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Sustainability Potential Of Suburban Gardens: Review And New Directions, Sumita Ghosh
Sustainability Potential Of Suburban Gardens: Review And New Directions, Sumita Ghosh
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Gardens, as important elements of Australian suburban residential environments, could have significant sustainability potential similar to that of dwellings. Research to identify the cumulative (social, cultural, environmental and ecological) sustainability values of suburban domestic gardens has been very limited. Australian suburbs are likely to retain their typical characteristics for a considerable period of time as their rapid intensification is not likely. Therefore, it is immensely important to understand the role and performance of the suburban garden in this discourse. This article reviews the sustainability potential of domestic gardens and their links to suburban forms, sustainable design, social processes, and environmental …
The (Statistical) Science Of Sustainability, Noel A. Cressie
The (Statistical) Science Of Sustainability, Noel A. Cressie
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
I take as a basic law of nature that "trees do not grow to the sky". In fact, the tree metaphor is very useful as we try to impose a science on the vaguely defined term, "sustainability." Trees make up forests and forests grow and recede according to many factors. Trees develop from seeds to saplings to mature trees, using nutrients and water in the soil and C02, O2 and light from the atmosphere to grow. They do not grow to the sky, and they eventually dies. Forests do not cover the earth; but they grow, recede, and are potentially …
Uses Of The Albatross: Threatened Species And Sustainability, Graham Barwell
Uses Of The Albatross: Threatened Species And Sustainability, Graham Barwell
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Since first encounters with albatrosses in the early modern period, western cultures have reacted with amazement and wonder at the birds’ flight, while taking a more pragmatic attitude towards them as creatures whose worth can be measured in their use value. In 19th and early 20th century western discourse the birds featured as objects of sport, as saviours of various kinds – whether as food for hungry sailors or victims of shipwreck in the southern oceans, as messengers, or as lifebuoys – as well as predators, and as objects to be collected for scientific inquiry. In non-western traditions, such as …