Exploring a rationale for limiting the term ‘sustainability’ to the project of sustaining the planetary ecology, this paper argues that ‘sustainability’ has been stripped of meaning by overuse and misuse in the interests of sustaining nothing but the status quo.

This paper discusses a life cycle study was undertaken to assess the economic impact arising from internalised embodied greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) costs for a commercial office building.

NSW is the only State where local councils have a statutory requirement to prepare annual state of the environment reports. This presentation attempts to outline practitioner’s experiences in SoE reporting, its success or otherwise in delivering on the interpretations of the statutory and non statutory reporting provisions and on the range of outcomes that make...

This paper has reviewed the principal attempts to address regional landscape and open space initiatives for the City of Brisbane and region in the past.

What role can community education and reorientation of policy framing to incorporate community engagement play in ameliorating the impacts of increased population and development and in working towards the goal of sustainable cities with high quality environmental characteristics?