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Prof. Peter Newton
Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 3122, Australia

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Journal article
Published: 08 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Transformative changes are required for a 21st century sustainable urban development transition involving multiple interconnected domains of energy, water, transport, waste, and housing. This will necessitate a step change in performance goals and tangible solutions. Regenerative urban development has emerged as a major pathway, together with decarbonisation, climate adaptation involving new blue-green infrastructures, and transition to a new green, circular economy. These grand challenges are all unlikely to be realised with current urban planning and governance systems within a time frame that can mitigate environmental, economic, and social disruption. A new national platform for urban innovation has been envisaged and implemented in Australia that is capable of enabling engagement of multiple stakeholders across government, industry, and community as well as real time synchronous collaboration, visioning, research synthesis, experimentation, and decision-making. It targets large strategic metropolitan, mission-scale transition challenges as well as more tactical neighbourhood-scale projects. This paper introduces the iHUB: National Urban Research and Development Platform, its underlying concepts, and multiple layers of technical (IT/AV), software/analytical, data, and engagement, as envisioned and implemented in Australia’s four largest capital cities and five collaborating foundation universities.

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Peter Newton; Niki Frantzeskaki. Creating a National Urban Research and Development Platform for Advancing Urban Experimentation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 530 .

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Peter Newton, Niki Frantzeskaki. Creating a National Urban Research and Development Platform for Advancing Urban Experimentation. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):530.

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Peter Newton; Niki Frantzeskaki. 2021. "Creating a National Urban Research and Development Platform for Advancing Urban Experimentation." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 530.

Journal article
Published: 10 June 2020 in Sustainability
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In the 21st century, the creation of built environments that are carbon neutral and water sensitive is critical for addressing sustainable urban development challenges. Both require transformative change: Decarbonisation to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and incorporation of green-blue water sensitive solutions to adapt to climate change impacts. Transition pathways in both arenas involve combinations of new technology, innovative urban design, enabling policies and regulations, new processes for planning and managing urban development, and demand-side changes in consumer attitudes and practices for urban living related to energy and water use. In this paper, we present new knowledge, concepts and frameworks developed for application in Australia, as well as internationally, through research by the national Cooperative Research Centres for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL) and Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) between 2012 and 2020. These findings and outputs illustrate common features of the research strategies and initiatives that were central to the activities of the CRCs, and highlight promising directions for collaborative interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that drives urban sustainability transformations towards carbon neutral and blue-green cities.

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Peter W. Newton; Briony C. Rogers. Transforming Built Environments: Towards Carbon Neutral and Blue-Green Cities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1 .

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Peter W. Newton, Briony C. Rogers. Transforming Built Environments: Towards Carbon Neutral and Blue-Green Cities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (11):1.

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Peter W. Newton; Briony C. Rogers. 2020. "Transforming Built Environments: Towards Carbon Neutral and Blue-Green Cities." Sustainability 12, no. 11: 1.

Chapter
Published: 08 June 2019 in Decarbonising the Built Environment
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This chapter sets the scene for the book which focuses on the challenge that Australia faces—as a high income and highly urbanised society whose economy is strongly rooted in fossil fuels—in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the twenty-first century. Transition pathways are outlined that focus on technology, buildings, precinct and city design, and human behaviour—and their interactions. An overview is provided of each section and chapter in the book, highlighting the new knowledge and innovation that has emerged from research projects undertaken in the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living between 2012 and 2019.

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Peter Newton; Deo Prasad; Alistair Sproul; Stephen White. Pathways to Low Carbon Living. Decarbonising the Built Environment 2019, 1 -32.

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Peter Newton, Deo Prasad, Alistair Sproul, Stephen White. Pathways to Low Carbon Living. Decarbonising the Built Environment. 2019; ():1-32.

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Peter Newton; Deo Prasad; Alistair Sproul; Stephen White. 2019. "Pathways to Low Carbon Living." Decarbonising the Built Environment , no. : 1-32.

