Dense, mixed-use, walkable urban precinct to support sustainable transport or vice versa? A model for consideration from Perth, Western Australia

Within the majority of the literature on sustainable transport, it is accepted as ideal to arrange new urban growth in close proximity to major public transit services. While the literature on this subject of transit-oriented developments (TOD) is positive and optimistic, for the most part such assertions are conjectural. This article will attempt to fill this gap by revealing a modeling process undertaken for a local area's reurbanization project to understand the potential and limitations of several modes of transport to support the increased activity density in the precincts. Several of the most standardized policy levers were employed, such as parking ratios and mix of use and building height, and contrasted with the trip generation and transit mode's hourly capacity to reveal potential real-estate yields. The outcomes indicate not only the immediate yields but also the capacity for urban transformation due to each level of sustainable transport investments. The model is unique in that the capacity, parking ratios, and assumptions are highly transparent

Food Policy Development in the Australian State of Victoria: A Case Study of the Food Alliance

This article explores the development of a food policy body called the Food Alliance and the role of the organization in encouraging the development of food policy that integrates health and ecological issues. The Food Alliance is located within the Australian state of Victoria. A policy triangle is used as a framework to describe and analyse the work of the Food Alliance. Lessons are drawn about effective strategies for influencing integrated food policy. This occurs in a context where food policy typically favours powerful industry and agricultural interests and where relationships between the health and environmental sectors are in their infancy. The implications for planning and organizing a state-wide food policy are explored from the perspective of policy and the ways in which this can be influenced through working with key stakeholders

Conceptualising sustainability in UK urban Regeneration: a discursive Formation

Despite the wide usage and popular appeal of the concept of sustainability in UK policy, it does not appear to have challenged the status quo in urban regeneration because policy is not leading in its conceptualisation and therefore implementation. This paper investigates how sustainability has been conceptualised in a case-based research study of the regeneration of Eastside in Birmingham, UK, through policy and other documents, and finds that conceptualisations of sustainability are fundamentally limited. The conceptualisation of sustainability operating within urban regeneration schemes should powerfully shape how they make manifest (or do not) the principles of sustainable development. Documents guide, but people implement regeneration—and the disparate conceptualisations of stakeholders demonstrate even less coherence than policy. The actions towards achieving sustainability have become a policy ‘fix’ in Eastside: a necessary feature of urban policy discourse that is limited to solutions within market-based constraints

Images and videos_Experiment_% plastics waste in municipal mixed solid waste in the Municipality of Aalborg

These images were taken as part of the sample collection, preparation and critical observations for an experiment with municipal mixed solid waste in the Municipality of Aalbor

RE-INVEST EnergyPLAN models

Scenario files used in RE-INVEST deliverable 3.

Area and Population Estimates from Sentinel Data - Ghana and Mediterranean Egypt

This dataset contains the area and population predictions made in the paper "A Method for Creating Globally Applicable Models for Population Estimates from Sentinel Data". The predictions are made using Sentinel 1 and 2 data and the newest available census data and population forecasts. The individual datasets are: ghana_area_float32.tif & egypt_area_float32.tif The predicted area of structures per pixel. Spatial Resolution: 10x10m Data format: float32 Valid for: 2021 Q3 Ghana, 2021 Q4 Egypt Nodata: -9999.0 ghana_area_uint8.tif & egypt_area_uint8.tif The predicted area of structures per pixel. Each pixel is 10x10m. The data format is uint8, rounded to the nearest integer from float32. Spatial Resolution: 10x10m Data format: uint8 Valid for: 2021 Q3 Ghana, 2021 Q4 Egypt Nodata: 255 ghana_population_unweighted.tif & egypt_population_unweighted.tif These are the unweighted population predictions for Ghana and Egypt. Unweighted means that daytime and nighttime population has not been taken into account, and each m2 of structure is weighted equally. Spatial Resolution: 10x10m Data format: float32 Valid for: 2021 Q3 Ghana, 2020 Q4 Egypt Nodata: -9999.0 ghana_population_unweighted_100m.tif & egypt_population_unweighted_100m.tif These are the same as ghana_population_unweighted.tif & egypt_population_unweighted.tif, but resampled to 100x100m using the SUM. Spatial Resolution: 100x100m Data format: float32 Valid for: 2021 Q3 Ghana, 2020 Q4 Egypt Nodata: -9999.0 ghana_area_residential.tif & ghana_area_non-residential.tif & ghana_area_residential_selforganised.tif This is the predicted area in m2 of the three classes: Residential, non-residential, and self-organised. It can be used to convert the area to a temporally adjusted population estimate as described in the paper. Spatial Resolution: 10x10m Data format: float32 Valid for: 2021 Q3 Ghana Nodata: -9999.9 ghana_m2_pr_person_conversion_layer.tif & egypt_m2_pr_person_conversion_layer.tif This is the predicted area pr person according to the most recent census and forecasts for each country. It can be used to convert from area to population. The Ghana numbers are based on ghana_area_float32 and the Ghana census 2021. Egypt's numbers are based on egypt_area_float32 and Egypt's 2017 census and UN population forecasts. The borders are smoothed with a 2km round kernel, but the sum is adjusted to remain the same. Spatial Resolution: 10x10m Data format: float32 Valid for: 2021 Q3 Ghana, 2020 Q4 Egypt Nodata: -9999.

