Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities

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    • Strengthening Basin Communities: The Dryland Research Project
    • The Dynamic Victorian Communities Study: How do rural communities respond to changing times?
    • Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research (VCCCAR) Design-led decision support for regional climate adaptation
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Chief Investigators:

• Professor John Martin, Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University
• Dr Ralph Horne, Centre for Design, RMIT University, City Campus, Melbourne, Victoria
• Professor Roger Jones, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University
• Rob Roggema, Centre for Design, RMIT University, City Campus, Melbourne, Victoria

This research project develops future climate adaptive regional designs by making use of the design charrette methodology. In three pilot regions, the City of Greater Bendigo, Wellington Shire and Swan Hill in Victoria, a mixed group of local stakeholders, designers and climate scientists will work together in a two day intensive workshop to define long term spatial solutions. These solutions will be environmentally, socially and economically appraised and in a second design charrette, further refined.