Publications and Presentations

Below is a list of the publications and presentations produced by the researchers involved in the Re-imagining the Australian Suburb project. Selected presentations and publications are available to download as Adobe pdf documents.

Biodiversity Planning in Urban Fringe Landscapes

DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, 11 November 2005.

Ascelin Gordon, ‘Biodiversity Viability Assessment in the Urban Fringe of Melbourne’, (pdf; 2.0M)

Ecological Society of Australia Conference 2005, 29th November - 2nd December 2005, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane.

Ascelin Gordon, ‘Combining Approaches to Multi-Species Viability Assessment’ (pdf; 2.1M)

Goergia Garrard, ‘When have we looked hard enough? Incorporating plant detectability and sampling effort into threatened species legislation’ (pdf; 161K)

Bill Langford, ‘Improving Offset Policies Through Modeling As Sequential Reserve Selection’ (pdf; 56K)

EcoFootprint of Aurora Estate

Centre for Design and Global Footprint Network, ‘Ecological Footprint Analysis of Aurora Residential Development’, report to VicUrban (not publicly released) November 2005.

EcoHome – Sustainability and innovation in housing developments

Fiona Martin, 'The ‘Eco Home’ Melbourne, Australia', in R. Hyde, W. Cheshire, M. Thompson and S. Watson (eds). Environmental Brief. Spon Press, London, pp. 167-182.

Sibley J. (2004) 'Environmentally Conscious Home Buyers' Who are they and what do they want? Report for the Centre for Design funded by the EcoHome ARC, Australand Holdings, Delfin Lend Lease, 28th September 2004.

Sibley J. (2003) Making sense of socio-cultural issues and sustainability in outer suburban housing developments, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment SASBE 2003, Brisbane, ISBN 1741070414, November 2003.

Sibley, J., D. Hes and F. Martin (2003). A Triple Helix Approach: An inter-disciplinary approach to research into sustainability in outer-suburban housing estates. Methodologies in Housing Research, Stockholm.

Dominique Hes, 'Facilitating Sustainable building: turning observation to practice', in S. Holdsworth and T. Caswell. Protecting the Future – Global sustainability in practice at RMIT University. CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 137-158.

Syed M S Rahman, Saman de Silva and Indubhushan Patnaikuni, “Housing Sustainability in Australia”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Sustainability 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 7-9 February 2006. (pdf; 124K)

Syed M S Rahman, Saman de Silva, Indubhushan Patnaikuni. “Thermal performance of the Metricon Ecohome during preoccupation period”, Proceedings of the ERE 2005, Hobart, Tasmania, RMIT University. (pdf; 252K)

Syed M S Rahman, Saman de Silva and Indubhushan Patnaikuni ‘Instrumentation and Monitoring Strategies in Measuring the Performance of Sustainable Housing’, in Collaboration and Harmonization in Creative Systems ­– Hara (editor), 2005, Taylor and Francis Group, London, , pp. 269- 274. (pdf; 143K)

Syed M S Rahman, Indubhushan Patnaikuni and Saman de Silva “Housing Sustainability in Australia” [in CD] Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Sustainability 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb 7- 9, 2006.

S. Rahman, S De Silva & I Patnaikuni “The Cairnlea Ecohome in Melbourne – thermal performance during Autumn (April 2005)” [in CD] Proceedings of the Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 19-21 June 2006.

Ecological Sustainability in Urban Development

Dalton, T., Binder, G. (2006) “Innovating for sustainability in estate development: VicUrban in metropolitan Melbourne”, in Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World; policy practice and performance. Ashgate, London

Hurley, J., Horne, R. (2006) “Review and Analysis of Tools for the Implementation and Assessment of Sustainable Urban Development”, EIANZ 2006, Adelaide, Environmental Institute of Australian and New Zealand.

Horne, R., Hurley, J. (2006) “Assessing life cycle environmental performance of suburban Australia: Reconciling planning, regulation and scale” World Planning Schools Conference, Mexico City.

Dalton, T., Binder, G. (2006) “Innovating for sustainability in estate development: VicUrban in metropolitan Melbourne”, Australasian Housing Researchers Conference

Binder, G., Dalton, T. (2006) “Organisational factors in the development and implementation of sustainable urban design, a preliminary assessment of innovation within a statutory urban land development agency”, Re-imagining the Australian Suburb, 2006

Binder, G., Dalton, T. (2006) “Organisational factors in the development and implementation of sustainable urban design, a preliminary assessment of innovation within a statutory urban land development agency”, The Sustainable City V, Ed. U. Mandler, C.A. Brebbia & E. Tiezzi, WIT Press Southhampton (In Press)

Hurley, J., Horne, R. E., Terry, A., Goodman, R., Buxton, M. (2006) Sustainable outcomes for Transit Cities: Urban environment design guide and assessment review”, Centre for Design at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Local Governance and Community Building

Anthony Kent, 'Labour Market Disadvantage in Melbourne's North', State of Australian Cities Conference, Brisbane, 30 November- 2 December 2005.

Annette Kroen and Jan Scheurer, ‘A Marriage of convenience? Rail-Supportive Transport Policies and Urban Consolidation in Station Precincts in Australia and Europe’, State of Australian Cities Conference, Brisbane, 30 November- 2 December 2005.

N. Pepperell (2006) “Grounding the Potential for Transformative Practice” Governments & Communities in Partnership: from Theory to Practice, Melbourne, 25-27 September.

C. Speed, (2006) 'Anthropocentrism and sustainable development: oxymoron or symbiosis?’, presented at the Sustainable City Conference, Tallinn, 17- 19 July 2006, proceedings published in U. Mander, C.A. Brebbia & E. Tiezzi (eds), The Sustainable City IV, WIT Press, Southampton, 2006, pp. 323-332

T. Smith (2005) “The ethics of mobility: a framework for assessing mobility paradigms” in U. Mander, C.A. Brebbia & E. Tiezzi (eds), The Sustainable City IV, WIT Press, Southampton, 2006, pp. 569-578

A. Kroen & R. Goodman (2006) “Decision‐Making Through Inter–Communal Collaboration: Collaboration for Transit‐Oriented Development in Europe”, Governments & Communities in Partnership: from Theory to Practice, Melbourne, 25-27 September.

N. Pepperell (2006) "Drapac's Dreaming: Reflections on the Theory and Methodology of an Ethnographic Research Project" RMIT Higher Degrees by Research Conference, 6 July 2006.

N. Pepperell (2006) "Sense and Sensibility: Reflections on the Researcher as a Research Tool" RMIT Higher Degrees by Research Conference, 22 November 2006.

N. Pepperell (2006) "Sentimental Blokes: Reflections on the Dispute over the Doreen Town Hall" RMIT Environment & Planning Seminar, 23 November 2006.

Sustainable Urban Water Systems

Tim Grant and Lisa Opray, ‘LCA Report for Sustainability Alternative Water and Sewerage Servicing Options’, Centre for Design, RMIT University, report to Yarra Valley Water (not publicly released), 22 September 2005.