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Item'Rethinking the way we practice our professions': social-ecological resilience for built environment professionals(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-01-02)Urbanisation and industrialisation have contributed to significant and detrimental changes in the earth’s natural environments. The concept of social-ecological resilience can assist this problem, by integrating the consideration of human and ecological systems in decision-making. An implication is that built environment professionals must be competent in social-ecological resilience knowledge and skills to ensure cities are well adapted to current environmental challenges, and do not further contribute to them. Yet the capabilities of built environment professionals to incorporate resilience thinking (theory and knowledge) into their work (skills and practice), is not well understood and is not well addressed in education theory. This paper contributes to this gap by: exploring the social-ecological resilience knowledge, skills, and practical experience of Australian built environment professionals, thereby identifying gaps to address in further and higher education. Results indicate that built environment professionals’ know about social-ecological resilience, but they identify their practical experience is low. Additionally, respondents are more confident with their abilities, compared to colleagues, and their profession at large. The results indicate that further and higher education offerings (e.g. university education, continuing professional education, and practice) must assist built environment professionals to further develop social-ecological skills. As one respondent stated–it will require ‘rethinking the way we practice our professions’.
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ItemNew approaches to learning for facilitating resilience in the built environment(Planning Institute of Australia, Victoria Division, 2017)
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ItemClimate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment-A review of literature(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2022-02)Cities (built environments) produce a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, making a significant contribution to climate change. They are home to the majority of the world's population and economic activity yet face increasing risks from climate change impacts. Thus, it is critical that those involved in producing and managing built environments are prepared for climate change. This paper presents a review of literature focused on two key components of professions and professional practice across the built environment sectors urban planning, construction, property, and design (architecture, landscape architecture, urban design): 1) barriers to and facilitators of climate change action (mitigation and adaptation); and 2) climate change preparedness. Barriers to and facilitators of climate change action were found to vary across sectors, with some overlap. A limited understanding of preparedness to address climate change action was found across the sectors reviewed. These findings are important. A limited understanding of climate change preparedness across these sectors may limit capacity to achieve global goals such as the Paris Agreement which seeks to limit global warming to 1.5 oC, and to be well adapted to the changes that will occur. Significant social and economic impacts could result from a lack of preparedness. The published research reviewed lacked a holistic and integrated view of: the built environment; and of climate change action within it. It is recommended that these gaps in research and practice are addressed to facilitate effective climate change action in cities, to avoid further economic, social and environmental impacts of climate change.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTowards the transformation of cities: A built environment process map to identify the role of key sectors and actors in producing the built environment across life stages(Elsevier, 2022-02-01)Cities must transform in order to address the challenge of climate change and to achieve societal ambitions such as the sustainable development goals. However, a key impediment to achieving transformation is underdeveloped understandings of how key actors and sectors within the built environment work together to achieve goals. This paper addresses these gaps by developing and visually presenting a process map to describe: the key processes involved in producing the built environment across its life stages; key sectors of the built environment, their key actors, and the activities coordinated between them. The process map was peer reviewed by an expert reference group of built environment professionals active in Australia and the UK. The motivation for developing this process map is to facilitate future research to identify and expedite opportunities for coordinated action to address significant societal challenges such as climate change action, and the sustainable development goals – which require transformative action in cities.
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ItemIs climate change in the curriculum? An analysis of Australian urban planning degrees(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020)The profession of urban planning contributes to the design and spatial arrangement of cities, and has been recognized as a key potential facilitator of action on climate change. Yet, there has been limited research to understand if, or how, urban planning students are being educated for climate change competency. This paper investigates the coverage of climate change in the curriculum of professionally accredited urban planning university degrees in Australia. Climate change coverage was assessed across three fields: 1) explicit climate change issues; 2) sustainable urban form issues (e.g. contributing to climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions), and 3) education for sustainability (with links to professional competencies relevant to climate change action). A content analysis was undertaken of: 1) the Planning Institute of Australia’s Policy for the Accreditation of Urban Planning Qualifications, and 2) a sample of nine accredited urban planning degrees. Limited coverage of explicit climate change issues and sustainable urban form issues was found. Coverage of education for sustainability themes (liberal education; civics; interdisciplinarity; cosmopolitism) was stronger. Results indicate that the professional accreditation policy, and the content of urban planning degrees should be revised to include greater coverage of explicit climate change issues.
