Publications

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Recent publications

• Strategic Planning for Melbourne's Green Wedges

  RESEARCH PAPER
  This paper highlights some critical trade-offs between competing land uses in the Green Wedges, particularly where areas with high biodiversity values are involved.

• Growing a Clean Economy: Opportunities for Australian States and Territories

  This Discussion Paper presents opportunities for state and territory-level governments to work towards fostering strong economies that facilitate deep emissions reductions by 2050.

• Hope and Courage in the Climate Crisis

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  Explores how we can remain hopeful and courageous in the face of the climate emergency.

• MSSI Annual Report 2020

  MSSI ANNUAL REPORT
  

• Urban Awakenings: Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  Based on walks around their home city, the authors find new ways of seeing and understanding urban life in the 21st century.

• Developing and Implementing an Approach to Regional Innovation and Development in Gippsland

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  This report outlines the achievements of the first phase of the Gippsland Smart Specialisation Strategy (GS3).

• Benchmarking Urban Exchanges: Lessons for Melbourne

  RESEARCH PAPER
  This benchmarking report outlines the potential future themes and activities to foster Melbourne’s transition toward a more sustainable and healthier city.

• Feeling the Heat

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  This book connects international stories on bushfires to provide a unified strategic perspective on the prevention of wildfire ignition.

• MSSI Annual Report 2019

  MSSI ANNUAL REPORT
  

• Land-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal Options for Victoria

  This paper finds that there is potential for Victoria's land sector to make a contribution to climate change mitigation through carbon dioxide removal, with significant...

• EU Study Mission: Innovation Systems in Action

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  Place-based regional innovation in Netherlands and Germany...

• MSSI Oration 3: Renewing democracy in a time of environmental crisis

  PUBLIC LECTURE PAPER
  Delivered by Dr Rebecca Huntley, one of Australia's foremost researchers on social trends.

• Central Dandenong: Australia's comeback city? Lessons about revitalisation for diverse places

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  This Research Briefing shares lessons learnt about the experience of revitalisation in Central Dandenong, Melbourne.

• Growing a Clean Economy: Opportunities for Australian States and Territories

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  This Discussion Paper presents opportunities for state and territory-level governments to work towards fostering strong economies that facilitate deep emissions reductions by 2050.

• Rein-stating Power – Decarbonisation, Decentralisation and Digitalisation in Electricity

  PUBLIC LECTURE PAPER
  Edited transcript from the Fay Gale Memorial Lecture, presented by Sangeetha Chandrashekeran at the IAG Conference in Hobart, July 2019.

• Healthy and Sustainable Cities

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  Issues and opportunities in Melbourne’s knowledge system to transition to a healthy and sustainable city...

• MSSI Oration 2: Resilience in the face of sustainability crises

  PUBLIC LECTURE PAPER
  Prof Lars Coenen presented the second MSSI Oration titled, Resilience in the face of sustainability crises: Is innovation the problem or the answer?

• Australia's Clean Economy Future: Costs and Benefits

  This cost-benefit analysis finds that developing clean economies, whilst tackling climate change will actually deliver economic benefits.

• Melbourne: How big, how fast and at what cost?

  RESEARCH PAPER
  Whilst Melbourne has previously been awarded the most ‘liveable city’, it is fast becoming an economically and socially polarised city. Cheaper housing may attract people...

• MSSI Annual Report 2018

  MSSI ANNUAL REPORT
  

• Degrowth 'from below'? The role of urban social movements in a post-capitalist transition

  RESEARCH PAPER
  Capitalism’s limitless growth on a finite planet means the economic system we take for granted could end soon. If so, transformative and sustainable change must...

• Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary

  BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  This book explores how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.

• Melbourne Sustainability

  ISSUES PAPER
  Transforming research for a sustainable society. Patrick Troy contributes to a debate about the future of urban life in a situation where the capacities of...

• Transforming economy, church and society

  PUBLIC LECTURE PAPER
  Edited transcripts by Prof Ross Garnaut, Prof John Langmore, Dr Tim Thornton and Dr Ian Barns, from the Eco-transitions workshop.