Magnus Moglia

• PhD Environment, The Australian National University
• Professor (Associate) at La Trobe University

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the freight sector requires greater use of Battery Electric Trucks (BETs) and/or Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks (HFCTs). There is limited evidence on freight operator willingness to pay (WTP) for such trucks, or which factors may influence preferences. This study addresses this by reporting on a Choice Experiment sur...

As the impacts of climate change increase, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in particular shall face increasingly significant adaptation challenges. Past climate adaptation efforts within SIDS have had limited success. As such, the purpose of this systematic literature review has been to identify areas of importance for facilitating climate ad...

Many challenges posed by the current Anthropocene epoch require fundamental transformations to humanity's relationships with the rest of the planet. Achieving such transformations requires that humanity improve its understanding of the current situation and enhance its ability to imagine pathways toward alternative, preferable futures. We review ad...

Nature-based solutions are gaining prominence in urban sustainability discourses, especially in climate adaptation , in efforts to increase resilience, and as a means of promoting a range of social, environmental, and economic benefits. There are however barriers and inertia that slow the adoption of such solutions, and a term commonly used for ove...

This research modelled the reductions in emissions and economic benefits resulting from targeted policy interventions for decarbonising road freight in NSW. The research focused on key tasks that included: • A comprehensive literature review that surveyed and interpreted relevant studies to identify the current state of knowledge, opportunities, ch...

Change is needed in how cities are designed, built, and managed to meet the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. In this book, we invited authors to report on their visions for cities, using a missions-oriented perspective on transformative innovations that support more liveable, sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and just futures. The res...

What infrastructure do Australian cities need over the next century? Planning for, delivering, and maintaining infrastructure that is usually long-lived and expensive in a rapidly changing environment is difficult. Complexity and uncertainties are at play, with potentially serious consequences to be considered. Specifically, current infrastructure-...

Melbourne is renowned for its urban waterways management. With the introduction of the Healthy Waterways strategy 2018–2028, decision-makers aimed to involve the community more collaboratively. However, the reality of doing so is complex, and outcomes have not always been as intended. We identify three dilemmas that limit the effectiveness of commu...

Melbourne is renowned for its urban waterways management. With the introduction of the Healthy Waterways strategy 2018–2028, decision-makers aimed to involve the community more collaboratively. However, the reality of doing so is complex, and outcomes have not always been as intended. We identify three dilemmas that limit the effectiveness of commu...

Asset management issues are and will always be key concerns for many stakeholders in the water sector. Despite this, there is still a lack of awareness and clear guidance on the topic. There has been some focus on the management of drainage pipes, but more effort needs to be dedicated to examining the various regulations, practices, and research wi...

This systematic literature review investigates whether and how working-from-home (WFH) affects travel behavior in the working population, and then assesses whether the changes, if any, generate environmental, social, or economic benefits. We rely on a final sample of forty-eight peer-reviewed articles, selected following the Preferred Reporting Ite...

Urban drainage operation, management and rehabilitation can be divided into two distinct segments: traditional grey infrastructures (i.e. pipes and associated components) and green infrastructures. For piped systems this boils down to maintaining the operational safety, stability and tightness of the sewers and special structures. However, this cha...

Australian governments continue to search for a model capable of planning future urban settlements at an extended spatial scale (the mega-metropolitan region) to accommodate high population growth more sustainably. Attempts at decentralisation over the past half century have failed, as state capital cities continue to sprawl in an unsustainable man...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are implemented across multiple cities worldwide and feature as promising solutions in local and global agendas. As solutions that can deal with interlinked urban challenges, NBS are being taken up by cities in different geographies and are considered to be mainstreaming. The process, referred to as mainstreaming, and h...

Working from home (WFH) is now widespread around the world. Sustainability benefits can arise from WFH, but there remains limited evidence on resource use and its full sustainability implications. To provide some answers on this issue, we analyse water use data from Sydney, Aus-tralia, mapped against mobility changes during the natural experiment t...

This article explores practical aspects of the compact city agenda as it applies to the ongoing densification of car-dependent suburbs, focusing on Melbourne, Australia. While the idea of compact cities has widespread policy support globally, debate continues regarding the negotiation of compact urban form and its implications for issues like overc...

Cities are at the forefront of sustainability agendas, especially as places to implement the solutions needed to address key sustainability challenges. City-level governments have responded in diverse ways to these challenges, including adopting and implementing a mix of policies to improve resilience and liveability that address issues including h...

Transitioning a business ecology to a circular economy (CE) is a complex process as business start-ups, new technologies, or business models can be a part of challenging the dominance of existing businesses that predominantly remain anchored in non-circular practices. Business startups do this by carving out market niches. For existing businesses,...

