Corporate sustainability

Introduction

We assist private and public sector clients adopt socially and environmentally responsible practices so they can benefit from:

- Enhanced reputation
- Lower risk
- Access to new markets
- Better stakeholder relationships
- An ability to attract and retain quality employees.

We have the practical and technical expertise to help our clients:

- Build the business case for sustainability
- Set their sustainability goals and vision
- Identify and manage risks associated with climate change, water scarcity and governance issues
- Facilitate stakeholder dialogue
- Engage with and train employees
- Reduce costs by re-evaluating waste management strategies and improving water and energy efficiency
- Benchmark and report on sustainability performance
- Understand their supply chains and manage them more effectively
- Plan and manage their facilities sustainably
- Embed sustainability into strategic plans.

Download/view our Corporate Sustainability capability statement (pdf, 328kb).

Projects

2010

Green Chrysalis: Innovation towards a green Australian economy

Green Chrysalis: Innovation towards a green Australian economy
Client: Australian Business Foundation (ABF)

Several business case studies of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are being used to investigate the processes driving innovative business activity in response to the new operating conditions and opportunities of the green economy. Interviews, desktop research, and collaborative knowledge-sharing between participants and researchers are being undertaken by ISF researchers in order to understand the issues facing SMEs as they innovate towards sustainability. Recommendations on how universities and other knowledge providers can support this innovation will be made. SMEs are critical contributors to Australia’s transition to a greener and more productive economy as they generate 46% of economic output and 42% of employment in Australia. SMEs have opportunities to get a ‘first-mover’ advantage in areas of the green economy through, for example, innovations in product-to-services substitution. This key innovation pathway to more sustainable outcomes has seen the growth of life cycle (cradle-to-cradle) product thinking, product leasing and take back, car share organizations and demand responsive transport. For more information, view/download project description or contact the ABF .

2008

Developing a monitoring and reporting system for sustainability for Hunters Hill Council

Expert group on sustainable wine production

Review of environmental sustainability indicators for Holroyd City Council

The effectiveness of public/private partnerships in achieving sustainability outcomes

Developing a monitoring and reporting system for sustainability for Hunters Hill Council
Hunters Hill Council
Hunter's Hill Council (HHC) sought assistance in developing an appropriate objective monitoring and reporting system for the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Councils' 2008 Sustainability Plan. ISF undertook stage 1 of an intended two stage process to establish a monitoring and reporting system for implementation of the Sustainability Plan. This involved validating the sustainability KPIs; reviewing information held by staff; and consulting with the appropriate staff on the appropriate suite of KPIs and associated data sets. It is anticipated that KPI's will be monitored annually and published in the annual HHC Sustainability Report. Council intends to integrate them into every-day decision making in the organisation.

Expert group on sustainable wine production
Client: Foster’s Group

Based on his industrial ecology and life cycle assessment expertise, Dr Damien Giurco was invited to join a panel of experts to advise Foster’s Australian and New Zealand wine on sustainability issues relating to wine and grape production. The panel advised the Foster’s Group on how to prioritise projects dealing with the wine production supply chain and understand government and community expectations for sustainable wine production. The panel helped the Foster’s Group to develop strategies and programmes for sustainable wine production. Existing and emerging issues that may impact on the sustainability of the Group’s programme and strategies were also identified. The group deployed a sustainability program that addresses issues such as biodiversity, salinity, water and greenhouse gas emissions, known as Foster’s Footprint, to all of Foster’s Australia and New Zealand vineyards.

Review of environmental sustainability indicators for Holroyd City Council
Holroyd City Council
ISF undertook a review of environmental indicators in use by Holroyd City Council. The review sought to evaluate the individual indicators against various criteria, assess their value as a set, and align them with Council's strategic objectives. A new indicator framework and set of indicators was developed as a result of the review. This was presented to Council executive staff, and made available to inform the next round of Council management planning. ISF worked closely with Council staff on this project, using a collaborative process to enable learning and build capacity. While this project focused on environmental indicators, the overall approach used was presented to Council as one that would be applicable to other areas of activity, as well as a useful point of reference for Council as it develops its new strategic planning framework.

