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Subject: CSE seminar next week -
Wed 24/5 - Urban renewal project (Sydney Olympic Park)
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems Special
Seminar next week.....
(please note day)
A risk-based
approach for public parkland stewardship
An ititial step for
selecting institutional controls for remediated Brownfield sites
Edwina
Laginestra
Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: Caughley
Seminar Room, Gungahlin Homestead, Crace (directions below)
(abstract below, flyer
attached)
Enquiries: ph 6242 1608, or
ph reception 6242 1600
Abstract: Many urban renewal projects provide
public open space as a key feature, if not the main objective, for improving
living conditions in cities. Yet as cities grow, park managers will juggle the
need to meet a variety of uses in the face of increasing development pressures
and reduced public funding.
Maintaining healthy parklands requires an
appropriate sustainable vision and policies to facilitate effective management,
including the selection and implementation of land use controls.
Risk-based frameworks would seem to be suitable
tools to select institutional controls and examine their effectiveness. After
all risk assessment is commonly used in both contaminated site clean-ups and
conservation management. Risk, while employed in a wide range of scientific disciplines,
is still intuitively familiar to the layperson. It is seen as an internally
consistent and externally transparent process, due to its ability to quantify
results, identify uncertainties, discuss and clarify goals and ascertain the
necessary monitoring and iterative steps.
Yet on closer inspection of the risk-based
management methods there are a number of pitfalls to be aware of, including the
lack of agreement on definitions, the influence of social dimensions and how
long-term and geographic pressures can affect short-term or
"objective" decisions.
This presentation provides a perspective on
risk-based management of remediated open space. Reference will be made to
preliminary results of research into the effectiveness of controls at Sydney
Olympic Park, one of the largest urban renewal projects in Australia.
Location details: The entrance to Gungahlin Homestead
is from Bellenden
Street (off
Barton
Highway, approx 500m
north of Gungahlin
Drive overpass).
The visitor car park is to the right of entrance near front of Homestead
(Reception).
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Anne Towill
Marketing and Communication Group
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
'Gungahlin Homestead'
GPO Box 284
Canberra ACT
2601
ph: 02 6242 1608 (Mon PM, Wed, Thu)
fax: 02 6242 1555
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