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Gidley, J 2020, The Secret to Growing Brilliant Children Volume 1 - Steiner Education for the 21st Century.
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Discover how to adapt it for the 21st Century and help create healthier futures for our children. This book is the first in a series of three.

Cunningham, R, Mukheibir, P, Jacobs, B, Boronyak, L & Alofa, P 2020, 'A Knowledge Network Approach to Understanding Water Shortage Adaptation in Kiribati' in Climate Change Management, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 151-169.
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© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Kiribati, a small-island developing state in the Pacific, experiences a range of climate change impacts, including drought, sea-level rise, coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion to freshwater lenses. These impacts negatively affect food security and drinking water quality resulting in poor human health outcomes, particularly child morbidity. Timely warning about changes to drinking water supplies could reduce community health impacts but the existence and effectiveness of knowledge networks for water quality are unclear. This paper describes an engagement process with key stakeholders (government, community service organizations and community members) to understand how information about the impacts of climate change on potable water supplies was sought and shared using a social network analysis approach. The information networks revealed were highly fragmented and timely sharing of information was poor, which limits effective prophylactic intervention that might reduce child mortality from preventable diseases and illnesses such as diarrhoea. The main conclusion reached is that fragmented island geography and traditional forms of oral information transmission may be important factors that shape the formation and function of water knowledge networks in Kiribati. The wider application of these findings to other Pacific Island contexts requires further research to fully understand how knowledge flows could be optimized in the future.

Fam, D, Lopes, AM & Mitchell, C 2020, 'Transdisciplinary learning within tertiary institutions – a space to skin your knees' in Fam, D & O'Rourke, M (eds), Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Failures, Routledge, UK, pp. 198-216.
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This chapter informs the development of a transdisciplinary living lab. This approach to education aims to transcend disciplinary boundaries by utilizing the university campus as a living laboratory in which students engage with a complex problem, in this case the introduction of an alternative sanitation system on campus – a urine diversion system. Collaborative, industry-engaged and interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary models of education are well suited to preparing students for the needs of the world, and as such constitute an important complement to traditional models of university education that involve mastering a single discipline. Transdisciplinary approaches create a space for multiple, the co-existing viewpoints and utilize the discontinuities between views as a source for further inquiry and emergent understanding. The current model of tertiary education tends to focus on knowledge creation emerging from current disciplinary paradigms rather than the transformational learning.

Gero, A & Winterford, K 2020, 'The Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Pacific Urban Contexts' in Urbanisation at Risk in the Pacific and Asia, Routledge, pp. 34-52.
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Gero, A & Winterford, K 2020, 'The humanitarian-development nexus in pacific urban contexts: Lessons from tropical cyclone winston in Fiji' in Urbanisation at Risk in the Pacific and Asia: Disasters, Climate Change and Resilience in the Built Environment, Routledge, USA, pp. 34-52.
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Linking humanitarian response and development is a key agenda driven by multiple factors and actors across both humanitarian and development landscapes, globally and in the Pacific. This chapter presents research drawing from Fiji’s experience integrating development planning and disaster response following Tropical Cyclone (TC) Winston in 2016. The research, undertaken in Western Division in 2017, explored the TC Winston humanitarian response in Lautoka, Fiji’s second largest city. This chapter offers insights into the governance and institutional arrangements for long-term development and humanitarian response by exploring the humanitarian-development nexus, and we offer opportunities to strengthen resilience to disasters and climate change. Two main findings and reflections from the research are: the policy lag in terms of urban development and disaster response in the Pacific; and, evidence of bridging the humanitarian-development divide from the TC Winston response in Fiji, through subnational governance and the emerging ‘cluster system’. The results provide examples of localisation of disaster response in action and we conclude by providing critical reflections and suggested avenues to further overcome the challenges associated with the humanitarian-development divide.

Gidley, J 2020, 'Postformal Psychology: The new “Normal” in Times of Exponential Change' in The Psychology of Political Behaviour in a Time of Change.

Gidley, J 2020, 'Yesterday's Futures over Three Milennia' in Knowledge Base of Futures Studies.

Giurco, D 2020, 'Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns' in Mining, Materials, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), CRC Press, USA, pp. 117-124.
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This chapter discusses the integration of mining with responsible consumption and production and rates it as a work in progress. It highlights the need to reduce adverse environmental and social impacts, not only from the mining and production of ores at individual sites, but also in transforming the systems and supply chains across the globe to sustainable patterns of consumption with increased material efficiency, looking towards a low-carbon circular economy. Current trends include the growing adoption of renewable energy in mining and minerals processing, better tailings and post-closure management, increased provenance and traceability through ‘responsible’ certification programs, design for circularity, through to a conceptualization of mining beyond processing terrestrial ores (or even from oceans and asteroids) to increased ‘urban mining’ of metals from scrap products and infrastructure and ultimately, business models providing metal-based services rather than commodity sales of ores and ingots. Partial progress against this sustainable development goal is being made, driven by investors, shareholders and societal pressure on mining companies and from supplier expectations of end-users of metals.

Hossain, MR, Chowdhury, TJ, Halim, MA, Rahman, R & Islam, F 2020, 'Opporunity of Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting: A cost-benefit Analysis and Its Potentiality in Reducing Waterlogging Conditions of Dhaka City' in Social Work and Sustainable Social Development, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

Jacobs, B, McKenna, K, Boronyak, L, Dem, F, Sui, S, Pomoh, K, Jimbudo, M & Maraia, H 2020, 'Engaging Communities and Government in Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation in Papua New Guinea' in Climate Change Management, Springer International Publishing, Singapore, pp. 213-230.
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© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) mainland consists of 33 million hectares of forests. The third largest intact rainforest in the world, it contains about 7% of the world’s species, 2/3 of which are unique to PNG. PNG’s ecosystems face multiple and interdependent threats associated with economic development, population growth and a changing climate. Academic and policy analysis on environmental change in PNG is extensive, particularly associated with the minerals and energy extraction sector. To counterbalance the negative impacts of this sector on affected communities, much of the focus has been on devising compensation packages and formal regulatory mechanisms to increase ‘landowner’ participation. Less attention has been afforded to the development activities undertaken by communities (e.g. development of new roads, expansion of settlements, land clearance from fires and logging), which also impact on ecosystem services. PNG’s rural communities are eager for more support to identify existing threats to supplement their own processes for determining trade-offs of development particularly under a changing climate. This paper describes the use, in facilitated workshops, of participatory techniques to engage communities in managing ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation to inform the development of community-led adaptive strategies.

Prior, J & Hou, D 2020, 'Societal Support for Remediation Technologies' in Sik, OKY, Rinklebe, J, Hou, D, Tsang, D & Tack, F (eds), Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies, CRC Press, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom, pp. 243-257.
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This book offers various soil and water treatment technologies due to increasing global soil and water pollution. In many countries, the management of contaminated land has matured, and it is developing in many others.

Prior, JH 2020, 'Understanding the diverse norms and rules driving sustainable remediation: a study of positioning, aggregation, and scoping' in Hou, D (ed), Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater, Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, pp. 405-431.
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With this book in hand, engineers will find a valuable guide to: greener remediation materials which render smaller environmental footprint, cleaner processes which minimize secondary environmental impact, and sustainability assessment ...

Riedy, C 2020, 'Storying the future' in Molthan-Hill, P, Luna, H, Wall, T, Puntha, H & Baden, D (eds), Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 71-87.
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This chapter explores the role of storytelling as a key practice for navigating and steering the transformations that lie ahead and contributing to the emergence of new narratives. It examines the role of stories in transformative change, offers a systems framework for analysing story and meaning, proposes transformative storytelling practices and principles and illustrates their application using several examples. Discourses have the broadest reach, incorporating many individual stories into a collective, shared language that is slower to change. The chapter draws on these definitions to propose and illustrate transformative storytelling practices and principles. The best-crafted story still faces the challenge of capturing attention in a crowded media landscape. Many of the practices suggested earlier are designed to capture attention, including working with trusted messengers who have established their authenticity and credibility, including recognisable tropes and using characters that the audience can relate to

Riedy, C 2020, 'The State of Play in the Futures Field: 10 years on' in Slaughter, R & Hines, A (eds), The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies 2020, Association of Professional Futurists and Foresight International All, pp. 48-64.
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In 2007, a team of five researchers led by Richard Slaughter came together for a research project to assess the State of Play in the Futures Field (SOPIFF). The aim of the SOPIFF project was to build a clear picture of the current status of Futures Studies. As Slaughter notes in his overview of the project:Futures studies and, more lately, applied foresight, have been established for several decades. They have generated a rich and wide-ranging literature, a variety of methodologies, and a spectrum of organizations engaged in many kinds of forward-looking work. Yet futures work still lacks broad acceptance, general recognition, or wide application of proposed social innovations such as institutions of foresight.Assessing the “state of play” of the field was seen as a first step towards its reinvigoration and renewal to meet current and future challenges.One of the triggers for the project was a paper published in the Wilson Quarterly in 2006 that posed the question, “Has futurism failed?” and suggested that Futures Studies had perhaps peaked as early as 1980. The project sought to investigate whether this assertion was warranted and whether Futures Studies could better serve the long-term needs of humankind, particularly in terms of contributing to global sustainability. A secondary motivation was to test an emerging meta-scanning method developed by researchers from the Australian Foresight Institute, described in more detail below. The Foundation for the Future provided funding for the initial phase of the research, which was subsequently published in a report and in a special issue of Foresight.A decade after the publication of the special issue, it is timely to revisit the SOPIFF project and review its findings and contributions towards the knowledge base of Futures Studies. While there have been steps forward, overall progress towards sustainability has not markedly improved since the publication of the SOPIFF work. If anything, the scal...

Sebastian, I & Jacobs, B 2020, 'The Emergence of Relationality in Governance of Climate Change Adaptation' in Bears, R (ed), The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 1-33.
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This chapter presents the emergence of relationality as an individual and collective capacity that has the potential to enable transformative adaptation to meet future climate challenges. Given that people create the social systems that influence their lives, the capacity for adaptation to climate change may be viewed as both an individual attribute constructed through social learning and knowledge exchange and a fundamental component of an enabling environment of social institutions. Governance of climate adaptation, therefore, requires a deeper consideration of the moral and ethical motivation and behavior of participants. The concept of relationality may be operationalized in governance as capacity building through transformative dialogue processes within and among stakeholders designed to generate relational responsibility. Five governance approaches are briefly examined for their potential to facilitate the emergence of relationality including (i) polycentric (ii) middle-out, (iii) collaborative, (iv) transformational, and (v) experimental governance. Key attributes of these processes are synthesized into a relational governance model. Together, these concepts are used to examine two case studies from New South Wales (NSW) Australia that illustrate that relationality can be enabled and expressed in existing forms of governance. This is the case when government is prepared to experiment and improvise adaptation practices across scales and contexts and embrace the norms, values, relations, ways of thinking, paradigms, and mental models that a diversity of actors can collectively bring to bear on a complex problem. These kinds of approaches need to become normalized across formal and informal adaptation governance.

Amin, N, Liu, P, Foster, T, Rahman, M, Miah, MR, Ahmed, GB, Kabir, M, Raj, S, Moe, CL & Willetts, J 2020, 'Pathogen flows from on-site sanitation systems in low-income urban neighborhoods, Dhaka: A quantitative environmental assessment', International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, vol. 230, pp. 113619-113619.
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Anna Gero, AG & Juliet Willetts, JW 2020, 'Securing a conducive environment for WASH markets: the role of local government', Waterlines, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 44-60.
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Azadi, M, Northey, SA, Ali, SH & Edraki, M 2020, 'Transparency on greenhouse gas emissions from mining to enable climate change mitigation', Nature Geoscience, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 100-104.
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The climate change impacts of mining are often not fully accounted for, although the environmental impact of mineral extraction more generally is widely studied. Copper mining can serve as a case study to analyse the measurable pathways by which mining contributes to climate change through direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. For example, mining, processing and transportation require fuel and electricity, and the decomposition of carbonate minerals, employed to reduce environmental impacts, also releases carbon dioxide. Overall, we estimate that greenhouse gas emissions associated with primary mineral and metal production was equivalent to approximately 10% of the total global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. For copper mining, fuel consumption increased by 130% and electricity consumption increased by 32% per unit of mined copper in Chile from 2001 to 2017, largely due to decreasing ore grade. This trend of increasing energy demand to produce the same quantity of some metals compounds the problems of increased metal demand due to the pressures of new technologies and increasing population. For green technologies to be implemented effectively, it is necessary that the mining industry and regulators accurately and transparently account for greenhouse gas emissions to implement mitigation strategies.

