Publications
Publications
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VEIL Senior Research Fellow
Dr. David Turnbull
Publications:
Turnbull, D (2011) On the Trails of Markers and Proxies: The Socio-cognitive Technologies of Human Movement, Knowledge Assemblage, and Their Relevance to the Etiology of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Chinese Journal of Cancer, 30(2): 85-95.
Turnbull, D (2010) Trails and Tales: Multiple Stories of Human Movement and Modernity, Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy, Arctic Perspective Cahier Series No. 2, M. T. Bravo and N. Triscott Eds). Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz.
Turnbull, D (2009) Introduction: Futures for Indigenous Knowledges, Futures: Special Issue on The Futures of Indigenous Knowledges, Guest Editor David Turnbull, 41(1): 1-5.
Turnbull, D (2009) Boundary-Crossings, Cultural Encounters and Knowledge Spaces in Early Australia, The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence 1770-1820, S. Schaffer, L. Roberts, K. Raj and J. Delbourgo Eds). Sagamore Beach, Science History Publications: 387-428.
Turnbull, D (2007 ) Maps, Narratives and Trails: Performativity, Hodology, Distributed Knowledge in Complex Adaptive Systems– An Approach to Emergent Mapping, Geographical Research, 45(2): 140-9.
Turnbull, D (2006) Movement, Boundaries, Rationality and the State: The Ngaanyatyarra Land Claim, the Tordesillas Line and the West Australian Border, Moving Anthropology: Critical Indigenous Studies, T. Lea, E. Kowal and G. Cowlishaw Eds). Darwin, Charles Darwin University Press: 185-200.
Turnbull, D (2005) Multiplicity, Criticism and Knowing What to Do Next: Way-finding in a Transmodern World'. Response to Meera Nanda's Prophets Facing Backwards, Social Epistemology, 19(1): 19-32.
Turnbull, D (2005) Locating, Negotiating, and Crossing Boundaries: A Western Desert Land Claim, The Tordesillas Line and The West Australian Border, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(Boundary Variations. eds Annemarie Mol and John Law): 757-70.
Turnbull, D (2004) Narrative Traditions of Space, Time and Trust in Court: Terra Nullius, 'wandering', The Yorta Yorta Native Title Claim, and The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Controversy, Expertise in Regulation and Law, G. Edmond (Ed. Aldershot, Ashgate: 166-83.
Turnbull, D (2002) Performance and Narrative, Bodies and Movement in the Construction of Places and Objects, Spaces and Knowledges: The Case of The Maltese Megaliths, Theory, Culture and Society, 19(5&6): 125-43.
Turnbull, D (2003 2nd ed (1st ed 2000)) Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge, London, Routledge. Also available at http://www.amazon.com/Masons-Tricksters-Cartographers-Comparative-Scientific/dp/9058230015
Turnbull, D (1997) Reframing Science and Other Local Knowledge Traditions, Futures, 29(6): 551-62.
Turnbull, D (1996) Cartography and Science in Early Modern Europe: Mapping the Construction of Knowledge Spaces, Imago Mundi, 48: 5-24.
Policy - Reports & Submissions
The report of the Victorian Food Supply Scenarios: Impacts on Availability of a Nutritious Diet project has been released.
This VEIL-led research project was funded by VicHealth and undertaken in partnership with the CSIRO, Deakin University and the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development.
The purpose of this project was to develop and demonstrate a new methodology to link land and resource use with availability of a nutritionally adequate food supply for Victoria's population. To do so, it has built the capability of the CSIRO stocks and flows model as a platform for on-going 'what-if' investigation of Victorian and Australian food supply security.
The full report and a summary version are available for download here.
Policy - Reports & Submissions
Food sensitive planning and urban design (FSPUD) recognises that access to healthy, sustainable and equitable food is an essential part of achieving liveable communities.
VEIL and David Locke Associates were commissioned by the National Heart Foundation of Australia (Victorian Division) to develop a resource further articulating the idea of 'Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design' (first articulated by VEIL in 2008 as Food Sensitive Urban Design).