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ItemRisk and Resilience in the Built Environment: Symposium and Workshop Report(The University of Melbourne, 2017)THIS REPORT HAS BEEN COMPILED BY DR ANNA HURLIMANN, AMANDA LO CASCIO, PROFESSOR RUTH BEILIN, AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALAN MARCH, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, WITH JOE RAVETZ FROM MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY. THE REPORT PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP ‘RISK AND RESILIENCE IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT’ HELD IN MELBOURNE, 27-28 APRIL 2017. The symposium and workshop were one activity undertaken as part of a larger project ‘Experiential Adaptive Learning Tools for a Resilient Built Environment,’ funded by the University of Melbourne’s Learning and Teaching Initiatives Fund in 2017. The project is a collaboration between the Faculty of Science and the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne. The larger project is a response to the increasing need to provide skills and knowledge to built environment discipline professionals and students regarding socio-ecological resilience. This need is driven by the increasing frequency and impact of natural disasters over the past decades. These events have largely been driven by changes to the natural and built environment through human activities. Cities and towns represent significant long-term human investments, and are increasingly the main site of catastrophic events. The concept of resilience is a key principle to act on these challenges. It requires a paradigm shift in approaching disasters, and managing cities, for professionals working across many disciplines. The larger project aims to utilise the reflexive attributes of experiential learning as a key way of integrating resilience in the education of built environmental professionals. The aim is to facilitate a highly adaptable professional skill set that can be applied in a variety of other contexts over time. Through the symposium and workshop, the project aims to use group learning to build and improve resilience knowledge and skills. This will be complemented by the development of a living learning repository (interactive web archive) later in 2017. The symposium and workshop acted as a pilot for the development of a future subject on risk and resilience in the built environment, which is planned to be offered at the University of Melbourne from 2019. Thirty four participants took part in the workshop and symposium. In brief, the program consisted of a two day symposium and workshop. On day one, a symposium with keynote speakers was held, followed by Part one of a workshop facilitated by Joe Ravetz, employing his proposed Resilience III approach. On day two, a site visit to the Southbank area of Melbourne City was undertaken as an experiential activity (exploring resilience issues including flood, sea level rise, and increasing development intensity). This was followed by two presentations by key stakeholders of the case study site, and then part two of the workshop. This report provides an overview of the symposium and workshop activities, the processes undertaken and the future activities planned. Background papers for the workshop, and information about follow-up activities can be found on the project web site: msd.unimelb.edu.au/experiential-adaptive-learning-tools-for-a-resilient-built-environment.
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ItemThe role of spatial planning in adapting to climate change(WILEY, 2012-01-01)Abstract Spatial planning has been identified as a critical mechanism through which climate change adaptation can be facilitated. We review the role of spatial planning as a tool for adaptation to climate change. In doing so, we describe common planning processes and tools. Six capacities of spatial planning that have the potential ability to facilitate climate change adaptation are identified and discussed. These principally relate to spatial planning's ability to: act on matters of collective concern; manage competing interests; cut across scales; reduce and act on uncertainty; act as a knowledge repository; and be oriented to the future while integrating a range of diverse systems. Methods (tools) for planning which have the capacity to address climate change adaptation are presented and discussed. In light of these capacities and acknowledged limitations in planning practice, we identify three key challenges to spatial planning for adaptation: (1) developing conviction; (2) facilitating equitable processes and outcomes; and (3) transforming planning systems from passive to proactive.WIREs Clim Change2012 doi: 10.1002/wcc.183 This article is categorized under:Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation
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ItemAccreditation of Australian urban planners: building knowledge and competence(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2013)