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Sustainable Living in the City (SLiC) Evaluation Framework Review
Purpose/Aim of Project
The objective of this project is to undertake an expert review
of the evaluation framework for the City of Melbourne’s Sustainable
Living in the City (SLiC) program.
The project involves review of the draft evaluation framework
and the evaluation tools developed for internal evaluation, and
for the provision of external evaluation services to throughout
the implementation of the project.
Stakeholders/Partners
The City of Melbourne has engaged the
National Centre for Sustainability at Swinburne to undertake the
project.
Background
The City of Melbourne has strong environmental polices focused
on conservation of water, reduction of greenhouse emissions and
reduction of waste to landfill, and has set goals and targets across
these issues.
Results from a recent residential survey conducted by Council indicated
that residents want to help improve the natural environment. Although
more than 70 per cent of Council’s residents live in apartments,
there are few programs aimed at reducing the environmental impact
of apartment buildings.
The residential sector in the City of Melbourne accounts for around:
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22 per cent of the city's water consumption; |
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7 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions; and |
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More than 14,000 tonnes of waste sent to landfill each year. |
The results of this survey and the development of the previously
mentioned policies has lead Council to now undertake some environmental
implementation programs.
The Sustainable Living in the City program has been developed
to reduce the environmental impact of high-rise residential buildings
by:
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Coordinating a focused and well designed environmental education program covering waste, water, energy, transport, and biodiversity; and |
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Providing funding for small scale environmental retrofits on buildings and/or apartments; designed and implemented in consultation with bodies corporate, owners, building managers and residents. |
This program will help to provide people associated with high-rise
apartments with the knowledge, skills and resources to reduce the
impact on the environment.
The City of Melbourne has completed preliminary project design
and has developed a draft evaluation framework for the project,
to be refined in conjunction with the project design.
Project Status
The project commenced in July 2006 and
will be completed with review of the evaluation processes for the
SLiC program, to be run in 2007.
Project Outcomes
NCS will provide an Expert Review of the SLiC Evaluation Framework including:
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recommendations for improving the evaluation framework; |
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enhancing the design of evaluation tools to deliver effective evaluation, and; |
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commentary relating to the practical delivery of evaluation by City of Melbourne and external evaluation parties.
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The project report will comment on the structure of the Evaluation Framework and its effectiveness.
Project Documents/Downloads
(None yet)
Who to contact for further information
Project Manager: Linda Condon
Email: ncs@swin.edu.au
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