The effectiveness of public/private partnerships in achieving sustainability outcomes
Australian Research Council
The project is being conducted in partnership with the UTS Faculty of Business and with assistance from the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (formerly the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation). The project also gained financial support in the form of a prestigious Australian Research Council grant. Given the rise of public/private partnerships and the issues that have stemmed from them, the project is particularly topical and will provide practical recommendations that will help to ensure their future success. It aims to model best practice governance of public/private partnerships, with particular reference to their capacity to drive organisational changes required to improve the environmental performance and productivity of Australian businesses. A case study approach will be combined with face-to-face interviews, focus groups and survey analysis to deliver outcomes to advise policy makers and business on the successful design and implementation of such partnerships.

2007

Council of Capital Cities Lord Mayors Sustainability Policy

Environmental Strategic Advisory Committee

Yarra Valley Water: 2006/07 Environmental Cost Statement

Paradigm shift to long-termism in the Australian finance sector

Council of Capital Cities Lord Mayors Sustainability Policy
City of Sydney
The City of Sydney is Chair of the Sustainable Cities Policy Committee of the Council of Capital Cities Lord Mayors (CCCLM). ISF was engaged to develop a draft Sustainable Cities Policy and policy template for this Committee. ISF worked with the client to define the scope of the policy and its relationship to other policies and plans within CCLM. We developed a template for the policy which provided a clear distinction between policy context, objectives, commitments, and implementation. A document review was conducted of existing commitments of the CCLM, national and international policy, commitments and research into sustainable cities. The Policy was adopted by CCLM and the template used to guide development of subsequent policies of CCLM subcommittees. The Policy will be used to represent the priorities of CCLM to State and federal politicians and to guide funding applications for program development.

Environmental Strategic Advisory Committee
Yarra Valley Water Ltd
In 2006, Yarra Valley Water (YVW) invited Cynthia Mitchell to join its Environmental Strategic Advisory Committee (ESAC). YVW is a retail water business in Melbourne, and leads the water industry in its efforts to make sustainability real in its business processes. ESAC Members are specifically selected to represent knowledge leaders and innovative thinkers in the area of sustainability. ESAC Members are drawn from wide-ranging sectors, including the community sector, the sustainability action sector, the research sector, the technology development sector, and the corporate sector. The overarching objective of ESAC is to strategically assist YVW to meet its goal of providing its water and sewerage services within the carrying capacity of nature, and assist in setting the future directions of YVW's sustainability journey. It operates along the lines of a high-level, dynamic 'think tank'. It meets two or three times a year. Visit the Yarra Valley Water website (opens an external site) to find out more about their sustainability and environment initiatives.

Yarra Valley Water: 2006/07 Environmental Cost Statement
Yarra Valley Water Ltd
This project built on and extended existing frameworks for Sustainability Accounting. ISF prepared an environmental cost statement for Yarra Valley Water (YVW). We examined available costings for initiatives to achieve YVW's six environmental strategic objectives (both current and future), identified gaps in the data, and where possible estimated future costs. The project identified process improvements to obtain data in future years and to improve attribution of costs to achievement of objectives. The environmental cost statement provides a preliminary snapshot of the cost of YVW achieving its sustainability objectives. The project further developed tools for translating sustainability measures into a format that is understandable and meaningful to other sections of YVW's business and to the wider investment community.

Paradigm shift to long-termism in the Australian finance sector
Total Environment Centre
This project was carried out jointly by ISF and the Faculty of Business at UTS. We researched, through literature review and focus groups, the key causes of, and solutions to, short-termism, particularly in relation to institutional investment. The outputs of the project were a discussion paper on causes, a discussion paper on solutions and an Action Plan for implementation by members of the investment community and stakeholders. The project identified the need for further research and an in-depth finance sector-led review. It also outlined immediate steps that could be taken to begin to promote long-termism.

