Sustainable Cities and Communities

Human activities release large quantities of wastewater to rivers and oceans. This wastewater often contains toxic chemicals, which can adversely affect living organisms. Our current methods to assess the toxicity of wastewater effluent are relatively insensitive and expensive, which means that monitoring is only infrequently conducted and is not protective… Read More

Griffith Business School supported 19 students and alumni to attend the Young Professionals Forum as part of the 2023 Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors Forum – Shaping Cities for our Future.

The project aim is to design a commercially viable tabletop boardgame which engages and entertains players while educating them about the challenges and trade-offs involved in designing future resilient cities. The game can also be incorporated into co-design toolkits for use in community consultation processes. The project also explores the… Read More

The Australia Awards Renewable Energy Short Course aimed to contribute to the shared ambition of Australia and Indonesia to cooperate more closely to enable transition to lower emission economies and understands that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a global challenge. Twenty-five participants from across Indonesia joined course leaders Associate Professor… Read More

The overall aim of the activities, “What’s on My Plate for Morning Tea,” “Reptile awareness Program”, “Healthy Lunch Box Week,” “Bucket Filling,” “8 Ways of Aboriginal Knowing,” and “Celebrating Cultural Days in Kindergarten,” was to introduce kindergarten children to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by nurturing five essential attributes/characters… Read More

Funded by the Australian Government’s Water for Women Fund, the research was undertaken from January to December 2022. This study aimed to provide regionally appropriate evidence about what kinds of processes and systems could be explored within different urban contexts in Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The… Read More

The Water Leadership Program (WLP) is an award-winning program that helps emerging leaders to develop the ability to exert influence, drive change and advance challenging integrated water management projects – abilities associated with the most effective integrated water management leaders. The WLP is a feedback-intensive, 10-month professional development program,… Read More

This program acknowledged the shared ambition of the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy to enable energy cooperation as an important pillar that will contribute significantly to the two nations’ growth of commercial and investment turnovers. Course Designers developed a program addressing the energy industry related areas of technology, economics,… Read More

The program acknowledged the shared ambition of the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy to enable energy cooperation as an important pillar that will contribute significantly to the two nations’ growth of commercial and investment turnovers. Course Designers developed a program addressing the energy industry related areas of technology, economics,… Read More

The Water and WASH Futures Conference 2023 is part of the Water and WASH Futures knowledge forums – a series of knowledge sharing and learning activities for practitioners and professionals in the international water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and water resource management (WRM) sectors. We also encourage and welcome… Read More