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Urban greening is just one aspect of the transformation required to ensure our future cities are sustainable, liveable places. Matt Leane/Shutterstock

August 8, 2019

If we want liveable cities in 2060 we’ll have to work together to transform urban systems

Tayanah O'Donnell, Australian National University; Bob Webb, Australian National University; Chris Ryan, The University of Melbourne; Eleanor Robson; Jago Dodson, RMIT University, and Kate Auty, The University of Melbourne

Future Earth Australia is working to create a long-term national plan of transformation for our cities. As part of this, everyone in Australia is invited to have their say in a survey.

Environmental threats in the Pacific Islands can be cultural as well as physical. Christopher Johnson/Wikimedia Commons

August 6, 2017

Australia doesn’t ‘get’ the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders

Steven Cork, Australian National University and Kate Auty, The University of Melbourne

Australia is good at ‘hard hat’ responses to crises such as cyclones. But a new environmental declaration on the Pacific Islands points out that the best approach is more well-rounded and subtle.

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