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Biography
Donna Houston is an urban and cultural geographer in the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University. Her research explores the intersections of urban political ecology and environmental justice in the Anthropocene; cultural dimensions of climate change; toxic landscapes and bodies; spaces of extinction, and planning in the 'more-than-human' city. She is particularly interested in how cultural methodologies such as storytelling, visual methods and memory-work can be used to address current social and environmental challenges.
Associate Professor Houston is the Director of the Bachelor of Planning and the Co-Director of the Faculty of Arts Environmental Humanities research stream. She is a member of the Shadow Places Network, an international environmental humanities initiative funded by the Swedish government.
She currently teaches the following classes:
GEOP181 Urban Planet: Cities and Planning in the Anthropocene
GEOP262 Ecological Humanities: Australians and their Environments
Associate Professor Houston is currently available to supervise PhD and Masters Research students interested in any of the research areas and themes identified above.
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Projects 2009 2019
Social Experiments in Urban Food: Investigating Environmental Food Networks in Sydney
1/01/16 → …
Project: Research
Appointments and Schedules
Food
Research
Enabling Social Innovation for Local Climate Adaptability
Houston, D., Hillier, J., Steele, W., Byrne, J. & MacCallum, D.
14/04/15 → …
Project: Research
Valuing Adaptive Re-use of Heritage Buildings
Houston, D., McNeill, D., Dowling, R. & Rogers, D.
16/06/17 → …
Project: Research
The Australian Sustainable Household (ASH) database
Ruming, K., Houston, D., Fuller, S. & Williams, M.
1/01/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Designing a model and delivery approach to enhance Metro Train Sydney’s commuter journey experience, digital messaging and sustainability performance metrics
McLachlan, K., Davies, P., Barkat, I., Hamilton, L., Hazelton, J., Houston, D., Linnenluecke, M., Wilson, S., Wyver, S. & Yang, J.
11/12/18 → 10/12/19
Project: Research
Research Outputs 2000 2019
Climate adaptation Australia: socially innovative climate adaptation: stories and practices from Australia
Steele, W., Hillier, J., MacCallum, D., Byrne, J. & Houston, D., 2019Research output: Non-traditional research output › Web publication/site › Research
Creating a thinking space for the rising stars of Australian urban geography
Rogers, D., Porter, L., Steele, W. & Houston, D., 3 Apr 2019, In : Australian Geographer. 50, 2, p. 141-143 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Research › peer-review
urban geography
study group
urban study
Planning in the shadow of extinction: Carnaby's Black cockatoos and urban development in Perth, Australia
Houston, D., 6 Sep 2019, In : Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
urban development
provocation
urban planning
planning
community
Socially innovative local climate adaptation: stories and practices from Australia
Steele, W., Hillier, J., MacCallum, D., Byrne, J. & Houston, D., 20 Nov 2019, North Ryde, NSW: Macquarie University. 68 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report › Research
Spiritual enrichment or ecological protection? A multi-scale analysis of cultural ecosystem services at the Mai Pokhari, a Ramsar site of Nepal
Chaudhary, S., McGregor, A., Houston, D. & Chettri, N., Oct 2019, In : Ecosystem Services. 39, p. 1-10 10 p., 100972.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Nepal
ecosystem service
ecosystem services
Ecosystem
policy making
Activities 2019 2020
- 2 Editorial work
Dialogues in Human Geography (Journal)
Donna Houston (Member of editorial board)2020 → 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
Geohumanities (Journal)
Donna Houston (Member of editorial board)2019 → 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work