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Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy

Index of Case Studies

Urban Sustainability

  1. Sustainability and How it Relates to Cities by Peter Newman
  2. Sustainable Transportation and Global Cities by Peter Newman
  3. The Ten Myths of Car Dependence by Peter Newman
  4. Steps Towards the Sustainable Future City by Peter Newman

  5. MODEL CITIES: USA Boulder, Portland And Boston - Us Cities Turning The Tide by Peter Newman
  6. MODEL CITIES: Canada Toronto And Vancouver Land Use - Transit Success Stories by Peter Newman and Jeff Kenworthy
  7. MODEL CITIES: Europe Zurich, Copenhagen, Stockholm And Freiburg - European Transit Oriented Planning at its Best by Peter Newman
  8. MODEL CITIES: Australia Perth And Fremantle - A Hesitant Start In Australia by Peter Newman
  9. MODEL CITIES: Asia The Singapore/Hong Kong Success Stories and Their Implications for Developing Cities by Jeff Kenworthy

  10. A Case Study of Land Use and Transportation Patterns in Chinese Cities by Jeff Kenworthy and Gang Hu

  11. Automobile Dependence in Bankok: An International Comparison With Implications for Planning Policies and Air Pollution by Jeff Kenworthy

  12. Techniques for Urban Sustainability: Traffic Calming by Jeff Kenworthy
  13. Techniques for Urban Sustainability: Quality Transit by Jeff Kenworthy
  14. Techniques for Urban Sustainability: Urban Villages by Jeff Kenworthy

  15. Sustainability and the Urban Water System by Peter Newman
  16. Greening the City with Parks and Agriculture by Jeff Kenworthy
  17. Urban Ecology by Peter Newman
  18. Heritage Conservation in Rapidly Growing Asian Cities: A Malaysian Case Study by Agnieshka Kiera
  19. Community Scale Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems in Large Third World Cities: A case study in Malang, East-Java by Suriptono and Peter Newman

  20. Japan: A Case Study in National Systems of Innovation by Dora Marinova
  21. Promoting Sustainable Urban Change by Peter Newman
  22. Urban Ecology in Indonesia: The Kampung Improvement Program (KIP) by Jeff Kenworthy

  23. Ethics and Urban Sustainability: Civil Society and Hope by Peter Newman
  24. Ethics and Urban Sustainability: Local Ecology, Human Ecology And Urban Ecology by Peter Newman
  25. Ethics and Urban Sustainability: Theology And The City - Babylon and Zion by Peter Newman

Rural Sustainability

  1. Global Sustainability and Grass Roots Development, Gender & Appropriate Technology by Ross Lantzke
  2. Grameen Shakti : Financing Renewable Energy in Bangladesh by Firoze A. Siddiqui and Peter Newman
  3. Sewage Based Aquaculture by Christine Harris
  4. Sustainable Development and Mining by Judith Morrison

  5. Biodiversity Policy in Indonesia by John McCarthy
  6. Renewable Energy in Rural Indonesia by August Schlapfer
  7. Community Participation in the Development of Permaculture in Sukabumi, Indonesia by Harry Harsono Amir
  8. Is a Truly Sustainable Indonesian Rubber Industry Possible? by Zen Zahari and Tim Frodsham
  9. Forest Fires and Smoke Haze in Southeast Asia: What are the Sustainable Pathways for the Future? by Tim Frodsham, Peter Newman and Harry Harsono Amir

  10. The Development of an Institutional Framework for EIA in the Republic of Maldives by David Annandale
  11. Integrated Tidal Power and Coastal Development Project Sandwip, Bangladesh by Peter Newman
  12. Songkhla Lake Basin Planning Case Study - Thailand by David Annandale

  13. Onsite Testing of Water: A Field Trial by Jessica Ryan
  14. Domestic Wastewater Reuse in Remote Aboriginal Communities, through the use of Evapotranspiration Trenches by Christine Harris (adopted from paper by Anda et al 1999)
  15. Retrofit Your House for Energy Efficiency: A guide for temperate climate regions in the southern hemisphere by Alison Bigg

Sustainable Tourism

  1. Sustainability and World Heritage Cultural Sites: Pilgrimage Tourism to Sacred Power Places in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal by Trevor Sofield
  2. The Yi Nationality of Shilin Stone Forest, Yunnan Province, China: A Case Study in Indigenous Tourism by Trevor Sofield
  3. Tourism and the Naxi Minority Nationality, Yunnan Province, China: A Case Study in Indigenous Tourism by Trevor Sofield
  4. Re-thinking and Re-conceptualising Social and Cultural Issues of Tourism Development in South and Southeast Asia by Trevor Sofield
  5. China: Tourism Development and Cultural Policies by Trevor Sofield and Sarah Fung Mei Li
  6. Impact Assessment and Development/Land Use Planning in Bali by David Annandale
  7. The Cultural and Environmental Politics of Resort Development in Bali by Carol Warren
  8. Nature Based Tourism Case study: Gunung Leuser, Indonesia by John McCarthy
  9. Nature Based Tourism Case Study: Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park by Glem Mulcahy and John McCarthy