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Perceptions Of Value And Risk: Sea-Level Rise And Adaptation At Greenwell Point, Jacob Lia

Social Sciences - Honours Theses

Sea-level rise poses a looming risk for Australia’s low-lying coastal regions. Many coastal communities are expressing uncertainty and resistance to adaptation because it is perceived as a greater risk than temporally distant sea-level rise. This thesis seeks to investigate how place values and risk perceptions inform community perspectives towards sea-level rise and adaptation in the form of a levee. A novel qualitative-GIS value-risk analysis is performed using photo-mapping interviews and landscape value-mapping with five research participants in Greenwell Point, NSW.

The results chapters reveal that residents valued Greenwell Point for its diverse environments and experiences. Two primary value groupings emerged, …

The Tiny House: Political Ecologies Of Household Water, Energy And Food Practices, Hilton Penfold

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This thesis offers new understandings of tiny household practices in the Australian context, where tiny house living is advocated as a sustainable option. The thesis argues for an understanding tiny household water, energy and food practices informed by the entanglement of macropolitical and micropolitical forces. The research adopts a Political Ecology of the Household analytical framework to conceptualise tiny household practices as simultaneously embedded within political economic, epistemological, and embodied forces. The water, energy and food practices associated with tiny house living are always contingent upon the intersection and mediation of these forces, which comprise everyday life in the tiny …

A Food Pedagogy Framework – To Advance Societal Health And Sustainability Through Urban-Based, Food-Related Initiatives, Soo Jin Park

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

Complex societal challenges are on the rise in urban areas and food has important roles in addressing these challenges. Insights into the potential of food pedagogies to address urban food-related challenges and activities are required. The overall aim of this thesis was to develop a pedagogical framework to inform food-related activities including food policies or food strategies, policy development, and food-related programs, with the goal to promote societal health and environmental sustainability.

This research adopted a qualitative exploratory research approach to seek key information from food leaders about how adults learn about food, health and environmental sustainability through food-related activities …