STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Andrew Butt
Position:
Assoc Dean, Sustain & Urban Plan
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399253351
Email:
andrew.butt@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Andrew is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS) and the Centre for Urban Research (CUR) at RMIT.
Andrew is a planning educator and researcher with a focus on rural and regional planning issues. He has a background in planning practice and his current research and supervision is in the area of land use change and planning policy associated with regional Australia, food systems and peri-urban development.
Publications at Google Scholar.
Andrew undertakes teaching and research in the areas of land use planning, population change and the relationship between environment, society and policy. He is presently the Program Manager of the Master of Urban Planning and Environment and the Master of International Urban Environmental Management.
- PhD, La Trobe University
- Master of Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne
- BA (Urban Studies) Victoria University
Peri-urbanisation processes (Australia and elsewhere)
Rural and regional planning and governance
Planning practice and the profession
Andrew has worked for over 20 years in planning practice in Australia and elsewhere. More recently, he has undertaken several industry-funded research projects with government agencies in the areas of rural planning, regional development and demographic analysis.
- Deilami, K.,Shooshtarian, S.,Rudner, J.,Butt, A.,Amati, M. (2022). Resilience and Adaptation Strategies for Urban Heat at Regional, City and Local Scales In: Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience, Springer, Switzerland
- Sun, C.,MacLeod, T.,Both, A.,Hurley, J.,Butt, A.,Amati, M. (2021). A human-centred assessment framework to prioritise heat mitigation efforts for active travel at city scale In: Science of the Total Environment, 763, 1 - 39
- Butt, A.,Kroen, A.,Steele, W.,Duhr, S. (2021). Local government co-ordination: metropolitan governance in twenty-first century Australia In: AHURI Final Report, , 1 - 69
- Buxton, M.,Butt, A. (2020). The Future of the Fringe: the crisis in peri-urban planning, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
- Choice, G.,Butt, A. (2020). Making regions: localisation and the new periphery in emerging regional governance In: Australian Planner, 56, 114 - 124
- Middha, B.,Butt, A.,Li, T. (2020). Living Locally: Beveridge North West In: Resilient Melbourne, DELWP Melbourne, Australia
- Deilami, K.,Rudner, J.,Butt, A.,MacLeod, T.,Williams, G.,Romeijn, H.,Amati, M. (2020). Allowing Users to Benefit from Tree Shading: Using a Smartphone App to Allow Adaptive Route Planning during Extreme Heat In: Forests, 11, 1 - 15
- Middha, B.,Butt, A.,Li, T. (2020). Living Locally Beveridge North-West Volume I In: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Melbourne, Australia
- Butt, A.,Middha, B.,Li, T. (2020). Living Locally Beveridge North-West Volume II :Consideration of, precinct structure planning and 20-minute neighbourhoods in greenfield areas In: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Melbourne, Australia
- Butt, A.,Amati, M.,Sun, Q.,Deilami, K. (2019). Planning shadeways in Bendigo: an example of digital planning to adapt to extreme heat In: Proceedings of the 9th State of Australian Cities National Conference (SOAC 2019), Perth, Australia, 3 - 5 December 2019
1 PhD Completions1 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
- Activating social connection to address isolation in Australia (externally led by Swinburne University of Technology). Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2020 from (2021 to 2024)
- Local Government Co-ordination: Metropolitan Governance in Twenty-first Century Australia. Funded by: AHURI Research Grants 2019 (CAT 1 Generic) from (2019 to 2020)
- Enabling active travel in Australian cities by mapping shadeways (Smart Active Transport - Urban Heat Maps for Bendigo). Funded by: Smart Cities and Suburbs Program - 2017 onwards from (2017 to 2020)