This new resource - Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design: A conceptual framework for achieving a sustainable and just food system - is intended to raise the awareness of planners, architects, urban designers, engineers, policy makers, community members and elected representatives of the need to integrate food considerations into urban land use and development. It outlines:
- key areas in planning legislation, policy and processes to realise this outcomes;
- how meeting people's food needs contributes to the broader objectives of planning and urban design, including: health and fairness; sustainability and resilience; livelihoods and opportunity; and community and amenity; and
- a challenge to professionals and the broader community to take on a stronger role in ensuring that healthy, sustainable and equitable food is available for all Australians into the future.
It is available for download here.
Policy - Reports & Submissions
This report assesses Best Practice Food Distribution Systems that might contribute to achievement of significant environmental improvements (i.e. reductions in GHG emissions) and/or reduce vulnerabilities in food systems.Leadership was identified in five categories:
· Farmer and consumer led initiatives (e.g. farmers' markets; coops; online hubs etc);
· Food retailers;
· Food manufacturers and marketers;
· Third party logistics providers; and
· Local councils, State and Federal Governments.
38 different initiatives were studied and results were extracted for each category, regarding:
· Drivers and motivations;
· Innovative aspects and opportunities;
· Obstacles and challenges; and
· Lessons learned - applicability to future initiatives.
This report highlights a wide range of alternatives that can help to decrease GHG emissions, and potentially reduce vulnerability in food distribution systems. Rather than advocating for a unique approach to be used, this report shows that each player in the chain has potential to contribute to the development of sustainable and resilient food distribution systems, whether at a local, national or international level.
Similarly, there are opportunities for players in each category to learn from and develop ideas from the others. The opportunities for abatement, and the creation of more resilient and sustainable supply chains, are significant.
For more information, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
This report is part of a larger food freight project, see also project description and Understanding Victoria's F&V Freight Movements.
Policy - Reports & Submissions
To create a sustainable and resilient fruit and vegetable distribution system, it is useful to first try to understand the current one.
This work maps out Victoria's fruit and vegetable freight movements from production to fork and analyses the greenhouse gas emissions produced through these movements. The analysis is focused only on the transport components of the supply chain, including refrigeration within transport where required, but it does not include energy use of emissions from production, processing, packaging etc.
It is hoped that this work will also support further exploration of the circumstances in Victoria where new systems of F&V distribution could achieve significant GHG reductions and reduced vulnerability to oil scarcity / price escalations.
This project was conducted by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at CSIRO, and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it from Food Chain Intelligence. For general information, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab. For technical information, contact one of these authors.
This report is part of a larger food freight project - see also project description and Best Practice Food Distribution Systems.
Visioning
| What might a sustainable suburb look like and how might we make it happen? |  |
 Vision: Broadmeadows 2032 | [ ] | 7158 Kb |
Briefing Notes
With large, centralised infrastructure appearing vulnerable to climate change and ‘peak oil’, alternative models are emerging everywhere.
Energy, water and food are being delivered via networked, localised production and consumption systems that lower carbon, increase efficiency, build resilience and strengthen local economies. This ‘distributed’ systems model is over-turning old ideas of services and is re-shaping our image of the future. Communities are active adopters of solar panels, wind generators, rainwater tanks and neighbourhood gardens. Consumers are redefining themselves as part-producers of critical resources. This is an evolution just beginning.
To understand the nature of these ‘localised solutions’, the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) and the McCaughey Centre organised a forum in Melbourne at the end of 2009. That event explored the value and implications of local initiatives that follow the distributed systems model. The forum brought together perspectives from the private sector, utilities, non-profit organisations and research bodies - reflecting the diversity of examples in Victoria.
