SAS 2010 Program

The full draft programme for SAS2010 is now available!

DAY 1 TUESDAY 25 MAY: PLENARY

9:00-9:10 Welcome to SAS2010
• Jenny Pope, Director Integral Sustainability

9:10-10:30 Towards Strategic Assessment for Sustainability in Australia
Chair: Jenny Pope
• Michelle Andrews, Acting General Manager, Office of the Environmental Protection Authority – Opening address: Strategic assessment in Western Australia
• Gary Prattley, Chairman WAPC – Sustainability in Western Australian Planning
• Carolyn Cameron, Acting Assistant Secretary, Strategic Assessment and Approvals Branch, Commonwealth Department for Environment, Water, Heritage, the Arts, Australia – Strategic assessments under the EPBC Act – Projects, policy settings and lessons to date

10:30-11:00 Morning tea

11:00-12:30 Contributing to Sustainability
Chair: Angus Morrison-Saunders
• Peter Newman, Director, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Unit – Sustainability Assessment and Planning: the evolution of parallel universes
• Peter Elliott, URS – Approaches to building sustainability into strategic evaluation/strategic assessment
• Scott Harrison, Environmental Specialist and BCHydro Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development – Valuing the role of ecosystem services in assessment
• Bill Grace, Manager Sustainability, GHD – Healthy and resilient socio-ecological systems – towards a common approach to sustainability assessment and management

12:30-13:15 Lunch

13:15-15:00 International perspectives on strategic sustainability assessment: what it is, why it is important, and how it is being applied?
Chair: Barry Sadler
Short presentations followed by panel discussion:
• Martin Ward, Impact Assessment Specialist, NZ
• Alan Bond, University of East Anglia, UK
• Francois Retief, North West University, South Africa
• Jill Gunn, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Bill Gorham, Aecom, California USA

15:00-15:30 Afternoon tea

15:30-17:00 Strategic assessment: potential and practice
Chair: Angus Morrison-Saunders
• Bryan Jenkins, CEO Environment Canterbury, NZ – Applications of the strategic assessment approach
• Suzanne Brown, Manager Environment Branch, Water Corporation, WA – Strategic assessment: has it delivered what proponents need?
• Sheridan Coakes, Director Coakes Consulting, WA – The social perspective
Panelists:
• Paul Gamblin, WWF-Australia, WA
• Warren Tacey, Office of the EPA, WA

Join us for the Symposium Sundowner at Maria’s on the Terrace, South Terrace, Fremantle – drinks and finger food will be provided!

DAY 2 WEDNESDAY 26 MAY: CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Stream A:
1.1 Sustainability Assessment in a Local Government Context
Chairs: Alison Dalziel, Morrison Low and Wendy Patterson, City of South Perth, WA
• Brad Pettitt, Mayor of Fremantle and Dean, School of Sustainability Murdoch University, WA – Setting the scene
• Stephen Kovacs, Stirling Alliance, WA – The Stirling Alliance
• Wendy Patterson, City of South Perth, WA – Trees and views
• Alison Dalziel, Morrison Low, WA – NZ comparison

2.1 Sustainability and Local Government – Workshop
Chairs: Alison Dalziel, Morrison Low and Wendy Patterson, City of South Perth, WA
Calling all local government practitioners and managers! This workshop will explore the top challenges for sustainability and its practice in local government.

3.1 The Theory and Practice of Sustainability Assessment
• Bryce Skarratt, GHD, WA – Who’s da Boss? – Impact Assessment and Strategic Assessment
• Michelle Graymore, Deakin University, Victoria – Significance of environment in the assessment of sustainable development: the case for South West Victoria
• Kathryn Buselich and Jim Singleton, GHD, WA – Human agency in the sustainability assessment process, real or imagined: a case study of integration of stakeholder participation in an LNG site selection MCA
• Carolyn Raphael, Murdoch University, WA – Designing Deliberation for Sustainability Assessment
• William Varey, Murdoch University, WA – Psycho-services in Sustainable Psychosystems: The role of strategic sustainability assessment in a healthy society

Stream B:
1.2 Sustainability Assessment and Natural Resource Management
• Bryan Jenkins, Environment Canterbury, NZ (former CEO of Western Australian Department of Environment) – Sustainability appraisal and regional water planning in NZ
• Rod Safstrom, Department of Agriculture and Food, WA – Sustainability Assessment for Rural Subdivision
• Melissa Gordon, University of Tasmania, Tasmania – Quantifying community engagement for sustainable forest management in Australian forest plantations
• Bob Humphries, Water Corporation of Western Australia, WA – From Waste to Water Quality

2.2 Land Use Planning and Sustainability Assessment
Chair: Garry Middle, Curtin University, WA
• Garry Middle, Curtin University – From SEA to sustainability assessment
• John Glasson, Oxford Brookes, UK – SEA and SA in the UK and Europe
• Carolyn Cameron, DEWHA – Melbourne Urban Growth Strategic Assessment
• Barbara Pedersen and Kirsten Knox, Cardno – Score card assessment of WA’s strategic land use planning: has the past decade seen less sustainable planning?
• Garry Middle, Curtin University – Environmental Assessments of Regional Planning

3.2 Workshop – 2031 Draft Spatial Framework for Perth and Peel
Chair: Garry Middle, Curtin University
This workshop will explore WAPC’s sustainability assessment of Greenfields land suitable for urban development to cater for a doubling of Perth’s population and will include:
• Presentation of methodology and criteria, results of modelling based on that work, and the assumptions and ‘givens’;
• Workshop (small groups) to review criteria used to do assessment and what weighting to use for each criterion
• Report back and collation of results of working groups
discussion of broader implications of this work including any implications for the ‘given’s
• Wrap and how will the results be used to inform WAPC

Stream C:
1.3 Sustainability Assessment for Infrastructure Planning
• Nick Houldsworth, WorleyParsons, WA – EcoNomics™ – Integrating sustainability into project delivery
• Jane Scanlon, MandisRoberts and the University of Western Sydney, NSW – A process for defining sustainability in the delivery of infrastructure projects – lessons from the NSW urban rail sector
• Rachelle Willis, Gold Coast Water, Queensland – The development and testing of a sustainability framework and assessment criteria for the planning of water services infrastructure
• Katrina O’Mara, Aecom, WA – SMART sustainability assessments for infrastructure planning and delivery
• Katie de Jong, SKM, WA – Sustainability drives multi-million dollar upgrade to Woodman Point Wastewater Treatment Plant

2.3 Healthy & Resilient Socio-Ecological Systems – A Common Approach To Sustainability Assessment – Workshop
Chair: Bill Grace, GHD, WA
Can a common framework be used to assess the sustainability of all kinds of proposals? This workshop will explore the applicability of a place based assessment framework to a variety of proposal types – infrastructure projects, urban development and products & services.

3.3 Tools and Techniques for Sustainability Assessment
• Wahidul Biswas, Centre for Cleaner Production, Curtin University, WA – Life Cycle Analysis
• Brad Stelfox, ALCES, Canada – Using the ALCES Landscape Simulator to assess the economic opportunity and ecological risk of Canada’s oilsands industry
• Tiffaney George, Metago, WA – Future proofing your company through sustainability-driven innovation
• Albena Bossilkov and Michele Rosano, Centre for Cleaner Production, Curtin University, WA – Sustainability Matrix – paving the road for the KIA sustainability roadmap

SAS2010 will conclude with an interactive session involving all delegates.