DORUS time-variable gravity field models

DORUS time-variable gravity models based on GRACE Follow-On mission data analysis, as produced by the GEORB software system

Precise orbit data and Gravity field models for GRACE Follow-On mission

Precise orbit data and Gravity field models for GRACE Follow-On satellite mission produced by the GEORB software system. Sample dataset of precise orbits of GRACE-FO satellites and one weekly gravity field solution "DORUS_GRACE-FO_59412-59418.gfc"

IndustryPLAN

IndustryPLAN is a tool for analysing the industrial energy demands of European countries. The tool provides a bottom-up top-down approach in which first the “black box” of industry is opened up with country-based data and technology data from the bottom-up in each industrial sector. In a top-down approach measures are implemented on the sub-sectors, aggregated and connected to a GDP development and saturation rates of new technologies. The IndustryPLAN tool is established based on the following overarching ambitions: 1. To provide a platform for implementing the guiding principles for energy efficiency in industry. 2. Enabling the establishment of tangible future scenarios for the industry sector as a part of smart energy systems.IndustryPLAN is a tool for analysing the industrial energy demands of European countries. The tool provides a bottom-up top-down approach in which first the “black box” of industry is opened up with country-based data and technology data from the bottom-up in each industrial sector. In a top-down approach measures are implemented on the sub-sectors, aggregated and connected to a GDP development and saturation rates of new technologies. The IndustryPLAN tool is established based on the following overarching ambitions: 1. To provide a platform for implementing the guiding principles for energy efficiency in industry. 2. Enabling the establishment of tangible future scenarios for the industry sector as a part of smart energy systems. Further information on the tool is available at https://www.energyplan.eu/industryplan

Community radio: guidelines on how to record and broadcast communities' meetings

Guidelines for broadcasting community meetings for Web and mobile access were developed and integrated into the project Website. The preferred option is that all meetings about the station are aired live on the station as they happen. Secondarily, RootIO provides features that allow for the recordings of meetings to be aired, as well as synthesizing audio from minutes of meetings. After various discussions with the project partners, including those more involved in community outreach, the focus went on strengthening the possibilities of using voice and telephone in the assembly processes of decision-making. For this reason, a tutorial on how to use RootIO for this goal was designed, focused on showing how to broadcast an assembly and how to allow people to take part in it through the use of the telephone. This solution offers the possibility of involving as many people as possible in the decision-making process, avoiding the digital divide, directly addressing one of the focal issues of community governance. The aim of these guidelines was to offer a simple and clear tool to the communities that could guide them in two main tasks: the recording and broadcasting of public events through the use of a phone and the RootIO technology and the retrieval of this material and publication of some excerpts. The live broadcasting of the community radio stations’ meetings can also support the achievement of other social outcomes. This operation places focus on the importance of transparent assembly decision-making processes that can be heard by the entire community. The opportunity to intervene during the assemblies through a simple phone call increases the possibility of people’s participation in the discussion. This document is the result of mock-ups for mobile and desktop designed