Elizabeth Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5458-9223 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘No one has even seen… smelt… or sensed a social licence’
A Raster-Based Subdividing Indicator to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability
Assessing and mapping urban heat vulnerability has developed significantly over the past decade. Many studies have mapped urban heat vulnerability with a census unit-based general indicator (CGI). However, this kind of indicator has many problems, such as inaccurate assessment results and lacking comparability among different studies. This paper seeks to address this research gap and proposes a raster-based subdividing indicator to map urban heat…
Understanding ethnic differences in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours
There is growing realisation among environmental and social studies researchers that people's decision-making about water use conforms to their internal norms and beliefs, which are developed in social and cultural contexts. Little research, however, has addressed the possible impacts that ethnic and cultural diversity may have on domestic water use and management. This paper presents the results of a study conducted in Sydney, with specific refe…
Transitioning to a more sustainable residential built environment in Sydney
This article applies socio‐technical transitions theory (STTT), with the aim of identifying how the barriers and opportunities that exist to implementing sustainable building are socio‐spatially embedded at a residential scale in Sydney, NSW. This is done through a series of semi‐structured interviews conducted with a range of professionals in relevant industries. The research concludes that barriers and opportunities to sustainable residential b…
Understanding the dynamics of sustainability transitions
The Home Insulation Program (HIP) in Australia is an outstanding example of a contemporary attempt to intervene in a socio-technical regime. The program, implemented in 2009 under the then Australian Labor Party government led by Kevin Rudd, was targeted at stimulating the retrofit insulation industry. The objective was to both improve the energy efficiency of homes and thereby contribute to Australia’s emissions reduction targets by reducing gre…
Urban Sustainability Indicators
The introduction in 2014 of the first globally standardised sustainability metric for cities, ISO 37120, transformed the concept of scalability for sustainable city indicators. Our study uses original research involving producers and consumers of urban sustainability indicators (USIs), including ISO 37120, to review the current use of sustainability indicators (SIs) in Sydney and ascertain the use-value of internationally standardised USIs as per…
Lebor na Huidre and a Copy of Boethius's de re Arithmetica
Modifiable risk factors for overweight and obesity in children and adolescents from São Paulo, Brazil
Our results show that obesity in São Paulo children and adolescents has reached a level equivalent to that seen in many developed countries. We have also identified three key modifiable factors related to obesity that may be appropriate targets for future intervention in Brazilian youth: transport mode to school, computer usage, and breakfast consumption
Associations between weight perceptions, weight control and body fatness in a multiethnic sample of adolescent girls
Objective The purpose of the present study was to examine the interactions between weight perceptions, weight control behaviours and body fatness in a multiethnic sample of adolescent girls. Design A cross-sectional study. Setting Girls from European (37·7 %), Pacific Island (21·6 %), East Asian (15·8 %), Maori (10·2 %) and South Asian (9·6 %) populations and from other ethnicities (5·0 %). Subjects A sample of 954 girls aged 11–15 years particip…
Understanding ethnic differences in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours
There is growing realisation among environmental and social studies researchers that people's decision-making about water use conforms to their internal norms and beliefs, which are developed in social and cultural contexts. Little research, however, has addressed the possible impacts that ethnic and cultural diversity may have on domestic water use and management. This paper presents the results of a study conducted in Sydney, with specific refe…
Urban Sustainability Indicators
The introduction in 2014 of the first globally standardised sustainability metric for cities, ISO 37120, transformed the concept of scalability for sustainable city indicators. Our study uses original research involving producers and consumers of urban sustainability indicators (USIs), including ISO 37120, to review the current use of sustainability indicators (SIs) in Sydney and ascertain the use-value of internationally standardised USIs as per…
Transitioning to a more sustainable residential built environment in Sydney
This article applies socio‐technical transitions theory (STTT), with the aim of identifying how the barriers and opportunities that exist to implementing sustainable building are socio‐spatially embedded at a residential scale in Sydney, NSW. This is done through a series of semi‐structured interviews conducted with a range of professionals in relevant industries. The research concludes that barriers and opportunities to sustainable residential b…
Modifiable risk factors for overweight and obesity in children and adolescents from São Paulo, Brazil
Our results show that obesity in São Paulo children and adolescents has reached a level equivalent to that seen in many developed countries. We have also identified three key modifiable factors related to obesity that may be appropriate targets for future intervention in Brazilian youth: transport mode to school, computer usage, and breakfast consumption
Associations between weight perceptions, weight control and body fatness in a multiethnic sample of adolescent girls
Objective The purpose of the present study was to examine the interactions between weight perceptions, weight control behaviours and body fatness in a multiethnic sample of adolescent girls. Design A cross-sectional study. Setting Girls from European (37·7 %), Pacific Island (21·6 %), East Asian (15·8 %), Maori (10·2 %) and South Asian (9·6 %) populations and from other ethnicities (5·0 %). Subjects A sample of 954 girls aged 11–15 years particip…
Lebor na Huidre and a Copy of Boethius's de re Arithmetica
Transitioning to a more sustainable residential built environment in Sydney
This article applies socio‐technical transitions theory (STTT), with the aim of identifying how the barriers and opportunities that exist to implementing sustainable building are socio‐spatially embedded at a residential scale in Sydney, NSW. This is done through a series of semi‐structured interviews conducted with a range of professionals in relevant industries. The research concludes that barriers and opportunities to sustainable residential b…
Understanding the dynamics of sustainability transitions
The Home Insulation Program (HIP) in Australia is an outstanding example of a contemporary attempt to intervene in a socio-technical regime. The program, implemented in 2009 under the then Australian Labor Party government led by Kevin Rudd, was targeted at stimulating the retrofit insulation industry. The objective was to both improve the energy efficiency of homes and thereby contribute to Australia’s emissions reduction targets by reducing gre…
Urban Sustainability Indicators
The introduction in 2014 of the first globally standardised sustainability metric for cities, ISO 37120, transformed the concept of scalability for sustainable city indicators. Our study uses original research involving producers and consumers of urban sustainability indicators (USIs), including ISO 37120, to review the current use of sustainability indicators (SIs) in Sydney and ascertain the use-value of internationally standardised USIs as per…
‘No one has even seen… smelt… or sensed a social licence’
A Raster-Based Subdividing Indicator to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability
Assessing and mapping urban heat vulnerability has developed significantly over the past decade. Many studies have mapped urban heat vulnerability with a census unit-based general indicator (CGI). However, this kind of indicator has many problems, such as inaccurate assessment results and lacking comparability among different studies. This paper seeks to address this research gap and proposes a raster-based subdividing indicator to map urban heat…
Understanding ethnic differences in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours
There is growing realisation among environmental and social studies researchers that people's decision-making about water use conforms to their internal norms and beliefs, which are developed in social and cultural contexts. Little research, however, has addressed the possible impacts that ethnic and cultural diversity may have on domestic water use and management. This paper presents the results of a study conducted in Sydney, with specific refe…
Geography (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Body mass index (2 works) · Comparability (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works)