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Environment

Land resource assessment

Published: 28 February 2006

The note describes a new procedure for Land Resource Assessment (LRA).  It uses Multi-Criteria Evaluation methods (MCE) in a Geographic Systems (GIS) ...

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Lend Lease is the largest developer of urban communities in Australia, operating in nine major population centres, with over twenty projects ranging ...

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Balancing place and sustainability in metropolitan planning

Published: 31 December 2005

While continual change and evolution has been an enduring characteristic of the Australian city, the magnitude, speed and complexity of the emerging ...

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Architecture, planning and food

Published: 31 July 2012 | Edited: 2 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. While architects and planners don’t seek to disadvantage communities, the ...

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Towards sustainable urbanism

Published: 30 November 2005

'Sustainable Urbanism' encompasses Australian urban design and transportation practices that seek to create vibrant, liveable communities.  This ...

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Sustainable communities

Published: 30 November 2004

As Australia faces a number of challenges, including water shortages, rising fuel costs, expanding population and insufficient land, resources and ...

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Permaculture - Part A - Introduction and urban farming

Published: 28 February 2010 | Edited: 28 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. This paper is the first of a two part paper intended to introduce the concept of ...

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Living walls – a way to green the built environment

Published: 31 August 2008 | Edited: 17 September 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in September 2018. Green or living walls is an emerging technology that integrates vegetation into ...

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Measuring site biodiversity for sustainable development

Published: 31 May 2004

Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is required for the health of the natural environment and the continuation of the human species.  Though ...

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Design for eco-services – Part A environmental services

Published: 30 November 2009 | Edited: 5 September 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency by the Author in September 2018. Without the virtually free services of nature like clean air and ...

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