T. O'BRIEN

VICTORIAN MANAGEMENT and BUDGETS DEPARTMENT - Households Research Project

W. T. O'BRIEN

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE PLANNING

Relationship between media presentation of environmental issues and public environmental consciousness - S.L. Cosgrove

Long-term sustainability of agricultural land - D.G. Evans Emotional responses to wilderness settings - B. Nettleton Participant photography in suburban settings - B. Nettleton Attentional styles, activity seeking and preferred landscapes - B. Nettleton

Driver satisfaction and the view from the road - B. Nettleton Ground covers and climbers for southern Victoria - J.H. Pike Computer graphics and information system for plant selection and garden management - J.H. Pike, I.D. Bishop

Assessment of the natural and cultural heritage of Coolart Reserve - J.A. Schapper

Modelling the visual impacts of electrical transmission towers on rural landscapes - R.M. Itami, J.D. Clark

Modelling the visual impacts of forest harvesting techniques in eucalyptus forests - J.D. Clark, R.M. Itami

Community participation in evaluation of rural heritage landscapes S.L. Cosgrove, J. A. Schapper

Environmental issues and landscape character of central Melbourne - D. Yencken

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URBANISATION AND URBAN PLANNING Local development planning - W.J.N. Flannigan

Strategic planning in the municipalities of Hawthorn/Camberwell - W.J.N. Flannigan

The planning, design and development of traditional shopping streets - W.J.N. Flannigan.

Evolution of planning policies and their social and built-form outcomes in metropolitan Melbourne 1951-1986 - J.B. McLoughlin, N.P. Low, R.J. King, R.G. Wyatt

Opportunities for and constraints on urban design in Australian urban planning practice - C.M. Gutjahr

Urban morphology in design C.M. Gutjahr

Regional and environmental planning policy in developing countries - H.'Hossain

Socio-economic development index for Bangladesh - H. Hossain Dhaka: urban travel patters in a developing country - H. Hossain Roles of capital investment and urban design in the Melbourne real property market - R.J. King

Planning and the State, an investigation of the connection between planning practice and political theory - N.P. Low

Administrative change, urban planning and policy making in the Victorian State Government - N.P. Low

Impact of professionalism on urban planning in Victoria - J.B. McLoughlin

Inner Melbourne redevelopment - D. Yencken

SEC underground policy study - D. Yencken, R.M. Itami, J.D. Clark Assessment of the visual impacts of aboveground bundled cable on existing urban development - R.M. Itami, J.D. Clark

RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION The economics of natural disasters - A.S. Atkins

Pricing urban water supply and waste water disposal - A.S. Atkins, D.G. Evans

The role of public sector economics in setting environmental policy - A.S. Atkins

Modelling the value of life and road safety - A.S. Atkins Government intervention in energy projects - D.G. Evans Production and consumption of coal in China - D.G. Evans

Greenhouse emissions from the manufacture and recycling of plastics - D.G. Evans

The use of the logistic equation to model saturation in energy demand - D. G. Evans

The control of air pollution from the energy industries - D.G. Evans Reducing greenhouse emission by demand-side management - D.G. Evans The role of renewables and increased efficiency in reducing greenhouse emissions - D.G. Evans

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNIQUES

Input-output modelling of Victorian forestry and timber industries - A.S. Atkins

Economic analysis of air pollution - A.S. Atkins

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

Measuring economic benefits of hydrologic monitoring networks - A.S. Atkins, A.T. Wain, T.A. McMahon

Communicating environmental economics in the policy debate - A.S. Atkins

Urban land information systems for developing countries - H. Hossain Research and computing techniques for social scientists and planners in developing countries - H. Hossain

A micro-computer based land use forecasting model - H. Hossain

Development of computer aided instructions using Hypercard techniques - H. Hossain

A data base design for a LIS in developing countries - H. Hossain A real number based viewshed analysis program for measuring visibility and visual magnitude of landscape impact - R.M. Itami, S. Holland Computing tools for integrating CAD and GIS to simulated visual impacts - R.M. Itami, H.D. Shang

