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Know Your Foodbowl
Know Your Foodbowl was a research project undertaken by the Food Alliance at Deakin University. The project was crowdfunded through Pozible, and supported by the City of Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula Shire, and Slow Food Melbourne.
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Foodprint Melbourne
Foodprint Melbourne is a research project that investigates what grows in Melbourne’s city fringe foodbowl, the vulnerabilities in the city’s food supply and the importance of Melbourne’s foodbowl for a more resilient and sustainable food future for the city.
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Visions and Pathways 2040
The project aims to develop visions and innovation and policy pathways for transforming Australian cities to achieve rapid decarbonisation and increased resilience in the face of climate change.
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Future Cities Distributed Infrastructure project
The Future Cities Distributed Infrastructure Project is an innovative and integrated research program to envisage, design, plan and model post-carbon resilient futures and ‘adaptive-mitigation’ pathways for four selected local councils within Metropolitan Melbourne.
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Urban agriculture’s role in resilient city food systems
With the help of citizen scientists and gardeners, this project is creating a new urban agriculture dataset. This dataset will allow urban agriculture to be looked at in the context of its role in cities and in food supply resilience, both now and into a climate change affected future.
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Australian Food Supply Scenarios
An extension of a VEIL research scoping project completed in early 2011 (funded from a VicHealth Discovery Grant). This new two-year research project is ARC funded, with Deakin University (lead) VEIL, CSIRO and ANU.
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Visions of Resilience
Design-led Transformation for Climate Extremes. Climate change is re-writing the record book on weather extremes and local communities face the brunt of these impacts.
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Urban biogas
This projects aims to investigate the feasibility of ‘closing the loop’ for food and human waste and energy production through the use of anaerobic digestion in Melbourne and the potential to partially de-centralise waste management and energy generation.
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Distributed Systems Research
The distributed model sees infrastructure and critical service systems positioned close to resources and points of demand.
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Local and Creative Food Economies
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Scenarios for climate change adaptation
VEIL has been working as part of a collaborative team for VCCCAR looking at the role and value of scenario planning in climate change adaptation decision-making.
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Transforming Society “From Below”
A small research project to understand the dynamic of change “from below” has become a component of the disruptive change research for the Visions and Pathways 2040 project.
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Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design
Linking different areas relevant to food security and sustainability to facilitate urban life.
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Visioning 2032: The Films
What could a sustainable neighbourhood in Melbourne look like? How could we transform a number of our existing urban communities through design ‘interventions’?
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Food Freight
The pressures of rising energy costs, potential carbon prices and increasing vulnerability in food supply chains are challenging to food producers and businesses, and they have important implications for food availability, access and utilisation – and hence food security.
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Glimpses
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Mapping Melbourne's Peri-urban Agricultural Land
Since at least the 1940’s, concerns have been raised repeatedly about the loss of some of Victoria’s most productive land due to Melbourne’s urban expansion. The loss of high productive areas suitable for horticulture (fruit and vegetable growing) has been of particular concern.
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Food Hubs
Food Hubs make it easier to buy and sell local food
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Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria
In April 2008 VEIL released our first policy challenges report – Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria: What do we know? What do we need to know?