2006

Development of a 'visioning' tool for business

Leadership workshop on long term sewerage options

Making Queensland Industry Green: evaluating environmental codes of practice

Development of a 'visioning' tool for business
Department of Environment and Climate Change (Parramatta Office)
ISF was commissioned by the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change to develop, document and deliver the Visioning module of the Sustainability Advantage program. It was felt that this long-term perspective on sustainability fills a gap in current thinking for many organisations.
Workshops were used to provide businesses with the tools to develop a vision and a set of broad strategic goals to set them on the path to sustainability. The workshops gave an overview of some of the issues and opportunities for business given the new pressures on organisations to become more sustainable. Group exercises were then undertaken to analyse the organisation's current environmental impacts up and down the supply chain and well-known frameworks were used to encourage managers to think broadly about the risks and possibilities for the company. Materials and processes used in the workshops were documented and passed on to the DECC in order for other facilitators to run future sessions. It will be run in conjunction with the program's Commitment and Planning modules. More information on the NSW DECC's sustainable business resources can be found at http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ (opens an external site)

Leadership workshop on long term sewerage options
Client: Melbourne Water

A workshop to seek visionary, strategic and leadership input from across the sector into the long-term future of sewage management was run by Institute researchers as part of the process to develop the 2050 Melbourne Metropolitan Sewerage Strategy. The intention was to create a coordinated and integrated strategy for sewage management in metropolitan Melbourne which reached beyond the administrative boundaries of each individual water company, and beyond the usual planning timeframes, by engaging with a strongly articulated view of the future. The workshop invited participants to articulate a vision, its drivers and actions to be achieved by 2055. The STEEP framework (social, technical, economic, environmental, and political) was used to sort the ‘drivers’ for the future (pushes, pulls and weights) followed by visioning to articulate a preferred future. Backcasting then identified the actions needed to achieve this future. The workshop revealed that leaders and stakeholders in the water industry were ready for change. This included a need for greater resource efficiency, a more holistic approach to decision-making and sewage management, more meaningful public engagement, choice and flexibility in services, and contribution to ecological resilience.

Making Queensland Industry Green? Evaluating the use and impact of Environmental Codes of Practice
ISF was engaged to help the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency to determine the utility to Queensland Industry of the existing Codes of Practice that cover eight industry sectors. We approached the research in terms of addressing the question of whether Codes of Practice (in their current form) are the most effective means of helping Queensland Industry improve their environmental practice and performance. If not, how could the Codes be improved or what alternative mechanisms would be more effective. This evaluative approach placed the 'audit and review' of the Codes in a broader policy 'change and improvement' framework and the information was used by the EPA in broader decision making on the future management of the Codes under the Environmental Protection Act 1994. We engaged industry stakeholders in a widespread survey and follow up interviews. Such a study had not been conducted before and we were able to make some significant recommendations on future direction in terms of industry management for the EPA in addition to creating a momentum for this change amongst those in the Industry sectors we worked with.

2005

Benchmarking Industry Sector Environmental Sustainability: The Building & Construction Materials Sector

Managing Air Quality

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)

Water in Government Buildings: Feasibility Study for a Policy on Water in Government Operations

Benchmarking Industry Sector Environmental Sustainability: The Building & Construction Materials Sector
The Institute examined environmental best practice for the building materials sector using international and national company case studies and assessed the relative standing of Boral Ltd. to this best practice. A benchmarking framework, based on a review of rating and benchmarking systems in use (e.g. DJSI, Reputex etc.) and a review of key environmental impacts, was developed to assess companies selected as case studies. Eight international and national companies were selected as case studies, based on those seen as environmental leaders in the building and construction materials sector, and those that offered a good comparison with Boral's core business. The case study companies and Boral were analysed against this framework (based on publicly available data) to highlight best practice and identify key opportunities for improvement from Boral's perspective.

