Fam, D & Cordell, D 2018, 'Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research: Framework #3', GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 112-112.
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Mitchell, C, Fam, DM & Cordell, D 2018, 'GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society', GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 112-112.

Mohr, S, Giurco, D, Retamal, M, Mason, L & Mudd, G 2018, 'Erratum: Mohr et al. Global Projection of Lead-Zinc Supply from Known Resources. Resources, 2018, 7, 17', Resources, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 25-25.
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The authors wish to make the following correction to this paper [...]

Mohr, S, Giurco, D, Retamal, M, Mason, L & Mudd, G 2018, 'Global Projection of Lead-Zinc Supply from Known Resources', Resources, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 17-17.
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Lead and zinc are used extensively in the construction and automotive industries, and require sustainable supply. In order to understand the future availability of lead and zinc, we have projected global supplies on a country-by-country basis from a detailed global assessment of mineral resources for 2013. The model GeRS-DeMo was used to create projections of lead and zinc production from ores, as well as recycling for lead. Our modelling suggests that lead and zinc production from known resources is set to peak within 15 years (lead 2025, zinc 2031). For lead, the total supply declines relatively slowly post peak due to recycling. If additional resources are found, these peaks would shift further into the future. These results suggest that lead and zinc consumers will need to plan for the future, potentially by: seeking alternative supplies (e.g., mine tailings, smelter/refinery slags); obtaining additional value from critical metals contained in lead-zinc ore deposits to counter lower grade ores; identifying potential substitutes; redesigning their products; or by contributing to the development of recycling industries.

Mukheibir, P & Mitchell, C 2018, 'The influence of context and perception when designing out risks associated with non-potable urban water reuse', Urban Water Journal, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 461-468.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Perceptions and cognitive bias in relation to reuse water can influence the responses to risk and reward. Much has been written on community perspectives and risk perceptions with regard to recycled water for non-potable use. This paper is distinct in that it focuses on the scheme proponents and those involved in designing and delivering schemes. An analysis of five case studies in Australia across a range of diverse settings revealed that the levels of treatment for various end-uses were in excess of the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling. The evidence shows that the water industry has a fairly narrow view when identifying risks, and has an insurance type response to mitigating the risk. The overarching drivers for this are either the mitigation of the perceived risk associated with using reuse water, or the lack of an adaptive response to changes in the circumstances.

Murta, JCD, Willetts, JRM & Triwahyudi, W 2018, 'Sanitation entrepreneurship in rural Indonesia: a closer look', Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 343-359.
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© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media DordrechtEnterprises are playing increasing roles in facilitating access to sanitation products and services in Indonesia and other developing economies. This study investigated the factors affecting the sustainability of sanitation enterprises in rural Indonesia. Interviews with 33 organisations representing sanitation enterprises, associations of sanitation enterprises, national and international civil society organisations (CSOs), donor organisations and national and local government agencies were conducted to explore different stakeholder perceptions about enterprise roles. The research revealed factors specific to the sanitation entrepreneurs themselves, such as their skills, entrepreneurial traits, pro-social motivations and intrinsic motivations, as well as factors within their enabling environment. Insufficient customer demand, inadequate capacity building opportunities, lack of financing options for entrepreneurs and their customers, and limited government support were observed to undermine sanitation enterprise success. Industry associations were found to be a useful intermediary support mechanism, particularly in the absence of significant government support for enterprises. However, such associations could also stifle innovation, and their role needs to be carefully developed, including financially sustainable models for such associations. This study has implications for how governments and CSOs in Indonesia and elsewhere might best support the role of enterprises and entrepreneurship towards improved sanitation outcomes.

Northey, SA, Madrid López, C, Haque, N, Mudd, GM & Yellishetty, M 2018, 'Production weighted water use impact characterisation factors for the global mining industry', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 184, pp. 788-797.
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Northey, SA, Mudd, GM & Werner, TT 2018, 'Unresolved Complexity in Assessments of Mineral Resource Depletion and Availability', Natural Resources Research, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 241-255.
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Considerations of mineral resource availability and depletion form part of a diverse array of sustainable development-oriented studies, across domains such as resource criticality, life cycle assessment and material flow analysis. Given the multidisciplinary nature of these studies, it is important that a common understanding of the complexity and nuances of mineral supply chains be developed. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of these assessment approaches and expand on several areas that are conceptually difficult to account for in these studies. These include the dynamic nature of relationships between reserves, resources, cut-off grades and ore grades; the ability to account for local economic, social and environmental factors when performing global assessments; and the role that technology improvements play in increasing the availability of economically extractable mineral resources. Advancing knowledge in these areas may further enhance the sophistication and interpretation of studies that assess mineral resource depletion or availability.

Paul, R, Kenway, S, McIntosh, B & Mukheibir, P 2018, 'Urban Metabolism of Bangalore City: A Water Mass Balance Analysis', Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1413-1424.
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SummaryCities are increasingly depending on energy‐intensive water sources, such as distant rivers and the ocean, to meet their water demand. However, such expensive sources could be avoided using alternative local sources of water such as wastewater, rainwater, and stormwater. Many cities do not have robust accounts of those localized water resources, as estimating those resources requires comprehensive accounting in complex urban water systems. In this article, we investigate whether an urban metabolism evaluation framework built on the urban water mass balance can help analyze these resources, especially in a rapidly growing developing city. We first refined the water mass balance equation developed by Kenway and his colleagues in 2011 for a developing country context with the inclusion of some significant components such as system loss. Then, we applied the refined equation for the first time to Bangalore city in India, a developing country, for the year 2013–2014 as a real case example, which is a rare water mass balance analysis of its kind. The refined equation helped analyze Bangalore's urban water system. The total available wastewater, stormwater, and rainwater were 656 gigaliters (GL). The gap between water demand and supply could be met if 54% of this recycled potential were harnessed. Wastewater had enough potential (362 GL) to replace the whole centralized water supply from the Cauvery. A scenario analysis showed that the gap between water demand and supply in 2021 can be met if 60% of total recycled potential is utilized. This approach can be used to help other cities identify the potential of alternative water sources and support integrated water planning and monitoring water metabolic performance.

