CSIRO response to The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage Inquiry into Sustainable Cities 2025 / compiled by Peter W. Newton and Joslin Moore

Search Swinburne Research Bank

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/236768

Download PDF (50 pages) (Adobe Acrobat PDF, -1 bytes)

Title: CSIRO response to The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage Inquiry into Sustainable Cities 2025 / compiled by Peter W. Newton and Joslin Moore
Author(s): Newton, Peter W.; Moore, Joslin; Barnett, Guy; Batten, David; Carras, John; Cleugh, Helen; Cobiac, Lynne; Dillon, Peter; Foliente, Greg; Foran, Barney; Haymet, Tony; Howe, Carol; Kearns, Allen; McAlpine, Geoff; Mitchell, Grace; Morton, Steve; Parslow, John; Physick, Bill; Sagoe-Crentsil, Kwesi; Seo, Seongwon; Shepherd, Ian; Smith, Nariida; Turner, Graham
Abstract: CSIRO welcomes the Inquiry into Sustainable Cities 2025 as a mechanism by which it can provide input to the Inquiry in accordance with its general Terms of Reference, as well as consider possible new strategic directions for CSIRO's Research & Development in the urban systems arena. To this end, CSIRO convened a Sustainable Cities 2025 Workshop in Melbourne on 13 October of21 senior scientists from 7 Divisions across CSIRO together with several experts external to the organisation. The outcomes of the workshop are embodied in the material summarised in this submission. One of the major outcomes of the workshop was the recognition that urban systems are highly complex systems with many interrelated and interacting components. This complexity means that total system sustainability can only be achieved when we can conceptualise, plan and manage individual system components in the context of the total urban system. Because of our belief that progress towards sustainability may be hampered by the very human habit of wanting to break things down into units that subsequently never re-connect, we have made a conscious decision to emphasise the importance of complete system understanding through the structure of our submission.
Publication type: Government submission
Source: Submission to The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage Inquiry into Sustainable Cities 2025
Publication year: 2003
Keyword(s): Australian cities; Sustainability; Urban development; Urban settlement
Publisher: CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology
Publisher URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=environ/./cities/subs.htm
Copyright: Copyright © 2003. This work is reproduced in good faith. Every reasonable effort has been made to trace the copyright owner. For more information please contact researchbank@swin.edu.au.
Full text