Sara Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3669561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9266-1858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Household Attributes, Motivational Factors, and Sources of Motivation Influencing Flood Preparedness of Vulnerable Population Groups
Extreme disaster events, particularly floods, impact individuals, households, and communities differently depending on a range of factors. Some residents are more vulnerable than others to floods, hence urgent action is needed to improve preparedness of vulnerable groups to reduce potential impacts of flooding. To achieve this, it is important to assess household flood preparedness, and identify the influence of household-level attributes on floo…
STAR (Sustainable Temporary Adaptive Reuse) Toolkit: Innovation for Value Creation in Commercial Property
The Covid pandemic has affected society in many ways. In the built environment, it has impacted how buildings are used and by whom. These changes have affected market behaviours as owners look to reposition assets and meet altered demand paradigms. Changes to work praxis following Covid, particularly working from home (WFH), have affected commercial office values in central business district (CBD) markets. This has resulted from companies needing…
Flood risk perception, awareness, and preparedness behaviours among vulnerable population groups: Implications for building community resilience
The frequency and intensity of flood disaster events are increasing. It is well documented that community flood vulnerability and impacts vary depending on household attributes. Nevertheless, vulnerable households in high flood risk areas rarely invest time and effort to reduce their vulnerability. A mixed‐methods case study investigated the key factors that shaped flood risk perceptions, awareness levels, and information accessibility among hous…
Effects of investments in GI on buyers' Interest in a Swedish residential apartment development
Cities require a change in the design of medium and high-density housing to increase green infrastructure (GI). GI provides ecosystem services: including better air quality, removal of carbon dioxide, urban heat island attenuation, biodiversity, attenuation of stormwater runoff, and space for people to have social interaction and engagement. However, GI requires investment by developers. To be worthwhile, such investment must make developments mo…
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments: Challenges and solutions for resilient cities
The aim of this book is to promote the dynamic resilience of societies by identifying, analysing, and exemplifying the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The book brings together the expertise of a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate…
Mandatory or voluntary approaches to green roof implementation: A comparative study among some global cities
Green roofs can deliver multiple environmental and social benefits by reducing the urban heat island effect, reducing building energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality, providing habitat for biodiversity and access to the biophilia effect. Green roofs provide these benefits to differing degrees in different climate zones globally. Despite known benefits, uptake of green roofs has been slow. Different cities, globally, adopt …
Project Performance Reporting in New South Wales Local Government
Mandatory performance reporting for Australian councils focuses on financial data that is used to compare organisational performance between councils. Despite comprising a significant part of council expenditure, reporting on project performance is not regulated. Using data available within council Annual Reports, this research compared the ways in which project performance is being measured across councils, and a measure for project success was …
Demolition or retention of buildings: Drivers at the masterplan scale
Current adaptation theory tends to consider individual buildings or the city level, which cannot address decisions related to masterplan developments on large brownfield sites. This paper investigates the drivers for building demolition or retention and adaptation decisions at the masterplan scale. Expert interviews and three case studies are used to explore how and why decisions to demolish, or to retain and adapt, are made at this scale. The re…
Residential geothermal air-conditioning: Inhabitants’ comfort, behaviour and energy use
How do occupants’ behaviour and expectations influence energy use for residential geothermal air-conditioning? This detailed study of 40 homes with geothermal AC in Sydney, Australia, during the period 2019–20 covers one of hottest Australian summers and increased daytime occupancy over the winter due to working from home during Covid-19 lockdowns. Monitored data are analysed for ground source heat pump (GSHP)-AC energy, occupancy, indoor conditi…
City Planning and Green Infrastructure: Embedding Ecology into Urban Decision-Making
Green infrastructure (GI) includes an array of products, technologies, and practices that use natural systems—or designed systems that mimic natural processes—to enhance environmental sustainability and human quality of life. GI is the ultimate source of the ecosystem services which the biotic environment provides to humanity. The maintenance and enhancement of GI to optimise the supply of ecosystem services thus requires conscious planning. The …
Uso de sistemas vegetados e os impactos na promoção da saúde
Changes to original ground cover caused by housing construction and roadway systems generally alter the surface heat flow, accumulating more heat than is dissipated and resulting in higher urban temperatures than in rural and tree-covered areas. Urban heat waves affect human health directly and indirectly. Vutcovici et al. 1 report significant associations between increases in hospitalizations, deaths, and diseases and rising daily temperatures i…
Measuring Building Adaptability and Street Vitality
A long-standing urban design principle is that successful places exhibit vitality, being vibrant and diverse. This vitality depends on levels of economic and social success that sustain over time urban diversity including cafes, restaurants, delicatessens, bakeries, cinemas and galleries, grocery stores, pubs and clubs of varying sizes and types to suit individuals of varying taste, preference and socio-economic status. Accordingly, a successful …