Berger, M, Sonderegger, T, Alvarenga, R, Bach, V, Cimprich, A, Dewulf, J, Frischknecht, R, Guinée, J, Helbig, C, Huppertz, T, Jolliet, O, Motoshita, M, Northey, S, Peña, CA, Rugani, B, Sahnoune, A, Schrijvers, D, Schulze, R, Sonnemann, G, Valero, A, Weidema, BP & Young, SB 2020, 'Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment: part II– recommendations on application-dependent use of existing methods and on futuremethod development needs', The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 798-813.
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AbstractPurposeAssessing impacts of abiotic resource use has been a topic ofpersistent debate among life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) method developersand a source of confusion for life cycle assessment (LCA) practitionersconsidering the different interpretations of the safeguard subject for mineralresources and the resulting variety of LCIA methods to choose from. Based on thereview and assessment of 27 existing LCIA methods, accomplished in the firstpart of this paper series (Sonderegger et al. 2020), this paper provides recommendations regarding theapplication-dependent use of existing methods and areas for future methoddevelopment.MethodWithin the “global guidance for LCIA indicators andmethods” project of the Life Cycle Initiative hosted by UN Environment,62 members of the “task force mineral resources” representingdifferent stakeholders discussed the strengths and limitations of existing LCIAmethods and developed initial conclusions. These were used by a subgroup ofeight members at the Pellston Workshop® held in Valencia, Spain, toderive recommendations on the application-dependent use and future developmentof impact assessment methods.Results and discussionFirst, the safeguard subject for mineral resources within the areaof protection (AoP) natural resources was defined. Subsequently, seven keyquestions regarding the consequences of mineral resource use were formulated,grouped into “inside-out” related questions (i.e., currentresource use leading to changes in opportunities for future users to useresources) and “outside-in” related questions (i.e., potentialrestrictions of resource availability for current resource users). Existing LCIAmethods were assigned to these questions, and seven methods(ADPultimate reserve...

Bonou, A, Colley, TA, Hauschild, MZ, Olsen, SI & Birkved, M 2020, 'Life cycle assessment of Danish pork exports using different cooling technologies and comparison of upstream supply chain efficiencies between Denmark, China and Australia', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 244, pp. 118816-118816.
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Boronyak, L, Jacobs, B & Wallach, A 2020, 'Transitioning towards human–large carnivore coexistence in extensive grazing systems', Ambio, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 1982-1991.
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In light of escalating threats to biodiversity, conflicts between humans and large carnivores in production landscapes must be resolved. We explore how interactions between humans, large carnivores, and livestock can be modified to promote coexistence. We identify four rationales for building coexistence capacities in extensive rangeland livestock production systems: (1) livestock production is a dominant terrestrial land use; (2) large carnivores provide critical contributions to ecological functions; (3) the persecution of large carnivores has high ethical, welfare, reputational and social costs; and (4) a growing body of evidence shows that lethal control can be counterproductive to reducing predation risk. Two key leverage points to foster human-carnivore coexistence are the adoption of preventive non-lethal innovations, and the creation of an enabling environment. Leverage points must be appropriate at the local landscape scale and contribute towards global efforts to conserve large carnivores.

Brydges, T & Hanlon, M 2020, 'Garment worker rights and the fashion industry’s response to COVID-19', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 195-198.
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In this commentary, we examine the fashion industry’s early responses to COVID-19. Looking across fashion’s global production networks, we argue the fashion industry’s response has been rapid, yet highly inequitable, reflecting—and further entrenching—existing inequalities in the industry.

Brydges, T, Retamal, M & Hanlon, M 2020, 'Will COVID-19 support the transition to a more sustainable fashion industry?', Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 298-308.
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Carrard, N, Foster, T & Willetts, J 2020, 'Correction: Carrard, N., et al. Groundwater as a Source of Drinking Water in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: A Multi-Country Review of Current Reliance and Resource Concerns. Water 2019, 11, 1605', Water, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 298-298.

Carrard, N, Kohlitz, J, Soeters, S, Halcrow, G, Murta, J & Willetts, J 2020, 'Reaching all in rural sanitation: experiences from inclusive programming in five countries', Development in Practice, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 609-623.
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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. There is a need to reflect on approaches to reaching all in rural sanitation, given evidence that disadvantaged groups often miss out on benefits from programmes. This article presents approaches from area-wide rural sanitation programming undertaken by SNV across five countries. Analysis identified ten strategies used in combination to support inclusion. The article describes the strategies and their application, then presents four implications for the rural sanitation sector: the value of a “toolbox” approach; co-creation of strategies with stakeholders; recognition of local government as a driver of inclusive services; and the need to strengthen evidence on how strategies contribute to success.

Carrard, N, Neumeyer, H, Pati, BK, Siddique, S, Choden, T, Abraham, T, Gosling, L, Roaf, V, Alvarez-Sala Torreano, J & Bruhn, S 2020, 'Designing Human Rights for Duty Bearers: Making the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Part of Everyday Practice at the Local Government Level', Water, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 378-378.
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In most countries, local governments bear primary responsibility for ensuring everyone has access to water and sanitation services. For the human rights to water and sanitation to move from recognition to realisation, they need to become part of the everyday practice of local authorities. Yet the potential for the human rights to water and sanitation to practically inform local efforts towards inclusive, sustainable service delivery has received limited attention to date, with human rights discourse more typically focusing on national and international levels or on building the capacity of rights holders to claim their rights from government. There is considerable opportunity to consider how human rights can constructively inform local government efforts to expand and improve services. This Communication article presents a novel approach to making human rights relevant and actionable for local authorities. Developed by a consortium of WASH-focused organisations and informed by design thinking, the Making Rights Real approach combines user-centred materials showing how human rights can inform local action, with a process of constructive engagement between civil society and local government professionals. The Making Rights Real approach has been applied in 12 countries by 37 civil society organisations to date. In this paper, we describe the development and features of the Making Rights Real approach, share initial results from its implementation, and reflect on the potential for the approach to catalyse transformational change towards local realisation of the human rights to water and sanitation.

Colley, TA, Birkved, M, Olsen, SI & Hauschild, MZ 2020, 'Using a gate-to-gate LCA to apply circular economy principles to a food processing SME', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 251, pp. 119566-119566.
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Colley, TA, Olsen, SI, Birkved, M & Hauschild, MZ 2020, 'Delta Life Cycle Assessment of Regenerative Agriculture in a Sheep Farming System', Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 282-290.
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Abstract Regenerative agriculture is being used by a small number of innovative farmers in Australia and elsewhere, using a range of holistic methods that work with the land and climate, such as short duration time of controlled grazing with long rest periods for the paddock and higher proportions of aboveground biomass, to improve soil health and farm profitability. This paper uses a delta life cycle assessment, focusing only on the differences between regenerative and conventional production systems to assess the potential impact of regenerative agriculture on a full range of midpoint impact categories and end-point areas of protection for an extensive sheep system in Australia. We assess the potential improvement to the water, carbon, and biodiversity footprints of sheep production, and find that regenerative agriculture has the potential to improve environmental performance compared with current industrial agricultural practices. In particular, there seems to be considerable potential to offset a significant proportion of the on-farm climate change impacts through a combination of biosequestration in soils and aboveground biomass and using harvested biomass to offset fossil fuel use. The assessment highlights the need for additional data to confirm the findings and the potential contribution that regenerative agriculture can make to sustainability of ruminant livestock production. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2020;16:282–290. © 2019 SETAC

Daniell, KA, Plant, R, Pilbeam, V, Sabinot, C, Paget, N, Astles, K, Steffens, R, Barreteau, O, Bouard, S, Coad, P, Gordon, A, Ferrand, N, Le Meur, P-Y, Lejars, C, Maurel, P, Rubio, A, Rougier, J-E & White, I 2020, 'Evolutions in estuary governance? Reflections and lessons from Australia, France and New Caledonia', Marine Policy, vol. 112, pp. 103704-103704.
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Davila, F 2020, 'Human ecology and food discourses in a smallholder agricultural system in Leyte, The Philippines', Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 719-741.
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Food systems are influenced by discourses held by individuals and institutions. Market oriented food security and food sovereignty are frequently presented as co-existing discourses in food systems. This paper documents how smallholder farmers embody market food security and food sovereignty discourses in their agricultural practices, and how these discourses prevent new forms of agriculture from developing given socio-political and institutional rigidity. A human ecology systems framework is used to analyse semi-structured interviews with 39 coconut producing smallholder farmers from Leyte, The Philippines. The results document how smallholders perceive market food security discourse as the main way out of food insecure situations, and thus continue to seek institutional support for maintaining a coconut based agricultural system. Farmers also perceive elements of the food sovereignty discourse, notably decision-making agency and agricultural diversification, as parallel strategies to improve their food security. The ongoing support for coconut production and inequitable access to training and knowledge in rural systems traps farmers into an agricultural system influenced by a long history of colonial institutions and social structures. The paper demonstrates that farmers are aware of the interventions required to diversify food systems towards higher value commodities, yet sovereignty is unlikely to be enabled due to maladaptive institutions and the associated access to new training and extension opportunities. The use of human ecology advances food scholarship through embedding a systems analysis into qualitative studies to reveal the influence of food discourses on food systems’ behaviour and outcomes.

Fane, S, Grossman, C & Schlunke, A 2020, 'Australia's water efficiency labelling and standards scheme: summary of an environmental and economic evaluation', Water Supply, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-12.
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Abstract This paper describes the outcomes of an evaluation of Australia's Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) scheme. WELS is a national, government-run scheme that mandates water efficiency labelling for indoor water-using fixtures and appliances. The scheme also imposes a minimum standard for some products. The evaluation considered the environmental and economic impacts of improvements in the water efficiency of WELS-labelled products since the scheme's inception in 2006 and forecast for 20 years. The study estimated water, energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) and utility bill savings as well as the costs associated with the scheme. The evaluation showed WELS to be an important component of urban water management in Australia, saving 112 GL in 2017–18, across the country, and 231 GL/year by 2036–37. The largest economic benefits of WELS came from the energy saving from reduced water heating. Over 30 years, these energy savings are also expected to reduce GHG emissions by a cumulative 53.5 Mt. On average, Australians saved $A42 (US$30) per person per year in 2017–18 due to the water efficiency driven by WELS. Overall, the evaluation shows the WELS scheme to be highly beneficial for Australia with significant net benefits to the present and projected into the future.

