Abstracts

Abstract submission for the Healthy Cities: Working Together to Achieve Liveable Cities Conference in Geelong is now open. 

IMPORTANT DATES
  • Open of Abstracts  November 2011
  • Close of Abstracts  2nd March 2012
  • Notification to Authors   30th March 2012
  • Author Acceptance Closes  6th April 2012
  • Programme Available  27th April 2012

Authors or organisations interested in submitting a paper or presenting a workshop are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the aims, contents and conclusions of their paper or presentation; or about their intended role in a workshop.

All proposals will be reviewed by  the Conference Program Committee. Presentations will be selected to provide a program that offers a comprehensive and diverse treatment of issues related to the conference theme. Authors will be notified by e-mail of the outcome of their abstract submission.

All presenters will have the opportunity to have their full papers pubished in the Conference Proceedings with an ISBN. You will be sent more information after you have submitted your abstract to the conference.

The streams will include, but not be limited to, the following topics;

  • Healthy urban design, urban renewal, green buildings, urban landscapes, public spaces, sustainabilty, transport, health equity and commercial development, models of integral planning, retrofitting suburbia
  • Public health, capacity, resilience, advocacy for Healthy Cities
  • Political cycles, government and business leadership, governance and participation
  • Education, motivation and incentives for behaviour change, community engagement
  • Population growth, food security, buying local, urban agriculture, natural resource management, Networks for climate change adaptation/mitigation
  • Creating Regional Cities - harnessing social capital, urban planning and social equity
  • Case studies - the program committee is looking to include 4 case studies in the concurrent sessions.

Please note:

  1. Abstracts should contain a maximum of 300 words and must be submitted in English.
  2. All confirmed abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts.
  3. Accepted authors must register for the Conference to be included in the Program. Where a paper is written by joint authors, at least one author is required to register.
  4. Abstract submissions will only be accepted via the conference website.

  5. We regret that no financial support can be provided for workshops, and session papers. 

Please indicate if you will be presenting an academically oriented, professional paper for consideration for publication in the conference proceedings for which you request peer refereeing by emailing the conference secretariat after you have submitted your abstract.

National Library of Australia - Canberra

Conference papers will also be included PANDORA Archive to provide public access to them in perpetuity. The Library will take the necessary preservation action to keep the papers accessible as hardware and software changes over time.

The Library will catalogue the papers and add the records to the National Bibliographic Database (a database of catalogue records shared by over 5,200 Australian libraries), as well as their own online catalogue. This will increase awareness of the papers/authors among researchers.

3rd Healthy Cities: Making Cities Liveable Conference papers are now publicly available in the PANDORA Archive