Transitions: Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development in AustraliaPeter W. Newton Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and principal among them are resource-constraints, such as oil, water, food, skilled labour and materials, and carbon-constraints, linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy, both of which will strongly shape urban development this century. Transitions identifies 21st century challenges to the resilience of Australia’s cities and regions that flow from a range of global and local influences, and offers a portfolio of solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and how they plan for the future, and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyles and consumption patterns. With contributions from 92 researchers – all leaders in their respective fields – this book offers the expertise to chart pathways for a sustainability transition. |
Contents
Transitioning to Sustainable Urban Development | 3 |
Global and Local Forces ReShaping Cities | 21 |
Climate Change | 23 |
Resource Consumption and Resource Depletion | 35 |
Energy Security and Oil Vulnerability | 57 |
The Oil Transition | 75 |
Globalisation | 91 |
Tourism | 103 |
Hydrogen Energy | 391 |
Distributed Energy Systems | 411 |
EnergyEfficient Housing and Subdivision Design | 425 |
Transitions in Transport | 437 |
Transition to Integrated Urban Water Systems | 449 |
Urban Water Futures | 451 |
Integrated Urban Water Management | 461 |
Decentralised Water and Wastewater Systems | 479 |
Consumers in 2020 | 113 |
Demographic and Settlement Transitions | 131 |
Demographic Transitions | 133 |
Future Urban Population and Settlement Transitions | 149 |
Metropolitan Evolution | 171 |
Transitioning to Resilient Cities | 189 |
Sealevel Rise | 191 |
Flood | 211 |
Drought and High Temperature Extremes Effects on Water and Electricity Demands | 227 |
Bushfire | 245 |
Biodiversity | 253 |
Biosecurity | 267 |
Natural Hazards and Property Loss | 281 |
Community Health | 295 |
Community Social and Human Capital | 309 |
Transition to Renewable Energy | 325 |
Energy Futures | 327 |
Biofuels | 345 |
Solar Energy | 359 |
Wind Energy | 379 |
The Waterefficient City Technological and Institutional Drivers | 495 |
Changing Attitudes to Urban Water Use and Consumption | 507 |
Transitioning Waste to Resources | 519 |
Cradletocradle Manufacturing | 521 |
Ecoindustrial Development | 537 |
Infrastructure and Urban Planning Transitions | 561 |
Urban Form Sustainability and Lifestyles in 21st Century Cities | 563 |
The Urban Environment and Health | 573 |
Smart Development Designing the Built Environment for Improved Access and Health Outcomes | 585 |
Transitions to Smart Sustainable Infrastructure | 599 |
Critical Foundations Providing Australias 21st Century Infrastructure | 609 |
Transitioning Attitudes to Sustainability | 627 |
Government and Sustainability Reporting | 629 |
Sustainable Corporations | 641 |
Community Engagement and Behaviour Change | 651 |
Two Scenarios for the Future | 665 |
Transitioning to The Simpler Way | 667 |
Designing and Innovating a Sustainable Society | 675 |
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Other editions - View all
Transitions: Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Australia Peter W Newton Limited preview - 2008 |
Transitions: Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Australia Peter W. Newton No preview available - 2013 |