Environmental History
Key websites
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Department of PlanningVictorian Government website covering all aspects of planning.
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Regional Development VictoriaAll 48 regional and rural council areas across Victoria. Regional Development Victoria (RDV) is the Victorian Government’s lead agency responsible for rural and regional economic development.
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Victorian planning legislation and regulationsVictorian planning and subdivision legislation, the legal framework for Victoria’s planning system, and planning and subdivision regulations.
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CERESTackles the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.
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Friends of the Earth AustraliaThe world's largest grassroots environmental network promoting solutions to help create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.
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UNICEF International Child Friendly CitiesProvides information on how to build a Child Friendly City or Community including data on good practices and interventions, relevant publications, and updates on current research and initiatives.
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Architecture MediaAn online and print publisher and events company with a focus on the built environment – practitioners, clients, suppliers and the wider community.
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Victorian Building CommissionRegulates building and plumbing practitioners to ensure the achievement of efficient and competitive building and plumbing industries in Victoria.
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Australian Bureau of StatisticsThe ABS is Australia’s national statistical agency, providing trusted official statistics on a wide range of economic, social, population and environmental matters of importance to Australia.
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Department of Climate Change, Energy, The Environment and WaterAustralian government’s response to climate change and sustainable energy use, and the protection of our environment, heritage and water.
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State of the Environment ReportsPrepared by independent experts using the best available information to support assessments of environmental condition, pressures, management effectiveness, resilience, risks and outlook.
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Victorian Environmental Assessment CouncilConducts investigations that are requested by the Victorian Government relating to the protection and ecologically sustainable management of the environment and natural resources of public land.
Key databases
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Informit CompleteContains a wide range of databases and full content publications that deliver the majority of Australasian scholarly research for planning.
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ProQuest CentralMultidisciplinary database where many subjects areas are covered extensively.
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Taylor & Francis online journalsThe content spans all areas of the humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
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Science DirectAn information source for scientific, technical and planning information.
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SAGE Journals OnlineA scholarly Interdisciplinary database with exceptional discipline coverage spanning the humanities, social sciences, and planning.
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Victorian Heritage DatabaseA database of Victoria's most significant heritage places, objects, historic shipwrecks and archaeological sites and stores the records of places in Heritage Overlays of 24 Local Planning Schemes; and the records of non-statutory listings held by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and the Victorian War Heritage Inventory.