National Green Grid for Australia

PhD research, UWA, 2009-2017

About

This research project aimed to augment Australia’s currently limited protected area network and offer a design to address multiple contemporary environmental challenges.

Theoretically, such an infrastructure could provide greater resilience for human and ecological systems and help to sustain the Australian continent, its landscapes, biota and population, against present and future environmental challenges through an interconnected system of vegetated corridors spanning across the Australian continent.

This continental scale Green Infrastructure articulates binding international (Convention on Biological Diversity) and national (National Reserve Strategy) biodiversity planning targets across exemplar land-uses. The research tested the idea of an interconnected National Green Network for increased biodiversity protection and landscape resilience at the local scale through stakeholder engagement in York, Western Australia.

This research was both the Australian Institute of Landscape Architect's (AILA) National Award of Excellence and the AILA Western Australia Award in the ‘Research Policy and Communications’ category for its diverse, creative methodology.

https://www.landscapearchitectureprojects.com/projects/2018/greeninfrastructurengn?rq=kilbane

Key skills

- Research and writing

- Data collection and analysis

- Illustration, visualisation + mapping findings

- Policy review and planning settings

Link to PhD - text

Link to PhD - graphics/figures

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