Ms Anna Tweeddale1 1RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia   The phenomenon of construction connects a moment of tranquil suburbia with the pisolithic geology of bauxite through refined aluminium. Situated on a plinth of steel-reinforced concrete, the lightweight extension of House A...

Ms Amelia Hine1, Ms Maggie-Anne Harvey1 1University Of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia   ‘[C]apitalism has naturalized itself to the earth, feeding off the fossil stocks and mineral flows of the substratum’ (Yusoff 2017, 113). In seeking the edges of this capitalist...

Dr Andrea Connor1, Professor Donald McNeill1 1Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia   Whilst the ground we stand and build on is often conceptualised as a ‘natural’ terrestrial plane, recent theoretical work across a range of disciplines has begun to re-think...

Ms Lilian Pearce1 1ANU, Canberra, Australia   By the early 1900s, overgrazed arid areas of the American mid-west and Australia simultaneously found themselves confronting the effects of unfettered colonial land manipulation and extraction on old, tired soils. Around this time,...

Dr Sarah Robertson1 1RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia   What role does soil play in sustainable residential designs and how does it reconfigure place-based human-nature relations in cities?  In design and planning practice, place-focused efforts promote human connection to place as...

Dr Katherine Sammler1 1California State University Maritime, Vallejo, United States   The black sands off Aotearoa New Zealand’s Taranaki Bight are made of titanomagnetite, containing high concentrations of iron. Their dark color and magnetic properties signify the coveted ore within,...

Dr Vanessa Lamb1 1University Of Melbourne   Sand mining is now a globally significant problem causing serious consequences for rivers and coasts from where it is extracted. The gravity of the situation is underlined by a 2014 UNEP report showing...

Dr Jo Gillespie1, Mr Alex Vaughan1 1School of Geosciences, The University Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia   Smart environmental regulation embraces innovative methods to control human activities and moves us beyond environmental law’s traditional command and control regulatory approaches. This approach...

A/Prof. Dan Penny1, Dr Jo Gillespie1, Ms Nicola Perry1 1The University Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia   Here we consider the messy ‘unruliness’ of more-than-human communities in a protected wetland at the margin on Cambodia’s ‘great lake’ – the Tonle Sap. ...

Mr Derrick Sowa1 1The University  of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia   Attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities and challenges confronting environmental regulatory systems necessitate a comprehensive assessment of the entire environmental regulatory system. Using Ghana...