Managing Air Quality
The Institute provided expert advice to the Audit Office of New South Wales and contributed to the development of an audit report that assessed whether the protection of air quality in NSW is managed efficiently and effectively. The Institute researched appropriate regulatory structures for managing air quality in Sydney. This material was particularly useful in the audit of whether governance and management arrangements for the protection of air quality provide a structured approach to enable effective coordination, communication and reporting, and clear accountability.

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
The Institute published the results of its survey "Mainstreaming Socially Responsible Investment (SRI): A role for Government?" in October 2005. The survey collected opinions across the business spectrum including SRI practitioners, institutional investors, related stakeholders, and interested government departments. These results provide a critical understanding of the instruments that key industry members believe are most likely to encourage the widespread uptake of SRI. Download Report (PDF 1.62MB) or go to summary of results.

Water in Government Buildings: Feasibility Study for a Policy on Water in Government Operations
An assessment of the total water use in all Australian Government Operations was made for the Department of Environment and Heritage (DEH). The Institute also calculated the potential for water savings and the financial costs and benefits associated with achieving them. Site assessments of seven different Government sites, including offices, laboratories, a university and a Defence base were made. An analysis of the applicability of a water use policy and recommendations on the required administration, accountability, reporting, water use targets, guidelines, and the potential mixture of voluntary and mandatory requirements in such a policy were provided to the Department. This was the only government wide assessment on resource use to date.

2004

Distributed Infrastructure

Distributed Infrastructure
The Institute worked with the Australian Council for Infrastructure Development to examine the energy, water and transport industries and the potential for a new, more sustainable, distributed infrastructure market. We outlined the key drivers for change and identified potential products and services, business models, market structures and policy requirements that would enable industry stakeholders to benefit from increased social responsibility.

2003

Sustainable Cities 2025 Discussion Paper

Sustainable Cities 2025 Discussion Paper
The Institute assisted the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils with their submission to the Sustainable Cities 2025 Discussion Paper. In 2003 the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage (opens an external site) started examining opportunities to improve the liveability of Australia's cities and settlements in 2003 and tabled their report in 2005.

2002

Mainstreaming Sustainability

Mainstreaming Sustainability, Strategies for for Planning NSW and the NSW Sustainability Advisory Council
This project assessed the barriers to implementing sustainability in the residential property industry. The project identified and mapped the main barriers to 'mainstreaming' sustainable residential development, using extensive stakeholder consultation across the relevant government and industry sectors, and an emergent process to map results. The project has since been acknowledged as the most comprehensive consultation process the NSW development industry has seen.

2001

State and Local Taxes in Australia: Towards Sustainability

State and Local Taxes in Australia: Towards Sustainability
Much of the work of the Institute involves the use of one of the more neglected means of achieving change towards sustainable futures - the use of economic instruments. In 2001 the Australian Tax Research Foundation (ATRF) published the results of an Institute project entitled 'State and Local Taxes in Australia: Towards Sustainability'. This project was carried out through a grant from the ATRF in order to determine possible changes to the type and extent of state and local taxes and charges in order to improve the compatibility of revenue raising with principles of sustainability. The taxes and charges focused on relate to resource use (e.g. water charges), waste generation (load based licensing, solid waste generation, landfill, effluent), sustainable transport and land use (e.g. land tax, betterment tax).

2000

Baulkham Hills Shire Council Sustainability Review

Case for Green Buildings: capturing the financial benefits

Cooperatives and Regional Australia in the New Energy Market

An ESD Self Assessment Package for Local Government

Sustainability Design Guidelines for Urban Release Areas

Baulkham Hills Shire Council Sustainability Review (PDF 2.9MB) - a whole of Council approach to reviewing both the practices and impacts of the Council and to develop indicators for sustainability in June 2000.

Case for Green Buildings: capturing the financial benefits
This research for the Attorney General's Department of NSW examined the range of financial and other benefits associated with green buildings, through both new construction and refurbishment. A wide range of Australian and international case studies, demonstrating how numerous organisations have 'greened' their building stock and the resulting financial benefits were examined. Recommendations were made to the client on the organisational factors needed to successfully implement a green building program and the process for the AGD to take its agenda forward.

