Decarbonising Australian cities: A new model for creating low carbon, resilient cities

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3073-3079

  Rauland, V ^a   Newman, P ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decarbonising; Decentralised resource management; Density; Green infrastructure

Indexed keywords

AGING INFRASTRUCTURE; AUSTRALIA; BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; DECARBONISING; DECENTRALISED; DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS; LONG-TERM VIABILITY; LOW CARBON; LOW DENSITY; LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES; NEW MODEL; PER CAPITA; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; QUALITY OF LIFE; URBAN FORM; URBAN SYSTEMS;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FERRY BOATS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84858833383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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