Prior, J 2018, 'Factors influencing residents' acceptance (support) of remediation technologies', Science of The Total Environment, vol. 624, pp. 1369-1386.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. An increasing diversity of technologies are being used to remediate contaminated sites, yet there remains little understanding of the level of acceptance that residents living near these sites hold for these technologies, and what factors influence their level of acceptance. This lack of understanding hinders the remediation industry's ability to effectively engage with these residents about remediation technology selection, at a time when such engagement is become part and parcel of remediation policy and practice. The study develops on wider research into public acceptance of technologies, using data from a telephone survey of 2009 residents living near thirteen contaminated sites across Australia. Within the survey acceptance is measured through residents’ level of support for the application of remediation technologies in their local area. Firstly, a regression analysis of closed-ended questions, and coding of open-ended questions are combined to identify the main predictors of residents’ support for remediation technologies. Secondly, coding of open-ended questions was analysed using Crawford and Ostrom's Institutional Grammar Tool to identify norms and sanctions guiding residents’ willingness to negotiate their support. The research identifies factors associated with the residents’ personal and demographic characteristics, their physical context and engagement with institution during remediation processes, and the technologies themselves which predict residents’ level of support for the application of remediation technologies. Bioremediation technologies had higher levels of support than chemical, thermal and physical technologies. Furthermore, the paper identifies a core set of norms and sanctions residents use to negotiate their level of support for remediation technologies.

Prior, J, Connon, I, McIntyre, E, Adams, J, Capon, A, Kent, J, Rissel, C, Thomas, L, Thompson, S & Westcott, H 2018, 'Built environment interventions for human and planetary health: integrating health in climate change adaptation and mitigation', Public Health Research & Practice, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. e2841831-e2841831.
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© 2018 Prior et al. Objectives: Human-generated climate change is causing adverse health effects through multiple direct pathways (e.g. heatwaves, sea-level rise, storm frequency and intensity) and indirect pathways (e.g. food and water insecurity, social instability). Although the health system has a key role to play in addressing these health effects, so too do those professions tasked with the development of the built environment (urban and regional planners, urban designers, landscapers and architects), through improvements to buildings, streets, neighbourhoods, suburbs and cities. This article reports on the ways in which urban planning and design, and architectural interventions, can address the health effects of climate change; and the scope of climate change adaptation and mitigation approaches being implemented by the built environment professions. Type of program or service: Built environment adaptations and mitigations and their connections to the ways in which urban planning, urban design and architectural practices are addressing the health effects of climate change. Methods: Our reflections draw on the findings of a recent review of existing health and planning literature. First, we explore the ways in which ‘adaptation’ and ‘mitigation’ relate to the notion of human and planetary health. We then outline the broad scope of adaptation and mitigation interventions being envisioned, and in some instances actioned, by built environment professionals. Results: Analysis of the review’s findings reveals that adaptations developed by built environment professions predominantly focus on protecting human health and wellbeing from the effects of climate change. In contrast, built environment mitigations address climate change by embracing a deeper understanding of the co-benefits inherent in the interconnectedness of human health and wellbeing and the health of the ecosystem on which it depends. In the final section, we highlight the ethical transiti...

Quilcaille, Y, Gasser, T, Ciais, P, Lecocq, F, Janssens-Maenhout, G & Mohr, S 2018, 'Uncertainty in projected climate change arising from uncertain fossil-fuel emission factors', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 044017-044017.
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© 2018 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Emission inventories are widely used by the climate community, but their uncertainties are rarely accounted for. In this study, we evaluate the uncertainty in projected climate change induced by uncertainties in fossil-fuel emissions, accounting for non-CO2 species co-emitted with the combustion of fossil-fuels and their use in industrial processes. Using consistent historical reconstructions and three contrasted future projections of fossil-fuel extraction from Mohr et al we calculate CO2 emissions and their uncertainties stemming from estimates of fuel carbon content, net calorific value and oxidation fraction. Our historical reconstructions of fossil-fuel CO2 emissions are consistent with other inventories in terms of average and range. The uncertainties sum up to a ±15% relative uncertainty in cumulative CO2 emissions by 2300. Uncertainties in the emissions of non-CO2 species associated with the use of fossil fuels are estimated using co-emission ratios varying with time. Using these inputs, we use the compact Earth system model OSCAR v2.2 and a Monte Carlo setup, in order to attribute the uncertainty in projected global surface temperature change (T) to three sources of uncertainty, namely on the Earth system's response, on fossil-fuel CO2 emission and on non-CO2 co-emissions. Under the three future fuel extraction scenarios, we simulate the median T to be 1.9, 2.7 or 4.0 °C in 2300, with an associated 90% confidence interval of about 65%, 52% and 42%. We show that virtually all of the total uncertainty is attributable to the uncertainty in the future Earth system's response to the anthropogenic perturbation. We conclude that the uncertainty in emission estimates can be neglected for global temperature projections in the face of the large uncertainty in the Earth system response to the forcing of emissions. We show that this result does not hold for all variables of the climate system, such as ...

Retamal, M & Schandl, H 2018, 'Dirty Laundry in Manila: Comparing Resource Consumption Practices for Individual and Shared Laundering', Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1389-1401.
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SummaryChanging lifestyles in developing and emerging economies entail a shift in technology use, everyday practices, and resource consumption. It is important to understand the sustainability consequences of these changes and the potential for policy to guide practices toward more sustainable lifestyles. In this study, we investigate laundry practices in the City of Manila, the Philippines, and compare the resources consumed in three different modes of laundering. We examine (1) traditional washing by hand, (2) washing by machine at home, and (3) using a laundry service. In addition to comparing the consumption of water, energy, and detergents, we also examine the social aspects of laundering using the lens of social practice theory. We use empirical data gathered in interviews with laundry service operators and people laundering at home to undertake qualitative and quantitative analyses of laundry practices and resource consumption. We find that hand washing uses the least water and energy, but large quantities of detergents. Machine washing and laundry services are comparable for water consumption, but energy use is much higher for services as they use dryers. Social changes, such as an increase in work available for women and the nature of future housing, are likely to influence the dominance of either shared or individual laundering methods. These findings illustrate the social complexity of transitions to product‐service systems and the interdependencies between their social and environmental impacts.

