Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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From the Seam to the Stove: greenhouse gas assessment and the coal seam gas industry in Australia
Published 2015In Australia, Coal Seam Gas (CSG) is a relatively new source of natural gas commonly advocated as a lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions alternative to coal. This study investigates how GHG emissions have been, and ...Open AccessArticle -
Participation in postpolitical times: protesting WestConnex in Sydney, Australia
Published 2019Arnstein’s work exposed the importance of the political framing work of government authorities in establishing how planners engage with the public, revealing how this tended to perpetuate rather than disrupt existing power ...Open AccessArticle -
Ethnicity and media: a study of English and non-English language print media coverage of water issues in Sydney
Published 2019It is critical to understand how matters relating to water are reported, or ignored, among linguistically diverse media and to understand the possible influence this may have on the conception of water issues among ethnically ...Open AccessArticle -
Fighting to undo a deal: identifying and resisting the financialization of the WestConnex motorway, Sydney, Australia.
Published 2021WestConnex is a highly controversial urban toll motorway currently being built in Sydney. This article examines how the deals behind WestConnex were assembled in private and contested in public. It reveals how a new model ...Open AccessArticle -
A more-than-urban political ecology of bushfire smoke in eastern Australia, 2019-2020
Published 2021From September 2019 to February 2020 fires destroyed dwellings, towns and killed farm animals and wildlife in much of eastern Australia. While the threat and experiences of fire differed, smoke became a quotidian experience ...Open AccessArticle