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Chapter 1Weather of Mass Destruction --Chapter 2Finding Homo Urbanis --Chapter 3Through the Security Glass Darkly --Chapter 4Seeking the Good City --Chapter 5We are the Wild City --Chapter 6Planning in Climate Change --Chapter 7Can the Wild City be Tamed?

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Addressing the Climate Emergency at the Local Scale -- Why Quiet? -- Why Local? -- The Role of Social Innovation -- The Australian Research Context -- Towards a Quiet Activist Framework -- Local Lines of Flight -- Chapter 2: Building and Bridging the Knowledge Base -- Climate Action Heartlands -- A Local Mandate for Climate Action -- Think + Act + Share = Change -- Local Community Climate Hub -- ReNew Initiatives -- The Quiet Stories of Change -- Chapter 3: Bringing Missing Actors to the Table -- Enabling Socially Innovative Practices -- Climate Action: A Seat at the Table -- Nature Conservation Trust: Care and Protection -- The Story of Capertree Valley -- Addressing Risk and Disruption -- Climate Valuation: The Website -- Missing Actors, a Shifting Designation? -- Bringing Local Community to the Table -- Rising Blue Line -- Building Local Community Activism -- Climate Response-Ability -- Chapter 4: Walking Together with Care -- Care in Weather-Worlds -- Turning Down the Heat -- Climarte: Art and Emotion -- Foregrounding Emotions -- One Planet: Climate Action Now -- Care-Full Community Practices -- Quiet Adaptation -- 'We Make the Weather' -- Chapter 5: Realising Transformative Potential -- New Normal/s -- Scaling Out, Up and Deep -- Solar aver -- Ecoburbia -- Scaling Out -- Scaling Up -- Scaling Deep -- Quiet Activism: Means and Ends -- Chapter 6: Making and Breaking Connections -- Quiet Innovation and Activist Practices -- Making Connections: Public Education and Awareness of Innovations -- Breaking Connections: Reforming Institutions in Greener Directions -- Making Connections: Direct Local Activism -- Breaking Connections: Confronting and Changing Institutional Practices -- "Critique, Subvert, Rework" -- Chapter 7: Quiet Activism in Climate Change.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore emerging synergies and tensions between the twin moves to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and online learning and teaching (L&T) in higher education institutions (HEIs).


Design/methodology/approach
A preliminary global exploration of universities' SDG-based L&T initiatives was undertaken, using publicly available grey and academic literature. Across a total sample of 179 HEIs – identified through global university rankings and analysis of all 42 Australian universities – 150 SDG-based L&T initiatives were identified. These were analysed to identify common approaches to embedding the SDGs.


Findings
Five key approaches to embedding the SDGs into online (and offline) HEI L&T were identified: designing curricula and pedagogy to address the SDGs; orienting the student experience towards the SDGs; aligning graduate outcomes with the SDGs; institutional leadership and capability building; and participating in cross-institutional networks and initiatives. Four preliminary conclusions were drawn from subsequent analysis of these themes and their relevance to online education. Firstly, approaches to SDG L&T varied in degree of alignment between theory and practice. Secondly, many initiatives observed already involve some component of online L&T. Thirdly, questions of equity need to be carefully built into the design of online SDG education. And fourthly, more work needs to be done to ensure that both online and offline L&T are delivering the transformational changes required for and by the SDGs.


Research limitations/implications
The research was limited by the availability of information on university websites accessible through a desk-top review in 2019; limited HEI representation; and the scope of the 2019 THE Impact Rankings.


Originality/value
To date, there are no other published reviews, of this scale, of SDG L&T initiatives in universities nor analysis of the intersection between these initiatives and the move to online L&T.

This special issue on housing and socio-spatial inclusion had its genesis in the 5th Housing Theory Symposium (HTS) on the theme of housing and space, held in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. In late 2013 we put out a call for papers in an attempt to collect an initial suite of theoretical and empirical scholarship on this theme. This collection of articles progresses our initial discussions about the theoretical implications of adding the "social" to the conceptual project of thinking through housing and space. We hope that this special issue will act as a springboard for a critical review of housing theory, which could locate housing at the centre of a much broader network of social and cultural practices across different temporal trajectories and spatial scales. This editorial presents an overview of the theoretical discussions at the HTS and summarises the six articles in this themed issue, which are: (1) The meaning of home in home birth experiences; (2) Reconceptualizing the "publicness" of public housing; (3) The provision of visitable housing in Australia; (4) The self-production of dwellings made by the Brazilian new middle class; (5) Innovative housing models and the struggle against social exclusion in cities; and (6) A theoretical and an empirical analysis of "poverty suburbanization".

"Planning Across Borders in a Climate of Change draws on a range of diverse case studies from Australasia, North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and offers the application of border theory, concepts and principles to planning as a critical lens. It applies this lens to a range of international case studies in key areas such as climate change adaptation, food security, spatial planning, critical infrastructure and urban ecology"--

Climate change is a highly contested policy issue in Australia, generating fierce debate at every level of governance. In this paper we explore a crucial tension in both the policy and the public debate: a seeming lack of attention to social inclusion and broader equity implications. We pay special attention to the municipal scale, where concerns about social difference and democratic participation are often foregrounded in political discourse, using South East Queensland—a recognised climate change 'hotspot'—as a case study. Mobilising critical discourse analysis techniques, we interrogate three local government climate change response strategies, and place these in the context of transscalar discourse networks which appear to sustain a technocratic, 'ecological modernisation' approach to the issue. Finally, we suggest a broad strategy for reimagining this approach to embed a notion of climate justice in our policy thinking about climate change.

Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions to which the interdisciplinary concept of the global city can help to tackle the policy challenges of today's metropolises. Its chapters are drawn from viewpoints including the cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political dimensions of global cities. Tasked with providing a rejoinder to the global city scholarship from each of these perspectives, the authors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing these stances to the concept of the 'global city'. They rely not solely on theory but also on sample case studies either drawn from long-lived global cities such as New York, Shanghai and London, or emerging metropolises like Dubai, Cape Town and Sydney.