Fazey, I, Schäpke, N, Caniglia, G, Hodgson, A, Kendrick, I, Lyon, C, Page, G, Patterson, J, Riedy, C, Strasser, T, Verveen, S, Adams, D, Goldstein, B, Klaes, M, Leicester, G, Linyard, A, McCurdy, A, Ryan, P, Sharpe, B, Silvestri, G, Abdurrahim, AY, Abson, D, Adetunji, OS, Aldunce, P, Alvarez-Pereira, C, Amparo, JM, Amundsen, H, Anderson, L, Andersson, L, Asquith, M, Augenstein, K, Barrie, J, Bent, D, Bentz, J, Bergsten, A, Berzonsky, C, Bina, O, Blackstock, K, Boehnert, J, Bradbury, H, Brand, C, Böhme (born Sangmeister), J, Bøjer, MM, Carmen, E, Charli-Joseph, L, Choudhury, S, Chunhachoti-ananta, S, Cockburn, J, Colvin, J, Connon, ILC, Cornforth, R, Cox, RS, Cradock-Henry, N, Cramer, L, Cremaschi, A, Dannevig, H, Day, CT, de Lima Hutchison, C, de Vrieze, A, Desai, V, Dolley, J, Duckett, D, Durrant, RA, Egermann, M, Elsner (Adams), E, Fremantle, C, Fullwood-Thomas, J, Galafassi, D, Gobby, J, Golland, A, González-Padrón, SK, Gram-Hanssen, I, Grandin, J, Grenni, S, Lauren Gunnell, J, Gusmao, F, Hamann, M, Harding, B, Harper, G, Hesselgren, M, Hestad, D, Heykoop, CA, Holmén, J, Holstead, K, Hoolohan, C, Horcea-Milcu, A-I, Horlings, LG, Howden, SM, Howell, RA, Huque, SI, Inturias Canedo, ML, Iro, CY, Ives, CD, John, B, Joshi, R, Juarez-Bourke, S, Juma, DW, Karlsen, BC, Kliem, L, Kläy, A, Kuenkel, P, Kunze, I, Lam, DPM, Lang, DJ, Larkin, A, Light, A, Luederitz, C, Luthe, T, Maguire, C, Mahecha-Groot, A-M, Malcolm, J, Marshall, F, Maru, Y, McLachlan, C, Mmbando, P, Mohapatra, S, Moore, M-L, Moriggi, A, Morley-Fletcher, M, Moser, S, Mueller, KM, Mukute, M, Mühlemeier, S, Naess, LO, Nieto-Romero, M, Novo, P, O’Brien, K, O'Connell, DA, O'Donnell, K, Olsson, P, Pearson, KR, Pereira, L, Petridis, P, Peukert, D, Phear, N, Pisters, SR, Polsky, M, Pound, D, Preiser, R, Rahman, MS, Reed, MS, Revell, P, Rodriguez, I, Rogers, BC, Rohr, J, Nordbø Rosenberg, M, Ross, H, Russell, S, Ryan, M, Saha, P, Schleicher, K, Schneider, F, Scoville-Simonds, M, Searle, B, Sebhatu, SP, Sesana, E, Silverman, H, Singh, C, Sterling, E, Stewart, S-J, Tàbara, JD, Taylor, D, Thornton, P, Tribaldos, TM, Tschakert, P, Uribe-Calvo, N, Waddell, S, Waddock, S, van der Merwe, L, van Mierlo, B, van Zwanenberg, P, Velarde, SJ, Washbourne, C-L, Waylen, K, Weiser, A, Wight, I, Williams, S, Woods, M, Wolstenholme, R, Wright, N, Wunder, S, Wyllie, A & Young, HR 2020, 'Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there', Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 70, pp. 101724-101724.
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© 2020 The Author(s) Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent.

Fischer, A, Hope, R, Manandhar, A, Hoque, S, Foster, T, Hakim, A, Islam, MS & Bradley, D 2020, 'Risky responsibilities for rural drinking water institutions: The case of unregulated self-supply in Bangladesh', Global Environmental Change, vol. 65, pp. 102152-102152.
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The drinking water sector is off track to reach Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.1 with over a quarter of the world’s population lacking safe and reliable services. Policy approaches are shifting away from provision of access towards managing the multiple risks of water supply and quality. By considering how infrastructure, information, and institutional systems evolved in Bangladesh, this article identifies the unintentional consequences of reallocating management responsibility for rural water services away from government agencies towards individuals and households. Between 2012 and 2017, we estimate up to forty-five unregulated tubewells were installed privately for every publicly funded rural waterpoint. This growth rate more than doubled total national waterpoint infrastructure since 2006. The scale of growth is reflected in the declining ratio of households per tubewell from over fifty-seven in 1982 to less than two in 2017, potentially approaching market saturation. This scale of growth aligns to an observed decrease in the real price of private market shallow tubewells by seventy percent between 1982 and 2017. In 2018, we estimate households invested up to USD253 million in tubewells, nearly sixty-five percent of the total national water and sanitation sector’s household-level finance. In effect, household investments became critical to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of improved infrastructure access, but now pose challenges for meeting targets of safely managed services. The scale of continued private investment provides an opportunity for policymakers to explore blended public finance models to meet emerging consumer preferences, while at the same time introducing regulatory and monitoring systems.

Foley, H, Steel, A, McIntyre, E, Harnett, J, Sibbritt, D, Wardle, J & Adams, J 2020, 'Complementary medicine practitioner consultations amongst 1,314 individuals with chronic conditions: Characteristics of users, reasons for and predictors of use', Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, vol. 40, pp. 101194-101194.
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Background: The complexity of chronic conditions challenges health systems and patients. Patients with chronic conditions often consult complementary medicine (CM) practitioners. Optimal care of chronic conditions requires understanding of the characteristics and consultation behaviours of these patients. Methods: Cross-sectional survey (n = 2025 adults), broadly representative of the Australian population. Measures included sociodemographics, health status and health service utilisation. Data from participants with chronic conditions were analysed. Results: Of the 1314 participants reporting chronic conditions, 38.4% consulted a CM practitioner. Significant differences were observed between participants who did/did not consult CM practitioners, across all sociodemographics and some health status items. The most reported reason for consultation was to support wellbeing. Predictors of consultation were younger age, employment, and private health insurance coverage for CM, however, predictors varied by profession consulted. Conclusion: CM consultations amongst those with chronic conditions appear to be influenced by sociodemographic and economic factors, and quality of life needs.

Foster, T, Furey, S, Banks, B & Willetts, J 2020, 'Functionality of handpump water supplies: a review of data from sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region', International Journal of Water Resources Development, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 855-869.
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Grant, M, Foster, T, Dinh, DV, Willetts, J & Davis, G 2020, 'Life-cycle costs approach for private piped water service delivery: a study in rural Viet Nam', Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 659-669.
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Abstract Sustaining rural water services in Viet Nam requires an improved understanding of the costs and relative opportunities, especially given the government's support for private sector involvement in expanding water schemes. In particular, the life-cycle costs associated with the delivery of safe and sustainable water services in rural Viet Nam, as indeed elsewhere, are not well known, potentially compromising their long-term sustainability. To address this gap, this study assessed the cost structures of 14 water schemes in Viet Nam managed by private enterprises. Results showed that both capital and operational expenditures varied widely across the schemes assessed, reflective of the diversity of the age and characteristics of the schemes studied. Twelve of the 14 schemes generated a cash profit in the most recent calendar year; however, when taking into account depreciation, as well as historical subsidies and connection fee payments, only four of the schemes were profitable based on a 20-year design life assumption. The study complements previous research demonstrating barriers to achieving universal access when relying on user-pays systems. The results provide a useful reference point to inform business planning for enterprises, as well as policy and support mechanisms important for securing sustainable rural water supply services.

Guerrero, J, Gebbran, D, Mhanna, S, Chapman, AC & Verbič, G 2020, 'Towards a transactive energy system for integration of distributed energy resources: Home energy management, distributed optimal power flow, and peer-to-peer energy trading', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 132, pp. 110000-110000.
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Hoffmann, S, Feldmann, U, Bach, PM, Binz, C, Farrelly, M, Frantzeskaki, N, Hiessl, H, Inauen, J, Larsen, TA, Lienert, J, Londong, J, Lüthi, C, Maurer, M, Mitchell, C, Morgenroth, E, Nelson, KL, Scholten, L, Truffer, B & Udert, KM 2020, 'A Research Agenda for the Future of Urban Water Management: Exploring the Potential of Nongrid, Small-Grid, and Hybrid Solutions', Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 5312-5322.
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Recent developments in high- and middle-income countries have exhibited a shift from conventional urban water systems to alternative solutions that are more diverse in source separation, decentralization, and modularization. These solutions include nongrid, small-grid, and hybrid systems to address such pressing global challenges as climate change, eutrophication, and rapid urbanization. They close loops, recover valuable resources, and adapt quickly to changing boundary conditions such as population size. Moving to such alternative solutions requires both technical and social innovations to coevolve over time into integrated socio-technical urban water systems. Current implementations of alternative systems in high- and middle-income countries are promising, but they also underline the need for research questions to be addressed from technical, social, and transformative perspectives. Future research should pursue a transdisciplinary research approach to generating evidence through socio-technical 'lighthouse' projects that apply alternative urban water systems at scale. Such research should leverage experiences from these projects in diverse socio-economic contexts, identify their potentials and limitations from an integrated perspective, and share their successes and failures across the urban water sector.

Hope, R, Thomson, P, Koehler, J & Foster, T 2020, 'Rethinking the economics of rural water in Africa', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 171-190.
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Abstract Rural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone. Decades of effort and billions of dollars of investment have yielded modest gains, with high but avoidable health and economic costs borne by over 300m people lacking basic water access. We explore why rural water is different for communities, schools, and healthcare facilities across characteristics of scale, institutions, demand, and finance. The findings conclude with policy recommendations to (i) network rural services at scale, (ii) unlock rural payments by creating value, and (iii) design and test performance-based funding models at national and regional scales, with an ambition to eliminate the need for future, sustainable development goals.

Howard, G, Bartram, J, Brocklehurst, C, Colford, JM, Costa, F, Cunliffe, D, Dreibelbis, R, Eisenberg, JNS, Evans, B, Girones, R, Hrudey, S, Willetts, J & Wright, CY 2020, 'COVID-19: urgent actions, critical reflections and future relevance of ‘WaSH’: lessons for the current and future pandemics', Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 379-396.
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic placed hygiene at the centre of disease prevention. Yet, access to the levels of water supply that support good hand hygiene and institutional cleaning, our understanding of hygiene behaviours, and access to soap are deficient in low-, middle- and high-income countries. This paper reviews the role of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) in disease emergence, previous outbreaks, combatting COVID-19 and in preparing for future pandemics. We consider settings where these factors are particularly important and identify key preventive contributions to disease control and gaps in the evidence base. Urgent substantial action is required to remedy deficiencies in WaSH, particularly the provision of reliable, continuous piped water on-premises for all households and settings. Hygiene promotion programmes, underpinned by behavioural science, must be adapted to high-risk populations (such as the elderly and marginalised) and settings (such as healthcare facilities, transport hubs and workplaces). WaSH must be better integrated into preparation plans and with other sectors in prevention efforts. More finance and better use of financing instruments would extend and improve WaSH services. The lessons outlined justify no-regrets investment by government in response to and recovery from the current pandemic; to improve day-to-day lives and as preparedness for future pandemics.

Howard, G, Bartram, J, Brocklehurst, C, Colford, JM, Costa, F, Cunliffe, D, Dreibelbis, R, Eisenberg, JNS, Evans, B, Girones, R, Hrudey, S, Willetts, J & Wright, CY 2020, 'COVID-19: urgent actions, critical reflections and future relevance of ‘WaSH’: lessons for the current and future pandemics', Journal of Water and Health, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 613-630.
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic placed hygiene at the centre of disease prevention. Yet, access to the levels of water supply that support good hand hygiene and institutional cleaning, our understanding of hygiene behaviours, and access to soap are deficient in low-, middle- and high-income countries. This paper reviews the role of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) in disease emergence, previous outbreaks, combatting COVID-19 and in preparing for future pandemics. We consider settings where these factors are particularly important and identify key preventive contributions to disease control and gaps in the evidence base. Urgent substantial action is required to remedy deficiencies in WaSH, particularly the provision of reliable, continuous piped water on-premises for all households and settings. Hygiene promotion programmes, underpinned by behavioural science, must be adapted to high-risk populations (such as the elderly and marginalised) and settings (such as healthcare facilities, transport hubs and workplaces). WaSH must be better integrated into preparation plans and with other sectors in prevention efforts. More finance and better use of financing instruments would extend and improve WaSH services. The lessons outlined justify no-regrets investment by government in response to and recovery from the current pandemic; to improve day-to-day lives and as preparedness for future pandemics.

