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Environmental footprint calculators may promise to help consumers lead a greener life. But they may in fact encourage choices that don’t benefit – or even harm – the environment.
The presence of roads, even inside protected areas, may pose a significant threat to species.
World leaders are slowly learning from decades of failure on tropical forest conservation.
In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
A complete switch to biofuels is neither feasible nor desirable, but they could replace some fossil fuels in transport and heating. If biofuels are produced from waste products, that’s even better.
Abandoned US oil and gas wells and their associated land cover more than 2 million acres, a recent study estimates – an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
Combining archaeological evidence, aerial scans and machine learning algorithms, researchers modeled how this medieval city grew over time.
Putting affected people and communities at the centre of difficult relocation decisions must be a priority under laws that replace the old Resource Management Act.
The transition to 100% renewable energy will require a lot of land – mostly in regional Australia. This presents big challenges, and opportunities, for the farming sector.
NOAA released its list of climate and weather disasters that cost the nation more than $1 billion each. Like many climate and weather events this past year, it shattered the record.
The built environment plays a pivotal role in lowering residents’ exposure to climate change driven risks.
COVID-19 restrictions led to calls to open up golf courses to the public. But these are such precious refuges for native flora and fauna that access will have to be carefully managed.
South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
How climate change and other human actions have combined to create conditions for explosive wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state.
Land acquisition remains a major challenge for Indonesia’s increasing renewable energy installations.
The UK’s official climate advisor recommends up to 50,000 hectares of new woodland each year by 2050.
Soil and water conservation projects can create fertile farmlands and change migration patterns linked to land degradation in Burkina Faso.
Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. It wasn’t until Europeans arrived that the landscape experienced major human impacts.
Land-use planning should give more weight to the increasing risks of natural hazards like bushfires as the first step in reducing the impacts.
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Senior Researcher, African Wildlife Economy Institute and Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
