This paper reports on data from a recent Survey of Community Wellbeing and Responding to Change conducted in six Local Government Areas (LGAs) in inner, middle, outer, and urban fringe areas of Melbourne.

This paper investigates how opportunities for improving resilience and adaptation to natural hazards can be optimised through bottom-up collaborative planning approaches by focusing on the coastal local government area of Shoalhaven.

This study analyses data collected on community wellbeing before and after the introduction of poker machines in a the City of Whittlesea, Victoria.

This paper investigates how the speed and nature of disaster waste management impacts on residents belonging to different socio-economic backgrounds, with a particular focus on the 2011 January Floods in Brisbane, Australia.

As the 21st century unfolds, an increasing majority of the world’s population will live in cities. Human wellbeing in cities relies on a complex web of interconnected institutions, infrastructure and information. People are drawn to cities as centres of economic activity, opportunity and innovation. But cities are also places where stresses accumulate or sudden shocks...