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PROF CHRISTOPHER RYAN



Contact Details

Organization: Architecture, Building and Planning
Position: CO-DIRECTOR, ACSIS
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Biography

Professor Ryan is part of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL), within the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Science University of Melbourne 30-Dec-1966
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 30-Dec-1972

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Victorian Food Supply Scenarios; Impacts on availability of healthy, nutritious and sustainable diets Chief Investigator VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION Research Project Grants 27/05/2009
DESIGN-LED INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION FOR RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE EXTREMES PROJECT Chief Investigator OFFICE OF THE EMERGENCY SERVICES COMMISSIONER Natural Disaster Resilience Grants Scheme - Victoria 10/11/2011
How Can Food Hubs Catalyse Healthy and Resilient Local Food Systems in Victoria: Developing a Food Hub in the City of Casey Chief Investigator VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION Innovation Grants

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
VICTORIAN ECO-INNOVATION HUB: SUSTAINABILITY FUND VIC Chief Investigator SUSTAINABILITY VICTORIA,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
25/11/2006
NON FIN - VICTORIAN ECO-INNOVATION LAB: SUSTAINABILITY FUND VIC (IP DEED) Chief Investigator SUSTAINABILITY VICTORIA

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
WATER SENSITIVE CITIES - VISIONING EXCERISE Chief Investigator UOM COMMERCIAL LTD

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2011

Book Chapters

  • Case Study 14 Using Scenarios to Explore System Change: VEIL, local food depot


    Year: 2011
    Book: Design for Services
    Publisher: Gower Publishing Company(Surrey)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Eco-Acupuncture: Designing Future Transitions for Urban Communities for a Resilient Low-Carbon Future


    Year: 2011
    Event name: State of Australian Cities National Conference 2011
    Conference Publication: State of Australian Cities National Conference 2011
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Australian Sustainable Cities and Regions Network(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2010

Reports

  • Distributed Systems: A Design Model for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
    Year: 2010
    Customer: Victorian Government Sustainability Fund
    Report No:: 3
    Publisher: VEIL(Melbourne)
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  • EBD: Ecological Business District
    Year: 2010
    Publisher: VEIL(Melbourne)
    Authors:
  • Vision: Broadmeadows 2032
    Year: 2010
    Publisher: VEIL(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2009

Reports

  • Distributed Water Systems: A networked and localised approach for sustainable water services
    Year: 2009
    Report No:: 2
    Publisher: McCaughey Centre(Carlton, Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Eco-Innovative Cities in Australia: A pilot project for the ecodesign of services in local councils
    Year: 2008
    Book: System Innovation for Sustainability
    Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing(Sheffield)
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Reports

  • Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria: What do we know? What do we need to know?
    Year: 2008
    Customer: Premiers and Cabinet State Government of Victoria
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Inventing a sustainable future: Australia and the challenge of eco-innovation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Futures
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 2-3
    Page numbers: 215-229
    Author(s):
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Imaging Sustainability
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • Toward a new manifesto for sustainable design

    Year: 2006
    Book: Imaging sustainability
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Eco-innovative cities: a pilot project for sustainble service design in 8 local councils in Melbourne Australia
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Perspectives on radical changes to sustainable consumption and production
    Conference Publication: Perspectives on radical changes to sustainable consumption and production (SCP)
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 265-277
    Publisher: Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange (SCORE)(Delft)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Consumption and Cleaner Production
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Natural Advantage: Business oppurtunities, innovations and governance in the 21st century
    Publisher: Earthscan(London)
    Authors(s):
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