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'Ecological Sustainable Development'

31/8/2022

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I have been researching Ecological Sustainable Development since the formation of our BSFG Review Group and found a September 2018 PhD Thesis by Peter Bennet, 'Australia’s National Approach to ‘Ecologically Sustainable Development’: Success in Principle, Failure in Policy, Still in Prospect', https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/ handle/1885/156800.

‘The thesis concludes that, properly understood and incorporated into an appropriate policy framework, ESD is a coherent and viable concept, one which remains in prospect when and if society returns the problem of general environmental decline to the top of the public policy agenda.”

Ecologically Sustainable Development is an Australian approach to Sustainable Development. I am up to page 128 of 476!

Further ESD research has led me to the Victorian Government's Environmentally Sustainable Development of Buildings and Subdivisions, https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/environmentally-sustainable-development-of-buildingsand-subdivisions where there is a download for a roadmap for Victoria’s planning system which looks at ESD in many areas related to sustainable buildings and subdivisions.

One issue we are often concerned about in new subdivisions is the apparent lack of consideration of house orientation. This roadmap outlines a program to introduce new ESD planning policies and standards that will help, for instance improve building energy efficiency and support the transition to a low emission future by ensuring buildings are sited and orientated to optimise energy efficiency and encourage the use of renewable energy.

The Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment, CASBE, also has resources available for their related Sustainable Subdivisions Framework,  www.casbe.org.au/resources/sustainablesubdivisions-resources/ 

ESD assessment tools available include Green Star developed by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), EnviroDevelopment developed by the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA), and BESS the Built Environment Sustainability Scorecard developed by CASBE. BESS is the only dedicated tool in Victoria for assessing sustainable design at the planning permit stage. CASBE membership is open to all Victorian councils.

My initial search about Ecological SD has led me to finding the encouraging development of Planning for Environmental Sustainable Development in Victorian subdivisions. I will continue to investigate Peter Bennet's thesis on Ecological Sustainable Development as the Ecological Footprint by the Footprint Network indicates globally we are exceeding the biocapacity of the planet.

This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 28. A good reason for emphasising the Ecological in Sustainable Development.

Peter Maddock,
​Ecological Sustainable Planning and Development and Retrofits Group
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