Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies
Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies
Peter Newman is the Professor of City Policy and
Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, at
Murdoch University. He is Chair of the Western Australian Sustainability
Roundtable advising the Premier on how to implement their Sustainability
Strategy. Peter’s book with Jeff Kenworthy 'Sustainability and Cities:
Overcoming Automobile Dependence' was launched in the White House in
1999 and his 2001 co-authored book is called ‘Back on Track: Rethinking
Australian and New Zealand Transport.’ In 2004 he was made a
Sustainability Commissioner in NSW.Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Professor Newman will demonstrate the need for
sustainability professionals to tackle the multiple problems of water,
energy, transport, waste, community health (especially Indigenous
health) and other long term issues. He will suggest sustainability
professionals will need to develop skills in interdisciplinary policy
learning, playing 'jazz' with partnerships, developing transformative
infrastructure solutions (not incremental ones), and creating hope
through exploring ethical dimensions of issues. He will outline case
studies of where early applications of this approach have emerged in WA
and NSW.