Riedy, C, Fam, D & Ross, K 2018, 'Transdisciplinarity at the Crossroads: Nurturing Individual and Collective Learning', Technology Innovation Management Review, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 41-49.
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Practitioners of transdisciplinary inquiry, which we define to include research, learning, collaboration, and action, encounter innumerable tensions. Some tensions are universal, while others are unique to that particular inquiry at that point in time. Resolving these tensions requires innovative practices, which emerge through experience with transdisciplinary inquiry. In this article, we reflect on two decades of transdisciplinary inquiry at the Institute for Sustainable Futures. Drawing on that experience, we argue that one crucial innovative practice is to create space for collective, reflective learning. Such learning frequently takes place in spaces we call “crossroads”. These are formal and informal spaces where practitioners who have been on their own transdisciplinary learning journeys (experiencing diverse tensions and applying diverse approaches) come together in dialogue to share, reflect, critically and constructively question, imagine, challenge, and synthesize their experiences into collective organizational learning. Crossroads can emerge spontaneously but can also be consciously nurtured. In our experience, they help us to sustain the innovation needed for transdisciplinary inquiry and to avoid stagnation or routinization. At these reflective, and often times transformative, crossroads, we make sense of our messy, non-linear transdisciplinary journeys and develop innovations to take our transdisciplinary practices forward.

Ruoso, L-E & Plant, R 2018, 'A politics of place framework for unravelling peri-urban conflict: An example of peri-urban Sydney, Australia', Journal of Urban Management, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 57-69.
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© 2018 Zhejiang University and Chinese Association of Urban Management Peri-urban areas are increasingly described as ‘third’ spaces with unique characteristics, in opposition to spaces awaiting urban development. However, in many peri-urban areas the process of defining what this ‘third’ space is, is triggering conflict over the meanings attributed to the peri-urban landscape, its ownership and, importantly, whose identity it represents. Our aim in this paper is to develop a framework of the ‘politics of place/landscape identity’ that advances analysis and synthesis of conflict over identity in peri-urban areas. This framework is grounded in the ‘politics of place’ and ‘politics of landscape’ literature, in the ‘place and landscape identity’ literature, and builds upon existing landscape/place models. It integrates the physical, practice, representation and identity dimensions of ‘landscape’ and ‘place’ in a perspective on the ‘politics of place’. We illustrate how the framework may shed light on the ‘politics of place’ in Wollondilly Shire, a peri-urban local government area in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Our case study demonstrates how the different dimensions of the politics of place are articulated, and particularly around what representations they are ‘crystallised’. The framework provides cues for planners and decision makers concerning the representations that would need to be renegotiated between different groups in peri-urban environments, in order to create broader consensus. In the case of Wollondilly the representation that could constitute a ‘nodal point’ for possible intervention is the definition of the notion of ‘viability’ of farming operations.

Rutovitz, J, Oliva H., S, McIntosh, L, Langham, E, Teske, S, Atherton, A & Kelly, S 2018, 'Local network credits and local electricity trading: Results of virtual trials and the policy implications', Energy Policy, vol. 120, pp. 324-334.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Current charging methods for network infrastructure and recompense for distributed energy may not result in optimum system solutions. Once feed-in tariffs to support the development of renewable generation are phased out, the payment for grid exports is usually based on the wholesale energy value alone. Network charges are generally levied in full, with few attempts to offer a partial charge, or completely waived. Local Electricity Trading (LET) and Local Network Credits (LNCs) offer one approach to reforming charge structures. This paper examines the effects of LET and LNC on different stakeholders in four virtual trials of medium scale distributed generation projects around Australia, and the implications for policy. The trials found the large value gap between behind the meter systems and grid exports may lead to duplication of network assets, inefficient sizing and operation of distributed generators, and a lack of incentive for dispatchable generators to operate at peak times. The trials indicated that in most circumstances, the combination of LNC and LET addresses all four problems identified to some degree.

Stewart, RA, Nguyen, K, Beal, C, Zhang, H, Sahin, O, Bertone, E, Vieira, AS, Castelletti, A, Cominola, A, Giuliani, M, Giurco, D, Blumenstein, M, Turner, A, Liu, A, Kenway, S, Savić, DA, Makropoulos, C & Kossieris, P 2018, 'Integrated intelligent water-energy metering systems and informatics: Visioning a digital multi-utility service provider', Environmental Modelling & Software, vol. 105, pp. 94-117.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Advanced metering technologies coupled with informatics creates an opportunity to form digital multi-utility service providers. These providers will be able to concurrently collect a customers’ medium-high resolution water, electricity and gas demand data and provide user-friendly platforms to feed this information back to customers and supply/distribution utility organisations. Providers that can install low-cost integrative systems will reap the benefits of derived operational synergies and access to mass markets not bounded by historical city, state or country limits. This paper provides a vision of the required transformative process and features of an integrated multi-utility service provider covering the system architecture, opportunities and benefits, impediments and strategies, and business opportunities. The heart of the paper is focused on demonstrating data modelling processes and informatics opportunities for contemporaneously collected demand data, through illustrative examples and four informative water-energy nexus case studies. Finally, the paper provides an overview of the transformative R&D priorities to realise the vision.

Teske, S, Pregger, T, Simon, S & Naegler, T 2018, 'High renewable energy penetration scenarios and their implications for urban energy and transport systems', Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 30, pp. 89-102.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. To meet the terms of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the global energy system must be entirely decarbonized by the end of this century. Two scenarios have been developed: a reference case (REF) and an advanced 100% renewable energy scenario (ADV). ADV reflects the trends in global energy systems and will decarbonize the entire energy system by 2050. Those results are compared with the IPCC AR5 450 ppm scenarios, in terms of the 2050 energy demand projections — primary and final energy — and the demands for the transport and building sectors because they are important in urban environments. The results are further discussed with regard to the impact on urban infrastructures and the role of megacities in the global energy consumption pattern. Under the assumption that urbanization rates will remain at the 2015 level until 2050, the annual energy demand for buildings in urban areas is expected to increase by 27 EJ under the reference scenario (REF), from 57 EJ to 84 EJ per year, whereas ADV would lead to an overall reduction to 46 EJ per year by 2050, while the population and GDP continue to grow. Overall, the global energy demand in the transport sector is expected to increase by over 60% by 2050 under REF, whereas the deep mitigation pathway (ADV) reduces the transport energy demand below that of the base year, to 70 EJ per year. This is a significant reduction, even compared with other 450 ppm scenarios, and can be achieved by a drastic shift to electric mobility in response to vehicle efficiency standards, a phasing-out of combustion engines in the transport sector by 2030, and a modal shift in favor of urban public transport. The global energy demand for the building sector in ADV shows a smaller deviation in comparison to other 450 ppm scenarios than that for the transport sector.

