Environmental Sustainability
Towards an agenda for post-carbon cities. Lessons from Lilac, the UK’s first ecological, affordable cohousing community
This paper explores an agenda towards post-carbon cities, extending and deepening established debates around low-carbon, sustainable cities in the process. The paper draws upon a case-study of an embryonic post-carbon initiative due for completion in 2013 called Lilac.
2013
Sustainable retirement village for older people: A case study in Brisbane, Australia
This paper aims to identify sustainability features and practices adopted in retirement villages and associated benefits to improve the life quality of older people.
2013
Sustainable Retirement Living: What Matters?
There is a growing demand for sustainable retirement villages in Australia due to an increasing number of ageing population and public acceptance of sustainable development. This research aims to gain a better understanding of retirees’ understanding about sustainable retirement living and their attitudes towards sustainable developments via a questionnaire survey approach.
2012
Sustainable Housing for Sustainable Cities: A Policy Framework for Developing Countries
This report outlines key concepts and considerations underpinning the idea of sustainable housing and provides a comprehensive framework for designing sustainable housing policies and practical actions.
2012
Environmental Sustainable Initiatives Clarence Village Independent Living Units
Clarence Village Limited responded to NSW and Federal Government incentive programs to invest in grid connect 1.5KW solar energy systems on each of its 73 Independent Living Units. Each of the 73 residents of Clarence Village voluntarily joined with the company to make the Village the first among it’s peers on the North Coast to become a Green Village.
2012
Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities
On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more “age-friendly”, an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by building on the WHO framework and applying an ecological perspective.
2011
Institutions and Social Change: implementing co-operative housing and environmentally sustainable development at Christie Walk
It is evident that both the old laissez-faire approach and the more recent neo-conservative reliance on the market have failed to deliver housing for many people in Australia. The state-based welfare housing model espoused by the Australian Labor Party over the twentieth century has also been beset by problems.
2009
Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing
The 2007 ULI/Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues addressed a topic of increasing interest to the affordable housing community: What can be done to make environmentally sustainable affordable housing the standard practice of the day?
Pairing green building with affordable housing is a natural fit.
2008
Sustainable, age-friendly housing
One of the important aspects of gerontechnology is the study of
technology and ageing to ensure independent living remains possible in spite of the inevitable decline that comes with ageing.
2004
Sustainable, age-friendly housing
Few people would dispute the idea that environmentally sustainable, age-friendly housing is desirable for all. But as resources for housing construction are always limited, this goal may not be readily achievable.
2004
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