The 2019 APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Conference will take place from August 29 to September 1, hosted by the UNSW Sydney.
The Cities and Refugees Global Student Design Competition opens now for registration until July 20, 2019 and results announced at the conference. The APRU SCL program hub harnesses the breadth of experiences and socio-ecological contexts across the Pacific Rim to study city-landscape interactions and to initiate solutions and policy interventions to make entire city-landscape complexes more sustainable.
This annual conference is an exciting opportunity for researchers and experts from across the Asia-Pacific region to advance their ideas and research outputs within the structure of select working groups in the following research areas, including
Infrastructural ecologies
Urban renewable energy
Smart cities
Sustainable urban design
Urban-rural linkages
Transitions in urban waterfronts
Vulnerable communities
Landscape and human health
Urban biodiversity
Food and nutrition security
Water and wastewater
See the outline of each working group here.
See the preliminary conference program here.
To participate in a working group and attend the conference, please:
Step 1:
Provide an expression of interest (EOI), outlining your name, position, 100-word statement, and a preferred (or previous) working group, and send it to apruscl2019@gmail.com by June 1, 2019.
Your EOI will be distributed to working group leaders and you will be advised of the successful selection. Step 2:
Once you have received a confirmation from a working group leader, a registration link will be provided as part of your confirmation.
Cities throughout history have been formed by influxes of people. One of the major challenges for this is the assimilation of forcibly displaced people into cities in ways which create healthy and equitable living places for all.
Rapid Urbanisation Grand Challenge at UNSW Sydney, with Australian Red Cross, ARUP International Development, UNHCR, and the APRU Sustainable Landscapes and Cities Program Hub have organized a competition to address this challenge.
Find out the challenge, eligibility, and prize here. Register before July 20 and submit your work by August 10, 2019.
