Sareh Moosavi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4416602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sareh Moosavi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sareh |
| FAMILY NAME | Moosavi |
| SIGNATURE | MOOSAVI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4819-2772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Incorporating water circularity into decision making across built environment life stages: A theoretical framework
Australian urban designers’ experience of barriers and enablers to climate change action
Urban designers have considerable potential to take important climate change actions in the built environment. Based on interviews with urban designers across Australia, it was found that the main actions taken were: development and use of policies and strategies; education and research; appropriate project designs; reduction of carbon footprints; advocacy and lobbying; the use of sustainability measures and ratings; and taking on projects orient…
Metabolic thinking in planning and designing urban landscapes: Practitioners’ perspectives on agency
Urban metabolism approaches are increasingly becoming relevant in providing pathways to sustainable development. The ways through which urban green infrastructures are planned and designed can influence resource flows in cities. Yet, little is known about the agency and contributions of landscape architects and spatial planners as curators of urban greenery, in facilitating circular resource flows, and accelerating the transition to a circular ec…
Australian urban planners’ preparedness to act on climate change
Develops a framework of climate change preparedness of Australian urban planners. • Describes the preparedness of urban planners to take climate change action. • Urban planning processes found to be important stimuli for climate action. • Indicates importance of mainstreaming climate change within urban planning policy. • Need for expansion of education and professional development programs. Land use and development patterns have a significant im…
Facilitating Climate Change Action Across Planning Systems
In-depth interviews with Australian urban planners identified barriers to and facilitators of climate change action across Janin Rivolin’s model of planning systems, categorizing them against Healey’s theory of transformations in urban governance. Insights from everyday planning practice reveal four factors necessary to transform urban planning systems for effective climate change action: (1) planning education institutions and professional assoc…
Six principles to guide climate action in built environments
Climate change is a global problem, requiring collective action. Cities are central to human habitation and activity, and are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Despite global climate change goals such as The Paris Agreement , barriers exist to taking adequate action in cities to address climate change. Decision making processes and policy in cities must be transformed to meet global climate change mitigation goals and reduce the ris…
Facilitating climate change action across built environment life stages – perspectives from built environment professionals
Better policy to support climate change action in the built environment: A framework to analyse and design a policy portfolio
Climate change action in built environments has not been at the scale or pace required to achieve the global goal (Paris Agreement) to limit warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Action towards climate change goals can be facilitated by effective policy design, and policy reform. However, this is challenging because built environment policy contexts are complex and include policy from multiple sectors (e.g. urban planning, construction, …
Transforming the agency and influence of landscape architects in climate change actions: An empirical analysis of barriers and facilitators
Towards a multiscale framework for modeling and improving the life cycle environmental performance of built stocks
Cities are complex sociotechnical systems, of which buildings and infrastructure assets (built stocks) constitute a critical part. As the main global users of primary energy and emitters of associated greenhouse gases, there is a need for the introduction of measures capable of enhancing the environmental performance of built stocks in cities and mitigating negative externalities such as pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. To date, most envir…
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature
Design experimentation for Nature‐based Solutions: Towards a definition and taxonomy
Towards the transformation of cities: A built environment process map to identify the role of key sectors and actors in producing the built environment across life stages
Cities must transform in order to address the challenge of climate change and to achieve societal ambitions such as the sustainable development goals. However, a key impediment to achieving transformation is underdeveloped understandings of how key actors and sectors within the built environment work together to achieve goals. This paper addresses these gaps by developing and visually presenting a process map to describe: the key processes involv…
Climate change transformation: A definition and typology to guide decision making in urban environments
Embedding Sustainability in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Planning and Design Studios
