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Carbon Neutral Communities Research Reports

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Working Papers

WP01 Carbon Neutral Communities: Definitions and Prospects

WP02 Carbon assessment methods and methodologies for carbon assessment at LGA scale (PDF 197 Kb) (opens in new window)

WP03 Renewable energy resource assessment methods (PDF 208 KB ) (opens in new window)

WP05 Energy efficiency potential for Playford LGA (PDF 1.06 MB 53P) (opens in a new window)

WP06 Conceptualising everyday practices: composition, reproduction and change (PDF 21P 200KB)

Conference papers

3rd Victorian Sustainable Development Conference, May 2010, Melbourne

Susie Moloney

Carbon Neutral Communities (PPT 3.3MB)

3rdInternational Solar Energy Society Asia Pacific Conference “Resourcing a low carbon future”, Sydney on 25-28 November 2008.

Cathryn Hamilton, Jon Kellett, and Trivess Moore

Resourcing a low carbon future (PDF 150Kb) (Opens new window)

3rdAHRC Conference: “Housing Research for a Sustainable Affordable Future”, 18-20 June 2008 RMIT University, Melbourne

Susie Moloney, Cecily Maller and Ralph Horne

Housing and sustainability: bridging the gap between technical solutions and householder behaviour (PDF 79 Kb)

3rd International Solar Cities World Congress, Adelaide, February 2008

Ralph Horne, Margaret Bates and John Fien

Carbon Neutral Households: Making the transition through learning from experience in community health (PDF 76.76Kb) (opens in new window)

Cathryn Hamilton, Jon Kellett and X Yuan

Carbon Profiling: An Analysis of Methods for Establishing the Local Emissions Baseline (PDF 183Kb) (opens in new window)

Journal articles

Jon Kellett and Cathryn Hamilton (2009) 'Carbon Reduction at the Local Level', The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp.115-126.

Carbon Reduction at the Local Level

Susie Moloney, Ralph Horne and John Fien (2009) 'Transitioning to low carbon communities - from behaviour change to systemic change: Lessons from Australia', Energy Policy (published online)

'Transitioning to low carbon communities - from behaviour change to systemic change: Lessons from Australia’

Further Publications

Cathryn Hamilton (2009) 'The power of rooftops in a carbon neutral future', RICS Oceania Best Research Paper 2009

Kellett J (2009) ‘Climate Proofing Australian Cities’, Gift of Knowledge Lecture, University of South Australia, 23 September, 2009

The power of rooftops in a carbon neutral future

Carbon Neutral Communities Forum

The forum will present the findings of the three-year ARC project “Carbon Neutral Communities: Making the Transition”, which examined approaches to advancing carbon neutrality at the community and local government levels.

More about the Carbon Neutral Communities Forum