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Literature Review: Adaptive Planning Practices

Rangwala, T

Plans are prepared to provide direction, set goals, manage risks, and ensure timely and successful implementation to achieve desired outcomes. However, plans fail to deliver desired outcome...

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LiFE in the city: Behavioural changes can drive urban sustainability goals

Allam, Z Sharma, A Cheshmehzangi, A

This paper explores the Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) initiative, a pioneering approach initiated by India to propel sustainable urban development through targeted behavioural change. Positioned...

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‘Empathic unsettlement’: trauma as spectre in contemporary textile art

Batorowicz, B Palmer, J

Autobiographical trauma art is a way to connect its viewers with the artist and her experience, and with the history in which this experience occurred. We argue that when autobiographical trauma ar...

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Drought impact on peri-urban farmers' mental health in semi-arid Ghana: The moderating role of personal social capital

Abunyewah, M Okyere, SA Mensah, SO Erdiaw-Kwasie, M Gajendran, T Byrne, MK

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NAVIGATING THROUGH THE MINEFIELD OF CONCEPTUAL URBAN HEALTH APPROACHES IN THE ERA OF COMPLEXITY AND PLANETARY HEALTH

Al-obaidi, T

In recent years, the need to approach health within the urban environment using complex systems and ecological thinking has come to the fore. This area is quickly gaining momentum and attention a...

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Community-led disaster resilience initiatives: a case study

Green, A McKinnon, S Daly, M Boehme, T Cooper, P Eriksen, C

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Climate change and the cost of rapid urbanization: planning lessons from Dubai’s flood

Allam, Z Cheshmehzangi, A Khavarian-Garmsir, AR

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Composting modernity: Pedagogical practices for emplacing ourselves within the living world

Lange, E

We have reached the logical end of modernity as it lays waste to the natural world, discards people, and reveals its inherent and thus continual violence. Withdrawing our energy from and breaking d...

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An amazing 50 years of Australian research: Now for greater collaboration, codesign and traditional knowledge application to developing policy and action

Williams, AN

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A spatial framework for improved sanitation to support coral reef conservation.

Kuempel, CD Thomas, J Wenger, AS Jupiter, SD Suárez-Castro, AF Nasim, N Klein, CJ Hoegh-Guldberg, O

Coral reefs are one of the most valuable yet threatened ecosystems in the world. Improving human wastewater treatment could reduce land-based impacts on coral reefs. However, information on the qua...

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