Sustainability literacy should be embedded in built environment higher education. We explored the contribution of interdisciplinary studios to students’ sustainability literacy. We ran a studio with Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture students, focused on a coastal brownfield renewal in Victoria, Australia. Studio activities and assessments were designed based on constructivist and experiential learning principles. Students’ learning experi…
Urban planning policy must do more to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
Advancing the Adaptive, Participatory and Transdisciplinary decision-making framework: The case of a coastal brownfield transformation
Wadis as dryland river parks: Challenges and opportunities in designing with hydro-ecological dynamics
Dryland rivers (wadis in Arabic) are characterised by high levels of flow unpredictability due to their severe dry-wet hydrological regimes. In the Arabian Peninsula, recent attention has focused on revitalising the socio-ecological values of wadis by rejuvenating them as linear public parks. In this paper, we review the key hydro-ecological characteristics of wadis and examine a range of design responses to address their dynamics in urban areas.…
Landscape practice in the Middle East between local and global aspirations
In the Middle East today, there are strong tensions between global and local aspirations in landscape architectural projects. Modernism, introduced to major cities in the Middle East, led to design approaches that are detached from local context, some adopting a tabula rasa attitude to site or inspired by Western models with little adaptation. Ambitious designers who seek to celebrate local values through context-based designs face dilemmas betwe…
Urban planning policy must do more to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
Advancing the Adaptive, Participatory and Transdisciplinary decision-making framework: The case of a coastal brownfield transformation
Landscape practice in the Middle East between local and global aspirations
In the Middle East today, there are strong tensions between global and local aspirations in landscape architectural projects. Modernism, introduced to major cities in the Middle East, led to design approaches that are detached from local context, some adopting a tabula rasa attitude to site or inspired by Western models with little adaptation. Ambitious designers who seek to celebrate local values through context-based designs face dilemmas betwe…
Facilitating climate change action across built environment life stages – perspectives from built environment professionals
Better policy to support climate change action in the built environment: A framework to analyse and design a policy portfolio
Climate change action in built environments has not been at the scale or pace required to achieve the global goal (Paris Agreement) to limit warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Action towards climate change goals can be facilitated by effective policy design, and policy reform. However, this is challenging because built environment policy contexts are complex and include policy from multiple sectors (e.g. urban planning, construction, …
Design experimentation for Nature‐based Solutions: Towards a definition and taxonomy
Embedding Sustainability in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Planning and Design Studios
Sustainability literacy should be embedded in built environment higher education. We explored the contribution of interdisciplinary studios to students’ sustainability literacy. We ran a studio with Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture students, focused on a coastal brownfield renewal in Victoria, Australia. Studio activities and assessments were designed based on constructivist and experiential learning principles. Students’ learning experi…
Wadis as dryland river parks: Challenges and opportunities in designing with hydro-ecological dynamics
Dryland rivers (wadis in Arabic) are characterised by high levels of flow unpredictability due to their severe dry-wet hydrological regimes. In the Arabian Peninsula, recent attention has focused on revitalising the socio-ecological values of wadis by rejuvenating them as linear public parks. In this paper, we review the key hydro-ecological characteristics of wadis and examine a range of design responses to address their dynamics in urban areas.…
Landscape practice in the Middle East between local and global aspirations
In the Middle East today, there are strong tensions between global and local aspirations in landscape architectural projects. Modernism, introduced to major cities in the Middle East, led to design approaches that are detached from local context, some adopting a tabula rasa attitude to site or inspired by Western models with little adaptation. Ambitious designers who seek to celebrate local values through context-based designs face dilemmas betwe…
Wadis as dryland river parks: Challenges and opportunities in designing with hydro-ecological dynamics
Dryland rivers (wadis in Arabic) are characterised by high levels of flow unpredictability due to their severe dry-wet hydrological regimes. In the Arabian Peninsula, recent attention has focused on revitalising the socio-ecological values of wadis by rejuvenating them as linear public parks. In this paper, we review the key hydro-ecological characteristics of wadis and examine a range of design responses to address their dynamics in urban areas.…
Climate change transformation: A definition and typology to guide decision making in urban environments
Embedding Sustainability in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Planning and Design Studios
