Search results for: sustainable built environment national research centre

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15 June 2023
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30 June 2021
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22 July 2024
Appliance junk

Is Australia becoming a dumping ground for unrepairable appliances?

What happens when appliances break? Unfortunately, broken appliances are unlikely to be repaired. It doesn’t have to be this way, however. If we fail to keep up with legal developments in other parts of the world, Australia could soon become a dumping ground for cheap and nasty appliances.

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27 February 2024
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2 May 2023
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11 July 2022
Lakefield National Park, Cape York

Uncovering the changing rhythms of rivers and people

Rivers follow rhythmic changes; they flow with the seasons and respond to longer climatic shifts and often to the actions of people. In turn, people and their societies are shaped by the rhythm of rivers. This relationship where both nature and people’s social habits are synchronized with the rise and fall of river water over time is referred to as river rhythmicity, in a new paper that describes the important implications of this idea for river conservation and water management.

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11 October 2021
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