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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; the biopolitics of climate change; toxic landscapes and bodies; and planning in the 'more-than-human' city.
Dr Houston is the Director of the Bachelor of Planning and the Co-Director of the Faculty of Arts Environmental Humanities research stream.
She currently teaches the following classes:
GEOP181 Urban Planet: Cities and Planning in the Anthropocene
GEOP262 Ecological Humanities: Australians and their Environments
Dr Houston is available to supervise PhD and Masters Research students interested in any of the research areas and themes listed above.
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environmental justice
Earth & Environmental Sciences
justice
Social Sciences
ecosystem service
Earth & Environmental Sciences
community
Social Sciences
geography
Social Sciences
equity
Earth & Environmental Sciences
consolidation
Social Sciences
climate change
Social Sciences
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Projects 2009 2017
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
Industrial Legacies and Urban Nature: A Critical Cartography of Sydney's Brownfields
Houston, D., Ruming, K., Power, E. & Chang, H.
1/01/13 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
Research Output 2000 2018
Cattle in the Anthropocene: four propositions
McGregor, A. & Houston, D. Mar 2018 In : Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 43, 1, p. 3-16 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
cattle
naturalization
industry
human geography
political economy
Environmental justice and ecosystem services: a disaggregated analysis of community access to forest benefits in Nepal
Chaudhary, S., McGregor, A., Houston, D. & Chettri, N. 1 Feb 2018 In : Ecosystem Services. 29, p. 99-115 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Nepal
environmental justice
Social Justice
ecosystem service
ecosystem services
Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and 'becoming-world' in planning theory
Houston, D., Hillier, J., MacCallum, D., Steele, W. & Byrne, J. 1 May 2018 In : Planning Theory. 17, 2, p. 190-212 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
planning theory
climate
urban geography
cultural geography
urban planner
Mapping Australian literary commemoration in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra: problems and prospects
Davidson, T. & Houston, D. 2018 In : Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. 18, 1, p. 1-13 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
writer
colonial age
public space
field research
monument
Neither sensibly homed nor homeless: re-imagining migrant homes through more-than-human relations
Alam, A. F. M. A., McGregor, A. & Houston, D. 2018 (Accepted/In press) In : Social and Cultural Geography.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article