4 Dec 2015 Porto Alegre reviews its Sustainability and Citizenship Networks The Porto Alegre community recently came together to look at the need for integrated work and community participation in housing and urban development initiatives in the seminar “Sustainability Network and Citizenship and new challenges.” The event took place in November at the Federal Regional...
10 Aug 2016 City Scan and Ethical Cities at PrepCom3 in Surabaya As one of the Cities Programme’s newest innovations, the City Scan garnered quite some attention and discussion at PrepCom3, the third and final preparatory committee before Habitat III. From July 25-27 in Surabaya, Indonesia, Dr. Brendan Barrett led two events: a dialogue on...
25 May 2016 Public-private partnerships to address extreme heat Extreme heat events are a critical issue for urban sustainability and resilience. Negative impacts include health issues, anti-social behaviour, loss of revenue for local business and disruption to infrastructure and essential services. In a Melbourne CBD pilot, RMIT University and the UN Global Compact – Cities...
20 Oct 2016 Ralph Horne addresses the Habitat III plenary Professor Ralph Horne represented the United Nations Global Compact in his address to the plenary of Habitat III on October 20 2016 speaking of the critical importance of partnerships to drive forward the New Urban Agenda. Ralph Horne with Australian Ambassador to the United Nations,...
9 Aug 2016 Warnings about Australia’s housing crisis Originally published on The Conversation – 15 June 2016 Authors: Ralph Horne and David Adamson We have to move the housing conversation beyond a game of political football about negative-gearing winners and losers. Australia needs a bipartisan, long-term, housing policy. Why? Because we have a slow-burn, deepening...
28 Jun 2016 Resilient Melbourne Strategy Launch Strategy launch Adapt, survive, thrive, embed – these are the four focus areas that shape Australia’s first resilience strategy, Resilient Melbourne. Launched on June 1 at an event attended by 200 representatives from Melbourne’s local and state government, not-for-profit, private and university sectors, this strategic plan offers a...
Jorge Lascar 23 Jun 2016 Review of Melbourne’s 100RC Resilience RMIT researchers have reviewed Melbourne’s new resilience project and found that it is helping local government frame conversations about resilience beyond emergency management to social and urban vulnerability. When Melbourne was selected for participation in the international 100 Resilient Cities program (100RC) sponsored by the...
19 Jan 2016 Sustainable Development Goals The Journey to the SDGs – Rio+20, 2012, the beginning of the Global Conversation
25 Aug 2016 Sustainable housing’s expensive, right? Not when you look at the whole equation Originally published on The Conversation – 25 August 2016 Authors: Trivess Moore, Cecily Maller, Ralph Horne and Yolande Strengers Low-energy or zero-energy housing is international best practice, but is still considered costly. Part of the problem is that studies of...
20 May 2016 The Future Before Us: Building a Resilient Porto Alegre Lead UN Global Compact Innovating city Porto Alegre has recently released its Resilience Strategy, Desafio Porto Alegre Resiliente. The development of the Resilience Strategy has been led by Secretario Cezar Bussato, Minister for Local Governance and Citizen Participation who also holds the position...
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