This paper presents the goals, underlying principles and framework, and the research, development and demonstration/delivery (RD&D) activities of the Sustainable Cities research theme at CSIRO, emphasising its focus on inter-disciplinary and integrated approaches to address urban sustainability issues.

Current Australian metropolitan plans all contain sustainability ambitions. This paper discusses the role for urban planning in managing the energy demands of living in Australian cities.

This paper describes the methodological approach and conceptual framework developed for the Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Settlements (IACCIUS) project, which the author hopes will enable a better understanding.

Life cycle analysis is used to calculate the total transport and housing energy and emissions from a sample of 41 households in seven apartment buildings in Adelaide. The study builds on previous research which calculated the life cycle energy and emissions from a sample of 212 inner suburban and outer suburban households living in detached...

The Victorian state government urban land development agency, VicUrban, has developed 'EcoSelector' to guide builders in their selection of materials. This paper examines how the relationships between the participants affected the development of the EcoSelector and how this has affected the building industry.