Reports and Books
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Hope and Courage in the Climate Crisis
Explores how we can remain hopeful and courageous in the face of the climate emergency.
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Urban Awakenings: Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City
Based on walks around their home city, the authors find new ways of seeing and understanding urban life in the 21st century.
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Developing and Implementing an Approach to Regional Innovation and Development in Gippsland
This report outlines the achievements of the first phase of the Gippsland Smart Specialisation Strategy (GS3).
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Feeling the Heat
This book connects international stories on bushfires to provide a unified strategic perspective on the prevention of wildfire ignition.
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EU Study Mission: Innovation Systems in Action
Place-based regional innovation in Netherlands and Germany...
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Central Dandenong: Australia's comeback city? Lessons about revitalisation for diverse places
This Research Briefing shares lessons learnt about the experience of revitalisation in Central Dandenong, Melbourne.
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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.
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Healthy and Sustainable Cities
Issues and opportunities in Melbourne’s knowledge system to transition to a healthy and sustainable city...
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Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary
This book explores how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.
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Degrowth as an 'Aesthetics of Existence'
Examines the role of art and aesthetic interventions in driving social, environmental, and political change in relation to the emerging ‘degrowth’ movement.
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Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth
A curation of over 170 ‘culture jamming’ works of art that challenge consumerism, the growth economy, and postmodern relationships to technology.
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Community attitudes towards reporting bushfire arson to Crime Stoppers Victoria 2012-2015
A longitudinal study, reporting on how arson may differ according to both the socio-economic characteristics of regions and the personal experience of crime.
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Urban Sustainability Transitions: Australian Cases
Highlights theories, policies, case studies and discussions relating to purposive urban sustainability transitions.
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How Great Cities Happen: Integrating People, Land Use and Transport
Developing a wider, all-encompassing agenda for more productive, inclusive and sustainable cities.
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Urban Sustainbility Transitions
New insights into how sustainability transitions unfold in different types of cities across the world and explores possible strategies for governing urban transitions.
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ART + CLIMATE = CHANGE
Features the work of Australian and international artists to explore the power of art to communicate climate change.
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Imagining the Future: Griffith Review Edition 52
Features original writing by two Nobel laureates, Al Gore and Peter Doherty, as well as Tim Flannery, Ashley Hay, Glyn Davis and more.
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Prosperous Descent
Calling for a sufficiency-based culture of 'simple living' to underpin a macroeconomic framework of 'degrowth'.
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Appetite for Change
Global warming impacts on food and farming regions in Australia.
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Planet to Plate
MSSI worked with Earth Hour Australia to identify the impact global warming is having on key farming regions across Australia and on different foods grown...
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Sustainability at Melbourne
Fifteen stories on Melbourne University researchers that want to change the world.
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The Public City: Essays in Honour of Paul Mees
A tribute to one of the world's great activist-scholars, the late Paul Mees, with contributions from fifteen leading urban scholars.
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Melbourne - What Next?
This ebook, containing various discussion essays, takes a look at the urban planning issues facing the city and what can be done to create a...
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The Urban Condition
The Human Condition is now The Urban Condition. And it is this condition that will define human prospects in an age of default and risk.