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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.

Projects

This research looks at the identifying the costs and benefits of different trade off options so that governments in particular, and societies more broadly, can take better informed decisions around water use in China & SE Asia.

People

  • David Dumaresq

Members

Academic staff

Distinguished Professor

YangYang

Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Fellow

Sombol

Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Minh_1

Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Lecturer

Affiliate

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Honorary Associate Professor

Honorary Professor

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Visiting Fellow

Student

Daniel Mugadziwa

MPhil Student

Articles

Two farmers plow a field with a cow

Agriculture experts from The Australian National University (ANU) have teamed up with government bodies and NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa to improve irrigation schemes and boost crop production. The researchers' work is improving food security, reducing water waste and lifting people out of poverty.

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Image of Bushfire smoke in Lyneham, Canberra

Only one in five people sought medical attention but half reported anxiety, depression and sleep loss.

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Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more this century, according to a highly anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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A lead author of latest IPCC report says humans ‘still in the control cabin of the planet’ but there is no limit to the damage possible.

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Tuvalu. ‘In the western Pacific, sea levels rose faster than anywhere else in the world between 1993 and 2015, and by 2050 they will continue to rise by an additional 0.10–0.25 metres.’

A new IPCC report makes clear what island nations have long warned. Their survival depends on urgent collective action.

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Interested in a PhD exploring Eastern brown snake ecology and conservation in the bush capital? If so, we are seeking a highly qualified and motivated PhD applicant to join an exciting trans-disciplinary and mixed-method collaboration between sociologists, ecologists and science communication scholars at the ANU.

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