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This paper presents a case study about embedding sustainability into a local government in Perth, Western Australia, through the introduction of a sustainability policy and the accompanying education and culture change program. This longitudinal case study describes the approach and impact of the program initiated and delivered by internal officers between 2011 and 2016. The use of personal experience, document review and staff interviews present an ethnography of a bureaucracy that casts some light upon the seldom seen inner workings of a local government organisation as it introduced a sustainability program over a period of more than 5 years. The case study provides evidence of the potential power of learning as a key leverage point for transformational sustainability change. ; Open access

In recent decades, the concept of resource efficient cities has emerged as an urban planning paradigm that seeks to achieve sustainable urban environments. This focus is upon compact urban environments that optimise energy, water and waste systems to create cities that help solve climate change and other resource-based sustainability issues. In parallel, there has been a long-standing tradition of ecological approaches to the design of cities that can be traced from Howard, Geddes, McHarg and Lyle. Rather than resource efficiency, the ecological approach has focused upon the retention and repair of natural landscape features and the creation of green infrastructure (GI) to manage urban water, soil and plants in a more ecologically sensitive way. There is some conflict with the resource efficient cities and ecological cities paradigms, as one is pro-density, while the other is anti-density. This article focusses upon how to integrate the two paradigms through new biophilic urbanism (BU) tools that allow the integration of nature into dense urban areas, to supplement more traditional GI tools in less dense areas. We suggest that the theory of urban fabrics can aid with regard to which tools to use where, for the integration of GI and BU into different parts of the city to achieve both resource efficient and ecological outcomes, that optimise energy water and waste systems, and increase urban nature.

The Guide to Low Carbon Precincts focuses on frameworks and options to assist government authorities, municipalities and developers with strategic urban planning decisions when implementing low-carbon neighbourhoods. This guide is one of a series of 'low carbon guides' developed as research dissemination following the completion of a 7 year Low Carbon Living Co-operative Research Centre in Australia. © 2019 Low Carbon Living CRC ; Low Carbon Living CRC

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- 1: The Global Greyfields Transition: Why Urban Redevelopment in Low-Density, Car-Based Middle Suburbs Needs a New Model -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 10 Transitions in Greening the Greyfields -- 2.1 Transition 1: Urban Fabrics -- 2.2 Transition 2: Building Typologies -- 2.3 Transition 3: The Evolving Spatial Patterns of Urban Industrial Cycles -- 2.4 Transition 4: Housing Life Cycles and Residential Redevelopment -- 2.5 Transition 5: Changing Household Structures and Composition -- 2.6 Transition 6: Overcoming Multiple Problems of Sprawl and Regenerating Car-Dependent Suburbs -- 2.7 Transition 7: Aligning Metropolitan Planning Strategies with Urban Redevelopment Needs -- 2.8 Transition 8: Overcoming Failure of Current Urban Infill Strategies to Achieve Sustainable Redevelopment and Targeted Housing Yields -- 2.9 Transition 9: A New 'Missing Middle' Model for Housing and Urban Redevelopment: Greyfield Precinct Regeneration -- 2.10 Transition 10: Establishing 'Precinct' as a Scale for Regenerative Redevelopment -- 3 The Challenge of GPR: Charting the Transition -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 2: The Greyfield Challenge to Australian Governments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Challenges Faced by Australian Cities -- 2.1 Housing Needs and Services -- 2.2 Ecological Issues -- 2.3 Planning Failure -- 2.4 Urban Structure -- 2.5 An Urban-Planning Transformation Agenda -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Distributed Green Technologies for Regenerating Greyfields -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Technological Innovation: The Sixth Wave -- 2 New Distributed Technologies -- 2.1 Renewable Energy, Rooftop Solar, and Batteries -- 2.2 Integrated Water-Sensitive Systems Combined with Biophilic Urbanism.

This paper presents a case study of a transdisciplinary scenario planning workshop that was designed to link global challenges to local governance. The workshop was held to improve stakeholder integration and explore scenarios for a regional planning project (to 2050) in Blekinge, Sweden. Scenario planning and transdisciplinary practices are often disregarded by practitioners due to the perception of onerous resource requirements, however, this paper describes a 'rapid scenario planning' process that was designed to be agile and time-efficient, requiring the 43 participants from 13 stakeholder organizations to gather only for one day. The process was designed to create an environment whereby stakeholders could learn from, and with, each other and use their expert knowledge to inform the scenario process. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) was used to structure and focus the scenario planning exercise and its subsequent recommendations. The process was evaluated through a workshop participant survey and post-workshop evaluative interview with the regional government project manager to indicate the effectiveness of the approach. The paper closes with a summary of findings which will support those wishing to conduct similar rapid scenario planning exercises to inform policy planning for complex systems. ; open access