Thacker, S, Kelly, S, Pant, R & Hall, JW 2018, 'Evaluating the Benefits of Adaptation of Critical Infrastructures to Hydrometeorological Risks', Risk Analysis, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 134-150.
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AbstractInfrastructure adaptation measures provide a practical way to reduce the risk from extreme hydrometeorological hazards, such as floods and windstorms. The benefit of adapting infrastructure assets is evaluated as the reduction in risk relative to the “do nothing” case. However, evaluating the full benefits of risk reduction is challenging because of the complexity of the systems, the scarcity of data, and the uncertainty of future climatic changes. We address this challenge by integrating methods from the study of climate adaptation, infrastructure systems, and complex networks. In doing so, we outline an infrastructure risk assessment that incorporates interdependence, user demands, and potential failure‐related economic losses. Individual infrastructure assets are intersected with probabilistic hazard maps to calculate expected annual damages. Protection measure costs are integrated to calculate risk reduction and associated discounted benefits, which are used to explore the business case for investment in adaptation. A demonstration of the methodology is provided for flood protection of major electricity substations in England and Wales. We conclude that the ongoing adaptation program for major electricity assets is highly cost beneficial.

Vuppaladadiyam, AK, Yao, JG, Florin, N, George, A, Wang, X, Labeeuw, L, Jiang, Y, Davis, RW, Abbas, A, Ralph, P, Fennell, PS & Zhao, M 2018, 'Impact of Flue Gas Compounds on Microalgae and Mechanisms for Carbon Assimilation and Utilization', ChemSusChem, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 334-355.
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AbstractTo shift the world to a more sustainable future, it is necessary to phase out the use of fossil fuels and focus on the development of low‐carbon alternatives. However, this transition has been slow, so there is still a large dependence on fossil‐derived power, and therefore, carbon dioxide is released continuously. Owing to the potential for assimilating and utilizing carbon dioxide to generate carbon‐neutral products, such as biodiesel, the application of microalgae technology to capture CO2 from flue gases has gained significant attention over the past decade. Microalgae offer a more sustainable source of biomass, which can be converted into energy, over conventional fuel crops because they grow more quickly and do not adversely affect the food supply. This review focuses on the technical feasibility of combined carbon fixation and microalgae cultivation for carbon reuse. A range of different carbon metabolisms and the impact of flue gas compounds on microalgae are appraised. Fixation of flue gas carbon dioxide is dependent on the selected microalgae strain and on flue gas compounds/concentrations. Additionally, current pilot‐scale demonstrations of microalgae technology for carbon dioxide capture are assessed and its future prospects are discussed. Practical implementation of this technology at an industrial scale still requires significant research, which necessitates multidisciplinary research and development to demonstrate its viability for carbon dioxide capture from flue gases at the commercial level.

Wakefield-Rann, R & Fam, D 2018, 'Initiating a Transdisciplinary Conversation to Improve Indoor Ecologies', Human Ecology Review, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 3-23.
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Wakefield-Rann, R & Fam, D 2018, 'Special Issue: Addressing the Great Indoors — A Transdisciplinary Conversation', Human Ecology Review, vol. 24, no. 2.
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Wakefield-Rann, R, Fam, D & Stewart, S 2018, '“It’s Just a Never-Ending Battle”: The Role of Modern Hygiene Ideals and the Dynamics of Everyday Life in Constructing Indoor Ecologies', Human Ecology Review, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 61-80.
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Indoor spaces have not traditionally been considered the domain of human ecology. ey have been the subject of cultural, architectural, and sociological inquiry, and more recently the site at which various pathogenic or toxic encounters may be studied; yet, these concerns have rarely been investigated as part of one uni ed and codependent ecology. is special issue aims to remedy this dislocation by beginning a conversation between a range of disciplinary perspectives concerned with the indoors. is ambition is not only linked to a desire to articulate and connect multiple interacting variables operative in indoor spaces, but also to address both a number of factors that are increasingly creating indoor environmental conditions that are suboptimal for human habitation, and the broader more-than- human ecosystems in which they are situated. Although certainly not exhaustive in scope, the research presented in this special issue provides an exemplary pro le of situated knowledge that must form the basis of future, integrative, transdisciplinary research into indoor ecologies. Spanning design, architecture, social and human ecology, environmental psychology, sociology, mycology, biotechnology, spatial sciences, statistics, engineering, philosophy, and “lay” and experiential knowledge perspectives, this special issue uncovers a number of the challenges and fertile points of overlap across epistemological approaches and areas of concern within the indoors. e goal of this issue is to highlight the points of divergence, and, more crucially, the points of convergence from which a new transdisciplinary approach to indoor research can emerge.

Werner, TT, Ciacci, L, Mudd, GM, Reck, BK & Northey, SA 2018, 'Looking Down Under for a Circular Economy of Indium', Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 2055-2062.
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Indium is a specialty metal crucial for modern technology, yet it is potentially critical due to its byproduct status in mining. Measures to reduce its criticality typically focus on improving its recycling efficiency at end-of-life. This study quantifies primary and secondary indium resources ('stocks') for Australia through a dynamic material-flow analysis. It is based on detailed assessments of indium mineral resources hosted in lead-zinc and copper deposits, respective mining activities from 1844 to 2013, and the trade of indium-containing products from 1988 to 2015. The results show that Australia's indium stocks are substantial, estimated at 46.2 kt in mineral resources and an additional 14.7 kt in mine wastes. Australian mineral resources alone could meet global demand (∼0.8 kt/year) for more than five decades. Discarded material from post-consumer products, instead, is negligible (43 t). This suggests that the resilience of Australia's indium supply can best be increased through efficiency gains in mining (such as introducing domestic indium refining capacity) rather than at the end of the product life. These findings likely also apply to other specialty metals, such as gallium or germanium, and other resource-dominated countries. Finally, the results illustrate that national circular economy strategies can differ substantially.

Winterford, K, Gero, A, Robertson, J, Getigan, R, Asker, S & Pratiksha, K 2018, 'How child and youth participation links to development effectiveness: Findings from a three year joint agency research project', Development Bulletin, vol. 79, pp. 19-23.

Abeysuriya, K, Khawaja, N, Carrard, N, Mills, F, Kome, A & Willetts, J 1970, 'The multi-barrier approach applied to faecal sludge reuse in Nepal', WASH Futures Conference, Brisbane.

