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- To develop a comprehensive and analytical understanding of the ways in which patterns of globalization and global climate change impact upon cities in the Asia-Pacific region.
- To map the sources of insecurity and vulnerability of different Asian-Pacific cities, with particular reference to the following:
- risk analyses of urban physical infrastructure, especially in relation to water, food, built-assets, waste-management, and energy systems;
- structural analyses of insecurity and vulnerability linked to relations and resources of production, exchange, communication, organization and inquiry;
- social-profile analyses of specific urban communities and cities responses to change, including cultural, political, economic and environmental indices of insecurity and vulnerability; and
- interpretative analyses of the cultural-political conditions of resilience and insecurity.
- To develop an integrated survey of the resilience and adaptive capacities of communities in Asian-Pacific cities to change, including globalization and climate change, emphasizing the following domains:
- technology and resources
- place and environment
- work and money
- cultural identity and ideology
- learning and education
- health-care and wellbeing
- governance and planning
- To provide a documented understanding of the conditions for alternative pathways to learning, knowledge exchange, and cross-community co-operation in dealing with social and environmental change.
- To generate policy options, strategies and practices aimed at reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience and sustainability in cities and their regions—with particular reference to the following:
- maximizing social learning for conservation, justice, equity, and crosscultural dialogue;
- addressing sources of insecurity and promoting direct and structural peace at the community, city, state and trans-state levels;
- minimizing the impacts of natural and human-induced disasters and conflicts, and promoting approaches to reconstruction that integrate physical rebuilding with social, political and economic renewal;
- applying environmentally and culturally sustainable technologies and techniques in the areas of housing, urban infrastructure and construction;
- ensuring a sustainable supply of clean water and food, and contributing to amelioration of environmentally degrading practices;
- developing models, policies and tools for sustainable business practices based upon principles of corporate social responsibility and corporate environmental management.
- To contribute to the formulation of decision-making techniques and governance processes for dealing with complexity of social and environmental change.
- To develop a series of grounded initiatives applying these techniques and processes in a comprehensive way in two major cities in the Asia-Pacific region—Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City—as well as having a significant effect in four other cities in the region: Chennai, Kuala Lumpur, Port Moresby, and Shanghai.
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