Mrs Vidushi Patel1,2, Dr. Bryan Boruff1,2, Dr. Eloise Biggs1, Dr. Natasha Pauli1 1University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia 2Collaborative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products, Crawley, Australia   The socio-ecological system (SES) approach conceptualizes human-environment interactions as a coupled system...

Miss Ashlea Ostwald1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia   Environmental management operates to balance the rights and interests of stakeholders while protecting the environment from human impacts. This is particularly relevant in areas where ongoing or proposed development overlaps with...

Mr John Aalders1 1University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia   Tidal wetlands are known to be important as carbon stores in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation. There are few reliable estimates available for Australian coastal saltmarshes and none...

A/Prof. Beverley Clarke1, Mr Aung Ko Thet1 1Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia   Coastal saltmarshes on the periphery of Adelaide in South Australia are recognised for their biological importance; they perform a range of essential environmental functions. Yet, in this region...

Dr Vishnu Prahalad1 1University of Tasmania   Coastal wetlands and waterways are important for biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services. Many have been under threat from land clearing, infill development and, increasingly, to sea level rise. Such wetlands...

Dr Fiona MacDonald1 1Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia   Special Schools specialise in teaching children and young people with a moderate to severe intellectual disability, sensory or physical impairments. The schools have a multi-disciplinary, holistic approach and focus on creating meaningful...

Dr Nicoli Barnes1 1University Of Tasmania, Newnham, Australia   Despite the extreme differences embedded in the physicality and cultures that arise within the idea of ‘isolation’ and education, there appears to be a range of commonalities in the ways in...

Dr Cristian Silva1 1University Of Auckland , Auckland, New Zealand   Although controls on urban sprawl have been widely discussed, extended suburbanisation and encroachment of rural lands remain constant, and unexplored in their potentials to articulate a distinctive geography managed...

Miss Jiangdi Tan1 1The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand   The current process of rapid urbanisation and urban sprawl has resulted in the polycentricity of urban form and the evolution of peri-urban landscapes. The peri-urban landscape is complex and...

Prof. Louise Johnson   The Australian urban system is shaped by its historical origins in separate moments of colonisation and dependent development. Six very separate colonial and then state capitals were established to become dominant primate centres. But there were...