Hutton, G, Patil, S, Kumar, A, Osbert, N & Odhiambo, F 2020, 'Comparison of the costs and benefits of the Clean India Mission', World Development, vol. 134, pp. 105052-105052.
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Ibrahim, IA, Hossain, MJ & Duck, BC 2020, 'An Optimized Offline Random Forests-Based Model for Ultra-Short-Term Prediction of PV Characteristics', IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 202-214.
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© 2005-2012 IEEE. The fluctuation of meteorological data causes random changes in photovoltaic (PV) performance, which may negatively affect the stability and reliability of the electrical grid. This paper proposes a new ultra-short-term offline hybrid prediction model for PV I-V characteristic curves based on the dynamic characteristics of the meteorological data on a 15-min basis. The proposed hybrid prediction model is a combination of the random forests (RFs) prediction technique and the ant-lion optimizer (ALO). ALO is used to optimize the hyper-parameters of the RFs model, which aims to improve its performance in terms of accuracy and computational time. The performance of the proposed hybrid prediction model is compared with that of conventional RFs, RFs-iteration, generalized regression neural network (GRNN), GRNN-iteration, GRNN-ALO, a cascade-forward neural network (CFNN), CFNN-iteration, CFNN-ALO, feed-forward neural network (FFNN), FFNN-iteration, and FFNN-ALO models. The result shows that the I-V characteristic-curve prediction accuracy, in terms of the root-mean-squared error, mean bias error, and mean absolute percentage error of the proposed model are 0.0091 A, 0.0028 A, and 0.1392%, respectively, with an accuracy of 99.86%. Moreover, the optimization, training, and testing times are 162.15, 10.1919, and 0.1237 s, respectively. Therefore, the proposed model performs better than the aforementioned models and the other existing models in the literature. Accordingly, the proposed hybrid (RFs-ALO) offline model can significantly improve the accuracy of PV performance prediction, especially in grid-connected PV system applications.

Ibrahim, IA, Hossain, MJ, Duck, BC & Fell, CJ 2020, 'An Adaptive Wind-Driven Optimization Algorithm for Extracting the Parameters of a Single-Diode PV Cell Model', IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1054-1066.
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© 2010-2012 IEEE. This paper presents a new methodology to extract the unknown parameters of a single-diode photovoltaic (PV) cell model. The first contribution of this paper is the development and implementation of a new version of the wind-driven optimization algorithm, called an adaptive wind-driven optimization (AWDO) algorithm. The advantages of the AWDO algorithm are: 1) accurate extraction of the global values of the optimized PV parameters in changing weather conditions, which is achieved by building solutions from random operations; and 2) capability of handling the given complex multi-modal and multi-dimensional optimization problems. The second contribution is the identification of a generalization model to generalize the extracted parameters of a single-diode PV cell model. That provides an ability of the proposed methodology to work with any I-V characteristic curve of PV cells and at any weather condition on a 15-min basis. To validate the proposed methodology, it has been tested for 1307 I-V characteristic curves of a PV module at various weather conditions on a 15-min basis. Additionally, its accuracy and computational efficiency are verified and compared with five well-known existing extraction methods: Villalva's model, particle swarm optimization, biogeography-based optimization, Gang's model, and bacterial foraging optimization by both simulation and outdoor measurements. The results show that the AWDO algorithm can provide the extracted five parameters with an acceptable range of accuracy and faster than the aforementioned models. Therefore, the proposed methodology (AWDO based on Chenlo's model) can be confidently recommended as a reliable, feasible, valuable, and fast optimization algorithm for parameter extraction of a single-diode PV cell model.

Ibrahim, IA, Hossain, MJ, Duck, BC & Nadarajah, M 2020, 'An improved wind driven optimization algorithm for parameters identification of a triple-diode photovoltaic cell model', Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 213, pp. 112872-112872.
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The double-diode photovoltaic cell model is insufficient to accurately characterize the different current components of a photovoltaic cell. Therefore, the triple-diode model of a photovoltaic cell is considered to model its complicated physical characteristics by clearly defining the different current components of the photovoltaic cell. The identification of its unknown parameters is a complex, multi-modal and multi-variable optimization problem. An improved wind driven optimization algorithm is proposed in this paper to identify its nine unknown parameters. The proposed method is a combination of the mutation strategy of the differential evolution algorithm and the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy of the wind driven optimization algorithm. The mutation strategy aims to bolster the exploration ability of the improved wind driven optimization algorithm, while the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy based on wind driven optimization algorithm aims to improve the searching of the classical wind driven optimization algorithm. Therefore, improved wind driven optimization algorithm is more accurate and faster than the classical wind driven optimization algorithm in finding the global optimum and balancing exploration and exploitation. The proposed model has been utilized on 15-minute interval data to identify the unknown parameters of three commercial photovoltaic technologies, namely, mono-crystalline, poly-crystalline and thin-film. To show the effectiveness of the proposed model, its performance is validated by comparing it with that obtained by the classical wind driven optimization, the adaptive wind driven optimization, moth-flame optimizer, sunflower optimization and the improved opposition-based whale optimization algorithms. The results demonstrate that improved wind driven optimization outperforms the aforementioned models in accuracy, convergence speed and feasibility. In addition, improved wind driv...

Katuva, J, Hope, R, Foster, T, Koehler, J & Thomson, P 2020, 'Groundwater and welfare: A conceptual framework applied to coastal Kenya', Groundwater for Sustainable Development, vol. 10, pp. 100314-100314.
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Katuva, J, Hope, R, Foster, T, Koehler, J & Thomson, P 2020, 'Modelling Welfare Transitions to Prioritise Sustainable Development Interventions in Coastal Kenya', Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 17, pp. 6943-6943.
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Welfare transitions are weakly understood in sub-Saharan Africa due to limited panel data to analyze trajectories of household escaping from, falling into, or remaining out of deprivation. We model data from 3500 households in coastal Kenya in three panels from 2014 to 2016 to evaluate determinants of welfare by multidimensional and subjective measures. Findings indicate that more than half of the households are deprived, with female-headed households being the most vulnerable and making the least progress. The subjective welfare measure identified three times more chronically poor households than the multidimensional metric (27% vs. 9%); in contrast, the multidimensional metric estimated twice as many ‘never poor’ households than the subjective measure (39% vs. 16%). The ‘churning poor’ were broadly consistent for both measures at roughly half the sample. Four welfare priorities converged from modelling welfare transitions. Broadening access to secondary education and energy services, improving the reliability and proximity of drinking water services, and ending open defecation improve welfare outcomes. While the policy implications do not align neatly with Kenya’s national and county government mandates, we argue that prioritising fewer but targeted sustainable development goals may improve accountability, feasibility, and responsibility in delivery if informed by local priorities and political salience.

Khalil, MB, Jacobs, BC, McKenna, K & Kuruppu, N 2020, 'Female contribution to grassroots innovation for climate change adaptation in Bangladesh', Climate and Development, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 664-676.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper reports a mixed-method study from 2016 in Gabura, Bangladesh examining female contribution to climate change adaptation in the period post-cyclone Aila in 2009. Out of 110 households studied, male household members were absent in 66 cases because they had migrated to nearby towns and regional centres for alternative livelihood options. Male members’ absence created opportunities for Gabura women to develop a range of novel adaptation strategies through engagement with aid agencies, changed gender roles, leveraging social capital and utilizing local knowledge. For example, women are increasingly contributing to income through works within and outside of the house in agricultural innovations and handmade productions. These adaptations are built on social capital and trust between community women and the NGOs through mobilization and sharing of local knowledge. Based on the findings, a framework for informed autonomous adaptation is proposed. The generalization of coastal women in developing contexts as passive victims of climate change due to social norms and instead highlights women’s active agencies in adaptation is challenged. There is a need for a critical understanding of gender-specific dynamics in post-cyclone aid interventions towards in-situ climate change adaptation.

Khara, T, Riedy, C & Ruby, MB 2020, '“We have to keep it a secret” – The dynamics of front and backstage behaviours surrounding meat consumption in India', Appetite, vol. 149, pp. 104615-104615.
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Meat consumption is on the rise in India. However, most studies on meat consumption have been conducted among Western audiences and there are relatively few insights into meat consumption in emerging markets, especially India, which tends to be stereotyped as a vegetarian nation. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore meat consumption practices among urban Indians aged 23-45 years. The sample comprised mainly Mumbai residents. The research methodology used constructivist grounded theory. Semi-structured face-to-face in-depth interviews was the main mode of data collection and the research used an iterative study design along with an inductive analysis approach. A key finding was that while meat consumption is on the rise, there are social stigmas still associated with it. This has led to discrepancies between consumption behaviours occurring in public (frontstage behaviours) and those carried out in private (backstage behaviours). Using Goffman's theory of self-presentation, the study provides insights into various ways in which backstage meat consumption occurs in collectivist Indian society today. The backstage setting can comprise places outside the home, such as restaurants, and in some instances, segregated 'safe' spaces within the home itself. Within these spaces, the study explores how certain consumption taboos are quietly broken while actions are taken to present appropriate frontstage appearances before various audiences. This study contributes to the relatively sparse literature on meat consumption in India while also using Goffman's theory to highlight the discrepancies between public and private consumption behaviours within the collectivist Indian context.

Klettner, A, Clarke, T, Atherton, A & Winterford, K 2020, 'Gender diversity along the career pipeline', Governance Directions, vol. 72, no. 2.

Kohlitz, J, Chong, J & Willetts, J 2020, 'Rural Drinking Water Safety under Climate Change: The Importance of Addressing Physical, Social, and Environmental Dimensions', Resources, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 77-77.
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This paper explores the physical, social, and environmental dimensions of how climate change impacts affect drinking water safety in a rural context in developing countries. Climate impacts, such as contamination or the reduced availability of preferred drinking water sources due to climate-related hazards, threaten water safety in rural areas and these impacts will likely worsen as climate change accelerates. We qualitatively examined these impacts in a community in rural Vanuatu using three approaches side-by-side: adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience. We employed a mixed methods case study methodology that combined semi-structured interviews, technological and environmental surveys, and observations. We demonstrate the influence of physical infrastructure design, social structures mediating water access, and the availability of multiple sustainable water resources on water safety with respect to climate impacts. We also show how the initial problematization of how climate affects water safety can influence subsequent actions to address, or overlook, issues of infrastructure design and maintenance, social equity, and natural resource management for water access. Improvements to rural drinking water safety management in the context of climate change should take a pluralistic approach, informed by different conceptualizations of climate impacts, to account for the varied causal pathways of reduced water safety for different members of a community.

Lüthi, C, Willetts, J & Hoffmann, S 2020, 'Editorial: City-Wide Sanitation: The Urban Sustainability Challenge', Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol. 8.
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Lyon, C, Cordell, D, Jacobs, B, Martin-Ortega, J, Marshall, R, Camargo-Valero, MA & Sherry, E 2020, 'Five pillars for stakeholder analyses in sustainability transformations: The global case of phosphorus', Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 107, pp. 80-89.
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Phosphorus is a critical agricultural nutrient and a major pollutant in waterbodies due to inefficient use. In the form of rock phosphate it is a finite global commodity vulnerable to price shocks and sourcing challenges. Transforming toward sustainable phosphorus management involves local to global stakeholders. Conventional readings of stakeholders may not reflect system complexity leaving it difficult to see stakeholder roles in transformations. We attempt to remedy this issue with a novel stakeholder analysis method based on five qualitative pillars: stakeholder agency, system roles, power and influence, alignment to the problem, and transformational potential. We argue that our approach suits case studies of individual stakeholders, stakeholder groups, and organisations with relationships to sustainability challenges.

MacArthur, J, Carrard, N & Willetts, J 2020, 'WASH and Gender: a critical review of the literature and implications for gender-transformative WASH research', Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 818-827.
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Abstract The connections between gender and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are profound, and the sector is beginning to explore the integration of gender-transformative principles into WASH programming and research. Gender-transformative approaches challenge inequalities and move beyond an instrumentalist approach to gender in development interventions. Through a critical review of academic empirical studies, this paper explores the last decade of WASH-gender literature (2008–2018). Trends were visualised using an alluvial diagram. The reviewed literature was underpinned by a diversity of disciplines, yet was dominated by women-focused, water-focused studies. Although the studies addressed many important gender considerations, few studies engaged with transformational aspects of gender equality. The majority of the studies were based in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, indicating opportunity to explore contextual dynamics in other areas of the global south. Lastly, the studies primarily focus on women of productive age; only a few studies touched on gender dynamics relevant for a diversity of women, and men and boys were mostly absent. Insights from this analysis can inform future studies at the intersection of WASH and gender. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to include a diversity of voices, reflect on the strengths and limitations of research disciplines, and incorporate gender-transformative concepts.

