Sustainable Transport – pre-emptive policy strike reduces vulnerability
7
Jul
In Australia transport accounts for 18% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Although we anticipate that the number of cars … Read More »
Scenarios – guiding robust decisions if they’re well designed
5
Jun
In order to be useful for decision makers, scenarios must be plausible. They must also be integrated, coherent … Read More »
Scenarios – what form do they take?
5
Jun
Scenarios can have qualitative or quantitative aspects or both. Qualitative (descriptions) and quantitative (modelling) aspects of scenarios can … Read More »
Scenarios – creating alternate futures when we just don’t know
16
May
In a previous post on less doom and gloom in sustainability, a small innocuous table from Tilbury and … Read More »
Sustainability Definitions – why off the shelf doesn’t work
28
Feb
Intuitively the concept of sustainability has been taken up as an aspiration across the world. Try to find … Read More »
Lets Not Play Chicken with the Future
17
Aug
There is no doubt that a transition to a 100% renewables electricity sector will have its challenges. Any … Read More »
Handing over the Reins
6
Jun
Teaching used to be about lectures, and learning about memorising information. But in a field such as sustainability … Read More »
Less Doom and Gloom
7
Apr
Ever since I could remember I knew my dream job would involve ‘saving the planet’. In my work … Read More »
Critical Reflection – more than mirroring ‘experts’
22
Mar
Critical reflection is required in all disciplines if deeper learning is to be achieved. It occurs when we … Read More »
Listening to Students for Equity
26
Jan
Recently we investigated how students could learn oral communications in the online learning environment (here’s the full report). … Read More »