The Circular Economy - Measurements, Assessments and Pathways (CE-MAP) represents a robust and comprehensive framework for driving CE transitions in Victoria. This report presents a detailed analysis of the CE-MAP, highlighting its significance as a transformative tool for sustainability stakeholders across industries, academia, government, and com...

Australia is experiencing an accelerated rate of climate-related extreme weather events, and many of the solutions to reduce the exposure to climate-risk are nature-based, governing urban forests, waterways, and stormwater. However, the governance of nature-based solutions in Australian cities is still fragmented and piecemeal, generally lacking a...

To move beyond ‘business as usual’ climate adaptation plans, we argue, a renewed engagement with the mechanism of ‘experimentation’, especially in contexts of disasters, is needed. We argue that this could prompt a step change in how learning and systemic change happens, and through this mechanism, provide a catalyst to improve sustainability outco...

Urban waterways are an important part of urban ecosystems, and well-managed ur- ban waterways can support diverse benefits to communities and nature. The literature suggests that collaborative engagement is a pathway to unlocking broader benefits. There is, however, an intention–implementation gap, limiting the adoption of community collaboration i...

Urban waterways as a subset of Nature-based solutions promote many functions, particularly in a warming climate by providing benefits for people and nature to adapt to critical social-ecological challenges. It has been widely suggested that a mechanism for unlocking those benefits is to promote active community involvement in governance. However, t...

As more people work from home, the distribution of daytime populations will change across cities. This will lead to some households relocating, as well as a redistribution of the places of congregation and consumption. This paper analyses changes of population distribution based on occupations that can be worked from home, the spatial distribution...

Understanding the processes of residential solar PV uptake is critical to developing planning and policy energy transition pathways. This paper outlines a novel hybrid Agent-Based-Modelling/statistical adoption prediction framework that addresses several drawbacks in current modelling approaches. Specifically, we extend the capabilities of similar...

The rapid rise of working-from-home practices has led to a paradigm shift in the way many workers interact with cities, with major potential impacts on sustainability, health, and quality of life. Whilst the technology responsible for this shift is not new, the disruptive way that it is now interfacing with workplaces, homes, cities, and society is...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home has become normalised and is likely to continue to gather pace. The adjustment in daytime population that this creates has implications for urban planning, as it can drive greater levels of localization and less car-dependent cities. In this paper, we describe how this shift changes urban daytime popul...

This is a progress report for Milestone 4 due on 31st August 2022, for the Victoria Circular Activator (VCA) Grant ID RVInnovation036, by the Swinburne University of Technology research team. Specifically, this report describes the progress relating to the conceptual development of a data platform that has the potential to support Victoria’s transi...

This paper presents an integrated analysis of the costs and benefits of carefully constructed scenarios for the electrification of transport in Australia. Scenarios were constructed to responsively meet increased electricity demand, whilst maximising emission reduction, household finances and public health benefits. The scenarios bundle several tec...

This is a progress report for Milestone 3 due on 31st March 2022, for the Victoria Circular Activator (VCA) Grant ID RVInnovation036, by the Swinburne University of Technology research team. The project is funded by the Victorian Government's Recycling Victoria Innovation Fund as part of the Circular Economy Business Innovation Centre (CEBIC) and a...

This report describes the results of the Prevalence of Telework Survey which was distributed to collect data in relation to what extent workers across Sydney Metropolitan area are likely to work from home after the Covid-19 pandemic.

With increased participation in telework expected to continue, in the aftermath of COVID, it will be important to consider what long-term impact this practice could have on sustainability outcomes. This paper describes a scoping review and identifies connections between telework and sustainability outcomes from previous academic studies. These conn...

With increased participation in telework expected to continue, to support emerging hybrid work models in the aftermath of the Covid-19, it is important to consider the long-term impact this practice could have on sustainability outcomes. This paper describes a systematic review of 113 academic journal articles and identifies associations between te...

In the post-pandemic era, we must value our cities as cultural and economic centres, that are socially and environmentally diverse. This requires a transformation in the way we plan and govern our cities, but what can be learnt from the current crisis about how cities should be managed? In this article, we report on a scoping review to help identif...

What influences farmers’ decisions to adopt agricultural technologies is an important question for international agricultural research projects. There are often interpersonal differences between women and men that influence the adoption of decisions and behaviours, but few studies in the literature focus on these factors. We describe a game-based a...

Traditional lifestyles of lowland rice farmers of the southern provinces of Lao People's Democratic Republic are rapidly changing, due to two important trends. Firstly, there is a push towards modernization and commercialization of farming. Secondly, though farmers still focus on rice farming as a key activity, there is an increasing move towards d...

A common and driving assumption in agricultural research is that the introduction of research trials, new practices and innovative technologies will result in technology adoption, and will subsequently generate benefits for farmers and other stakeholders. In Lao PDR, the potential benefits of introduced technologies have not been fully realised by...