Madeddu, S, Ueckerdt, F, Pehl, M, Peterseim, J, Lord, M, Kumar, KA, Krüger, C & Luderer, G 2020, 'The CO₂ reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat)', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 124004-124004.
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Abstract The decarbonisation of industry is a bottleneck for the EU’s 2050 target of climate neutrality. Replacing fossil fuels with low-carbon electricity is at the core of this challenge; however, the aggregate electrification potential and resulting system-wide CO2 reductions for diverse industrial processes are unknown. Here, we present the results from a comprehensive bottom-up analysis of the energy use in 11 industrial sectors (accounting for 92% of Europe’s industry CO2 emissions), and estimate the technological potential for industry electrification in three stages. Seventy-eight per cent of the energy demand is electrifiable with technologies that are already established, while 99% electrification can be achieved with the addition of technologies currently under development. Such a deep electrification reduces CO2 emissions already based on the carbon intensity of today’s electricity (∼300 gCO2 kWhel −1). With an increasing decarbonisation of the power sector IEA: 12 gCO2 kWhel −1 in 2050), electrification could cut CO2 emissions by 78%, and almost entirely abate the energy-related CO2 emissions, reducing the industry bottleneck to only residual process emissions. Despite its decarbonisation potential, the extent to which direct electrification will be deployed in industry remains uncertain and depends on the relative cost of electric technologies compared to other low-carbon options.

Mills, F, Willetts, J, Evans, B, Carrard, N & Kohlitz, J 2020, 'Costs, Climate and Contamination: Three Drivers for Citywide Sanitation Investment Decisions', Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol. 8, p. 130.
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Mohr, S, Giurco, D, Yellishetty, M, Ward, J & Mudd, G 2020, 'Correction to: Projection of Iron Ore Production', Natural Resources Research, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 561-561.
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© 2019, International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. The original version of this article unfortunately contained an error in Equation 3.

Mudd, GM, Roche, C, Northey, SA, Jowitt, SM & Gamato, G 2020, 'Mining in Papua New Guinea: A complex story of trends, impacts and governance', Science of The Total Environment, vol. 741, pp. 140375-140375.
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Nanda, M, Kansal, A & Cordell, D 2020, 'Managing agricultural vulnerability to phosphorus scarcity through bottom-up assessment of regional-scale opportunities', Agricultural Systems, vol. 184, pp. 102910-102910.
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Northey, S, Mohr, S, Mudd, GM, Weng, Z & Giurco, D 2020, 'Corrigendum to “Modelling future copper ore grade decline based on a detailed assessment of copper resources and mining” [Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 83 (2014) 190–201]', Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 154, pp. 104598-104598.
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The authors regret that equation 1 is incorrect. The correct equation is: [Formula presented] The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Rahim, MS, Nguyen, KA, Stewart, RA, Giurco, D & Blumenstein, M 2020, 'Machine Learning and Data Analytic Techniques in Digital Water Metering: A Review', Water, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 294-294.
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Digital or intelligent water meters are being rolled out globally as a crucial component in improving urban water management. This is because of their ability to frequently send water consumption information electronically and later utilise the information to generate insights or provide feedback to consumers. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) and data analytic (DA) technologies have provided the opportunity to more effectively utilise the vast amount of data generated by these meters. Several studies have been conducted to promote water conservation by analysing the data generated by digital meters and providing feedback to consumers and water utilities. The purpose of this review was to inform scholars and practitioners about the contributions and limitations of ML and DA techniques by critically analysing the relevant literature. We categorised studies into five main themes: (1) water demand forecasting; (2) socioeconomic analysis; (3) behaviour analysis; (4) water event categorisation; and (5) water-use feedback. The review identified significant research gaps in terms of the adoption of advanced ML and DA techniques, which could potentially lead to water savings and more efficient demand management. We concluded that further investigations are required into highly personalised feedback systems, such as recommender systems, to promote water-conscious behaviour. In addition, advanced data management solutions, effective user profiles, and the clustering of consumers based on their profiles require more attention to promote water-conscious behaviours.

Riedy, C 2020, 'Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism', Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 45, pp. 100-112.
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V. A neoliberal capitalist discourse dominates global affairs, with devastating effects for ecological integrity and social justice. Diverse alternative discourses challenge its dominance. This paper reviews alternative discourses to surface discursive common ground and conflicts, arguing that this is an important step towards the formation of discourse coalitions that could rival the political power of neoliberal capitalism. There is common ground in how alternative discourses see the world (systems and networks), their normative relationship with nature (sustainable, regenerative or planetcentric) and with each other (cooperative and entangled), their goals (wellbeing, justice and plurality) and some of the strategies for transformation (participatory governance, a new economic system, prioritizing different human values and participatory knowledge practices). There are also important conflicts that could offer productive sites for agonistic dialogue between plural discourses. These common and conflicting memes may be seeds of the discursive transformation that is essential to support flourishing, sustainable futures.

Ruoso, L-E 2020, 'Can land-based and practice-based place identities explain farmers’ adaptation strategies in peri-urban areas? A case study of Metropolitan Sydney, Australia', Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 743-759.
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Peri-urban areas around Sydney, as around many cities in the world, are spaces in mutation, which are underdoing dramatic changes in their land use and social fabric: agricultural lands are progressively turned into residential areas, and non-farming landowners with a different set of values and expectations settle in these areas, often sparkling conflicts with farmers. These changes are supported by a planning system that encourages the development of residential areas in the peri-urban. However, it has been noticed that rather than completely disappearing, agricultural activities are still visible in the peri-urban environment, and farmers develop adaptation strategies to adjust to this shifting environment. Many factors affecting farmers’ adaptation strategies have been studied. One element that remains understudied is the role of farmers’ relationship to place. To bridge this gap, we develop a typology of farmers’ place identity (land-based and practice-based place identity) and observe how these conceptualisations of place identity can contribute to explaining farmers’ adoption of incremental and transformative adaptation strategies in the peri-urban. Based on 24 interviews with 15 farmers our results suggest that farmers with a combined place identity (land-based and practice-based) are more likely to adopt transformative adaptation strategies than farmers with a practice-based place identity who are more likely to adopt incremental adaptation strategies. Our results acknowledge that other elements, such as succession planning and farmers’ environmental values, are also likely to play a role in farmers’ adoption of adaptation strategies.

Setty, K, Jiménez, A, Willetts, J, Leifels, M & Bartram, J 2020, 'Global water, sanitation and hygiene research priorities and learning challenges under Sustainable Development Goal 6', Development Policy Review, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 64-84.
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AbstractMotivationSanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a global partnership addressing universal water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) access. Shortly after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations, the research and learning (R&L) constituency of SWA undertook a systematic study to determine global research priorities and learning needs.PurposeTo identify priority topics where improved knowledge would aid achievement of Goal 6 by developing a global WaSH research agenda, and to describe evidence‐use challenges among WaSH professionals.Approach and methodsWe delivered a tailored, semi‐structured electronic questionnaire to representatives from countries, R&L institutions, and other SWA partners (external support agencies, civil society, and private sector). The survey gathered views from 76 respondents working in an estimated 36 countries across all world regions. Data were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively to identify patterns and themes.FindingsMost responses indicated lower confidence in at least one Goal 6 target area, especially managing untreated wastewater and faecal sludge. To support learning, respondents valued a combination of both brief and lengthy information formats. WaSH information was perceived as contradictory or unreliable only among non‐R&L constituencies. The R&L constituency saw ample learning and training opportunities, while others perceived barriers to participating. WaSH activities were frequently constrained by upward accountability to funders, while stakeholder inclusion was inconsistent.Policy implicationsThis study offers insight into perceived resea...

Sonderegger, T, Berger, M, Alvarenga, R, Bach, V, Cimprich, A, Dewulf, J, Frischknecht, R, Guinée, J, Helbig, C, Huppertz, T, Jolliet, O, Motoshita, M, Northey, S, Rugani, B, Schrijvers, D, Schulze, R, Sonnemann, G, Valero, A, Weidema, BP & Young, SB 2020, 'Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment—part I: a critical review of existing methods', The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 784-797.
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© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Purpose: The safeguard subject of the Area of Protection “natural Resources,” particularly regarding mineral resources, has long been debated. Consequently, a variety of life cycle impact assessment methods based on different concepts are available. The Life Cycle Initiative, hosted by the UN Environment, established an expert task force on “Mineral Resources” to review existing methods (this article) and provide guidance for application-dependent use of the methods and recommendations for further methodological development (Berger et al. in Int J Life Cycle Assess, 2020). Methods: Starting in 2017, the task force developed a white paper, which served as its main input to a SETAC Pellston Workshop® in June 2018, in which a sub-group of the task force members developed recommendations for assessing impacts of mineral resource use in LCA. This article, based mainly on the white paper and pre-workshop discussions, presents a thorough review of 27 different life cycle impact assessment methods for mineral resource use in the “natural resources” area of protection. The methods are categorized according to their basic impact mechanisms, described and compared, and assessed against a comprehensive set of criteria. Results and discussion: Four method categories have been identified and their underlying concepts are described based on existing literature: depletion methods, future efforts methods, thermodynamic accounting methods, and supply risk methods. While we consider depletion and future efforts methods more “traditional” life cycle impact assessment methods, thermodynamic accounting and supply risk methods are rather providing complementary information. Within each method category, differences between methods are discussed in detail, which allows for further sub-categorization and better understanding of what the methods actually assess. Conclusions: We provide a thorough review of existing li...

Sue Cavill, SC, Naomi Francis, NF, Melita Grant, MG, Chelsea Huggett, CH, Caitlin Leahy, CL, Lee Leong, LL, Elaine Mercer, EM, Jamie Myers, JM, Mascha Singeling, MS & Tom Rankin, TR 2020, 'A call to action: organizational, professional, and personal change for gender transformative WASH programming', Waterlines, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 219-237.
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Vogel, RK, Ryan, R, Lawrie, A, Grant, B, Meng, X, Walsh, P, Morris, A & Riedy, C 2020, 'Global city Sydney', Progress in Planning, vol. 136, pp. 100426-100426.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Sydney has emerged as a major global city in the 21st century. We review the “global city thesis”, which dominates urban scholarship and practice, and ask whether it adequately captures the Sydney experience. Although the global city thesis is a useful analytical construct for policy makers and scholars, we argue that it does not adequately chart Sydney's rise as a leading global city and its current problems. The global city thesis ignores the political institutions and processes that shape and direct the global city. The City of Sydney is a small area of the city-region, accounting for only about four percent of the metropolis. Sydney lacks a metropolitan or regional government and has few regional collaborative processes or platforms. Instead the global city strategy of Sydney is shaped and directed by the New South Wales state government. This is contrary to the political decentralisation and devolution trends heralded by international actors such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sydney also illustrates the dilemma of global cities in that those members at the top of the knowledge economy are highly rewarded and those in the middle and lower strata face difficulty maintaining or improving their situations. Local governments lack the capacity to act independently and the state and federal governments are unwilling to address serious urban problems associated with globalisation, such as public transit or housing. Given the governments' embrace of neoliberalism, the global city vision advanced by leaders is threatened. There is little concrete policy offered by any level of government to address the crisis.

Wakefield-Rann, R, Fam, D & Stewart, S 2020, 'Microbes, chemicals and the health of homes: integrating theories to account for more-than-human entanglements', BioSocieties, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 182-206.
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In the post-war period, the health risks posed by indoor environments have both transformed and challenged notions of environmental health centred on pathogenic germs. The composition of home spaces, particularly in developed nations, has been fundamentally altered by the introduction of formerly industrial chemicals to everyday products and building materials. Further, the changing nature of building design, cleaning practices and urban life have altered the ‘microbiomes’ of homes, contributing to a rise in certain immune system conditions. This paper contends that to begin to address these concerns, the microscopic elements of ‘indoor ecosystems’, and how they are created and maintained, must become a focal point for research. It proposes an approach that integrates social practice theories and multispecies ethnography to investigate the cumulative composition of indoor spaces. Findings detail the application of this approach to research into the domestic hygiene practices of parents with young children in Sydney, Australia. This approach highlights crucial assumptions about the ways micro-scale agency is embedded in everyday domestic practices that are contributing to sub-optimal indoor environments.

