Cities and towns
Conference paper
Healthy Built Environments: Stakeholder engagement in evidence based policy making
Effecting change in the built environment to enhance human health is proving difficult. Our paper reports research which investigates these issues. The objectives were to identify key stakeholders engaged in healthy built environment policy development.
Conference paper
A homespun review of urban research
This paper takes an adventurous – perhaps idiosyncratic - look at how research might better drive insights into the complexity of the city and shape and illuminate policy options to address problems and issues.
Conference paper
Using geographic information systems to explore the determinants of household water consumption and response to the Queensland Government demand-side policy measures imposed during the drought of 2006-2008.
This paper reports on research using geodemographic approaches to examine key dimensions of household water use during the South East Queensland drought.
Conference paper
Planning and retrofitting for recurrent floods
This paper deals with three aspects of flood hazards that are crucial for an understanding their interactions with land use planning.
Conference paper
Battle of the Brands: The Gold Coast Identity Crisis
City identity can be examined from a number of political, economic and cultural perspectives including the way it has been perceived by residents and outsiders. The paper approaches a perspective of place identity that takes into account modern practices of place marketing and branding rather than experiential self-identity.