VEIL has now produced a briefing paper which presents the forums key findings structured around three themes:
· The shape of localised solutions and their parallels with distributed systems
· Implications for adapting to climate change and resource scarcity
· The factors enabling and limiting further development of localised solutions
Download the paperVisioning
| Ballarat in 2032: alternative energy sources, fewer private vehicles, and resilience in the face of extreme weather events. |  |
| VEIL Ballarat Vision | [ ] | 2186 Kb |
Visioning
| What if the city was like a sponge, soaking up and filtering water instead of repelling it? |
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| VEIL Visualisations of a Water Sensitive City | [ ] | 22142 Kb |
Visioning
| Visualising a living expo low-carbon community. |
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| EBD Publication | [Summary of VEIL's EBD project, including the visioning process and the studio outcomes.] | 3379 Kb |
Policy - Reports & Submissions
| Visions of possible futures; new trajectories for sustainable development. |  |
| VEIL Report 2010 | [VEIL activities and outcomes, trajectory, goals and collaborators.] | 1992 Kb |
Briefing Notes
How do we prepare now for a future of unprecedented resource scarcity and environmental change? Unless we take radical steps to increase the resilience and sustainability of critical infrastructure, access to vital systems and services is at risk.
This paper highlights the dynamic forces increasing the vulnerability of current infrastructure and services and presents the case for distributed systems as an alternative design model.
We suggest this model exists in the natural environment and in production and consumption systems that have already begun adapting to conditions of increased uncertainty, resource scarcity and a ‘low-carbon’ future. A distributed approach to system design offers many benefits over traditional infrastructure models.
Research and case studies strongly suggest such an approach can:
- Increase the physical resilience of infrastructure
- Foster social and institutional flexibility and innovation
- Reduce the environmental footprint of production and consumption
| Download the document here | [ ] | 3086 Kb |
Briefing Notes
Distributed Water Systems: A networked and localised approach for sustainable water services
This extended briefing paper draws on case studies and research to describe the emergence and potential of networked and localised water infrastructure and services.
Authors: Che Biggs, Chris Ryan, John Wiseman, Kirsten Larsen
Participating Institutions: Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Melbourne with the McCaughey Centre: Vic Health Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne
Policy - Reports & Submissions
This submission briefly addresses part b) of the Terms of Reference:
the potential value of Crown land, and public authority land for areas not committed to a specific use, and report on appropriate future uses relevant to Melbourne's liveability and natural values.
This submission outlines VEIL’s position that food production in urban Melbourne will be critical to the provision of secure, healthy and sustainable food supplies, which in turn are essential for a city to be ‘liveable’. We have outlined the need and opportunities for increased food production within urban areas, with particular reference to environmental impacts and vulnerabilities, and highlighted opportunities for innovative and effective resource use.
| VEIL Submission - VEAC Crown Land | [ ] | 2067 Kb |
Policy - Reports & Submissions
This submission outlines VEIL’s position that food production in outer suburban (as well as inner urban) Melbourne will be critical to the provision of secure, healthy and sustainable food supplies.
Viable and sustainable agribusiness – “the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products” – will be critical to meeting these challenges. However, we suggest that in light of the challenges facing our food system, the ability of peri-urban businesses and enterprises to deliver ‘sustainable food production’ will be the fundamental underpinning to their success, and their ability to provide high quality employment opportunities within their local and regional economies. The pursuit of ‘sustainable food production’ and ‘healthy, sustainable and prosperous outer suburban areas’ will require a broader understanding of the types of businesses / enterprises that are valuable in urban and peri-urban spaces – emerging models of sustainable food production and distribution may also contribute to more resilient communities, cultures and economies in peri-urban Melbourne.
| VEIL - Agribusiness in Outer Suburban Melbourne | [Submission to the Outer Suburban Interface Services & Development Committee – Inquiry into Agribusiness in Outer Suburban Melbourne] | 2810 Kb |
Briefing Notes
This is VEIL's first briefing paper on distributed systems. Drawing on examples from states and cities in the EU and US, this paper demonstrates policy approaches for the development of distributed energy systems.