Wakefield-Rann, R, Fam, D & Stewart, S 2020, 'Routine exposure: social practices and environmental health risks in the home', Social Theory & Health, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 299-316.
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The post-war introduction of new chemicals to consumer products created a range of complex environmental health issues. Despite recent evidence demonstrating the issues associated with using particular chemicals in the home, responses from industry and regulators have failed to account for the complex ways that chemicals interact with each other, humans and microorganisms to cause harm. This paper draws together the scientific and social science literature to make two key contributions: first, it demonstrates why investigating everyday practices will be crucial to improve knowledge of how human/environment interactions in the home are contributing to certain health conditions; second, it draws on examples of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals to show how these health conditions cannot be addressed by replacing individual products, or chemicals, as many toxic ingredients have become central to the functionality of interdependent networks of products, and the routines they enable. By failing to engage with these issues, future research and planning to establish healthy homes will not be able to account for these crucial sources of harm. We conclude that further research addressing indoor environmental health should expand the boundaries of inquiry across disciplines and knowledge perspectives to analyse how social practices structure micro-scale interactions between humans, microbes and chemicals, in the home.

Wallach, AD, Batavia, C, Bekoff, M, Alexander, S, Baker, L, Ben‐Ami, D, Boronyak, L, Cardilin, APA, Carmel, Y, Celermajer, D, Coghlan, S, Dahdal, Y, Gomez, JJ, Kaplan, G, Keynan, O, Khalilieh, A, Kopnina, H, Lynn, WS, Narayanan, Y, Riley, S, Santiago‐Ávila, FJ, Yanco, E, Zemanova, MA & Ramp, D 2020, 'Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation', Conservation Biology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1097-1106.
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AbstractCompassionate conservation is based on the ethical position that actions taken to protect biodiversity should be guided by compassion for all sentient beings. Critics argue that there are 3 core reasons harming animals is acceptable in conservation programs: the primary purpose of conservation is biodiversity protection; conservation is already compassionate to animals; and conservation should prioritize compassion to humans. We used argument analysis to clarify the values and logics underlying the debate around compassionate conservation. We found that objections to compassionate conservation are expressions of human exceptionalism, the view that humans are of a categorically separate and higher moral status than all other species. In contrast, compassionate conservationists believe that conservation should expand its moral community by recognizing all sentient beings as persons. Personhood, in an ethical sense, implies the individual is owed respect and should not be treated merely as a means to other ends. On scientific and ethical grounds, there are good reasons to extend personhood to sentient animals, particularly in conservation. The moral exclusion or subordination of members of other species legitimates the ongoing manipulation and exploitation of the living worlds, the very reason conservation was needed in the first place. Embracing compassion can help dismantle human exceptionalism, recognize nonhuman personhood, and navigate a more expansive moral space.

Walsh, SDC, Northey, SA, Huston, D, Yellishetty, M & Czarnota, K 2020, 'Bluecap: A geospatial model to assess regional economic-viability for mineral resource development', Resources Policy, vol. 66, pp. 101598-101598.
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Watari, T, McLellan, B, Giurco, D, Dominish, E & Tezuka, T 2020, 'Environmental impacts and demand-supply balance of minerals for the transition to a low-carbon energy system', International Journal of Smart Grid and Clean Energy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 189-197.
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Watari, T, Nansai, K, Giurco, D, Nakajima, K, McLellan, B & Helbig, C 2020, 'Global Metal Use Targets in Line with Climate Goals', Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 54, no. 19, pp. 12476-12483.
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Metals underpin essential functions in modern society, yet their production currently intensifies climate change. This paper develops global targets for metal flows, stocks, and use intensity in the global economy out to 2100. These targets are consistent with emissions pathways to achieve a 2 °C climate goal and cover six major metals (iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, and nickel). Results indicate that despite advances in low-carbon metal production, a transformative system change to meet the society's needs with less metal is required to remain within a 2 °C pathway. Globally, demand for goods and services over the 21st century needs to be met with approximately 7 t/capita of metal stock-roughly half the current level in high-income countries. This systemic change will require a peak in global metal production by 2030 and deep decoupling of economic growth from both metal flows and stocks. Importantly, the identified science-based targets are theoretically achievable through such measures as efficient design, more intensive use, and longer product lifetime, but immediate action is crucial before middle- and low-income countries complete full-scale urbanization.

Werner, TT, Mudd, GM, Schipper, AM, Huijbregts, MAJ, Taneja, L & Northey, SA 2020, 'Global-scale remote sensing of mine areas and analysis of factors explaining their extent', Global Environmental Change, vol. 60, pp. 102007-102007.
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Willetts, J, Mills, F & Al’Afghani, M 2020, 'Sustaining Community-Scale Sanitation Services: Co-management by Local Government and Low-Income Communities in Indonesia', Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol. 8.
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Withers, PJA, Forber, KG, Lyon, C, Rothwell, S, Doody, DG, Jarvie, HP, Martin-Ortega, J, Jacobs, B, Cordell, D, Patton, M, Camargo-Valero, MA & Cassidy, R 2020, 'Towards resolving the phosphorus chaos created by food systems', Ambio, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1076-1089.
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AbstractThe chaotic distribution and dispersal of phosphorus (P) used in food systems (defined here as disorderly disruptions to the P cycle) is harming our environment beyond acceptable limits. An analysis of P stores and flows across Europe in 2005 showed that high fertiliser P inputs relative to productive outputs was driving low system P efficiency (38 % overall). Regional P imbalance (P surplus) and system P losses were highly correlated to total system P inputs and animal densities, causing unnecessary P accumulation in soils and rivers. Reducing regional P surpluses to zero increased system P efficiency (+ 16 %) and decreased total P losses by 35 %, but required a reduction in system P inputs of ca. 40 %, largely as fertiliser. We discuss transdisciplinary and transformative solutions that tackle the P chaos by collective stakeholder actions across the entire food value chain. Lowering system P demand and better regional governance of P resources appear necessary for more efficient and sustainable food systems.

Wyborn, C, Davila, F, Pereira, L, Lim, M, Alvarez, I, Henderson, G, Luers, A, Martinez Harms, MJ, Maze, K, Montana, J, Ryan, M, Sandbrook, C, Shaw, R & Woods, E 2020, 'Imagining transformative biodiversity futures', Nature Sustainability, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 670-672.
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Biodiversity research is replete with scientific studies depicting future trajectories of decline that have failed to mobilize transformative change. Imagination and creativity can foster new ways to address longstanding problems to create better futures for people and the planet. The world has changed. Posited to be a ‘super year’ for biodiversity with various international meetings and the conclusion of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s ten-year Aichi Targets, 2020 will be remembered for very different reasons: catastrophic fires, the COVID-19 pandemic, floods, locust outbreaks, a drastic drop in oil prices and widespread food insecurity. These disruptions will exacerbate the already considerable gap between rich and poor, hitting marginalized groups — the impoverished, women, Indigenous communities and people of colour — much harder. Impacts on the environment have been mixed: carbon emissions may be down, but there are growing concerns that nature will be forgotten in the rush to rebuild devastated economies.

Wynne, L, Ruoso, L-E, Cordell, D & Jacobs, B 2020, '‘Locationally disadvantaged’: planning governmentalities and peri-urban agricultural futures', Australian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 377-397.
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© 2020, © 2020 Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. Peri-urban areas are the interface between urban and rural regions, with these regions traditionally acting as foodbowls for adjacent urban areas. This peri-urban agriculture provides a diverse suite of benefits to urban areas. Increasingly, however, peri-urban areas are being converted to residential uses, driven in part by higher land values secured for land converted for residential development. In Sydney, planning and development has tended to treat peri-urban areas as ‘suburbs in waiting’. Using a Foucauldian governmentality approach, this paper investigates the prevailing rationalities in metropolitan-level strategic planning documents—in particular A Plan for Growing Sydney and the Draft South West District Plan—and how these rationalities relate to peri-urban agriculture. Our analysis shows that the three overarching rationalities—the global city, the compact city and the sustainability agenda—frame the urbanisation of peri-urban agricultural lands as necessary and inevitable, and only integrate agriculture as part of the future of the city of Sydney when it can be rationalised within the ‘global city’ narrative. As a result, peri-urban areas are not considered to have unique planning needs, but are imagined as latent spaces that will enable Sydney to meet its housing and job targets through their future development.

Yuan, Y, Yellishetty, M, Mudd, GM, Muñoz, MA, Northey, SA & Werner, TT 2020, 'Toward dynamic evaluations of materials criticality: A systems framework applied to platinum', Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 152, pp. 104532-104532.
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Foster, T, Amin, N, Rahman, M, Liu, P, Moe, C & Willetts, J 1970, 'Modelling Faecal Pathogen Flows and Health Risks in Dhaka: What it Means for Sanitation Decision-making', UNC Water and Health, Chapel Hill.

Grant, M & Willetts, J 1970, 'Women’s Empowerment through WASH Enterprises in Cambodia and Indonesia', OzWater, Adelaide.

Hornsby, G, Lowe, J, Putri, GL, Foster, T, Willetts, J & Harris, A 1970, 'Investigating Antibiotic Resistant E. coli in Drinking Water in Bekasi, Indonesia', UNC Water and Health, Chapel Hill.

Ibrahim, IA & Hossain, MJ 1970, 'LSTM Neural Network Model for Ultra-short-term Distribution Zone Substation Peak Demand Prediction', 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), IEEE, Quebec, Canada, pp. 1-5.
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The accurate prediction of the distribution load demand data is the corner stone of future planning of the power system networks and energy management strategies and policies. This paper presents a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks model to predict the distribution zone substation peak demand data in New South Wales state, Australia for 14 years and based on 15-minute intervals. The obtained results are compared with those obtained by feed-forward neural networks (FFNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) models. Three statistical performance evaluation, namely, the root-mean-square error (RMSE), mean bias error (MBE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model. The RMSE, MBE and MAPE of the LSTM neural network model are 1.2556%, 1.2201% and 2.2250%, respectively. In addition, the computational time is 12.3309 second which is faster than FFNNs and RNNs models. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed model over the aforementioned models in terms of accuracy and computational speed.

Langham, E 1970, 'Societal value creation in Open Business Models', Jonker, J., Faber, N. (2020). Proceedings 5th International Online Conference on New Business Models. Nijmegen, OCF 2.0, Doetinchem (NL)., 5th International Online Conference on New Business Models, Netherlands.

MacArthur, J, Carrard, N & Willetts, J 1970, 'Measuring gender transformations in WASH: Findings from digital research', UNC Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy, and Practice, Online.

Maysarah, S, Putri, GL, Pratama, MA, Zulkarnain, F, Willetts, J, Foster, T, Genter, F, Harris, A & Priadi, CR 1970, 'The Occurrence of Escherichia coli in Groundwater of Bekasi City (Case Study: Jatiluhur, Sumur Batu, and Jatirangga Urban Villages)', IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2nd International Conference on Environment, Resources and Energy Engineering (EREE), IOP Publishing, Singapore, SINGAPORE, pp. 012008-012008.
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Abstract The self-supply of groundwater at the household level, and especially in densely populated areas, is vulnerable to fecal contamination. The aim of this study was to assess the level of fecal contamination in groundwater of three urban villages in Bekasi City that depend greatly on groundwater: Jatiluhur, Sumur Batu, and Jatirangga. Water samples were taken from 255 households with various types of water sources in the rainy season from February-March 2020. Escherichia coli (E. coli) concentration was quantified with Colilert-18 using IDEXX Quanti-Tray/2000 based on Most Probable Number (MPN) method. E. coli levels were beyond the WHO standard and found in 60% of the sources; 24% were above 100 MPN/100 mL. The presence of E. coli in groundwater indicated a requirement for further treatment prior to the point of consumption and an urgent need to replace the water supply infrastructure for improved water sources.

Mohseni, S, Brent, AC & Kelly, S 1970, 'A hierarchical, market-based, non-cooperative game-theoretic approach to projecting flexible demand-side resources: Towards more realistic demand response-integrated, long-term energy planning models', 2020 17th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), 2020 17th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), IEEE, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 1-6.
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This paper presents a non-cooperative, zero-sum, symmetric game approach to projecting the flexible demand-side resources to improve the reliability and robustness of long-term strategic energy planning models. A specifically devised distributed algorithm is put forward to determine the unique, pure-strategy Nash equilibrium of a non-cooperative game formulated for the delivery of aggregator-mediated demand response resources, at which no player can yield a higher payoff by deviating from its best-response strategy. The simulation for the operation of renewable energy systems is run over the course of a year. Furthermore, using a metaheuristic-based solution algorithm proposed for the optimal capacity planning of microgrids, the model was satisfactorily applied to the energy infrastructure planning of a test-case system conceptualized for the town of Ohakune, in New Zealand. The simulation results suggest that not only does the proposed market-directed, incentive-based, strategic demand-side management planning framework help elicit further contributions from the customers, which, in turn, reduces the reserve capacity requirements to meet the peak demand, it also guarantees the highest possible payoff for all players of the game. According to the simulation results, the test-case system's life-cycle cost can be reduced by up to ~29% compared to the case, where no demand response is considered.