Chapter
Published: 08 June 2019 in Decarbonising the Built Environment
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This chapter outlines new conceptual frameworks and analytics for sustainable urban development goals and design objectives for precincts. The precinct represents a critical scale for urban planning, design and management across all three contemporary urban development arenas: greyfields, brownfields and greenfields. Currently there is lack of analytical and engagement platforms capable of assessing the performance of precinct scale design-led development in these arenas within a time frame and across key dimensions of city performance now considered fundamental to sustainable urban development in the twenty-first century: demonstrably regenerative, low carbon, resilient and smart—across all scales. A clear urban design assessment deficit exists and is particularly acute at precinct scale. A suite of tools developed in the CRC for Low Carbon Living capable of integrated precinct assessment are introduced.

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Peter Newton. The Performance of Urban Precincts: Towards Integrated Assessment. Decarbonising the Built Environment 2019, 357 -384.

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Peter Newton. The Performance of Urban Precincts: Towards Integrated Assessment. Decarbonising the Built Environment. 2019; ():357-384.

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Peter Newton. 2019. "The Performance of Urban Precincts: Towards Integrated Assessment." Decarbonising the Built Environment , no. : 357-384.

Chapter
Published: 28 October 2017 in Urban Sustainability Transitions
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In October 2015 Plan Melbourne Refresh (DELWP, Plan Melbourne refresh discussion Paper. Department of Environmental Land Water and Planning, Melbourne, 2015) recognised ‘greyfield precinct renewal’ as a significant new model for more intensified and sustainable ‘urban’ redevelopment in the established, ageing inner- and middle-ring ‘suburban’ areas of the Melbourne Metropolitan Region. This chapter documents the critical phases of this 6-year ‘shadow urban transitions process’ (Greening the Greyfields project). Framed within a multilevel Transition Management schema, it addresses a set of challenging (‘landscape’) factors necessitating urban transformation together with the ‘regime’ barriers that are blocking more effective and sustainable forms of urban retrofitting of established low-density suburbia – at precinct scale. The transition process required articulation of a new model for greyfield precinct regeneration, necessitating ‘niche’ innovation in several critical arenas within the property development process that involve multiple stakeholders – government, industry and local communities. These innovations encompass new digital, governance, community engagement, codesign and planning instruments developed to support implementation of the new model for greyfield precinct regeneration.

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Peter W. Newton. Transitioning the Greyfields. Urban Sustainability Transitions 2017, 149 -171.

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Peter W. Newton. Transitioning the Greyfields. Urban Sustainability Transitions. 2017; ():149-171.

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Peter W. Newton. 2017. "Transitioning the Greyfields." Urban Sustainability Transitions , no. : 149-171.

Journal article
Published: 25 September 2017 in Sustainability
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Metropolitan planning and development of Australia’s cities for much of the past 75 years has been strongly influenced by what could be termed the “North American model” of low-density, car-dependent suburban development on greenfield master-planned housing estates. The negative social, economic and environmental consequences associated with perpetuating this low-density greenfield model were becoming evident by the 1990s and “compact city” policies began to feature, albeit in piecemeal fashion, in the long-term metropolitan planning strategies of the major capital cities in Australia. This compact city transition, from “suburban” to “urban” (i.e., from a low-density urban form dominated by detached housing with its own surrounding private space to one where there is a significant presence of medium-density and apartment accommodation), remains a challenging work in progress, as reflected in a rapid succession of metropolitan planning strategies—and reviews—for cities such as Melbourne and Sydney since the beginning of this century. Urban infill targets of 70% for new housing construction in these cities now represents a major break with the past and a challenge to the major stakeholders involved in urban development in Australia: state and local government, the property development industry and residents of the established, ageing “greyfield” suburbs that are a focus for intensified redevelopment. This paper comprises four parts. The introduction identifies the multiple challenges confronting 21st-century urban development in Australia. The second part frames transitions required for a regenerative retrofitting of the established suburbs of its major cities, with particular focus on the greyfields. The third section extends transition management research into an examination of the transformative capacity of each of the four key stakeholder groups that are central to achieving such a regenerative transition. To date, the greatest resistance to more intensive redevelopment has come from urban residents. The final section of the paper focuses on this stakeholder group, and draws on data from a major household survey that examines the attitudes of resident property owners in the middle suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne to neighborhood change and medium-density housing development.

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Peter Newton; Denny Meyer; Stephen Glackin. Becoming Urban: Exploring the Transformative Capacity for a Suburban-to-Urban Transition in Australia’s Low-Density Cities. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1718 .

