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Macquarie University NSW 2109
See what we have to say
Smart Green Cities is regularly featured on radio and in print media.
You can read our reports, find out more about our research from our recent scientific publications and read our experts' opinion pieces on topical issues.
Print media
Read about:
- Which Plant Where – plant selector tool helping local governments, landscape architects, urban greening professionals and the community make climate-ready plant choices.
- Plant Sure – weed-fighting tool helping gardeners to choose less invasive plant species.
- Our research for the new Sydney Science Park – providing advice on water management, urban greening and heat abatement to enhance the liveability of new developments.
- Microplastic pollution at Sydney beaches – monitoring pollution on our coastline. Video also available.
- The negative impact of flat seawalls – why design matters when managing coastal landscapes.
See recent scientific publications about our research:
- Stormwater quality improvement devices – ways we could improve local water quality.
- The performance of a self-powered photodetector – testing innovative self-powered photo detectors.
- Health, security and fire safety process optimisation – investigating ways critical data is prioritised.
- Function-based typology for ecosystems – a framework that addressed the dual goal to conserve biodiversity and sustain ecosystem services.
- Improving plant selection for green infrastructure – selecting plants that can persist in urban environments and improve stormwater retention, cooling, biodiversity and air pollution.
- Ecological benefits of topographic complexity in seawalls – identifying conditions where adding topographic features to traditionally flat seawalls will support greater microhabitat biodiversity.
- Responding to sea level rise in Indonesia – governance challenges associated with managing sea level rise.
- Advances in ethylene gas detection – looking at real-time detecting and monitoring of ethylene gas molecules which can benefit the agricultural, horticultural and healthcare industries.
- Reintroducing habitat heterogeneity to marine urban structures – considering how engineered surfaces on urban structures, like seawalls, can enhance biodiversity and ecological function.
Listen to a selection of our radio interviews:
Download reports from our projects:
Opinion pieces
Thought leadership from across our membership on current topical issues. Read more from our experts:
- Cathy Sherry on LinkedIn: Minns must stop this energy rort before development binge.
- Cathy Sherry on LinkedIn: Daniel Mookhey says Sydney’s east must take more housing. Here’s why.
- David Chandler OAM on LinkedIn: NSW Property Services CommissionerJohn Minns makes a call out to the strata community to participate in the 2023 Strata Buildings survey.