Alexander, D, Dwyer, S, Briggs, C & Riedy, C Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) 2020, DER Customer Insights: Values and Motivations, Canberra.

Atherton, A, Nagrath, K, Bliemel, M, Chong, J & Cotton, D Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) 2020, Renewable Energy Venture Capital Fund Program Evaluation Report, https://arena.gov.au.
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ARENA engaged UTS to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the Renewable Energy Venture Capital Fund (REVC). The evaluation was conducted by University of Technology Sydney who were commissioned by ARENA. Overall the evaluation suggests the Fund has filled, and continues to fill, a market gap in early stage renewable energy funding in Australia. Mid-way through the fund’s life, portfolio company success is mixed so far, with it being too early to tell what the eventual impact will be for several companies. This picture of mixed success is consistent with venture capital (VC) patterns in renewable energy (RE) in other countries and in other sectors, where it is expected that some companies will fail, and others will succeed – a reflection of the higher risk associated with earlier stage investments.The REVC is now in its management phase. ARENA is acting on the two evaluation recommendations relating to this phase of the fund’s life.

Barclay, K, Davila Cisneros, F, Kim, Y, McClean, N & McIlgorm, A UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures 2020, Economic Analysis & Social and Economic monitoring following the NSW Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program, In February 2017, the Legislative Council’s General Purpose Standing Committee No. 5 released its final report from an inquiry into commercial fishing in NSW. Among other things, the report recommended “That the NSW Department of Primary Industries commission a Social Impact Assessment ..., no. NSW Department of Primary Industries, pp. 1-102, Department Website.
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During the twentieth century commercial fisheries in NSW had been managed to facilitate jobs and supply of seafood for local and overseas markets. Historically too many licenses had been issued and by the 1990s fisheries management shifted towards preventing overfishing, and a reform of NSW fisheries was commenced through the adoption of share managed fisheries in the Fisheries Management Act (1994). Rock lobster and Abalone fisheries became regulated by catch quotas and shares were in place by 2000, but other share management fisheries did not have catch quotas or equivalent effort restrictions put in place.By the 2000s economic conditions had declined for NSW commercial fisheries, for a mixture of commercial reasons, such as high production costs, and regulatory reasons, including the closure of fishing grounds for recreational fishing havens and marine protected areas. Business certainty was also undermined by the existence of fishing rights that were not often used, but if they were to be used may have resulted in overfishing. Reviews of fisheries management called for improving theeconomics and sustainability of the Industry through having more direct linkages between shares and limits on catches or effort.After coming to government in 2011 the Liberal National Party Government announced their intention to reform NSW commercial fisheries. This involved moving from the existing system with various forms of regulation on the input side, towards output controls (individual transferable quotas (ITQs), in the form of annual kilogram catch limits) for the fisheries where this was possible, and tighter input controls (individual transferable effort (ITEs), in the form of annual fishing days limits) for multispecies fisheries where output controls were not feasible. This reform came to be known as the Business Adjustment Program (BAP).It was a reform that had been inevitable since the early 2000s, given the NSW Government’s commitment to share manageme...

Briggs, C Business Renewable Centre - Australia 2020, A Guide to Off-Site Renewable Energy for Mid-Sized Buyers: Retail Renewable Power Purchase Agreements, Business Renewable Centre - Australia.

Briggs, C & Mey, F Global Compact Network Australia 2020, Just Transition: Implications for the Corporate Sector and Financial Institutions in Australia, Global Compact Network Australia.
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The era of coal-fired power is coming to an end. Solar and wind energy are the least-cost source of new electricity generation in two-thirds of the world (Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2019) and growing rapidly at the expense of coal power. Under the Paris Agreement, almost all nations have signed commitments that require net zero emissions by 2050.Over 130 financial institutions globally have announcedexit dates from financing, investing in or insuring thermalcoal (Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis[IEEFA]), 2020) and close to 1000 companies have set orcommitted to set targets aligned with the Paris Agreement under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The International Energy Agency (IEA) has highlighted that COVID-19 has caused a plunge in energy demand ‘seven times greater than the global financial crisis’, impacting heavily on coal, oil and gas whilst renewable energy is proving so far to be more resilient (IEA, 2020). The full impact of COVID-19 will be determined by the recovery paths taken around the world, but if low thermal coal demand persists aseconomies reopen, coal retirements are likely to accelerate. The question is no longer ‘if’ there will be a transition from coal to renewable energy but ‘when’ and ‘how’. For coal producing countries such as Australia, the challenge is how to avoid a ‘disruptive’ transition with social and economic dislocation in coal regions, while at the same time positioning ourselves to maximise the economic opportunities.

Briggs, C & Mey, F Business Renewables Centre - Australia 2020, Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements: Maximising Social Benefits and Minimising Social Risks, Business Renewables Centre - Australia.

Briggs, C, Dwyer, S, Alexander, D & Berry, F Prepared for Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning 2020, Mapping Energy Efficiency Product Supply Chains., UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Briggs, C, Rutovitz, J, Dominish, E & Nagrath, K Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology 2020, Renewable Energy Employment in Australia, https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/2020-06/Renewable-Jobs-Australia-ISF%20F.pdf.

Dwyer, S, Alexander, D & Niklas, S Prepared for Latrobe Valley Authority, Victorian Government 2020, Emergency Smart Grids –A Global Market Scan and opportunities for East Gippsland, Victoria., UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Dwyer, S, Alexander, D, Briggs, C & Riedy, C ARENA 2020, DER Customer Insights: The Customer Journey, Canberra.

Dwyer, S, McCoy, T, Hogarth, M, Langham, E, Rutovitz, J & Smith, H Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney 2020, Milestone 1 MyTown Microgrid: Data Sampling Design Plan Report, Report prepared as part of MyTown Microgrid project by UTS-ISF.

Feenstra, M, Tata Steel Nederland Technology B.V., Delft University of Technology, Tielo-Tech B.V. & TNO TKI 2020, CO2 utilisation integrated with HISarna and preparation for demonstration, Netherlands.

Foster, T, Kohlitz, J & Rand, E UNICEF 2020, Rural water supply services in Vanuatu in need of significant improvements, no. WASH Technical Paper TP/13/2020, Port Vila.
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This technical note examines the coverage and service levels for rural water supply in Vanuatu, anarchipelago in the South Pacific. The Vanuatu Water Resources Management Act mandates that a fullwater resources inventory be conducted every five years. In preparation for the 2020/2021 inventory,an analysis was conducted of the 2014/2016 data. The assessment comprises information on morethan 4,700 water sources across 44 islands. At that time, overall, 93% of water systems werefunctioning, and around 4 in 5 systems were deemed fully functional. While piped systems had thehighest functionality rate (96%), around one-third were unable to provide a 24-hour supply. More thanhalf of all systems (52%) failed to provide a year-round supply, with this issue being most acute forrainwater collection systems. When breakdowns occur, it takes on average more than a week to returnthe system to service. Community water committees were largely male dominated, with womenmaking up less than a third of all committee membership. This is despite female representation beingstrongly associated with more reliable water services. Water users typically bear the responsibility forfunding operation and maintenance costs, though a sizable proportion of committees did not have asystem in place for collecting revenues. Water safety is a concern, particularly for the majority ofspring-fed schemes and rainwater tanks that lacked adequate protection or treatment. While a highproportion of the rural population in Vanuatu have access to basic water supplies, significantimprovements in the management, operation and maintenance of these systems are needed in orderto make progress towards safely managed water services for all. In order to strengthen the evidencebase for the next inventory design and share data openly, this data is being published. A comparisionof these findings with current results, including a climate analysis will be forthcoming

Gero, A, Winterford, K, Fong, P, Rumsey, M, Argyrous, G & Duxson, S University of Technology Sydney 2020, Pacific Islands Emergency Management Alliance (PIEMA) Project Mid-Term Review Report, pp. 1-41, Sydney.
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This report presents findings of the Mid-Term Review of the Pacific Islands Emergency Management Alliance (PIEMA) project.

Grant, M & Megaw, T WaterAid 2020, Review of the implementation of WaterAid’s gender manual and facilitated sessions, Melbourne.
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This report was developed as a result of a partnership between Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (ISF-UTS) and WaterAid. The strategic and practical gender changes that men and women had experienced at community and household levels were discovered through the project. The study engaged 172 people across nine communities with an explicit focus on reflection, learning and action research with 18 field staff.

Grant, M, Hor, K, Bunthoeun, IV & Soeters, S ISF-UTS 2020, “Women who have a WASH job like me are proud and honoured”: A learning paper on how women can participate in and benefit from being part of the government WASH workforce in Cambodia, Sydney, Australia.

Grant, M, Willetts, J & Huggett, C Australian Water Partnership 2020, Gender Equality and Goal 6 – The Critical Connection: An Australian Perspective., pp. i-46, Canberra.
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This publication presents key issues pertinent to the relationship between SDG 5 and SDG 6, including:• water governance and gender inequalities;• climate change, resilience and disaster-risk reduction and gender equality;• sustainable cities, human settlements and gender;• water data and gender;• valuing water and gender; and• gender and universal access to safe water and sanitation.

James, G, Dwyer, S, Mathur, D, Niklas, S & Alexander, D Report prepared for Intyalheme Centre for Future Energy 2020, First Sector Support Workshop, Alice Springs.

Jazbec, M & Turner, A ISF 2020, Wastewater gas recovery opportunities in a circular economy, Institute for Sustainable Future.

Jazbec, M, Herring, J & Wakefield-Rann, R ISF 2020, NIRW Recycling Behaviour Change Program: Data Analysis, Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Jazbec, M, McGee, C & James, G DPIE 2020, Sustainability and Heat Report for Western Sydney Aerotropolis, DPIE.

Jazbec, M, Mukheibir, P & Turner, A Water Services Association of Australia 2020, Transitioning the water industry with circular economy, Sydney.
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This paper outlines the key building blocks required for a utility to transition to a circular economy as well as the value proposition and the many benefits to customers and the broader community, the environment and to utilities themselves.It also collates existing knowledge on the contribution of the urban water industry in a circular economy and recommends the next steps to help utilities begin or further advance their approach. It is supported by 15 international and Australian case studies showcasing the future possibilities for the urban water industry.

Jazbec, M, Turner, A, Madden, B & Fam, D ISF 2020, Organics Revolution, Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Kohlitz, J, Foster, T, Carrard, N & Willetts, J SNV 2020, Sustainable services for whom? Ensuring rural water service delivery supports equality, Learning Paper - ARWSS, pp. 1-20, The Hague.

Langham, E, Niklas, S, Nagrath, K, Dwyer, S & Rutovitz, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney 2020, MyTown Microgrid: Business Model Scan v1.0. Report, Report prepared as part of MyTown Micrgrid project by UTS-ISF.

McGee, C, Dwyer, S, Briggs, C, Herring, J & Niklas, S Report prepared for NSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment 2020, Customer journey mapping for the uptake of sustainability infrastructure in NSW apartments, UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Mey, F & Dwyer, S Prepared for Heyfield Community Resource Centre 2020, MyTown Microgrid Heyfield – Prefeasibility study and community engagement plan, UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Mukheibir, P & Fane, S UTS 2020, Making the case for adaptive investments at Sydney Water: Communicating 'optionality' in the face of significant uncertainty, Sydney.

