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Please Note

This report was written to provide source material for Australian State of the Environment Committee's purposes. Independent contract authors prepared the seven supporting theme reports that the Committee considered during preparation of the 2001 SoE Report. The opinions in the theme reports are those of the authors, not of the Committee.

PDF files

• Human Settlements - full report (PDF - 3603 KB)
• Part 1 - Contents, Acknowledgments, Executive summary and Introduction (PDF - 278 KB)
• Part 2 - Australia's population and settlement system (PDF - 303 KB)
• Part 3 - Urban stocks and processes (PDF - 1130 KB)
• Part 4 - Liveability: human well-being (PDF - 387 KB)
• Part 5 - Liveability: environmental quality (PDF - 504 KB)
• Part 6 - Waste, recycling and reuse (PDF - 621 KB)
• Part 7 - Emerging issues (PDF - 352 KB)
• Part 8 - Data gaps (PDF - 86 KB)
• Part 9 - Appendix, Glossary and References (PDF - 102 KB)

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Australia's population and settlement system
• Urban stocks and processes
• Liveability: human well-being
• Liveability: environmental quality
• Waste, recycling and reuse
• Emerging issues
• Data gaps
• Appendix
• Glossary
• References
• Case studies
• Environmental Indicators
• Figures
• Maps
• Tables

Prepared by

Lead Author: Professor Peter W. Newton , CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering

Dr Scott Baum , University of Queensland
Dr Kuldeep Bhatia , Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Steven K. Brown , CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering
Assoc. Professor Scott Cameron , Department of Human Services, South Australia
Barney Foran , CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Tim Grant , RMIT University
Dr Swee L. Mak , CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering
Assoc. Professor Paul Memmott , University of Queensland
Dr V. Grace Mitchell , CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering
Kirsty Neate , CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering
Dr Nariida C. Smith , CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering
Professor Robert Stimson , University of Queensland
Alan Pears , Sustainable Solutions Pty Ltd
Dr Selwyn Tucker , CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering
Professor Emeritus David Yencken , The University of Melbourne

Theme coordinator

Alexander Davies , State of the Environment Reporting Section, Environment Australia, Department of the Environment and Heritage

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