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Living change: Adaptive housing responses to climate change in the town camps of Alice Springs

Details:

Title

Living change: Adaptive housing responses to climate change in the town camps of Alice Springs,

Creator

Horne, Ralph, Martel, Andrew, Arcari, Paula, Foster, Denise, McCormack, Audrey,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, NCCARF 86/13,

Date

2013,

Location

Alice Springs,

Abstract

This project focused upon adaptive housing responses to climate change in the town camps of Alice Springs. It particularly examined household practices of staying cool and keeping warm in the context of increasing extremes of temperatures and climate. In a departure from several other studies that concentrated on actively changing the behaviour of household residents or assessing occupant satisfaction with how houses performed, in this project the concern was on identifying the various elements of social practices. These elements include housing hardware (the physical house and appliances), management regimes, skills and knowledge, rules and common understandings.,

Notes

RMIT University, Tangentyere Council Inc. - on Title Page, Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,

Table of contents

Executive summary -- Introduction -- Background -- A social practice approach and method -- Project outline -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion and recommendations -- References -- Appendix A-B,

Language

English,

Subject

Indigenous peoples, Dwellings, Camp sites, facilities, Climatic changes, Risk management,

Publisher name

National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility,

Place of publication

Gold Coast,

Series

NCCARF 86/13,

Format

ii, 54 pages : some colour illustrations, maps, charts ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781925039573,

Use

Copyright,

Copyright owner

National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility,

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2021C00407,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/282330,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/413020