Cooperatives and regional Australia in the new energy market
The Institute, together with the Australian Centre for Cooperative Research and Development (ACCORD), examined the role of cooperatives in the restructured energy market, with a focus on rural and regional Australia. As part of this project, a forum was held in December 2000 to discuss issues faced by rural and regional Australia and cooperatives in a competitive energy market.

An ESD Self Assessment Package for Local Government (PDF 138.45KB) was developed by the Institute and the Local Councils in the Australian Capital Region group as part of the Commonwealth Local Government Capacity building program in June 2000. This package leads councils through a practical process that evaluates their activities in the context of ESD legislation and establishes ways they can achieve greater sustainability. The package is practical and relevant for all Councils, regardless of their size, structure, available resources or current capacity.

Sustainability Design Guidelines for Urban Release Areas (PDF 197.8KB): a masterplan approach for developers. This tool was developed for Penrith City Council in September 2000 to assist property developers at the masterplanning stage by outlining design solutions that promote sustainable land use.

1999

Action Research Project

Action Research Project - a unique collaboration between ISF, local councils and government agencies September 1999 to develop a whole of council approach to ESD, Local Agenda 21 and State of Environment Reporting.

Publications

2011

Project reports

Herriman, J. 2011, 'Review comments on Kogarah Councils Draft ESD Plan', [prepared for Kogarah Council], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, pp. 1-11.

Riedy, C. 2011, 'UTS sustainability strategy 2012-2015: Draft for consultation', [prepared for prepared for the UTS Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources)], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney.

Conference papers

Behrisch, J.C., Ramirez Jr, M. & Giurco, D. 2011, 'Ecodesign in industrial design consultancies - comparing Australia, China, Germany and the USA', International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED11: Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2011 in DS 68-Abstracts: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Programme and Abstract Book, ed Maier, A.M., Mougaard, K., Howard, T.J. and McAloone, T.C., [prepared for As an author, I agree that a digital copy of this output may be placed in UTSiResearch, UTS' institutional repository.], The Design Society, Glasgow, Scotland, pp. 1-10.
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Journal articles

Atherton, A.M. & Giurco, D. 2011, 'Campus sustainability: climate change, transport and paper reduction', International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, [prepared for As an author, I agree that a digital copy of this output may be placed in UTSiResearch, UTS' institutional repository.], vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 269-279.
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Behrisch, J.C., Ramirez Jr, M. & Giurco, D. 2011, 'Representation of ecodesign practice: International comparison of industrial design consultancies', Sustainability, [prepared for As an author, I agree that a digital copy of this output may be placed in UTSiResearch, UTS' institutional repository.], vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 1778-1791.
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Cooper, C. & Giurco, D. 2011, 'Mineral resources landscape: reconciling complexity, sustainability and technology', International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, [prepared for As an author, I agree that a digital copy of this output may be placed in UTSiResearch, UTS' institutional repository.], vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-18.
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2010

Project reports

Chong, J., Brennan, T. & Asker, S. 2010, 'Issues Paper: Innovation and transformation: SMEs and the low-carbon economy', [prepared for Australian Business Foundation], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney.

Giurco, D., Brennan, T. & Mason, L. 2010, 'Assessment of opportunities to develop a market for polypropylene textiles', [prepared for Kimberley Clark Australia], Institute for Sustainable Futures, ISF, Sydney.

