Victoria’s Bushfire Royal Commission Final Report; Ho Chi Minh City: Adaptation to Climate Change; Localizing Climate Change: Stepping up Local Climate Action; Built Environment Climate Change Adaptation Wiki; Responding to Climate Change through Regional Spatial Planning; Australasian Transport Forum (ATRF) - Canberra, Australia.

Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Management; Asia-Pacific Regional Climate Change Adaptation Assessment; Adaptation Benchmarking Survey - CSIRO, Australia; A Conceptual Framework for e-Resilience and e-Adaptation; Climate Change in Regional Australia: Social Learning and Adaptation; International Graduate Conference on Climate Change and People.

Managing Climate Change: Australian Research Papers; Surveying Risk, Building Opportunity – South Asia; Climate Change Adaptation in New York City; Participatory Analysis of Changing Rainfall Patterns: A Tool; Maximizing the Benefits of Migration Arising from Climate Change; Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum 2010.

RMIT University academics have collaborated with the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) in leading a workshop to help Vietnamese cities adapt to the future impacts of climate change.

The Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government launches the State of Australian Cities 2010 report.

Five Key Dimensions of Maladaptation; Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation; Framework for Adaptation: Implications for the Government; Participatory Scenario Development for Climate Adaptation; Adaptive Governance and Climate Change; Australia – New Zealand Climate Forum 2010.

Climate Adaptation Assessment - Torres Strait Islands, Australia; Climate Change and the Resilience of Ho Chi Minh City; Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; Estimating Adaptation Needs for the Least Developed Countries; Climate Change and Gender Justice; UGEC Science & Practice Conference – October 2010.

Australian Government’s Vision for Climate Adaptation; Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change; Four Reasons for Concern about Adaptation to Climate Change; An E-Science Approach to Climate Change Adaptation; A New Pragmatic Procedure: The Climate Learning Ladder; Mekong Environment and Climate Symposium - Vietnam.

Green Roofs in Australia: Opportunities and Barriers; Adaptation as Response to Impacts of Climate Change - HCMC; Uncertainty and Disaster Risk Management - Vienna; India’s Opportunities for Mitigation and Adaptation; Population Dynamics and Climate Change; Climate Change Conference – Brisbane, Australia.

Victorian Coastal Climate Change Issues and Options Paper; Environmental Change and Migration - Governance Challenges; Demographic Change, Vulnerability, and Climate Adaptation; Climate Risk Screening Tools, Guidance, and Portfolio Screenings; State of Australian Cities 2010; Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit – Manila.

NCCARF Primary Industries Adaptation Research Plan; Flood Risk Management for Riverside Urban Areas - Hanoi; London Draft Climate Change Adaptation Strategy; Global Adaptation Atlas: An Online Mapping Tool; Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Climate Adaptation; Democratizing Climate Governance – ANU Conference.

Australia’s Fifth National Communication on Climate Change; Coastal Zones and Climate Change - A Collaborative Volume; Competitive Cities and Climate Change; Adaptation in Integrated Assessment Modeling: Where Do We Stand?; Climate Change and Hazardscape of Sri Lanka; Documentary Series - Climate Change and Urban Areas.

A Design Model for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure; Cities in a Post-2012 Climate Policy Framework; Notes on COP 15 Copenhagen December 2009; Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-level Rise - DIVA Tool; Estimating the Cost of Adapting to Extreme Weather Events; GREENHOUSE 2011 Conference - Queensland, Australia.

Coastal Inundation at Narrabeen Lagoon - Pittwater, Sydney; Technical Primer on Climate Change in the Philippines; Adapting to Climate Change: A Call for U.S. Federal Leadership; Behavioural Adaptation and the Use of Environmental Controls; Adapting Institutions to Climate Change - RCEP Report; ANU-Australia Conference: Healthy Climate, Planet and People.

Climate Change Risks to Indigenous Communities - Australia; Economics of Climate Adaptation in Developing Countries; World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change; Enhancing the Reliability and Security of Urban Water Infrastructure; Children Rights and Climate Change Adaptation; Melbourne 2010: Knowledge Cities World Summit.

Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Impacts & Adaptation; Vulnerability of Bangladesh to Cyclones in a Changing Climate; America’s Climate Choices – Three New Reports; Climate-Resilient Industrial Development Paths; Economics of Climate Adaptation in Developing Countries; International Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming.

