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Conference paper

Review of tools for quantifying the contribution of green infrastructure to carbon performance


The exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and biosphere is an important factor in global climate regulation. Consequently, it is important to examine how carbon flows and cycles between different pools and how carbon stocks change in response to afforestation, reforestation, deforestation, and other land-cover and land-use activities.
Conference paper

Thermal impact of blue infrastructure: Case study Cheonggyecheon, Seoul (Korea)


After the full urbanization of the Seoul during the late 1980s several new towns where established outside the Greenbelt. Several push-and-pull factors have followed and influenced the rapid urbanization of the capital region of Korea. Currently more than 23 Million inhabitants are living in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA). This has become one of the...
Strategy

The integrated transport and land use plan


This document outlines plans for the transport network in inner Adelaide, middle Adelaide, outer Adelaide (which together constitute Greater Adelaide) and regional and remote South Australia.
Report

Solomon Islands is unprepared to manage a minerals-based economy


Discusses a range of factors that Solomon Islands villagers face when deciding whether or not to allow access to minerals buried in land over which they hold customary tenure. Introduction Now that Solomon Islands' timber resources are depleted there is a renewed focus on exploiting the nation's mineral resources. With the country's only mine, at...
Briefing paper

Right to farm laws


In the lead up to the 2015 State election it was reported in The Land that the Coalition Government and NSW Farmers had entered into “an unprecedented” memorandum of understanding. Among the “key commitments” entered into were the reform of biodiversity laws and consideration of “proposals for a Right to Farm policy during 2015”. In...