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Peter Newton, Denny Meyer, Stephen Glackin. Becoming Urban: Exploring the Transformative Capacity for a Suburban-to-Urban Transition in Australia’s Low-Density Cities. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (10):1718.

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Peter Newton; Denny Meyer; Stephen Glackin. 2017. "Becoming Urban: Exploring the Transformative Capacity for a Suburban-to-Urban Transition in Australia’s Low-Density Cities." Sustainability 9, no. 10: 1718.

Perspective
Published: 01 August 2017 in Ambio
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Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social–ecological–technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders, has progressed such an approach in the Australian context, aiming to also contribute to international knowledge development and sharing. This process has generated three outputs: (1) a shared framework to support more systematic knowledge development and use, (2) identification of barriers that create a gap between stated urban goals and actual practice, and (3) identification of strategic focal areas to address this gap. Developing integrated strategies at broader urban scales is seen as the most pressing need. The knowledge framework adopts a systems perspective that incorporates the many urban trade-offs and synergies revealed by a systems view. Broader implications are drawn for policy and decision makers, for researchers and for a shared forward agenda.

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Robert Webb; Xuemei Bai; Mark Stafford Smith; Robert Costanza; David Griggs; Magnus Moglia; Michael Neuman; Peter Newman; Peter Newton; Barbara Norman; Chris Ryan; Heinz Schandl; Will Steffen; Nigel Tapper; Giles Thomson. Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation. Ambio 2017, 47, 57 -77.

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Robert Webb, Xuemei Bai, Mark Stafford Smith, Robert Costanza, David Griggs, Magnus Moglia, Michael Neuman, Peter Newman, Peter Newton, Barbara Norman, Chris Ryan, Heinz Schandl, Will Steffen, Nigel Tapper, Giles Thomson. Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation. Ambio. 2017; 47 (1):57-77.

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Robert Webb; Xuemei Bai; Mark Stafford Smith; Robert Costanza; David Griggs; Magnus Moglia; Michael Neuman; Peter Newman; Peter Newton; Barbara Norman; Chris Ryan; Heinz Schandl; Will Steffen; Nigel Tapper; Giles Thomson. 2017. "Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation." Ambio 47, no. 1: 57-77.

Book chapter
Published: 01 February 2017 in Low Carbon Mobility for Future Cities: Principles and applications
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Greening suburban mobility in low-density cities will require a step change in both the demand and supply sides of urban travel. Supply-side innovation is critical in order that the opportunities and alternatives are established for car-dependent suburban residents to embrace more effective forms of active, low carbon travel. This chapter provides a high-level roadmap of the innovations and planning strategies required for a low carbon transition in each of the key supply-side arenas of urban transport.

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Peter Newton Newton; Michael A. Taylor Taylor; Peter Newman Newman; John Stanley Stanley; Chris Rissel Rissel; Billie Giles-Corti Giles-Corti; Rocco Zito Zito. Decarbonising suburban mobility. Low Carbon Mobility for Future Cities: Principles and applications 2017, 113 -138.

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Peter Newton Newton, Michael A. Taylor Taylor, Peter Newman Newman, John Stanley Stanley, Chris Rissel Rissel, Billie Giles-Corti Giles-Corti, Rocco Zito Zito. Decarbonising suburban mobility. Low Carbon Mobility for Future Cities: Principles and applications. 2017; ():113-138.

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Peter Newton Newton; Michael A. Taylor Taylor; Peter Newman Newman; John Stanley Stanley; Chris Rissel Rissel; Billie Giles-Corti Giles-Corti; Rocco Zito Zito. 2017. "Decarbonising suburban mobility." Low Carbon Mobility for Future Cities: Principles and applications , no. : 113-138.

Book chapter
Published: 23 July 2015 in Urban Development for the 21st Century
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Peter Newton; Denny Meyer. Exploring the Attitudes-Action Gap in Household Resource Consumption: Does “Environmental Lifestyle” Segmentation Align with Consumer Behavior? Urban Development for the 21st Century 2015, 65 -95.

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Peter Newton, Denny Meyer. Exploring the Attitudes-Action Gap in Household Resource Consumption: Does “Environmental Lifestyle” Segmentation Align with Consumer Behavior? Urban Development for the 21st Century. 2015; ():65-95.

