The paper draws on the preliminary results of two scoping studies that provide a case study exploration of urban greenspace and the connection between people and nature in Melbourne.

To mediate the problems associated with this fragmentation of food policy, several local and regional government departments have created cross-sectoral councils to generate comprehensive, allied solutions to food issues within and surrounding urban areas.

Over the last decade there has been increasing pressure on Local Governments around the world to accommodate principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) within their urban policies.

The Environmental City stream of the 2005 State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conference explored and discussed a range of topics – many of which of course overlapped and also related to the other streams at this conference. The main headings were: climate change; critiques of the idea of sustainability and its translation into policies...

This paper argues that there has to be a far more serious engagement with the ways in which climate change will significantly alter the nature of the environment, along with human rural and urban futures.