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		<title>US EPA Public Health Report</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/08/us-epa-public-health-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Health Consequences and Cost of Climate Change Impacts on Indoor Environments, David Mudarri, The Indoor Environments Division Office of Radiation and Indoor Air U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D.C. 20460 January 2010 This report presents a preliminary analysis of the changes in indoor environmental quality likely to result from changes in climate and assesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding environmental science dataset</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/07/finding-environmental-science-dataset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Science, Technology and Medicine team at the British Library are piloting our new &#8216;Search Our Catalogue&#8217; tool as a way to help researchers discover datasets. Search Our Catalogue (SoC) brings together the wealth of the Library&#8217;s content into a single search. To explore researcher needs for finding research datasets, we are enabling the discovery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close-contact infectious diseases in New Zealand: Trends and ethnic inequalities in hospitalisations, 1989 to 2008</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/06/close-contact-infectious-diseases-in-new-zealand-trends-and-ethnic-inequalities-in-hospitalisations-1989-to-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/06/close-contact-infectious-diseases-in-new-zealand-trends-and-ethnic-inequalities-in-hospitalisations-1989-to-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research Document]]></description>
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		<title>Managing urban growth in a transforming China: Evidence from Beijing</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/06/managing-urban-growth-in-a-transforming-china-evidence-from-beijing/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/06/managing-urban-growth-in-a-transforming-china-evidence-from-beijing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing urban growth in the current rapid urbanization process has become a key issue for land use policy in transformation China. This paper maps and assesses the performance of urban containment strategies in China, looking at the case of Beijing over a 19-year period (1990–2009). The analysis shows that to a large extent containment strategies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Steps for REN21 – NZ</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/05/next-steps-for-ren21-%e2%80%93-nz/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/05/next-steps-for-ren21-%e2%80%93-nz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 03:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Minister Brownlee has just announced the NZ government’s intention to join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) we thought we should update you on our collaboration with Dr. Eric Martinot, the author of the influential REN21 Renewables Global Status Report. Last year we contributed research towards the current edition of the REN21 Renewables Global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking ‘progress’; an evaluation of the Wellington Region genuine progress index</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/rethinking-%e2%80%98progress%e2%80%99-an-evaluation-of-the-wellington-region-genuine-progress-index/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/rethinking-%e2%80%98progress%e2%80%99-an-evaluation-of-the-wellington-region-genuine-progress-index/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arron Packard &#8211; Masters Thesis Download Thesis]]></description>
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		<title>Re-politicizing urban sustainability and the politics of the possible:a critical yet hopeful analysis of the making of Project Twin Streams in Waitakere City, New Zealand</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/re-politicizing-urban-sustainability-and-the-politics-of-the-possiblea-critical-yet-hopeful-analysis-of-the-making-of-project-twin-streams-in-waitakere-city-new-zealand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Masters Thesis of Danya Rumore Thesis Document]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgagee sales and density</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/mortgagee-sales-and-density/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/mortgagee-sales-and-density/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Viggers New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities (NZCSC) The spatial distribution of mortgagee sales across New Zealand cities, between 2000 and mid 2009 was examined. The changes in location over time period, corresponding to both a real-estate boom and rising transport costs may reflect future patterns of value. PDF of Summer School Presentation]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping and visualizing urban form: urban intensification analysis for New Zealand cities</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/mapping-and-visualizing-urban-form-urban-intensification-analysis-for-new-zealand-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/mapping-and-visualizing-urban-form-urban-intensification-analysis-for-new-zealand-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pengjun Zhao New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities (NZCSC), Post Doctoral Fellow Urban intensification is one of key issues for local carbon management as it has influences on community energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions. This presentation will report the results of urban density analysis for major New Zealand cities. The density of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Development &#8211; The key to tackling health inequalities</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/sustainable-development-the-key-to-tackling-health-inequalities/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/sustainable-development-the-key-to-tackling-health-inequalities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to causing health inequalities, environmental considerations play a significant role. Food, transport, green space and the built environment are all factors which can narrow or widen the health gap between rich and poor communities. But the Sustainable Development Commission believes that the environmental causes of health inequalities are still being under-appreciated. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statistics NZ, Apartment Dwellers: 2006 Census Report</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/statistics-nz-apartment-dwellers-2006-census-report/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/03/statistics-nz-apartment-dwellers-2006-census-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apartment Dwellers: 2006 Census reports on the people who live in apartments in the three main cities of New Zealand. It compares and contrasts the characteristics of inner city and non-inner city apartment dwellers within each city and analyses particular aspects of the apartments themselves. The report is based on data from the 2006 Census [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For whom the city? Housing and locational preferences in New Zealand</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/for-whom-the-city-housing-and-locational-preferences-in-new-zealand/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/for-whom-the-city-housing-and-locational-preferences-in-new-zealand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Preval, Ralph Chapman &#38; Philippa Howden-Chapman  ‘Sizing up the City’  covers a range of issues. This chapter reports on a survey which found that most people (54%) think that urban limits are necessary so that cities develop more sustainably (15% disagree). By 2 to 1, New Zealanders thought councils (rather than market forces) should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change &amp; human health:Impact &amp; adaptation issues for New Zealand</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/climate-change-human-healthimpact-adaptation-issues-for-new-zealand/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/climate-change-human-healthimpact-adaptation-issues-for-new-zealand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper briefly summarises the likely impacts of climate change on health, globally, but focuses on adaptive measures that might be undertaken in New Zealand. Climate change &#38; human health PDF]]></description>
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		<title>Book Launch: Sizing up the City</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/book-launch-sizing-up-the-city/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/book-launch-sizing-up-the-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirlee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday Evening 16th February 2010 we launched “Sizing up the City; Urban Form and Transport”. The book collects and expands on papers presented at the February 2009 Summer School.  It includes the latest research and thinking on sustainable transport and our built environment as well as experiences from councils trying to create more sustainable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Impact Urban Development good for the wallet and environment</title>
		<link>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/low-impact-urban-development-good-for-the-wallet-and-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://sustainablecities.org.nz/2010/02/low-impact-urban-development-good-for-the-wallet-and-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[behaviour change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strongly related to one of members, Landcare, on Low Impact Urban Development here&#8217;s a post by the The Daily Score : For years, environmentalists have touted &#8220;low-impact development&#8221; – letting soil and vegetation soak up heavy rains, rather than channeling storm runoff into gutters and sewers – as the best solution for stormwater. But as [...]]]></description>
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