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Peter Newton; Denny Meyer. 2015. "Exploring the Attitudes-Action Gap in Household Resource Consumption: Does “Environmental Lifestyle” Segmentation Align with Consumer Behavior?" Urban Development for the 21st Century , no. : 65-95.

Journal article
Published: 17 July 2015 in Sustainability
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The green agenda for cities and the economy in general is a major focus of global institutions and is increasingly a major national and urban priority. Core issues and best practice for built environment businesses were collated from published studies and used in a survey of Australian firms to see how committed they were to the green economy. The results show high awareness of the challenges and opportunities with 85% of firms having sustainability as an established agenda with senior management and over 20% of built environment firms deriving more than 50% of their sales from green products and services. This is much higher in design firms and is globally high. Whilst recognizing the scope for more engagement by industry in transitioning to a low carbon green economy, there is doubt within the built environment sector about how to create a business case for innovative green ventures and a lack of certainty or encouragement from government about how to proceed.

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Peter Newton; Peter Newman. Critical Connections: The Role of the Built Environment Sector in Delivering Green Cities and a Green Economy. Sustainability 2015, 7, 9417 -9443.

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Peter Newton, Peter Newman. Critical Connections: The Role of the Built Environment Sector in Delivering Green Cities and a Green Economy. Sustainability. 2015; 7 (7):9417-9443.

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Peter Newton; Peter Newman. 2015. "Critical Connections: The Role of the Built Environment Sector in Delivering Green Cities and a Green Economy." Sustainability 7, no. 7: 9417-9443.

Information
Published: 12 July 2013 in Building Research & Information
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Innovations capable of initiating a sustainability transformation of ageing suburbs in high-income Western cities are presented against a backdrop of urban infrastructures (housing, transport, water, energy) that are stressed due to levels of high population growth and consumption, an ageing asset base, changing socio-demographics, a resource- and carbon-constrained world, and an urbanizing world where attempts at urban intensification are confounding the urban planning and design professions. To be sustainable, cities need to be in a position to draw on innovative technologies, products and processes that can be substituted as existing infrastructures show signs of failure. A three-horizon model of urban technology innovation is proposed that is applicable at building, precinct and suburb scale. Cities also need to be innovative in the process of urban planning and design, especially in how they retrofit, redevelop, and regenerate their brownfield and greyfield precincts in the established inner and middle suburbs in order to encourage movement of population and investment inwards rather than outwards. New models of urban property redevelopment are required here to support greyfield precinct regeneration. The prospects for supply-side innovation are explored in the context of alternative urban infill approaches to regeneration in Australia's cities. Les innovations capables d'amorcer une transformation dans le sens de la durabilité des banlieues vieillissantes des villes occidentales à hauts revenus sont présentées dans un contexte d'infrastructures urbaines (logements, transports, eau, énergie) qui sont sursollicitées en raison des niveaux de forte croissance de la population et de forte consommation, d'actifs vieillissants, de données sociodémographiques en évolution, d'un monde soumis à des restrictions de ressources et d'émissions de carbone, et d'un monde qui s'urbanise dans lequel les tentatives d'intensification urbaine déconcertent les professionnels de l'urbanisme et de l'aménagement urbain. Pour qu'elles soient durables, il faut que les villes soient en mesure de recourir à des technologies, des produits et des processus innovants qui peuvent venir se substituer au moment même où les infrastructures existantes présentent des signes de défaillance. Il est proposé un modèle d'innovation technologique urbaine à trois horizons, qui est applicable à l'échelle du bâtiment, du quartier et de la banlieue. Les villes doivent également se montrer innovantes dans le processus d'urbanisme et d'aménagement urbain, en particulier dans la manière dont elles réaménagent, rénovent et régénèrent leurs quartiers de friches industrielles et de friches commerciales dans les proches et moyennes banlieues établies, afin de favoriser le déplacement de la population et des investissements vers l'intérieur plutôt que vers l'extérieur. De nouveaux modèles de rénovation de l'immobilier urbain sont ici nécessaires pour...

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Peter W. Newton. Regenerating cities: technological and design innovation for Australian suburbs. Building Research & Information 2013, 41, 575 -588.

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Peter W. Newton. Regenerating cities: technological and design innovation for Australian suburbs. Building Research & Information. 2013; 41 (5):575-588.

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Peter W. Newton. 2013. "Regenerating cities: technological and design innovation for Australian suburbs." Building Research & Information 41, no. 5: 575-588.