Sustainability literacy should be embedded in built environment higher education. We explored the contribution of interdisciplinary studios to students’ sustainability literacy. We ran a studio with Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture students, focused on a coastal brownfield renewal in Victoria, Australia. Studio activities and assessments were designed based on constructivist and experiential learning principles. Students’ learning experi…
Urban planning policy must do more to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
Advancing the Adaptive, Participatory and Transdisciplinary decision-making framework: The case of a coastal brownfield transformation
Towards a multiscale framework for modeling and improving the life cycle environmental performance of built stocks
Cities are complex sociotechnical systems, of which buildings and infrastructure assets (built stocks) constitute a critical part. As the main global users of primary energy and emitters of associated greenhouse gases, there is a need for the introduction of measures capable of enhancing the environmental performance of built stocks in cities and mitigating negative externalities such as pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. To date, most envir…
Climate change preparedness across sectors of the built environment – A review of literature
Design experimentation for Nature‐based Solutions: Towards a definition and taxonomy
Towards the transformation of cities: A built environment process map to identify the role of key sectors and actors in producing the built environment across life stages
Cities must transform in order to address the challenge of climate change and to achieve societal ambitions such as the sustainable development goals. However, a key impediment to achieving transformation is underdeveloped understandings of how key actors and sectors within the built environment work together to achieve goals. This paper addresses these gaps by developing and visually presenting a process map to describe: the key processes involv…
Transforming the agency and influence of landscape architects in climate change actions: An empirical analysis of barriers and facilitators
Better policy to support climate change action in the built environment: A framework to analyse and design a policy portfolio
Climate change action in built environments has not been at the scale or pace required to achieve the global goal (Paris Agreement) to limit warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Action towards climate change goals can be facilitated by effective policy design, and policy reform. However, this is challenging because built environment policy contexts are complex and include policy from multiple sectors (e.g. urban planning, construction, …
Australian urban designers’ experience of barriers and enablers to climate change action
Urban designers have considerable potential to take important climate change actions in the built environment. Based on interviews with urban designers across Australia, it was found that the main actions taken were: development and use of policies and strategies; education and research; appropriate project designs; reduction of carbon footprints; advocacy and lobbying; the use of sustainability measures and ratings; and taking on projects orient…
Metabolic thinking in planning and designing urban landscapes: Practitioners’ perspectives on agency
Urban metabolism approaches are increasingly becoming relevant in providing pathways to sustainable development. The ways through which urban green infrastructures are planned and designed can influence resource flows in cities. Yet, little is known about the agency and contributions of landscape architects and spatial planners as curators of urban greenery, in facilitating circular resource flows, and accelerating the transition to a circular ec…
Australian urban planners’ preparedness to act on climate change
Develops a framework of climate change preparedness of Australian urban planners. • Describes the preparedness of urban planners to take climate change action. • Urban planning processes found to be important stimuli for climate action. • Indicates importance of mainstreaming climate change within urban planning policy. • Need for expansion of education and professional development programs. Land use and development patterns have a significant im…
Facilitating Climate Change Action Across Planning Systems
In-depth interviews with Australian urban planners identified barriers to and facilitators of climate change action across Janin Rivolin’s model of planning systems, categorizing them against Healey’s theory of transformations in urban governance. Insights from everyday planning practice reveal four factors necessary to transform urban planning systems for effective climate change action: (1) planning education institutions and professional assoc…
Six principles to guide climate action in built environments
Climate change is a global problem, requiring collective action. Cities are central to human habitation and activity, and are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Despite global climate change goals such as The Paris Agreement , barriers exist to taking adequate action in cities to address climate change. Decision making processes and policy in cities must be transformed to meet global climate change mitigation goals and reduce the ris…
Facilitating climate change action across built environment life stages – perspectives from built environment professionals
Incorporating water circularity into decision making across built environment life stages: A theoretical framework
Environmental resource management (12 works) · Climate change (11 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Civil engineering (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Geography (7 works)