Urban Systems & Sustainability
About
While urbanisation presents a number of opportunities including the promise of better services, stronger economies and connections, it also creates complex challenges. Our research focuses on understanding the structure, function and processes of urban social ecological systems, and the drivers and impacts of urbanisation.
Groups
We are a research group at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, led by Dr Steven Lade. We research human and planetary systems using concepts such as resilience, social-ecological systems and Earth systems with applications in water resource management, sustainable finance and more.
Projects
Members
Academic staff
Distinguished Professor
Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Fellow
Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Lecturer
Affiliate
Honorary Associate Professor
Honorary Professor
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Visiting Fellow
News
Cities and businesses have the power to play a crucial role and become the “stewards” of critical Earth systems by demonstrating how they can reduce their environmental impact on the planet, scientists say in a new report.
To any informed reader, the idea of farming cold-ocean seabirds in the Australian desert is mind-numbingly silly. But this hypothetical idea helps us better understand how environmental governance in Australia has gone badly wrong.
Experts say city’s expansion has put more people at risk because homes are being built on flood-prone land.
We’ve known about the risk of floods to the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley for a long time. Yet successive state governments have failed to properly mitigate its impact. Indeed, recent urban development policies by the current NSW government will multiply the risk.