Journal article
Published: 06 June 2013 in Sustainability
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This paper examines the early phases of a 21st century energy transition that involves distributed generation technologies employing low or zero carbon emission power sources and their take-up within Australia, with particular reference to the major cities and solar photovoltaics (PV). This transition is occurring in a nation with significant path dependency to overcome in relation to fossil fuel use. Tracking the diffusion of solar PV technology within Australia over the past decade provides a basis for assessing those factors underpinning its exponential growth and its associated geography of diffusion. Positive evidence that there are pathways for cities to decarbonise is apparent but there appear to be different pathways for different city forms with lower density suburban areas showing the biggest take-up of household-based energy technologies. This suggests a model for the low carbon urban transition involving combinations of simple technological changes and harder structural changes, depending upon which parts of the urban fabric are in focus. This is being called a New Low Carbon Urban Transition Theory.

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Peter Newton; Peter Newman. The Geography of Solar Photovoltaics (PV) and a New Low Carbon Urban Transition Theory. Sustainability 2013, 5, 2537 -2556.

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Peter Newton, Peter Newman. The Geography of Solar Photovoltaics (PV) and a New Low Carbon Urban Transition Theory. Sustainability. 2013; 5 (6):2537-2556.

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Peter Newton; Peter Newman. 2013. "The Geography of Solar Photovoltaics (PV) and a New Low Carbon Urban Transition Theory." Sustainability 5, no. 6: 2537-2556.

Journal article
Published: 19 March 2013 in Sustainability
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Consumption is a transcending challenge for the 21st century that is stimulating research on multiple pathways required to deliver a more environmentally sustainable future. This paper is nested in what is a much larger field of research on sustainable consumption and reports on part of a major Australian Research Council study into the determinants of household resource consumption, based on a survey of 1,250 residents in Melbourne, Australia. Three environmental lifestyle segments are established that represent the spectrum of attitudes, opinions and intentions across the surveyed population: “committed” greens, “material” greens and “enviro-sceptics” (representing respectively 33.5%, 40.3% and 26.3% of the population). Each segment was found to display distinctive socio-demographic attributes, as well as urban geographies. However, few differences were found in relation to each segment’s actual consumption of energy, water, housing space, urban travel and domestic appliances. The research findings indicate that in these areas of urban resource consumption—all principal contributors to the ecological footprint of households—there are sets of factors at work that override attitudes, opinions and intentions as indicators of consumer behaviour. Some of these factors are information, organization and finance related and are the focus of much public policy. However, the persistence of well ingrained habits and practices among individuals and households and the lack of norms and values in western societies that explicitly promote environmental conservation among its population, are fundamentally involved in the attitude-action gap and constitute important avenues for future research and action.

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Peter Newton; Denny Meyer. Exploring the Attitudes-Action Gap in Household Resource Consumption: Does “Environmental Lifestyle” Segmentation Align with Consumer Behaviour? Sustainability 2013, 5, 1211 -1233.

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Peter Newton, Denny Meyer. Exploring the Attitudes-Action Gap in Household Resource Consumption: Does “Environmental Lifestyle” Segmentation Align with Consumer Behaviour? Sustainability. 2013; 5 (3):1211-1233.

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Peter Newton; Denny Meyer. 2013. "Exploring the Attitudes-Action Gap in Household Resource Consumption: Does “Environmental Lifestyle” Segmentation Align with Consumer Behaviour?" Sustainability 5, no. 3: 1211-1233.

Original articles
Published: 30 January 2012 in Journal of Urban Technology
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Australian cities rate high internationally on liveability and well-being indices. State and metropolitan governments are keen to promote the liveability of their cities as a means of attracting mobile capital, skilled labor, and tourists. An examination of the liveability-environmental sustainability nexus, however, suggests that Australia's capital cities have gained their high liveability ratings as a result of having inputs of high, and now unsustainable, levels of resource consumption—indirectly into their built environments and directly into their households. This paper explores the prospects for a socio-technical transition of key urban infrastructure systems—energy, water, waste, transport, communications and buildings—as a basis for winding back unsustainable levels of consumption while maintaining liveability.

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Peter W. Newton. LiveableandSustainable? Socio-Technical Challenges for Twenty-First-Century Cities. Journal of Urban Technology 2012, 19, 81 -102.