Ambrosino, C, Wellstein, JM, Barua, BK & Ullah, H 1970, 'Introducing and operationalizing the Market System Resilience Index ( MSRI )'.

Carrard, N & Willetts, J 1970, 'Finding synergies and ‘doing more good’: Environmentally sustainable WASH', WASH Futures Conference, Brisbane.

Carrard, N, Halcrow, G & Willetts, J 1970, 'Leaving no on behind: A comparative study in Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Tanzania and Zambia', WASH Futures Conference, Brisbane.

Connon, I, Prior, J, McIntyre, E, Adams, J & Madden, B 1970, 'The relations between disability and residents worry about environmental contamination', Australian Public Health Conference 2018, Australian Public Health Conference, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Fam, DM & Turner, AJ 1970, 'Water and beyond: Innovation and the convergence of the water and waste sectors', TWENTY65: Bringing the water sector together, Hilton Hotel, Manchester, UK.
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Innovation in the water sector has seen decentralization, emergence of third party utilities and more recently the convergence of the water and waste sectors where commodification of waste streams is driving business opportunities across sectors. While opportunities exist so do risks where integrated policy and regulation lags behind innovation and practice.

Fane, S, Mukheibir, P, Chong, J, Prickett, L & Ravalico, J 1970, 'Disruptors and megatrends; identifying external factors for the Melbourne sewerage strategy 2018', OzWater18, OzWater18, Brisbane.
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The Melbourne Sewerage Strategy is a 50 year strategy for sewerage management in Melbourne. Identification of potential disruptors that could significantly alter the system is a critical part of the strategy. Consideration was given to global ‘megatrends’ such as climate change, resource scarcity, new technologies and rising inequity. This project scanned futures from a range of sectors including: urban water, cities, agriculture, energy, transport, and communications. Building on existing knowledge, innovative thinking was stimulated through futures methods. During two workshops industry practitioners identified novel future factors, prioritised disruptors and assessed their possible manifestation as risks or opportunities for the system.

Fane, S, Turner, A, Falletta, J & White, S 1970, 'Next generation water efficiency: looking over the horizon', OzWater, OzWater, Australia Water Association, Brisbane.
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After major investment during the Millennium drought, many Australian cities have become more resilient by diversifying their water supplies with desalination, water recycling, rain tanks, and importantly, increased water efficiency through both programs and regulations. The achievements in efficiency such as reduced per capita demand and success of large-scale demand management programs, are internationally recognised. However, with both Sydney and Melbourne heading towards mega-city status by mid-century, further increases in efficiency must be considered. This paper explores the technologies, behavioural interfaces and programs that could aid Australia’s next generation of water efficiency.

Fitzgerald, SK, Silvester, K, Heslop, E & Mcgill, G 1970, 'One size doesn’t fit all: Scaling water solutions to achieve the global sustainable development goals', Ozwater'18, Brisbane, Australia.

Foster, T 1970, 'WASH microfinance operations in India: Assessment of challenges andsuccesses', WASH Futures, WASH Futures, Brisbane.

Foster, T, Shantz, A, Lala, S & Willetts, J 1970, 'Determinants of rural water point functionality in Chum Kiri, Cambodia', WASH Futures, WASH Futures, Brisbane.

Grant, M, Foster, T, Willetts, J, Davis, G & Van Dinh, D 1970, 'Life-cycle cost analysis for rural piped water systems in Viet Nam', WASH Futures, WASH Futures, Brisbane.

Guerrero, J, Chapman, A & Verbic, G 1970, 'A Study of Energy Trading in a Low-Voltage Network: Centralised and Distributed Approaches'.
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Over the past years, distributed energy resources (DER) have been the objectof many studies, which recognise and establish their emerging role in thefuture of power systems. However, the implementation of many scenarios andmechanism are still challenging. This paper provides an overview of a localenergy market and explores the approaches in which consumers and prosumers takepart in this market. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to review thebenefits of local markets for users. This study assesses the performance ofdistributed and centralised trading mechanisms, comparing scenarios where theobjective of the exchange may be based on individual or social welfare.Simulation results show the advantages of local markets and demonstrate theimportance of advancing the understanding of local markets.

Heslop, E, Currie, L, Dragicevich, L & Moore, D 1970, 'Green Square Water Reuse Implementing decentralised stormwater recycling in Sydney’s new town centre', Ozwater'18, Brisbane, Australia.

Ibrahim, IA & Hossain, MJ 1970, 'The Technical, Operational and Energy Policy Issues for Developing Photovoltaic Systems: A Review', 2018 IEEE Region Ten Symposium (Tensymp), 2018 IEEE Region Ten Symposium (Tensymp), IEEE, IEEE New S Wales Sect, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 100-105.
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© 2018 IEEE. In recent years, photovoltaic (PV) units are getting popular in different countries, including Australia, as they contribute to reducing green-house gas (GHG) emissions and enhancing energy efficiency. However, several technical and economic challenges need to be addressed to ensure maximum benefit from this renewable generation. Moreover, the development of energy policies and regulations also affects the development of such systems. Therefore, this paper aims to review several technical, operational and energy policy issues for developing reliable and efficient PV systems. In addition, this paper summarizes the existing modeling and sizing methods, the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques, and the interface power-electronic devices in this field. Moreover, recommendations for future researchers and investors for developing such systems are provided in this research paper.

Jayasinghe, DHGAE, Lankapriya, KRS, Valluvan, R & Cynthujah, V 1970, 'Scenario Analysis of Future Load Profile of Sri Lanka Considering Demand Side Management Initiatives', 2018 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2018 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), IEEE, pp. 1251-1256.
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Kohlitz, J, Chong, J & Willetts, J 1970, 'Climate change vulnerability and resilience of Pacific island water services', WASH Futures 2018, Brisbane, Australia.

Lestikow, G, May, A, Nicoletti, C & Wei, Y 1970, 'Measuring cost-effectiveness in market-based approaches to sanitation', WASH Futures.

Mills, F, Al Af'ghani, M, Wedahuditama, F & Willetts, J 1970, 'Increasing local government responsibility for community-scale sanitation in Indonesia', WASH Futures Conference, Brisbane.

Mills, F, Willetts, J, Mitchell, C & Petterson, S 1970, 'Considering pathogen flows and health risks in sanitation investment planning', WASH Futures Conference, Brisbane.

