This research is concerned with the response of institutions to the water dilemmas faced by Australia’s cities. Here institutions include government agencies, the water and urban development industries and associations, “green city” advocates and researchers.

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.

Advocates of New Urbanism and Smart Growth concepts emphasize on neighbourhood form and design to achieve sustainability. Generally, three aspects of neighbourhood form are thought to be influencing travel patterns: density; diversity and design.

Forty eight refereed and non-refereed papers from this recent conference are available online.

Stephen McKenzie explores current and potential relationships between religious belief, global ethics and social sustainability. He argues that work towards achieving sustainability (theoretical and active) must begin to take into account that the majority of the world's population are adherents to a religious belief of some kind. All major religions contain ideas about the responsibilities...