Sustainability
Alternative labels
Environmental economics
Conservation funding
Sustainability and the environment
Conference paper
The gleaning guide: venturing in redirective fashion
Abstract: Gleaning, when adopted as an attitude and an action, is useful in seeing and utilising the value in what has been cast aside. This is gleaning through the physical collection of what is left behind, alongside gleaning that is slow, incremental and epistemological. These actions reveal the lore embedded within an existing fashion design...
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Barriers to effective climate change adaptation (final)
This inquiry has concluded. The final report was sent to Government on 20 September 2012 and released on 14 March 2013. The Productivity Commission invited interested parties to register their interest in an inquiry into regulatory and policy barriers to effective climate change adaptation. In undertaking the inquiry, the Commission identified specific barriers that inhibit...
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Assessing the value of Coastal Resources in Victoria
Most Victorians live, work and play close to the coast. It is also home to critical infrastructure, important economic hubs and many significant ecosystems.
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Climate adaption in regional mining values chains: A case-study of the Goldfields-Esperance Region, Western Australia
Climate change poses a potential range of threats and opportunities for mining regions around Australia. Recent studies have suggested that mine operations as well as the related infrastructure, businesses and communities associated with mining, may be affected by flooding, drought, bushfires, storms, and sea level rise. This case study sought to identify the implications of...
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Improving our waterways: Victorian waterway management strategy
The Strategy aims to maintain or improve the condition of our waterways so they can support environmental, social, cultural and economic values that are important to communities. It provides direction for regional decision-making, investment and management issues for waterways, as well as the roles and responsibilities of management agencies.