Mukheibir, P, Boronyak, L & Cunningham, R 1970, 'Improving climate adaptation communication and decision-making between government and communities', WASH Futures 2018, WASH Futures 2018, Brisbane.

Ross, K & Mitchell, C 1970, 'Leveraging transformation with a polyarchy of learning edges', Building Transformative Community: Exacting Possibility in Today’s Times, International Transformative Learning Conference. Transformation in Action: The Power of Community, Teachers College, Columbia University in the City of New York, pp. 533-536.

Ross, KE & Mitchell, C 1970, 'Proposed learning outcomes spaces of deep learning for sustainability', Fifth International Conference for Sustainable Development, Columbia University.

Talwar, S 1970, 'Participant at the UNCRD 8th Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific', Indore, India.

Thomson, J, Plant, R & Mukheibir, P 1970, 'Livelihoods of the last mile: a case study of how rural households in development contexts manage evolving disaster risk and the challenges for early warning of rural-urban migration', Risk and Resilience in Practice: Vulnerabilities, Displaced People, Local Communities and Heritages, 8th International Conference on Building Resilience, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1-347.

Wakefield-Rann, R & Fam, DM 1970, 'Researching the agency of micro-species in domestic hygiene practices', Transnational STS, Society for Social Studies of Science annual conference, Sydney.

Willetts, J & Crawford, J 1970, 'From Evidence to Impact: Development Contributions of the Australian Development Research Awards', Australiasian Aid Conference, Canberra.

Willetts, J & Murta, J 1970, 'Thinking sector-wide and at scale: Business support services for sanitation enterprises in Cambodia', WASH Futures Conference, Brisbane.

Winterford, KH & Smales, P 1970, 'Partnering for more effective aid and development', The 2018 Australasian Aid Conference.

Wright, S, Giurco, D & Sharpe, S 1970, 'Sustainable Development Research in the Asia-Pacific Region', Sustainable Development Research in the Asia-Pacific Region: Education, Cities, Infrastructure and Buildings, Symposium on Sustainable Development Research in Asia Pacific, Springer International Publishing, Australia, pp. 327-344.
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This multidisciplinary book focuses on best practices in sustainability research in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Atherton, A, Nagrath, K & Wynne, L Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2018, Gap analysis for embedding sustainability, Sydney, Australia.

Atherton, AM, Grob, S, Kelly, S & Sebastian, I Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney 2018, Sustainable Supply Chain Relationships, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney.

Boronyak, L, Jacobs, B, McKenna, K, Dem, F, Pommoh, K, Sui, S & Jimbudo, M Prepared for USAID by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and the New Guinea Binatang Research Centre. 2018, Engagement on Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation.

Carrard, N, Soeters, S, Kohlitz, J, Murta, J, Willetts, J & Halcrow, G ISF-UTS and SNV 2018, Sanitation for all: A comparative study of approaches to leaving no one behind across five countries, Sydney.

Connon, ILC, Prior, JH, Kent, JL, Thomas, L, Thompson, SM, McIntyre, E, Adams, J, Capon, A, Rissel, C & Westcott, H 2018, Healthy Higher Density Living: A Review of the Literature, Landcom, Sydney, Australia.

Downes, J, Jazbec, M, Florin, N, Wakefield-Rann, R & de la Sienra Sevrin, E ISF 2018, Residential Waste Engagement Action Plan, Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Dubash, J, Wakefield-Rann, R, Prentice, E, Giurco, D & Geoff, L Institute for Sustainable Futures 2018, Chemical management for consumer products: Industry landscape and recommendations for progress, Sydney.

Dwyer, S & Teske, S 2018, Renewables 2018 Global Status Report, Renewables 2018 Global Status Report.

Dwyer, S, Kim, Y & Kelly, S 2018, Supercharging Australia’s Clean Energy Transition: How just 7.7% of super could fund 100% renewables by 2030, Sydney.

Dwyer, S, Prendergast, J, Briggs, C & Morris, T 2018, Best of Both Worlds: Renewable Energy and Load Flexibility for Australian Business Customers, Sydney.

Fane, S, Schlunke, A, Falletta, J, Chan, A & Prentice, E Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney 2018, Evaluation of the environmental and economic impacts of the WELS scheme, Report prepared for the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources by UTS-ISF.

Feenstra, M, Tata Steel Nederland Technology B.V. & TNO TKI 2018, Realizing the CCUS Value Chain for the Large Scale HIsarna Demonstration Project, Netherlands.

Garcia Moretz-Sohn Monteiro, J, Goetheer, E, Schols, E, van Os, P, Francisco Pérez Calvo, J, Hoppe, H, Subrahmaniam Bharadwaj, H, Roussanaly, S, Khakharia, P, Feenstra, M & de Jong, A Sintef 2018, CEMCAP- CO2 capture from cement production, D5.1 revision 1Post-capture CO2 management: options for the cement industry, Europe.

Grant, M, Foster, T & Willetts, J ISF-UTS 2018, Policy Brief 5: Life-Cycle Costs Approach for Sustainable Piped Water Service Delivery: A study in rural Viet Nam, Sydney.
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The life-cycle costs associated with the delivery of safe and sustainable water services in rural Viet Nam are not well known, potentially compromising the long-term sustainability of water schemes. To address this gap, this study assessed the real cost structures of fourteen water schemes in northern and southern Viet Nam managed by private enterprises.

Grant, M, Soeters, S, Willetts, J & Megaw, T UTS 2018, Female Water Entrepreneurs in Cambodia: Considering enablers and barriers to women’s empowerment, Enterprise in WASH – Research Report 9, Sydney.
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In 2015 there were an estimated 300 privately managed water supply schemes in rural Cambodia, serving over onemillion people (World Bank, 2015,p. 15). In recent years, a range of policies has been put in place by the Cambodian Government to promote gender equality within the rural water and sanitation sector. One such policy is theCambodian National Strategy for Rural Water Supply (2011–2025),whichincludesprovisions to increase gender equality. One of the ways the Strategy aims to do this is by: ‘Mainstream[ing]gender in the [rural water supply] sector’ (Cambodian Government, 2011, p.10). However, there are major knowledge gaps related to how gender norms intersect with the rural water sector, and with the growth of water enterprises in Cambodia. These gaps include:a lack of knowledge about how gender influences who becomes a water entrepreneur; what the experiences, challenges and opportunities of water entrepreneurs are; and how water entrepreneurship relates towomen’s empowerment, including economic empowerment. To begin to address these knowledge gaps, this study examined the extent to whichwomen’s ownership and management of water supply schemes led to their empowerment, including economic empowerment. This study, and a related concurrent study in Indonesia,arethe first of their kind to systematically look into the experiences and needs of female water supply scheme entrepreneurs(henceforth referred to as “entrepreneurs”), and the first to explore their experiences with reference to women’s empowerment frameworks.

