Configuring Urban Carbon Governance: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical fra...

Indicators for Assessing Good Governance of Protected Areas: Insights from Park Managers in Western Australia

10.2305/IUCN.CH.2016.PARKS-22-1BPS.en ABSTRACT Effective management of protected areas relies on good governance. An assessment was undertaken using the standards provided by the United Nations Development Programme’s characteristics of good governance for sustainable development as a starting point. Being able to assess governance based on indicators is essential for ongoing effective manageme...

Governance supporting distributed energy systems for low carbon urban development

Global change is required from a strong dependency on high consumption and carbon intensive economies to reduced consumption and low carbon society construction. Cities can offer an enormous contribution to the reduction of carbon emissions; however this process requires a certain degree of rethinking and redesigning of our cities including, infrastructural restructuring with network patterns a...

Urban Green Infrastructure Impacts on Climate Regulation Services in Sydney, Australia

In many parts of the world, urban planning has a renewed focus on addressing the multiple challenges associated with population growth and climate change. Focused on local needs and priorities, these planning processes are raising tensions between more compact and dense urban form to reduce energy use and associated emissions and the provision of urban green infrastructure for ecosystem service...

Estimating Imperviousness Using Ndvi at Multiple Resolutions for Urban Catchments in Sydney, Australia