Conference papers

Behrisch, J.C., Ramirez Jr, M. & Giurco, D. 2010, 'Application of ecodesign strategies amongst Australian industrial design consultancies', Sustainability in Design: NOW! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century., Bangalore, India, September 2010 in Sustainability in Design: Now! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century. Proceedings of the LeNS Conference, Bangalore, India 29th September to 1st October 2010 (Volume II), ed Ceschin, F., Vezzoli, C. and Zhang, J., LeNS (the Learning Network on Sustainability), Bangalore, India, pp. 1377-1387.
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Behrisch, J.C., Ramirez Jr, M. & Giurco, D. 2010, 'The use of ecodesign strategies and tools: state of the art in industrial design praxis. Comparing Australian and German consultancies', Knowledge collaboration & learning for sustainable innovation. The 14th European Roundtable on Sustainable Production and Consumption (ERSCP) and The 6th Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU), Delft, The Netherlands, October 2010 in Knowledge collaboration & learning for sustainable innovation. Proceedings of the ERSCP-EMSU conference, Delft, The Netherlands, October 25-29, 2010, ed Wever, R., Quist, J., Tukker, A., Woudstra, J., Boons, F. and Beute, N., Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology on behalf of, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, pp. 1-22.
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2009

Project reports

Boyle, T. 2009, 'Walking the green talk: exploring the motivations for the adoption of sustainable office space by professional services firms', [prepared for Honours thesis prepared for the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle], University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, pp. 1-116.

Conference papers

Atherton, A.M. & Giurco, D. 2009, 'UTS Environmental Sustainability Initiative: case study', Tertiary Education Management Conference, Darwin, Australia, September 2009 in 2009 Tertiary Education Management Conference, Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA), pp. 1-10.
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Riedy, C. 2009, 'Sustainable futures and NECA', 2009 NECA Conference, Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia, October 2009.

2008

Project reports

Atherton, A.M., Lewis, J. & Riedy, C. 2008, 'Footprinting greenhouse gas eEmissions', [prepared for prepared for Greenpeace Australia Pacific Ltd], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney.

Conference papers

Atherton, A.M., Mathieson, B., Mitchell, C.A. & Pamminger, F. 2008, 'Accounting for environmental costs to inform strategic decision-making - exploring Yarra Valley Water's experience', Enviro08 Australasia's Environmental & Sustainability Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, May 2008 in Enviro 08 Australasia's Environmental & Sustainability Conference & Exhibition, ed Spedding, M., Australia Water Association and Waste Management Association of Australia, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-5.
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Kazaglis, A., Fagan, J. & Giurco, D. 2008, 'Identifying and assessing industrial ecology opportunities in Melbourne', Enviro 08 Australasia's Environmental & Sustainability Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, May 2008.
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Kazaglis, A., Patterson, J.J., Fagan, J. & Giurco, D. 2008, 'Industrial ecology opportunities in Melbourne (poster)', Enviro 08 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, May 2008.
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Book chapters

Clegg, W.E. & Clegg, S.R. 2008, 'Corporate Social Responsibility' in S. R. Clegg and J. R. Bailey (eds), The International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage, Portland, OR, pp. 302-305.

2007

Project reports

Atherton, A.M., Lewis, J. & Plant, R.A. 2007, 'Causes of short-termism in the finance sector', [prepared for Total Environment Centre], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, pp. 1-27.
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Atherton, A.M., Lewis, J. & Plant, R.A. 2007, 'Paradigm shift to long-termism: action plan for the Australian finance sector', [prepared for Total Environment Centre], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, pp. 1-35.
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Atherton, A.M., Lewis, J. & Plant, R.A. 2007, 'Solutions to short-termism in the finance sector', [prepared for Total Environment Centre], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, pp. 1-28.
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Kazaglis, A., Giurco, D., Van Beers, D., Bossilkov, A., Reuter, M., Fagan, J., Grant, T. & Moore, T. 2007, 'Industrial ecology opportunities in Melbourne: literature review', [prepared for Smart Water Fund, Melbourne], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia.
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Conference papers

Giurco, D. 2007, 'Urban infrastructure & impacts', 1st workshop on the complex dynamics of urban systems: CSIRO, Sydney, October 2007.
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2006

Project reports

McGee, C.M. 2006, 'Green lease guide for commercial office tenants', Investa Property Group, Sydney, Australia.
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Conference papers

Grob, S.M. & Benn, S.H. 2006, 'Promulgating sustainability through sustainable purchasing: the role of alliances and networks', Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies 11th International Colloquium, Melbourne, Australia, December 2005 in APROS 11: Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies 11th International Colloquium Proceedings, ed Muetzelfeldt M, Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 341-351.