Prior, J, Fam, D, McIntyre, E, Adams, J & Connon, I University of Technology Sydney 2020, Guide for Creating Stakeholder Engagement Plans for Contaminated Sites in NSW, Sydney, Australia.
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The purpose of this step-by-step guide is to provide information that can be used to construct stakeholder engagement plans for contaminated sites within New South Wales (NSW). In addition, the guide can be used to provide advice and feedback on existing stakeholder engagement plans. It has been estimated that more than 160,000 sites across Australia are polluted with as many as 75,000 different contaminants. A significant number of these sites are in New South Wales (NSW). Many people may be affected by, or interested in, these sites. These people include residents living near the site, landowners, officers from local government, or public health, environmental or other government regulatory authorities, and members of interest groups. It has become common practice within NSW to develop stakeholder engagement plans that assists with effectively engaging with these people who are affected by, or have an interested in, a contaminated site, and that specifies activities that will be implemented to manage or enhance engagement throughout the life of a contaminated site. “The EPA considers the guide, Step-by-Step Guide for Stakeholder Engagement for Contaminated Sites within NSW, prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Futures provides best practice guidance for contaminated land practitioners to understand and incorporate community perceptions of risk into the remediation planning process. While the EPA will not be approving the guide under the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 it will refer parties it regulates to the guidance in addition to engagement guidance set out in the National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure” (NSW EPA Correspondence, 2020).The guide was developed with the support of a range of organisations that address contaminated sites within the NSW context, including the NSW EPA, NSW local government, Cooperative Research Centre of Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, and ...

Robins, L, Crimp, S, Wensveen, MV, Alders, RG, Bourke, RM, Butler, B, Cosijn, M, Davila, F, Lal, A, McCarthy, JF, McWilliam, A, Palo, ASM, Thomson, N, Warr, P & Webb, M ACIAR 2020, ACIAR Technical Report No. 96, COVID-19 and Food Systems in the Indo-Pacific An Assessment of Vulnerabilities, Impacts and Opportunities for Action, no. 98, pp. 1-258, Australia.
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Emergency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have had dramatic impacts in the Indo-Pacific region. The COVID-19 shock has reverberated through food systems since its onset in early 2020, exposing and amplifying existing vulnerabilities. Smallholder farmers and fishers have had to react deftly and creatively as the situation unfolds, responding within the constraints of their local circumstances. Women, girls and other vulnerable groups have been hardest hit. This report presents the results of a study that examined the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food systems. It provides a basis for planning future research and development to support food systems resilience in the Indo-Pacific region, primarily from the perspective of smallholder farmers and fishers. The study comprised five assessments, focusing on the first six months of the pandemic (January–July 2020) in Indonesia, seven Pacific island countries, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Special attention was paid to identifying opportunities for action through research and development investments that might strengthen the resilience of food systems to future shocks.

Rutovitz, J, Briggs, C, Dominish, E & Nagrath, K Clean Energy Council 2020, Renewable Energy Employment in Australia: Methodology, https://assets.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/documents/resources/reports/Clean-Energy-at-Work/Institute-for-Sustainable-Futures-renewable-energy-jobs-methods-report.pdf.

Soeters, S, Grant, M, Salinger, A & Willetts, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2020, Gender equality and women in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) enterprises in Cambodia: synthesis of recent studies, ISF-UTS.

Tata Steel Nederland Technology B.V. & TNO RVO 2020, Zero Emissions Ironmaking Process - Phase 1 of the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) Study for the, Nederland.

Teske, S, Niklas, S, Atherton, A, Kelly, S & Herring, J Institute for Sustainable Futures/ University of Technology Sydney 2020, Sectoral pathways to net zero emissions, pp. 6-105, Report prepared by the University of Technology Sydney for the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance.

Watson, R, Fane, S, Butler, A & Berry, F Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2020, Murray-Darling Basin Water Efficiency Program; Water Savings Opportunities Summary report, Prepared for the Environmental Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate ACT by UTS-ISF.

Wilmot, K, Alexander, D, Middelhoff, E & James, G University of Technology Sydney 2020, Output metrics and framework: NatHERS Whole-of-Home Ratings, Sydney Australia.

Wilmot, K, Ruoso, L-E & Sharpe, S University of Technology Sydney 2020, Innovation Precincts, Sydney Australia.

Wilmot, K, Ruoso, L-E & Zeibots, M University of Technology Sydney 2020, Existing and emerging technologies to enhance beach safety management, Sydney Australia.

Winfield, D, Tilleard, S, Grant, M, Weber, T & Harriss, D Australian Water Partnership 2020, BasinGuide: A Guide to River Basin Planning, Canberra, Australia.
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This guide to river basin planning is intended to be a reference for government and non-government practitioners undertaking river basin planning in the Indo-Pacific region. This guide draws on basin planning and other types of water planning experiences in Australia, as well as the experience ofAustralian practitioners working internationally.Whilst this document has drawn on the Australian perspective, it is recognised that water planning drivers will be different in every country. For example, a focus on planning for drought and critical human water needs may not be a priority in all countries, but instead a focus on flood management,water quality or fairer distribution of water resources between different users and the environment may be more relevant. Therefore, whilst this guide draws on the “lessons learned” in Australia, experiences from other countries are equally useful and have also been included.

Winterford, K, Gero, A, Megaw, T, Fee, A & Cunningham, R Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2020, Deep Dive Evaluation of Inclusive Economic Growth in Indonesia, Sydney, Australia.

Winterford, K, Megaw, T & Gero, A Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney 2020, Literature review of gender-transformative change and social accountability. Gender-transformative social accountability - Working Paper 1., Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney.
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In this Working Paper we explore ‘gender-transformative change’ as defined through a range of gender studies literature and current and emerging development practice and consider the application of this thinking to social accountability.

Winterford, K, Panday, PK, Baroi, HS, Ahsan, AHMK, Megaw, T & Willetts, J Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney 2020, Learning Report from the Nobo Jatra Program: Gender-transformative social accountability for inclusive WASH, Prepared for World Vision Bangladesh by UTS-ISF.
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This Learning Report is part of a research award supported by the Water for Women Fund of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) which seeks to address knowledge gaps in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project delivery. The research is being implemented through an academic-NGO partnership between: the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (ISF-UTS); World Vision Bangladesh (WVB); World Vision Australia (WVA); and the University of Rajshahi (UoR).The research explores the contribution of social accountability to inclusive WASH, with a focus on improving water service levels in rural Bangladesh. The research contributes to WVB’s implementation of Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), a social accountability approach which mobilises and equips citizens to monitor government services and advocate for their improvement. The research is being undertaken over three years (2018 to 2021).The research is linked to the implementation of Strengthening Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in WASH in Bangladesh (SHOMOTA), a civil society organisation (CSO) project also funded under the Water for Women Fund. Implemented by WVB, SHOMOTA is an integrated project incorporating water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), the empowerment of women and people with disabilities, and engagement with government and the private sector. The project’s primary goal is to equip key stakeholders within sub-national governments, schools, businesses and community-based organisations (CBOs) to enable them to improve gender- and disability-inclusive WASH in schools and communities.The investigation into social accountability practice in World Vision’s Nobo Jatra Program (NJP) documented in this Learning Report will inform the co-design of ‘gender-transformative social accountability’ in the SHOMOTA Project sites (districts of Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Satkhira) and the next phases of the research.The case study research described in this Learni...

Carr, R, Lancaster, E, Vozzo, B, Chan, A, Walton, A, Lopez, B, Wagner, E, McCulloch, A & Jones, T 2020, 'UTS 4 Climate', UTS 4 Climate, UTS impact Studios, UTS Impact Studios.
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UTS 4 Climate brings together leading thinkers from politics, economics, science and journalism to continue the conversation on climate. This podcast features conversations conducted in 2020 by the Honourable Bob Carr, Industry Professor of Climate and Business at the University of Technology Sydney. This series creates a space to explore climate change from all angles and find practical answers to what we can do to address the climate crisis and secure our futures. This podcast was made by Impact Studios at UTS in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Cunningham, R, Jacobs, B & Boronyak, L 2020, 'Climate Adapted People Shelters (CAPS) 360 webVR', Climate Adapted People Shelters (CAPS) 360 webVR, Online.
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The Climate Adapted People Shelters (CAPS) project initiated acollaborative, design-led approach to reimagining the place and function of bus shelters, specifically in response to conditions of increasing urban heat and extreme weather events in Western Sydney.From user engagement through an open innovation design completion to monitoring and evaluation in a real world environment of the constructed shelter. This piece uses 360 VR imagery and embeds report findings into webVR to create a virtual tour of the Climate Adapted People Shelter and communicate findings from the monitoring and evaluation report. Further information on the CAPS project, including full reports are available at the following link:https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/our-research/climate-change/climate-adapted-people-sheltersThe project was supported through the Building Resilience to Climate Change grants scheme, funded by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and the NSW Environmental Trust and administered by Local Government NSW.

Khara, T 2020, 'Animals suffer for meat production – and abattoir workers do too', The Conversation.

Khara, T 2020, 'Chai Noon Episode 41- What's For Dinner?', Radio Public, UK.
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Interview with Radio Public

Kohlitz, J, Megaw, T, Chong, J, Sugi, F, Palaipeni, P, Emanual, Y, Brikman, H, Joman, Y, Landa, S, Talan, J, Leong, L, Kelleher, J & Gero, A 2020, 'Climate Change Response for Inclusive WASH: A guidance note for Plan International Indonesia'.
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Prepared for Plan International Indonesia

McIntyre, E, Harnett, J, Adams, J & Steel, A 2020, 'The role of complementary medicine health literacy in health communication and decision-making'.
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Abstract Background Globally, complementary medicine (CM) product use is high-including vitamins, minerals and herbal medicines. The overuse of CM raises concerns about medicine sustainability that are critical considerations for human and planetary health. Poor CM health literacy may lead to the unnecessary use of CM. This is the first study to explore associations between CM use, CM health literacy, and concurrent use of CM with conventional health care in an Australian population with a view to identifying priority areas for intervention. Methods Cross-sectional online study of Australian adults (N = 2019). A 50-item survey measured demographic and health characteristics, health care and treatment use, medicine use disclosure to health care providers, and CM health literacy. Descriptive statistics, Spearman's correlations and Chi-square analysis were used to analyse preliminary findings. Results In the previous year 49.1% of participants used a CM product. A greater proportion of those who used CM products (88.7%, <0.001), compared to those who did not, used a prescription or over-the-counter pharmaceutical. Lower levels of CM health literacy were associated with herbal supplement use (not vitamin/mineral supplement use) and with disclosing CM use to a medical doctor or pharmacist (p < 0.01). Those who consulted with a GP, specialist or pharmacist, who self-prescribed CM, or used both CM and pharmaceutical medicines had better CM health literacy (p < 0.001) than those who did not. Conversely, those who consulted a CM practitioner had lower CM health liter...

McKeon, J, Murphy, F, Prendergast, J & Briggs, C 2020, 'Corporate Renewable Power Purchase Agreements: State of the Market 2019'.

Megaw, T & Winterford, K 2020, 'Gender-transformative social accountability model. Gender-transformative social accountability - Working Paper 2.'.

Megaw, T, Kohlitz, J & Chong, J 2020, 'Socially-inclusive Responses to Climate Change Impacts on WASH: Case Study in Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia'.
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Prepared for Plan International Indonesia

Megaw, T, Kohlitz, J, Gero, A & Chong, J 2020, 'Understanding and responding to climate change impacts in inclusive WASH programs – a conceptual framework – Learning Paper'.

Winfield, D, Grant, M, Tilleard, S, Weber, T & Harriss, D 2020, 'BasinGuide: A guide to river basin planning'.

Winterford, K & Megaw, T 2020, 'Guidance Notes: Gender-transformative social accountability - Gender and Social Inclusion in Citizen Voice and Action in SHOMOTA'.
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Prepared for World Vision Bangladesh

Winterford, K, Megaw, T & Gero, A 2020, 'Literature review of gender-transformative change and social accountability. Gender-transformative social accountability - Working Paper 1'.

Winterford, K, Megaw, T, Panday, PK, Baroi, HS, Ahsan, AHMK, Ferdows, HL & Roy, P 2020, 'Guidance Notes: Gender-transformative social accountability - Gender and Social Inclusion in Citizen Voice and Action in SHOMOTA', Prepared for World Vision Bangladesh.

Winterford, K, Megaw, T, Panday, PK, Baroi, HS, Ahsan, AHMK, Ferdows, HL & Roy, P 2020, 'Guidance Notes: Gender-transformative social accountability - Gender and Social Inclusion in Citizen Voice and Action in SHOMOTA'.