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Urban Systems & Sustainability

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.

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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

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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.

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Projects

Cities as Transformative Agents for a Climate-Safe Future

Student intake

Open for PhD students

People

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

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Laureate Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Lecturer

Affiliate

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Honorary Associate Professor

Honorary Professor

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Visiting Fellow

News

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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Interested in a PhD using environmental DNA (eDNA) and genetic tools to inform conservation and management? We are seeking PhD applications to join an exciting inter-disciplinary collaboration project.

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On this episode of Democracy Sausage, researchers Rebecca Colvin and Jamie Pittock join Mark Kenny to discuss Australian attitudes to climate change, how they influence people’s voting patterns, and Australia’s increasingly severe weather events.

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The Australian environment has started a slow recovery from some of the toughest years on record, a new study has concluded.

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The recent flooding in New South Wales is consistent with what we might expect as climate change continues.

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Raising the height of Warragamba Dam will not keep many thousands of Sydney residents from harm.

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