Jazbec, M & Turner, A Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 2018, Creating a Circular Economy Precinct, Sydney.

Jazbec, M, Retamal, M & Giurco, D ISF 2018, Procurement for a circular economy in NSW, Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Kohlitz, J ISF-UTS 2018, Sustaining rural water services against climate change in Vanuatu: A project brief, Sydney, Australia.

Lewis, H & Atherton, A Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney 2018, Addressing plastic pollution in India, Report on Mumbai July 2018 Business Forum on Addressing Plastic Pollution in India, Sydney, Australia.

Lewis, H, Retamal, M & Atherton, A Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 2018, Addressing plastic pollution in India: Background paper prepared for Mumbai July 2018 Business forum on Addressing Plastic Pollution in India, Sydney, Australia.

Megaw, T & Winterford, K 2018, I'm Prepared: Year 1 Research Findings Gender Analysis, Prepared for Act for Peace, OfERR, TBC, by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney..

Mukheibir, P & Fane, S University of Technology Sydney 2018, Lower Hunter Water Plan - Decision Support Framework, Sydney.

Mukheibir, P & Jazbec, M 2018, Circular economy analysis for the Lower Hunter Water System, Sydney.

Mukheibir, P & Madden, B 2018, PWC - Pricing and demand elasticity, Sydney.

Prior, J, Wilmot, K, Daly, M & Madden, B 2018, How do households adapt to heat events in Western Sydney?, prepared for NSW Adaption Hub, Office of Environment and Heritage, by Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Retamal, M, Giurco, D, Florin, N, Dominish, E, Downes, J & Jazbec, M ISF 2018, Circular Economy Best Practice and Application in NSW, Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Retamal, M, Mukheibir, P, Schlunke, A & Prentice, E 2018, Work Package: Rainwater, Newcastle.

Rutovitz, J, McIntosh, L, Ison, N, Noble, E, Hicks, J & Mey, F University of Technology Sydney 2018, Social Access Solar Gardens for Australia, Sydney.

Turner, A & McKibbin, J Water Research Foundation 2018, Integrating Water Efficiency into Long-Term Demand Forecasting, USA.

Turner, A, Fam, DM, McLean, L, Zaporoshenko, M, Halliday, D, Buman, M, Lupis, M & Kalkanas, A Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2018, Central Park Precinct Organics Management Feasibility Study, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney.

Wakefield-Rann, R, Florin, N & Jazbec, M ISF 2018, Battery collection channel characterisation, Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Watson, R, Fane, S & Prentice, E University of Technology, Sydney 2018, Recycled Water scheme survey, University of Technology Sydney.
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The risks associated with recycled water and stormwater harvesting schemes are varied and complex – reflecting the many different permutations of source water and end-uses. This project reviews, analyses and reports on the range of water recycling schemes and stormwater harvesting schemes that are being operated or are being planned by metropolitan councils and private operators to assist with the regulation and management of these schemes.

Watson, R, Mukheibir, P & Madden, B 2018, PWC Drought response - Government water use review, Sydney.

Watson, R, Mukheibir, P & Madden, B 2018, PWC Drought Response - restrictions review, Sydney.

Watson, R, Mukheibir, P, Falletta, J & Fane, S 2018, The bathroom of the future - prospects for information and control, UTS Sydney Australia.
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Across sectors, innovative data collection at a device level and command and control appliances, are providing an opportunity for improved resource efficiencies, facilities management and user experiences. The applications of intelligent technologies and localised networks are growing rapidly. This discussion paper demonstrates the value and potential applications of smart water management technologies specifically focused on commercial bathroom products. The work was commissioned by the GWA Bathrooms and Kitchens Group. The paper has been developed using available knowledge, with a literature scan of fixture driven innovations, innovations in collecting and using data from fixtures and other monitoring devices.

Watson, R, Mukheibir, P, Falletta, J & White, S 2018, Water efficiency strategy for Central Highlands Water, Univeristy of Technology Sydney.
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Ongoing challenges of urban growth, climate change and climate variability are driving a need to revisit water efficiency as an option in many regions, including CHW.The value of the renewed and reinvigorated investment in water efficiency is explicitly recognized by the Victorian Government's 'Water for Victoria' plan, particularly Action 5.3. Customers also continue to expect utilities to invest in water efficiency. This report synthesizes the full range of water efficiency programs conducted across Australia and assesses their potential for adoption by CHW using a combination of detailed data analytics and stakeholder engagement. In recommends a renewed and reinvigorated water efficiency program building on both precious experience and the latest advancements in water efficiency programs,

Watson, R, Prentice, E, Fane, S & Mitchell, C 2018, Barriers and opportunities for recycled water and integrated water management investment: Synthesis Report, University of Technology Sydney.
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Meeting the needs of growing populations; improving resilience and managing climate change impacts; maintaining and replacing ageing infrastructure; reflecting shifting community expectations; and maintaining affordability remain real challenges for the water industry. There is general agreement that traditional approaches to water planning and delivery will fail to adequately address the challenges facing the water industry. IWM and recycled water have the potential to help Hunter Water respond to a number of challenges and opportunities it will face over the next 20 years. Although a range of recycled water opportunities have been identified in the Hunter Region, implementation remains challenging. This report helps to explains why and identify areas for influence and change. It sets the baseline for existing knowledge from which to develop a richer picture of Hunter Water-specific opportunities and barriers.The Synthesis Report clearly articulates what drives our current investment patterns in large scale infrastructure and what limits our investment in recycled water and alternative solutions. It builds on a recent PhD funded by Sydney Water to investigate the costs, benefits, barriers, and opportunities concerning distributed recycled water systems in Sydney. In addition, the report reviews, updates, and synthesises current policy settings, practices, and insights from published and grey literature, and from Hunter Water staff, alongside insights from other jurisdictions in Australia and internationally.

