Integrated research is key to sustainable development, which helps Africa resolve its energy woes.
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Sustainable energy is crucial for smaller African cities which are generally overlooked. These cities receive much less research and funding focus.
Campaigners against commercial kangaroo harvesting say it’s unsustainable and have convinced California to extend a ban on kangaroo imports. But are Australia’s world-famous roos really at risk?
Mining waste rock from historic mines or even treated sewage to find useful metals and minerals could be a sustainable way to meet demand for these finite resources.
A 21st century government would put the environment on at least an equal footing with the economy. That means no more extinctions, and no more putting ourselves before wildlife or future generations.
To start, businesses can stop creating problems that governments have to fix.
After two years of negotiations, the UN Sustainable Development goals will be adopted today. How can society and government actually end poverty and achieve other lofty goals?
Higher education can play a key role in pursuing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Collaboration will be crucial.
Have the Sustainable Development Goals been co-opted by big business?
A government for the 21st century needs to work out how we can grow our food, manufacture goods and dispose of waste without making such a huge mess.
Health has secured its place as one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But without clear mechanisms to report, finance or engage other sectors, could more end up as less?
By championing economic growth, the Sustainable Development Goals are a barely disguised defence of the market fundamentalism that underpins business-as-usual. But in an age of planetary limits, sustained economic growth is not the solution to our social and environmental ills, but their cause.
On his first visit to the US, Pope Francis will highlight the challenges of poverty and sustainability. A related issue, he acknowledges, is population. So what does that mean for Catholic teaching?
Using more accurate data, researchers find that waste disposal at methane-emitting landfills is two times greater than previous EPA estimates.
Later this week, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York and adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals to guide global development.
A survey of OECD nations puts Australia 18th out of 34 on progress towards the world’s new sustainability goals. It scores well on quality of life, but lets itself down on - you guessed it - climate.
The simple act of shampooing and conditioning our hair, even with green products, results in more than 30 chemicals being washed into our sewers.
The ‘linear economy’ that drove 20th-century leaps in wealth is no longer sustainable, and our standard of living will not survive without a dramatic redesign.
Dumpster diving: a way to recycle and reduce food waste.
What does your vision of a sustainable future look like? Some people imagine a world where technology solves the world’s most pressing environmental problems.
Principales colaboradores
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Professor, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Winnipeg
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Senior Research Officer, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University
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Professor in Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability, Western University
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