Procedure for using Autocad 10 and Autoshade for quantitatively locating and scaling visual impacts in visual simulations - R.M. Itami, H.D. Shang

A comparison of film types and photographic quality in visual simulations - R.M. Itami, H.D. Shang, D. Thornton

Procedures for PC based visual simulation - J.D. Clark, R.M. Itami Application of personal construct theory to decision-making and problem solving - N.P. Low

Management and evaluation of non-traditional programs in planning education - B.T. Tyson

The learning contract in competency-based planning education - B.T. Tyson

Experiential learning in planning education - B.T. Tyson and N.P. Low An intelligent planning machine - R.G. Wyatt

PUBLISHED WORK Books

PIKE, J.P.H. - Trees for Southern Victoria, Landarc, Melbourne: 153pp (1990).

PIKE, J.P.H. - Shrubs and Climbers for Southern Victoria, Landarc, Melbourne: 153pp (1990).

Articles

DICKINSON, S. and NETTLETON, B. - "Experiencing emotion in the

outdoors". Proc Sixth National Outdoor Education Conference, N.S.W.

Department of Sport, Recreation and Racing. 97-104 (1989).

EVANS, D.G. - "Renewables and conservation: has their time come?", in Solar Progress 10(1): 14-16 (1990).

FLANNIGAN, W.J.N. - "Tyranny of the skybridge", in The Bulletin 16 January: 84-87 (1990).

KING, R.J. - "Urban housing market change as context for transport change: some approaches to analysis", in Transport Reviews 10(1):.

59-82 (1990).

KING, R.J. - "Home-ownership, accumulation, and restructuring: a comment on Badcock", in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 8: 357-362 (1990).

LOW, N.P. - "Useable knowledge?", in Urban Policy and Research 7(4):

172-177 (19 89).

LOW, N.P. - "Class, politics and planning: from reductionism to pluralism in Marxist class analysis", in Environment and Planning A 22: 1091-1114 (1990).

NETTLETON, B. - "Landscape, health and riding a bicycle. A case study", in Landscape Australia, 3 (1989).

NETTLETON, B. and DICKINSON, S. - "Emotional profiles of adventure activities". Proc Sixth National Outdoor Education Conference, N.S.W.

Department of Sport, Recreation and Racing. 69-87 (1989).

NETTLETON, B. - "Health, stress and environmental planning", in People and Physical Environment Research. 32: 35-42 (1990).

OUSSA, A.R. and EVANS. D.G. - "The interaction of ammonia with brown coal", in Fuel 68: 1363-1367 (1989).

SCRAPPER, J. - 'Planning and managing historic gardens", in Open to view: historic gardens and the public. Proc Ninth Annual Conference of the Australian Garden History Society, A.G.H.S., Melbourne.

(1990).

WYATT, R. - "An extension of expert systems into unfamiliar territory", in Proc. Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Nagoya, Japan: (1990).

YENCKEN, D. - Salvaging the multifunction polis: clearing the MFP table for debate. Search, 21(4): 118-120 (1990).

Reports

EVANS, D.G. - "The greenhouse effect and milk packaging". Report to Commercial Polymers Pty Ltd, 14pp (1990).

Evans, D.G. - "Recycling, resources, research", The University of Melbourne Gazette, 8, 25 Spring (1990).

FLANNIGAN, W.J.N. - "Design of the pedestrian bridge across Little Lonsdale Street". Paper presented at Victorian Arbitration Tribunal, 23pp (1990).

FLANNIGAN, W.J.N. - "In defence of shopping streets: the public

domain". Paper presented at Workshop 3C10, Metropolis 90 Conference, Melbourne: 15-19 October (1990).

HOSSAIN, H. - "Prospects of computerised urban land information

systems in Bangladesh". Invited paper for the Policy Seminar on Urban Land Management in Bangladesh, Ministry of Land, Government of

Bangladesh, Dhaka. 18pp (1990).

NETTLETON, B. - "Application of research in visual functioning to performance in fast ball games". Invited presentation to national coaches, Australian institute of Sport, Canberra: (June 1989).