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Peter W. Newton. LiveableandSustainable? Socio-Technical Challenges for Twenty-First-Century Cities. Journal of Urban Technology. 2012; 19 (1):81-102.

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Peter W. Newton. 2012. "LiveableandSustainable? Socio-Technical Challenges for Twenty-First-Century Cities." Journal of Urban Technology 19, no. 1: 81-102.

Research
Published: 01 February 2011 in Building Research & Information
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Australia's housing sector currently has no consistent or clearly defined role in the nation's carbon-abatement schemes, despite the housing sector being a major national emitter of greenhouse gases. This effectively removes a significant incentive for innovation in green building, distributed and renewable energy generation, and energy-efficiency initiatives, locking in poor performance of dwellings and wasteful behaviour by households. Pathways to a low-carbon housing future are identified via a new class of hybrid building (energy-efficient envelope, energy-efficient plug-in appliances and local energy generation linked to a national grid). Modelling is used to demonstrate the routes that a spectrum of detached housing, ranging from ‘carbon clunkers’ to new ‘project’ homes, can take to achieve zero-carbon status. Hybrid buildings can achieve zero-carbon status through combined lower energy consumption and local energy generation, achieving reductions in emissions of 11 tonnes of CO2-e per dwelling per year, compared with new 5 Star energy-rated ‘project’ homes (the current building standard) which generate on average 9.5 tonnes of CO2-e emissions/year. Key transitions for Australia are identified in hot water heating, space heating and cooling, built-in appliances and plug-in appliances that can significantly reduce domestic carbon footprints. A portfolio of technical and policy options is explored for decarbonizing the housing sector. Le secteur du logement ne joue actuellement en Australie aucun rôle cohérent ou clairement défini dans les dispositifs de réduction des émissions de carbone de ce pays, en dépit du fait que le secteur du logement est, au niveau national, un important émetteur de gaz à effet de serre. Ceci supprime de fait une incitation forte à innover dans des bâtiments verts, dans la production d'une énergie renouvelable et bien répartie et dans des initiatives favorisant le rendement énergétique, en perpétuant des logements d'un rendement énergétique médiocre et des comportements de gaspillage dans les ménages. Les voies qui mènent à un avenir où le logement aura une faible émission de carbone sont identifiées via une nouvelle classe de bâtiments hybrides (enveloppe économe en énergie, appareils électroménagers à brancher économes en énergie, et production d'énergie d'origine locale reliée à un réseau national). La modélisation est utilisée pour montrer les voies pouvant être empruntées par un large éventail de logements indépendants, allant des « passoires à carbone » aux logements des nouveaux « ensembles d'habitation », pour parvenir à une situation sans émission de carbone. Les bâtiments hybrides peuvent parvenir à une situation sans émission de carbone en combinant une consommation énergétique plus faible et une production d'énergie d'origine locale, ce qui permet d'obtenir des réductions d'émissions de 11 tonnes de CO2e par logement par an, à comparer aux logements des nouveaux ensembles d'habitation, de classe d'efficacité énergétique 5 étoiles (la norme de construction actuelle), qui produisent en moyenne 9,5 tonnes d'émissions/an de CO2e. Les principales pistes pour passer au zéro carbone en Australie sont identifiées dans le chauffage à eau chaude, le chauffage et le refroidissement des volumes, les appareils électroménagers incorporés et les appareils électroménagers à brancher qui peuvent sensiblement réduire l'empreinte carbone des ménages. L'éventail des possibilités techniques et politiques permettant de « décarboner » le secteur du logement est examiné. Mots clés: appareils électroménagers, changement climatique, rendement énergétique, politique du logement, société à faible émission de carbone, logements sans émission de carbone, Australie

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Peter W. Newton; Selwyn N. Tucker. Pathways to decarbonizing the housing sector: a scenario analysis. Building Research & Information 2011, 39, 34 -50.

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Peter W. Newton, Selwyn N. Tucker. Pathways to decarbonizing the housing sector: a scenario analysis. Building Research & Information. 2011; 39 (1):34-50.

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Peter W. Newton; Selwyn N. Tucker. 2011. "Pathways to decarbonizing the housing sector: a scenario analysis." Building Research & Information 39, no. 1: 34-50.