Climate change, as well as associated mitigation efforts, will substantially disrupt some economies. Seemingly inevitable market and policy changes will push economies to transition away from reliance on industries with higher carbon emissions and bring transient economic impacts, especially in regions that are currently heavily reliant on such ind...

Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR Abstract Transdisciplinary research focussing on improving smallholder farmers’ uptake of technological innovations enables the integration of knowledge systems and the co-design and delivery of creative solutions. In this paper, we illustrate how scientific research can be mobilized within profess...

Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM) approaches highlighted in this special issue have the potential to contribute to the transformation of urban water systems. The aim of the transformation is to accommodate population and economic growth and at the same time enable a system which is environmentally sustainable and resilient to future challen...

Scenario planning is a key element of adaptive planning and strategic planning processes. Often the focus is the development of scenario narratives or storylines. Although the narratives are important, there is an ongoing challenge to translate them into real change or action. Sydney Water has been working with the CSIRO to develop a toolkit which...

Adoption of water conservation measures is one-way water utilities and community are able to reduce the demand on finite water resources by a growing population, and adaptively manage the impacts of episodic droughts. To deliver effective and least cost water conservation programs in the future, utilities need to better understand what drives peopl...

This report describes how the NED agent-based modelling capability can be utilised.

This report provides a summary of many of the activities in the LCL CRC project “RP3035 Modelling the uptake of water conservation and efficiency measures in Sydney” which is a collaboration between the CSIRO and Sydney Water, supported by the Low Carbon Living CRC.

This paper reports on a review of international water conservation efforts, but with a particular focus on the Australian context. The aim is to take stock of the current understanding of water conservation, in particular: what influences people's decision to conserve water, what influences whether people persist with water conservation behavior an...

The Millennium Drought across Australia during the 2000s placed cities under pressure in providing urban water security. In Sydney, Australia’s largest city, a comprehensive water demand programme triggered a significant reduction in per capita water consumption. The water demand programme included incentives for the installation of rainwater tanks...

Climate Adaptation through Sustainable Urban Water Development in Can Tho City, Vietnam, Case Study 14.1 In Vicuña, S., Redwood, M., Dettinger, M., and Noyola, A. (2018). Urban water systems. In Rosenzweig, C., W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, S. Dhakal, and S. Ali Ibrahim (eds.), Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the...

This paper reports on an Agent-Based Model. The purpose of developing this model is to describe ‘the uptake of low carbon and energy efficient technologies and practices by households and under different interventions’. There is a particular focus on modelling non-financial incentives as well as the influence of social networks as well as the decis...

It is commonly argued that cities face unprecedented pressures and therefore must transform. To guide transformations , it is important to develop guiding visions. This paper reports on a futures thinking exercise in the context of cities. It employs a methodology based on a series of community workshops with a diverse mix of experts using a "strat...

Cities, their citizens and service providers are being challenged from multiple fronts-population growth, technology, societal and environmental challenges. We are also faced with an intersection of two groups of thought-future or strategic thinking to create awareness and preparedness for future challenges, and data-driven actions and decisions. A...

There are pressures on existing centralized water infrastructures in urban centers which justify the search for alternatives. An increasingly important alternative is to shift from centralized to hybrid systems, often in response to climate variability and demographic changes. In a hybrid system, water is supplied and discharged through a mix of ce...

A Bayesian Network model has been developed that synthesizes findings from concurrent multi-disciplinary research activities. The model describes the many factors that impact on the chances of a smallholder farmer adopting a proposed change to farming practices. The model, when applied to four different proposed technologies, generated insights int...

This paper analyses the impacts of various hybrid water supply systems, conceptualised as the combination of centralized and decentralized water supply systems, on wastewater and stormwater flows and contaminants. The analysis comprises of seven alternative scenarios: i) centralized only, ii) centralized along with recycled water, iii) centralized...

Strategic planning for a city’ urban water system is an important task, especially when cities are growing rapidly, and there are ongoing and emerging challenges ranging from climate change to intensifying level of pollution and a backlog in service provision. In this report, it is argued that for planning purposes, a number of actor biases and dif...

We believe that cities are important for humans as essential forms of social organisation in contemporary human life. Currently, the integrity of cities as enduring systems faces many challenges-'exogenous' factors such as unsustainable consumption of energy and other resources and 'endogenous' factors such as 'liveability' and the 'human scale' of...

The agricultural sector in Lao PDR is forecast to move from subsistence rice production to a more modernized and market-oriented sector with greater focus on commercialization of agricultural production. Intensification of agricultural production in the southern and central rice growing regions of Lao PDR is problematic as dryland farmers rely on r...

This report provides a summary of the research activities in the research project RP3028: A Virtual Market for Analysing the Uptake of Energy Efficiency Measures in Residential and Commercial Sectors. In Australia, as of the first quarter of 2017, electricity generation accounts for 35% of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use accounts for 79% of...

