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University of Melbourne
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Urban And Regional Planning | Building Construction Management | Urban and Regional Planning | Social Policy And Planning |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
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Publications
Reflections Seven Years on From the First Declaration of Climate Emergency: Large-Scale Text Analysis of Local Government Climate Policy in Australia
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 29-06-2023
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-3079836/V1
Abstract: Seven years on from the first declaration of climate emergency, we will undertake a large-scale text analysis of local government climate strategy documents of 196 climate policies over 140 local governments in Australia from 2016 to the end of 2022. We aim to ascertain whether we have witnessed a shift in the policy response from ‘business as usual’ towards a new emergency mode of climate governance. We focus on Australia as the home to the first declaration of climate emergency from local government. We utilise topic modelling to depict the commonalities and ergences of key topics/themes in the climate policies of local government in Australia to map these key topics against a framework that identifies key attributes of climate emergency policy framing mode. The size of our dataset enables us to draw conclusions, although limited to Australia, and we conclude that local governments that did declare a climate emergency have a higher presence of the attributes of climate emergency mode. Key to note is the presence of topics for the attributes of urgency of action, prioritisation of action, and social mobilisation points to a move away from business as usual to accelerated climate action in local governments that declared a climate emergency.
A model to identify the risks to sustainable urban development
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2008
Contesting green technology in the city: techno-apartheid or equitable modernisation?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-04-2017
The emerging addition of resilience as a component of sustainability in urban policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Is social-ecological resilience a new frame for environmental and urban policy?
Publisher: Australian Cities Research Network
Date: 2018
Metropolitan Strategies and Climate Governance: Towards New Evaluative Approaches
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2018
The New Urban Assertions: No Prospect
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-12-2016
Is electricity affordable in South Australia?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2005
Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks: A research agenda
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-01-2019
Abstract: Networked urban governance is emerging as a major feature of metropolitan strategy and activity. The field of urban studies is yet to deeply engage in the debates on the new forms of cross national networking that are potentially framing and reframing urban governance and strategy. Yet this dimension of urban governance can no longer go unnoticed. In this article we draw together insights from the extant literature into a research agenda on reconfiguring urban governance. We propose a research agenda centred on three themes: the political economy of ‘new-gen’ networks, especially in relation to the role of economic power in determining participation and influence the knowledge dynamics in city networks in understanding the socio-spatial configurations that are underpinning the decision-making processes and outcomes and the implications of city networks for traditional institutions that have in the past shaped cities’ strategies, development and government. Our commentary considers and links these emergent themes, noting how these bear serious and urgent consideration for mainstream urban studies.
Lifeboat Cities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
The wandering energy stars: The challenges of valuing energy efficiency in Australian housing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
A framework for understanding the key drivers of cities' climate actions in city networks
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne?s innovation district
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
The making of a climate emergency response: Examining the attributes of climate emergency plans
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Understanding how city networks are leveraging climate action: experimentation through C40
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-10-2020
DOI: 10.1186/S42854-020-00017-7
Abstract: Climate change is one of the most challenging environmental and social problems for contemporary urban planning. In response to this phenomenon, city networks have emerged as new configurations of urban climate governance that encourage the implementation of experiments such as testing new solutions regarding sustainable transport. While city networks are gaining momentum and influence as effective platforms to transform and scale up pilot experiments into city-wide schemes, little is known regarding their role in conditioning and leveraging such urban experiments Our paper investigates the underexplored nature of urban experiments within city networks and provides a better understanding of how these networks condition urban experiments. To this end an analytical model has been developed and applied to the case of the C40 Climate Leadership Group (C40) and its Climate Positive Development Good Practice Guide. Our findings suggest that the C40 encourages variation in local climate experiments and the generation of new and innovative climate solutions in member cities. In particular they reveal that the implementation of climate positive experiments has passed the ‘variation’ stage, is currently in the ‘selection’ stage, and likely to move towards the ‘retention’ stage in the near future. Potential experimentation outputs of the case are identified as built environment change, new citizen practices, policy change, infrastructural change and new technology. Noticeably, we consider that the C40 plays an important role in providing fundamental institutional support to implement and leverage climate projects within its member cities.
Towards an integrated sustainability indicator framework
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2005
Institutionalising 100 Resilient Cities governance experiments in cities with no metropolitan government: A case study of Living Melbourne (Resilient Melbourne), Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Situating C40 in the Evolution of Networked Urban Climate Governance
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2019
Metropolitan governance in action? Learning from metropolitan Melbourne’s urban forest strategy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-03-2020
The implications for urban sustainability of the location of paid work and transit routes in Adelaide, South Australia
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2012
Urban Governance for a Sustainable Future
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2020
A Decade of C40: Research Insights and Agendas for City Networks
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2019
New Socio-ecological Imperatives for Cities: Possibilities and Dilemmas for Australian Metropolitan Governance
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-09-2018
Urban Resilience in Action: the Resilient Melbourne Strategy as Transformative Urban Innovation Policy?
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 29-01-2019
DOI: 10.3390/SU11030693
Abstract: More and more cities are developing strategies and implementing actions to increase their resilience to a ersity of environmental, social and economic challenges. International networks such as 100 Resilient Cities, established by the Rockefeller Foundation, are supporting cities to find and implement solutions to ‘shocks and stresses.’ This new approach to urban governance, often initiated by philanthropic organizations, is debated. On the one hand, these initiatives are celebrated as catalysts for transformational change through ‘collaboration’ and ‘co-design’ in contexts such as mobility, energy, green space or housing. On the other hand, urban resilience initiatives have been criticized for prioritizing private sector agendas and top-down approaches and hollowing out public sector tasks and democratic participation. However, little is known how urban resilience strategies are actually implemented in practice. Embedded action research on the implementation of the Resilient Melbourne strategy provides the opportunity to have a closer look at this highly contested topic. This paper provides first insights into the research project Urban Resilience in Action, using the Resilient Melbourne strategy to assess the implementation of selected actions. It shows that a reconceptualization and new analytical dimensions are needed to understand urban resilience as an urban innovation strategy.
A review of existing policy for reducing embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions of buildings
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
New Global City Governance? Driven By New Urban Imperatives Of Climate And Resilience
Publisher: Science Trends
Date: 21-11-2017
Reimagining climate networking between cities: clustering cities based on a large dataset of mitigation actions
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 12-07-2022
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-1806235/V1
Abstract: The existing networking dynamics in climate city networks are hierarchical as a few global cities are viewed as the leaders to be followed by other cities due to their higher visibility. Achieving ambitious climate goals requires expanding the knowledge of a erse range of cities and networking opportunities. To expand knowledge of erse cities, we provide evidence of cities’ similarity patterns based on their mitigation actions by a large-scale clustering method. Applying K-means clustering to Carbon Disclosure Project’s mitigation data, we find five clusters of cities based on two measures. Nature of actions indicates cities’ similarity based on their actions’ sectoral combinations, and finance profile indicates the commonality of their actions’ financial arrangements. Using these measures, we present a novel way to render socio-spatially erse cities similar. Intersecting these two measures in a matrix, we offer ways to reimagine networking between cities and illuminate the complexity of cities’ climate actions.
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Related Funding Activities
Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0883493
Start Date: 06-2009
End Date: 12-2011
Amount: $239,631.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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