Sustainability
is a major focus at James Cook University, with many researchers involved in
projects to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11:
Here is a small snapshot of current activity across
our campuses:
Associate Lecturer Julie
Parison and Associate
Professor Richard Franklin promote ecologically sustainable communities
through the Active Transport in the Tropics Network at JCU. Their action
research agenda aims “to make Townsville the safest, most active, eco-friendly
transport city in Australia and the tropics by 2030”.
On the Cairns campus, Dr Taha Chaiechi’s
research focuses on the impact of climate change and natural disasters on
different economic sectors such as public health, tourism, environmental,
energy, and urban economics. She has been collaborating in several research
projects with Dr
Silvia Tavares (Cairns) and Dr Caroline Wong
(Singapore), including Urban Design and Economic Growth: a tale of two
cities, funded under the CBLG JCUA-JCUS Cross-Collaboration Scheme.
Dr Simona Azzali
in Singapore is a member of JCU's Tropical
Urbanism and Design Lab, an
interdisciplinary team of geographers, architects, sociologists and planners, and JCU's Centre for International Trade and Business in
Asia (CITBA). One of her
current research projects investigate sustainability issues surrounding the
hosting of the 2022
World Cup in Doha.
Sustainability is certainly a hot
topic for JCU researchers. You can discover more about JCU’s contribution to sustainability
by searching our research
profiles or Research
Online.
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