Articles related to 'Built Environment'
Related topics: Society, Sustainability & The Environment, Social Inclusion
Sustainability - Hybrid housing to ease the way forward
While changes in our energy consumption behaviour are one pathway to a sustainable future, advances in technology and housing design are also needed.
Energy thirst reveals awkward truths
New research shows voluntary behaviour change in energy consumption will be no easy task – even for committed environmentalists
Tragedy fires entrepreneurship lesson
While only being half way through their degrees, two entrepreneurship students are just months away from a new business delivering its first product – a product with the added reward of potentially saving lives.
Greyfields revisited
Australian cities’ ageing residential tracts – or ‘greyfields’ – offer environmental and economic solutions to Australia’s hunger for city housing
Research to structure social inclusion
Swinburne's Institute for Social Research runs more than 40 externally funded social inclusion projects a year.
Will the ferryman come for climate refugees?
Tufitu Lotee has experienced the terror of huge ocean waves flooding her home. Tufitu and her family live on the islet of Fongafale on Funafuti atoll, the capital of Tuvalu, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Their house is on a 100-metre-wide strip of land between the Pacific Ocean on one side and a lagoon on the other.
Researchers engineer Australia for earthquakes
Just how well a building type common in Australia and Asia performs in mild to moderate earthquakes is being investigated through a collaborative research project.
Housing shortage hits ageing Aussies
Reports about the dire shortage of affordable rental accommodation in Australia's major cities appear regularly in the news. But the impact of this housing crisis on older Australians and providers of public housing is rarely highlighted.
How rents are crushing quality of life
When housing affordability is raised in the media, the story is invariably about how hard it is for first homebuyers to plant a foot on the property ladder. But the real housing affordability crisis is among those not even in the hunt for home ownership.
No place like home - but no home to place
An inquiry into youth homelessness has ripped the cloak of apathy from the plight of Australia's homeless and pushed the Federal Government to get serious about finding answers.
Innovation pipeline the lifeblood of sustainable cities
Australia's population is growing rapidly and is being directed almost entirely into big, seaboard cities, straining infrastructure, housing availability and services such as transport, health and education. It is a circumstance that seems to have caught policy-makers off-guard and which now presents some very formidable challenges for governments, corporations and professionals whose job it is to bolster and sustain urban development.