Watson, R, Ross, K & Mitchell, C 2018, Recycled Water: A workshop to explore the benefits of a systems approach, Univeristy of Technology Sydney.
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Although the many benefits of recycled water are well documented,experience has highlighted substantial and complex challenges in planning, implementing and operating successful schemes. Hunter Water Corporation (HWC) took a systems thinking approach to explore decentralised and centralised recycled water and IWM options with the aim of highlighting constraints to decentralised and IWM options and gaps in either knowledge, analysis or decision making processes.The research seeks to address three question:• How can we demonstrate and capture the value of recycled water, and inparticular the options value it gives Hunter Water in avoiding large (water supply and wastewater) investments?• Why are our intuitions (i.e. the value of recycled water) not borne out in ourinvestment decisions?• How could we change that?Although these questions might seem simple, the complex recycled water investment environment means there are no easy answers. To make progress, we must explore and grapple with complexity. The deeply collaborative systems approach adopted for this project employed different tools that open up new ways of thinking and acting that can help us work out what to do next, despite complexity.

Watson, R, Turner, A & Fane, S 2018, Water Efficiency and Demand Management Opportunities for Hunter Water, Sydney.
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ISF were engaged to review Hunter Water's demand management strategy. This involved reviewing existing and past water efficiency programs, identifying relevant programs from other jurisdictions that could be adapted to the Hunter Water context and recommending short, medium and long-term priorities for implementation.

Willetts, J, Soeters, S, Al'Afghani, MM & Avessina, J University of Technology Sydney 2018, Supporting sustainable rural water service delivery: District associations of community-based organisations in IndonesiaEnterprise in WASH – Research Report 10, Sydney.

Wilmot, K, McGee, C & Dunstan, C 2018, ARENA Energy Productivity Scoping Study HVAC in Buildings Case Study.
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Appendicitis's to the ARENA Energy Productivity Scoping Study

Wilmot, K, Nagrath, K, Dunstan, C & Wyndham, J 2018, Demand Response Opportunities for New Residential Buildings in Victoria.

Winterford, K & Williams, M UTS 2018, PNG Agribusiness Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Report, Sydney.

Winterford, K, Megaw, T, Chong, J & Gero, A 2018, Research Report: Gender Transformative Climate Change Action in the Pacific, University of Technology Sydney.

Adams, J, Steel, A, Broom, A & Frawley, J 2018, 'Women's Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine', Routledge.
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The book outlines the core issues, challenges and opportunities facing the CIM-women’s health field and its study and will provide insight and inspiration for those practising, studying and/or researching the contemporary relations ...

Dwyer, S & James, G 2018, 'A commercial model for regulating network voltage with customer inverters'.
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The technical ability of inverters, large or small, to provide power quality services including voltage regulation is well understood. The ubiquity of customer inverters and their suitability for distributed intelligent control present opportunities to manage distribution networks with a precision not seen before. When a suitable commercial model is proved rapid adoption of inverter controls can be expected. This paper describes a market-scale demonstration uses a working commercial model for voltage regulation using customer inverters in Australia. Inverter controls have been executed as part of a virtual power plant platform to enable voltage support actions and rewards to two separate communities in Australia. The market value of voltage support services has been explored and initial findings are presented. These are important steps in establishing this service-based model as a common practice.

Foster, T 2018, 'Long lasting rural water supplies in tough environments: lessons from Kenya', UpGro.

Khara, T 2018, 'The myth of a vegetarian India', The Conversation.

Khara, T 2018, 'Vegans get a bad reputation', Radio Adelaide.
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Radio interview

Khara, T 2018, 'Why do vegans have such bad reputations?', The Conversation.

Khara, T 2018, 'Why there is no such thing as 'humane meat''.

Kohlitz, J 2018, 'Responding to climate change to sustain community-managed water services in Vanuatu'.

Lee, TM, Pandolfo, B, Florin, N & Wakefield-Rann, R 2018, 'How to turn the waste crisis into a design opportunity', The Conversation.
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Australia exports some EPS to be recycled overseas, but we have less than one collection point per state. All of this means that The NSW Evironmental Protection Agency estimates that some 12,000 tonnes of EPS is sent to landfill every year. According to the Australian Plastics Recycling survey, about 14% of EPS is recovered for recycling. Most of that is exported – only around 1.6% of all the EPS used in Australia is recycled here.This is why many researchers are looking for ways to re-purpose EPS, taking advantage of this very useful material and keeping it out of landfill.

MacArthur, J, Karki, S, Goodwin-Kucinsky, M & Wei, Y 2018, 'Simplifying Market Systems'.

Mukheibir, P & Boronyak, L 2018, 'Boosting Climate Resilience through Adaptive Water Management in Kiribati', USAID.

Szymanski, A & Maclurcan, D 2018, 'What is Holding Back the Development of Comprehensive Businesses Services in US Credit Unions?'.
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The credit union movement has experienced rapid growth across the United States in recent years. After the financial crisis of 2007-2008, US credit unions emerged more resolutely as trusted financial partners, able to maintain lending during the credit crunch and offering better loan and deposit rates, greater investment security and superior customer service. Credit unions are known for their focus on consumer banking. Yet this has obscured their changing relationship with businesses.This paper seeks to discover the state of US credit union capabilities with respect to business banking services. After creating a classification for the level of US credit union business banking capabilities, we conducted informal, semi-structured interviews with a small sample of key stakeholders from the US credit union industry in order to provide insights into the nature of existing US credit union business banking capabilities.Since US credit unions have been shown to provide direct economic benefits from consumer banking, along with a positive track record for small businesses, we are interested in credit unions’ potential to serve larger businesses beyond the provision of loans. Given that businesses have higher average deposits than consumers, there is potential for shifting significant resources from banks to credit unions.Our findings suggest that while many US credit unions offer Basic Business Services, and some US credit unions offer Semi-comprehensive Business Services, no US credit union offers Comprehensive Business Services. We discovered three main factors holding back the development of these commercial capabilities: mission constraints; lack of apparent business demand; and lack of a strong business case according to a cost-benefit risk analysis. These factors appear to reinforce each other in a vicious cycle.However, these factors may also present points of leverage for those seeking to expand business service capabilities within the US credit...

Winterford, K, Megaw, T, Chong, J & Gero, A 2018, 'Gender Transformative Climate Change Action in the Pacific: Framework and Guidance Tool'.

Winterford, KH, Megaw, T & Chong, J 2018, 'Gender transformative climate change action'.