Novel decision-making tools for planners and designers engaged with creating water sensitive cities: Brisbane
The Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) has been working with its partners from government and private industry to develop novel scenario assessment and decision support tools that help to address the complexity of managing water in a world faced with increasing population growth and changing land uses patterns; increasing climate variability; and a tightening economic environment.
This Brisbane seminar and panel discussion has been designed to share and discuss three of these tools with practitioners involved in land use and growth planning, infrastructure planning and design, integrated water management planning.
Speakers
Dr Christian Urich is a Research Fellow with Monash University’s Department Civil Engineering, exploring the dynamics of integrated urban systems and their linkages between the city, its water infrastructure and socio-economic systems. His research focuses on how these dynamics and feedbacks can be modelled in an integrated way to explore scenarios for sustainable and robust adaptation strategies. Christian is part of the CRCWSC team developing an integrated platform and database for socio-technical modelling to support collaboration and decision-making.
Dr Steven Kenway is Research Group Leader, Water-Energy-Carbon at the University of Queensland. Steven’s work is focussed on the urban water cycle and related environmental management. His research areas include energy and greenhouse gas emissions, urban metabolism and sustainability analysis, management and reporting. Steven is a researcher on the CRCWSC project on Catchment-scale landscape planning for water sensitive city-regions in an age of climate change (Project B1.2).
Ross Allen is Project Leader for the CRCWSC project Integration and Demonstration through Urban Design (Project D1.1). Ross and his team facilitate the synthesis, adaptation and implementation of knowledge generated by our thought leaders at the CRCWSC. Their activities focus on water- management and green-infrastructure initiatives that respond to local context, enhance urban places and support the wellbeing of urban communities.
Date and time: 9am – 11am, Friday 19 June, 2015
Location: Mercure Brisbane, Leichhardt Room 3, Level 2, 85-87 North Quay, Brisbane.