Promoting Social Inclusion in Adaptation to Climate Change; DRR or CCA: Are We Reinventing the Wheel? Tourism Research, Practice, and Climate Change; Economic Modelling of Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation; Institutions, Policy Processes, and Climate Adaptation; VCCCAR Think Tanks Second Round – Call for Proposals.

Leading researchers from RMIT University’s Global Cities Research Institute have co-convened a ground breaking collaborative two-day workshop at the prestigious Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

On 24 April, 2010, Mr Georg Kell, Executive Director of the Global Compact extended the Cities Programme to all cities engaged in the UN Global Compact in an effort to strengthen their role in advancing the Ten Principles. The Signaotry Cities will be administered by the International Secretariat based at the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, who provides unique expertise and guidance to participating cities.

Softly spoken Paul James likes a challenge. Although, when a couple of delegates walked out of his Middle-East summit – shouting in response to an address they felt to be inaccurate and demeaning – he may have wondered what he was doing, a few days before Christmas, nearly 20,000 kilometres from home.

China is currently the world’s powerhouse of urban growth and manufacturing prowess. Like Britain in the days of the first industrial revolution, there are pros and cons associated with holding this title.

Forty-nine per cent of RMIT academics come from overseas, bringing valuable cultural, industry and educational links. Three life stories reveal a diversity of experience.

On 10th of May in Chicago, the Global Compact along with Price Waterhouse Coopers hosted its first working symposium of 2010, ‘Business and Sustainable Cities.’ Mr Dean Amhaus, Executive Director of the Milwaukee 7 Water Council kindly presented on behalf of the International Secretariat and informed participants of the Cities Programme and the benefits that it provides city leaders. Mr Amhaus, in his role as In Country Convenor, provided a first hand account of his experience with the Cities Programme and demonstrated how it has helped foster political, private and community support on the issue of water management in the Milwaukee and wider region.

A new book by RMIT University academic Dr Elizabeth Kath looks beyond the statistics to analyse the true story behind Cuba’s extraordinary public health performance.

RMIT’s Assoc Professor Michael Buxton is one of the experts commenting on the state of Melbourne’s civic planning in the multimedia special, Project Melbourne by The Age.

Professor Paul James presented Sustainable Cities UN Global Compact Cities Programme, Volume 1 (PDF 3.9Mb 136p)  to the City of Melbourne on the 1st of March, 2010.

Melbourne is leading cities around the world and advising business, government and civil sectors on how they can plan and build sustainable cities, courtesy of a blueprint developed by the UN Global Compact Cities Programme.

HRH Prince Hassan inaugurates the Global Reconciliation Summit in Amman on Monday (Petra photo)

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A film-maker, a doctor and an artist are the winners of the inaugural Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship Scheme, which provides opportunities for Australians to undertake projects that contribute to reconciliation.

The Democratic Governance in Cities International Symposium will be held in the Central Auditorium of PUCRS, 24-25 November.

Three RMIT University researchers have won the world-renowned International Association of Universities (IAU)/Palgrave Essay Prize.

A delegation of RMIT University researchers have returned from Shanghai where they delivered papers at an international conference on urbanisation in China.

An international summit bringing together more than 300 reconciliation experts from around the world to tackle global cultural, racial, religious and political difference will be launched at RMIT University this week.

In the lead-up to the 10th anniversary of Timor-Leste’s vote for independence, RMIT University held a conference in Dili looking at “Nation-building across the Urban and Rural in Timor-Leste”.

Residents of Hamilton in the Western District of Victoria have shared alternate narratives and visions about sustainable futures with RMIT University researchers.

RMIT University and UN-Habitat launched their UN Global Compact Cities Programme partnership recently with an address by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Dr Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka.

Research into clean and green geothermal technology that could supply power and drinking water to remote Australian communities is among five projects at RMIT University that have received more than $1.7 million in funding from the Australian Research Council.

Leading international and Australian experts came together at a recent RMIT University conference to examine household environmental sustainability and the challenge of greening the nation’s suburbs.

Settling into a new country can be tough. Now RMIT University has launched a new web resource to help international students make the most of their studies.

The Victorian bushfire disaster provides a range of challenges for researchers working on community safety, resilience, planning and building design, RMIT University academics say.

RMIT University researchers investigating attitudes towards factory farming in Australia have been awarded a major grant from animal protection group, Voiceless .

The United Nations agency for urbanisation and human settlements, UN-Habitat, has named RMIT University as its Asia-Pacific research and academic partner.