White, S., Vecellio, L., Waugh, N. & Hicks, R. 2006, 'The Boomerang Tariff: financing development through fair trade', Ecological Sustainability and Human Well-Being, New Delhi, India, December 2006.
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2005

Project reports

Berry, T. 2005, 'Benchmarking industry sector environmental sustainability', [prepared for Department of Environment and Conservation], Institute for Sustainable Futures, Sydney.

Blackburn, N. 2005, 'UNSW Pilot Sustainability Report', School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW, Sydney.

George, A., Edgerton, N. & Berry, T. 2005, 'Mainstreaming Socially Responsible Investment (SRI): a role for government? Policy recommendations from the investment community', Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-25.
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Conference papers

Grob, S.M. 2005, 'Actors alliances action - the roles played by organisations in setting the scene for sustainable procurement', Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Operations Management Symposium., Rockhampton, Australia, June 2005.

Stewart, M., Giurco, D., Brent, G. & Petrie, J. 2005, 'LCIs for minerals processing in South Africa and Australia and their use in decision making for technology choice', International Workshop on Life Cycle Assessment and Metals, Montreal, Canada, April 2002 in Life-cycle assessment of metals: Issues and research directions, ed A. Dubreuil, Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemist, Florida, USA, pp. 96-101.
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Journal articles

Grob, S.M. 2005, 'Corporate Shopping .. small change for the planet', NSW Chapter News, no. 59.

Grob, S.M. & McGregor, I.M. 2005, 'Sustainable organisational procurement: a progressive approach towards sustainable development', International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, vol. 1, no. 3/4, pp. 280-295.

2004

Project reports

Cheney, H.E., Nheu, N. & Riedy, C. 2004, 'Review of Sydney Catchment Authority's environmental and ESD indicators: Final report', [prepared for Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of NSW], Institute for Sustainable Futures, Sydney.

McGee, C.M., Milne, G.R. & Berry, T. 2004, 'Case for green buildings', [prepared for The Attorney General's Department of NSW], Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Sydney.
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Journal articles

Atherton, A.M. 2004, 'Towards sustainability: beyond the financial bottom line', Spectrum, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 7-8.
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2003

Conference papers

Berry, T., Carson, L. & White, S. 2003, 'We are all stakeholders: participatory decision-making and corporate sustainability', Corporate Social Responsibility & Environment Conference, University of Leeds, UK, June 2003.
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McGregor, I.M. 2003, 'An ecologically sustainable business sector within an ecologically sustainable society', Ecological Economics Think Tank, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2003.

2002

Project reports

Berry, T. & McGee, C.M. 2002, 'Developing strategies for mainstreaming sustainability', [prepared for Sustainability Advisory Council], Institute for Sustainable Futures, Sydney.
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Conference papers

McGregor, I.M. 2002, 'Is Australia progressing towards ecologically sustainable development?', ANZ Society for Ecological Economic Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 2002 in ANZ Society for Ecological Economic Conference, Sydney, Australia.

McGregor, I.M. 2002, 'Is Australia progressing towards ecologically sustainable development?', Sydney, Australia, December 2002 in ANZ Society for Ecological Economic Conference, Sydney, Australia.
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2001

Project reports

Hendriks, C., Kuiper, G. & White, S. 2001, 'Product Innovation: the green advantage', Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
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2000

Book chapters

Diesendorf, M.O. 2000, 'Sustainability and sustainable development' in Dunphy D, Benveniste J, Griffiths A & Sutton P (eds), Sustainability: the corporate challenge of the 21st century, Allen & Unwin, Sydney Australia, pp. 19-37.

Giurco, D., Stewart, M. & Petrie, J. 2000, 'The role of LCA in performance assessment in minerals processing: a copper case study' in R. Singhal and A. Mehrotra (eds), Environmental issues & management of waste in energy and mineral production, Taylor and Francis, Rottedam, pp. 267-273.