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Rising to the challenge: Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments

Innovative, nature-based infrastructure and real-time health research are reshaping lives in vulnerable communities, proving that sustainable solutions can thrive in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

Environment

Putting women front and centre in climate change reparations

Women from climate-vulnerable countries face devastating impacts and are disproportionately affected by disasters, which is why they must be included in the UN’s Loss and Damage Fund.

COP – The global forum for climate change

The human health impact of climate change

The world has talked at great lengths about how climate change is an environmental crisis. But what about the human health effects that come from it?

Sustainability

The paradigm shift needed to address growing global fragility

Complex and interconnected threats to global peace and security demands innovative and interconnected thinking by experts working across academic disciplines and industry sectors.

Politics and society

Water worries: Indonesia and the US have plenty in common

Despite being on other sides of the planet, Jakarta and Iowa are staring down similar issues regarding water hygiene and supply.

Sustainable development

What would a post-antibiotic world look like?

Antibiotics have been around for less than a century. But as resistant bacteria become increasingly difficult to treat, we risk a greater number of deaths from infections.

Medicine and health

‘Aqua nullius’ threatens the water security of all Australians

Although First Nations peoples’ connections to land are now legally well-established, their connections to water are not.

Politics and society

Saving Citarum: Cleaning up one of the world’s most polluted rivers

The Citarum River in Indonesia is the focus of a revitalisation project, and a Monash University cross-faculty team has been called on to help make it happen.

Sustainability

Fears for Afghan women as the Taliban takes Kabul

The collapse of Afghanistan’s government, the American military withdrawal and failure of its mission put women’s safety and freedoms at grave risk.

Politics and society

Going post-COVID green

Stimulus investment after the pandemic presents a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to pivot economies away from emissions-intensive growth, and towards green growth.

Sustainability

Radically rethinking the environment and human health connection

Let's take what we’ve learned from our COVID-19 experience to radically rethink the relationship between our environment and human health.

Environment

Extremists leverage COVID crisis

Violent and extremist groups are ramping up online propaganda messages to exploit confusion and fear during COVID-19.

Politics and society

RISEing to the challenge in Indonesia

The five-year water-focused project is revitalising informal settlements in Makassar.

Environment

Tapping into change

Safe and clean access to water and sanitation is still not a right afforded to everyone, even in Australia.

Environment

Giving and growing

Philanthropy is now viewed as a way of creating communities of people with a shared goal of bringing positive, practical change to the world.

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Committed to a sustainable future

Monash is playing a leading role in the push to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Global Leaders' Week

A tale of two cities

Although Melbourne and Singapore are very different cities, they have much in common.

Global Leaders' Week

Monash drives sustainable development initiatives

From energy storage solutions and smart urban planning, to ensuring a steady food supply in a world of climate change, Monash researchers and industry experts offer insights.

Environment

RISE: Changing lives among the urban poor

A five-year, Monash-led project RISE aims to bring clean water and sanitation to impoverished urban communities.

Environment

China's grip still tight on state-owned enterprises

China’s next Five-Year Plan is due to be formally approved by the National People’s Congress in March 2016. One of the areas of focus is the role of China’s State-Owned Enterprises, generally viewed with suspicion by the West and also seen...

Business and economy

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Rising to the challenge: Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments

Putting women front and centre in climate change reparations

The human health impact of climate change

The paradigm shift needed to address growing global fragility

Water worries: Indonesia and the US have plenty in common

What would a post-antibiotic world look like?

‘Aqua nullius’ threatens the water security of all Australians

Saving Citarum: Cleaning up one of the world’s most polluted rivers

Fears for Afghan women as the Taliban takes Kabul

Going post-COVID green

Radically rethinking the environment and human health connection

Extremists leverage COVID crisis

RISEing to the challenge in Indonesia

Tapping into change

Giving and growing

Committed to a sustainable future

A tale of two cities

Monash drives sustainable development initiatives

RISE: Changing lives among the urban poor

China's grip still tight on state-owned enterprises