Tagged: Resilience

WSC Scenario Modelling Tool

The CRCWSC has recently developed the Scenario Modelling Tool that can be used to help prioritise locations for passively watered systems and Water Sensitive Urban Design scenarios.  The GIS b...

City Cooling - Mitigation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect

  Australian heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent, with the largest impacts occurring in cities due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The term UHI refers to how built up areas...

Sponge Cities - China’s Green-Blue Approach to Urban Water Management

  Kunshan Cultural Plaza. Image: CRC Water Sensitive Cities Conventional city design has allowed society to thrive and grow in a range of challenging and often uninhabitable environments. ...

Quantifying city liveability, productivity and resilience

Docklands, Melbourne. Image by Ian Buck In order to manage, you must measure. But how do you measure positive city outcomes such as liveability, productivity or resilience? As cities face the risi...

Ballarat City's Integrated Water Management Plan

Ballarat is a historic city with a long-term plan to become greener, more vibrant and connected. Careful management of the regions water resources is required to achieve this vision and respond to ...