NETTLETON, B. - "Activity, Lifestyle and Well-being". Proc.

Bicentennial Conf Physical Activity A University and Unifying Factor, Footscray Institute of Technology (1989).

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

NETTLETON, B. - "Landscape Architecture and the Metronomic Society".

Proc. of National Conf Australian Educators in Landscape Architecture, Hobart: (1989).

NETTLETON, B. - "Emotions, Health and Nature". Proc. of State Conference of Environmental Educators, Outdoor Educators and the Camping Association of Victoria, Bendigo: (1990).

PIKE, J. - "Fort Queenscliff Landscape Master Plan". Report to Australian Construction Services, 36pp. (1990).

SCHAPPER, J. and RUSHMAN, G. - "Urban design watch: training in Melbourne". Planning News, May: 7 (1989).

WYATT, R. - "Book review of Newton, P. et. al, - Desktop Planning", in Urban Policy and Research, 7(1) (1989).

YENCKEN "The multifunction polis social and strategic issues", in The Australian Planner, 27(2).: 22-25 (1989)

YENCKEN, D. - "Towards a creative productive future". Proc of the Creative Australia National Workshop, 2-4 July: 21-26 (1989).

YENCKEN, D. - "Spencer Street yards study". Report to the Ministry for Transport: 67pp (1989).

YENCKEN, D. - "The multifunction polis - emotional reaction", in Planning News, 16(3): 1 and 4 (1990).

YENCKEN, D. - "The multifunction polis - project or process".

Occasional paper for Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technology (1990).

YENCKEN, D, HITCHMOUGH, J. and CALHOUN, S. - "South Melbourne Streetscape Study": 50pp (1990).

THESES PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Philosophy

BARBER, J. Remote sensing strategies for monitoring grassland fire fuels

RESEARCH REPORTS PASSED

Master of Environmental Studies (by coursework)

BARNES, C., SHELDON, T., STONE, S. and WALLISH, D. - The Victorian coast - a question of conflict and resource management.

WU, Y., MEIER, J. and McALPINE, J. - Improving community consultation - directions for large project planning and evaluation in Victoria.

Master of Landscape Architecture (by coursework) DREW, J. - A room with a view

McDONALD, A. - Long and short term effects of laser grading upon irrigated agricultural land in Victoria

MILTON, S. - Characteristics of the urban coastal landscape

SWAN, P. - Management planning for the conservation of significant gardens

THESES IN PROGRESS Doctor of Philosophy

CLARK, P.

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The design of a hospital facilities management system COOPER, M.A.

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Visual assessment techniques for rural road management COSGROVE, S.L.

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Environmental values in Japan

DEE, J.A.

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The role of regional planning authorities in relation to central and local government in Victoria

DICKINSON, J.S.

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The effects of wilderness experiences on human behaviour

EGERTON, I.A.

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Demands on Melbourne's water system: an analysis of domestic water use

IVES, M.J.

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Attitudes to agricultural Iand: the soil conservation and Keyline debate

KAHANGIRE, B.

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Household energy supply and rural development in Uganda

LIU, G.Y.

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China's coal production and coal export

LIU, Z.H.

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The regional implications of developing Shanxi's coal resources

NUBERG, I.K.

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Farming systems for rehabilitating degraded tropical land

SCHAPPER, J.A.

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The heritage evaluation of rural landscapes TANDBERG, K.J.

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History of urban planning in Melbourne WAIN, A.T.

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Oil pricing policies towards increasing energy self-sufficiency in Australia

Master of Environmental Studies

CHOW, W.

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Coal utilisation in the People's Republic of China THOMPSON, C.

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Modelling visual complexity of landscapes

SUBSTANTIAL GRANTS RECEIVED

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - Economic restructuring, housing market investment, intra-urban migration, and the role of urban landscape characteristics

COMMERCIAL POLYMERS PTY LTD - The greenhouse effect and milk packaging ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (USA) - GIS centres for

Bangladesh.

Associate Professor:

D.A. KANE