Authors: Dr. Kes McCormick, Rebekka Falk and Samira Viswanathan
Participating Institutions: Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Melbourne with The EU Environmental Education and Research Alliance (ENVERA)
Policy - Reports & Submissions
Time constraints meant that this was a very short submission! The text of the covering submission is included below, which basically refers the Inquiry to our existing work. Kirsten Larsen will be appearing at a public hearing in March 2009 and the presentation will be available here.
Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Agricultural and Related Industries Inquiry into Food Production in Australia
The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab welcomes the Select Committee’s investigation into food production in Australia and the question of how to produce food that is:
1. affordable to consumers;
2. viable for production by farmers; and
3. of sustainable impact on the environment.
Policy - Reports & Submissions
The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab has just released its first policy research report and it's all about food!
The report, Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria: What do we know? What do we need to know? discusses the environmental challenges relating to the food system, examining:
- how the production and consumption of food impacts on the environment; and
- the risks and vulnerabilities of the food system to environmental change and social responses (such as policy aiming to reduce environmental impacts)
| Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria (Full report) | [ ] | 3683 Kb |
| Sustainable and Secure Food Systems for Victoria (Summary) | [ ] | 1207 Kb |
Visioning
"M2032" is a report from the year 2032 illustrating how our world changed and the steps Victorians took to build resilient systems and secure a sustainable future.
Author: Professor Chris Ryan, University of Melbourne, December 2006.
"Sometimes we need to be reminded just how profoundly different Melbourne is in 2032, in its structure, in its economic base and in the nature of daily life, from the City it was at the turn of the century. In retrospect many of the changes to Melbourne can be understood when we consider the impacts of various critical events, and the changing nature of community concerns, which shaped the way that social, political and technological developments unfolded during and after the decade 2000- 2010. The period of intense innovation for sustainability, that came to identify the years 2007-2015, seems to have been an inevitable outcome of those events and concerns. Five years after the turn of the century, the scale of the change in patterns of resource use that was necessary for a sustainable existence was finally starting to catch public attention. Government priorities and policy were framed against some significant long term commitments for reductions in per-capita consumption (particularly for water and carbon-based energy)1. It was already becoming clear that the future could not be, in any meaningful sense, a continuation of the past."
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Visioning
Combined Water Power is a decentralised water cleansing and renewable energy solution. Small-scale gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) systems deliver electricity to the grid and clean local supplies of waste water through distillation. Discussions are underway with industry and government partners for the development of a pilot project.
Author: Professor Chris Ryan, Melbourne University, March 2007.
| Combine Water Power draft paper | [ ] | 111 Kb |
Visioning
A background briefing paper of the development of VEIL and its innovation process.
Author: Chris Ryan. 2002. (Reprinted from the MIT Journal of Industrial Ecology)
"The collapse of the “ecoefficiency pathway to sustainability” is occurring at the same time as an apparent shift in the nature of the market and business activity, a shift that values foresight, visible engagement with the future, and conceptual capital."
| EcoLab - a jump towards sustainability (part 1 and 2) | [ ] | 198 Kb |
Visioning
Chris Ryan. July 2007 Address to the Future Melbourne Forum on “Sustainable Prosperity”| Paradigms for Sustainable Prosperity | [ ] | 152 Kb |
Visioning
Author: Chris Ryan 2006 Chapter 1. “Imaging Sustainability” Lewis and Ryan RMIT Press 2006| Towards a new manifesto of sustainable design | [ ] | 327 Kb |
Visioning
This paper was presented in a low carbon manner, via teleconferencing at the IASDR Conference in Hong Kong in November 2007. The paper investigates the notion of designing for the innovative reuse of existing components within highly agile manufacturing systems, or what has been called ‘redesign’, outlining the basis of a sustainable design methodology which utilises devices such as information and communication technology (ICT), rapid manufacturing and component reuse to encourage ‘dematerialisation’, or a net reduction in material consumption, in society.
Author: Mark Richardson, MONASH UNIVERSITY, Nov. 2007
| ReDesign - Design for Reassembly | [ ] | 467 Kb |
