The Mann Lecture is an annual event at La Trobe University Wodonga focused on the River Murray and its people. The 2025 event explored values-based decision-making in a time of significant regional change. The lecture was led by Lisa de Kleyn, and co-convened with Katie Warner, North East CMA, Trent Dean, Gateway Health, and James Van Dyke, and Rachel Winterton, La Trobe University.
Book launched! What would a mission to make Australia’s cities more sustainable and adapted to climate change? CCAL staff were part of editing a Springer Verlag book on Future Cities Making, with chapters synthesising summary of decades of urban sustainability research Australia.https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-7671-9
We’re working with Regen Melbourne! How can we re imagine and remake Melbourne to be more regenerative? Lauren Rickards and Magnus Moglia, work closely with Regen Melbourne as part of its Research Council.
During a visit in November 2025 from the University of Manchester and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Dr Claire Hoolohan gave a seminar on how social practices around daily and holiday travel shape climate futures.
Helping to adapt the university. Despite strong expertise on climate change adaptation, the university sector is lagging in adapting to climate change. La Trobe is looking to take the lead through its efforts to develop a new plan. In these efforts, CCAL staff are helping to develop the next climate change adaptation plan.
We published a paper in PNAS! Nature-Based Solutions are key to climate change adaptation, but the way they are adopted across the world varies. This new paper provides a global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions.
Bringing diverse disciplines together to think about climate change adaptation. A diverse range of academics from across La Trobe came together for a Climate Change Adaptation Lab symposium on 21 August 2025 to explore how they are engaging with the topic of climate change impacts and adaptation in their research and what their particular discipline or field brings to the topic. We heard about exciting research in a series of brief presentations from all participants, and discussed the common themes running through our wide-ranging work, from questions of governance to an interest in lived experience. We finished up by brainstorming and sketching out possible writing collaborations.