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Measuring Building Adaptability and Street Vitality
A long-standing urban design principle is that successful places exhibit vitality, being vibrant and diverse. This vitality depends on levels of economic and social success that sustain over time urban diversity including cafes, restaurants, delicatessens, bakeries, cinemas and galleries, grocery stores, pubs and clubs of varying sizes and types to suit individuals of varying taste, preference and socio-economic status. Accordingly, a successful …
Uso de sistemas vegetados e os impactos na promoção da saúde
Changes to original ground cover caused by housing construction and roadway systems generally alter the surface heat flow, accumulating more heat than is dissipated and resulting in higher urban temperatures than in rural and tree-covered areas. Urban heat waves affect human health directly and indirectly. Vutcovici et al. 1 report significant associations between increases in hospitalizations, deaths, and diseases and rising daily temperatures i…
City Planning and Green Infrastructure: Embedding Ecology into Urban Decision-Making
Green infrastructure (GI) includes an array of products, technologies, and practices that use natural systems—or designed systems that mimic natural processes—to enhance environmental sustainability and human quality of life. GI is the ultimate source of the ecosystem services which the biotic environment provides to humanity. The maintenance and enhancement of GI to optimise the supply of ecosystem services thus requires conscious planning. The …
Residential geothermal air-conditioning: Inhabitants’ comfort, behaviour and energy use
How do occupants’ behaviour and expectations influence energy use for residential geothermal air-conditioning? This detailed study of 40 homes with geothermal AC in Sydney, Australia, during the period 2019–20 covers one of hottest Australian summers and increased daytime occupancy over the winter due to working from home during Covid-19 lockdowns. Monitored data are analysed for ground source heat pump (GSHP)-AC energy, occupancy, indoor conditi…
Demolition or retention of buildings: Drivers at the masterplan scale
Current adaptation theory tends to consider individual buildings or the city level, which cannot address decisions related to masterplan developments on large brownfield sites. This paper investigates the drivers for building demolition or retention and adaptation decisions at the masterplan scale. Expert interviews and three case studies are used to explore how and why decisions to demolish, or to retain and adapt, are made at this scale. The re…
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments: Challenges and solutions for resilient cities
The aim of this book is to promote the dynamic resilience of societies by identifying, analysing, and exemplifying the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The book brings together the expertise of a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate…
Mandatory or voluntary approaches to green roof implementation: A comparative study among some global cities
Green roofs can deliver multiple environmental and social benefits by reducing the urban heat island effect, reducing building energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality, providing habitat for biodiversity and access to the biophilia effect. Green roofs provide these benefits to differing degrees in different climate zones globally. Despite known benefits, uptake of green roofs has been slow. Different cities, globally, adopt …
Project Performance Reporting in New South Wales Local Government
Mandatory performance reporting for Australian councils focuses on financial data that is used to compare organisational performance between councils. Despite comprising a significant part of council expenditure, reporting on project performance is not regulated. Using data available within council Annual Reports, this research compared the ways in which project performance is being measured across councils, and a measure for project success was …
Effects of investments in GI on buyers' Interest in a Swedish residential apartment development
Cities require a change in the design of medium and high-density housing to increase green infrastructure (GI). GI provides ecosystem services: including better air quality, removal of carbon dioxide, urban heat island attenuation, biodiversity, attenuation of stormwater runoff, and space for people to have social interaction and engagement. However, GI requires investment by developers. To be worthwhile, such investment must make developments mo…
Household Attributes, Motivational Factors, and Sources of Motivation Influencing Flood Preparedness of Vulnerable Population Groups
Extreme disaster events, particularly floods, impact individuals, households, and communities differently depending on a range of factors. Some residents are more vulnerable than others to floods, hence urgent action is needed to improve preparedness of vulnerable groups to reduce potential impacts of flooding. To achieve this, it is important to assess household flood preparedness, and identify the influence of household-level attributes on floo…
STAR (Sustainable Temporary Adaptive Reuse) Toolkit: Innovation for Value Creation in Commercial Property
The Covid pandemic has affected society in many ways. In the built environment, it has impacted how buildings are used and by whom. These changes have affected market behaviours as owners look to reposition assets and meet altered demand paradigms. Changes to work praxis following Covid, particularly working from home (WFH), have affected commercial office values in central business district (CBD) markets. This has resulted from companies needing…
Flood risk perception, awareness, and preparedness behaviours among vulnerable population groups: Implications for building community resilience
The frequency and intensity of flood disaster events are increasing. It is well documented that community flood vulnerability and impacts vary depending on household attributes. Nevertheless, vulnerable households in high flood risk areas rarely invest time and effort to reduce their vulnerability. A mixed‐methods case study investigated the key factors that shaped flood risk perceptions, awareness levels, and information accessibility among hous…
Geography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Civil engineering (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Facilities and Workplace Management (3 works)