Cities, their citizens and service providers are being challenged from multiple fronts - population growth, technology, societal and environmental challenges. We are also faced with an intersection of two groups of thought - future or strategic thinking to create awareness and preparedness for future challenges, and data-driven actions and decision...

Greater Sydney is Australia’s most global city, with a population of 4.7 million people, and this is expected double over the next fifty years. Sydney is changing rapidly in demography, diversity, lifestyle and urban form. Planning for the future of such a city presents opportunities and challenges. There is a need for coordinated planning and buil...

Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social–ecological–technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at mu...

Through an online survey, we assessed the views about urban life and urban development of 500 Australian citizens living in three large cities. Differences in perceptions and opinions can be described along three dimensions which, in alignment with cultural theory, we name Myths of the City. The analysis of their relation to a number of constructs...

How well does the general public understand the concept of urban resilience? We address this question via an online survey of 500+ citizens living in three large Australian cities (Sydney, Melbourne and Perth). The majority of respondents claim not to know what urban resilience means. Of the remaining respondents, understanding ranges from poor to...

Residential energy efficiency is an important strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. There are many technologies that help improve residential energy efficiency, and in fact, increased energy efficiency has already helped reduce global greenhouse gas emissions significantly in the past. However, with greater innovation, further improvement...

This report describes initial findings from research activities conducted for ASEM/2014/052: Smallholder farmer decision-making and technology adoption in southern Lao PDR: opportunities and constraints, a project commissioned by ACIAR and undertaken in the rice growing plains of southern Laos. The overall aim of the project is to ‘improve adoption...

The provision of water services is essential for the functioning of a city but can be a difficult and constantly changing task. Since the Millennial Drought, the Melbourne Region has moved towards a more secure water supply system through the construction of a desalination plant and the North-South Pipeline. In addition, there has been considerable...

Many scholarly articles have argued that there is a need for a transition towards sustainable urban water management (SUWM). As businesses, water service providers (WSPs) must modify their business models to align with this goal. Explicit consideration of business models is, however, often missing from the literature relating to SUWM. More specific...

Rainwater harvesting in residential homes is emerging as an important complement to centralized water supplies in urban centres around the world. Domestic rainwater harvesting systems provide a variety of benefits for water management and contribute to sustainable and integrated urban water management. There are however risks associated with rainwa...

The city of Darwin is uniquely placed in the centre of northern Australia, closely related socially, culturally and economically to large near-Asian countries and a focus for northern regional development initiatives. Darwin residents point to the quality of the lifestyle in Darwin when speaking of its unique qualities. In the context of other citi...

This report describes the development of a Bayesian Network model as a key research activity/output in the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded the project, ASEM/2014/052’ “Smallholder farmer decision-making and technology adoption in southern Laos: opportunities and constraints”. The purpose of the Bayesian Netw...

Over the last decade, various concepts with similar underlying philosophies have evolved within the urban water sector calling for a more integrated, sustainable, and adaptive management approach. Whilst many advocate this idea, the process of transitioning to sustainability-focused water management seems to proceed slowly. There are sector-specifi...

Rainwater harvesting is an important technology in cities that can contribute to a number of functions, such as sustainable water management in the face of demand growth and drought as well as the detention of rainwater to increase flood protection and reduce damage to waterways. The objective of this article is to investigate the integrity of resi...

Urban water managers around the world are adopting decentralized water supply systems, often in combination with centralized systems. While increasing demand for water arising from population growth is one of the primary reasons for this increased adoption of alternative technologies, factors such as climate change, increased frequency of extreme w...

The case study of Climate Adaptation through Sustainable Urban Development in Can Tho City Vietnam has demonstrated a sustainable development approach to improve the planning of water services, through which to build capacity and enhance the resilience of the city and local communities to future challenges, including the changing climate. It provid...

The installation of rainwater tanks has increased to around 30% of homes in Melbourne largely from Government rebates over the Millennial Drought and introduction of 5-star home regulations in 2005. Rainwater tanks help to diversify a city’s water supply and confer a range of environmental benefits, especially through reduction of stormwater runoff...

Urban data volumes are increasing and becoming more accessible at a rapid rate. Therefore, novel approaches are required to synthesise and analyse the data in a meaningful way. The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) is providing tools and is negotiating data access to key datasets about cities to facilitate research on urban i...

Urban data volumes are increasing and becoming more accessible at a rapid rate. Therefore, novel approaches are required to synthesise and analyse the data in a meaningful way. The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) is providing tools and is negotiating data access to key datasets about cities to facilitate research on urban i...

The low uptake of cost effective, energy efficient retrofits for commercial buildings suggests that economic considerations are not the sole determinant for their adoption. Socio-psychological surveys provide additional insights into consumption behaviour reflecting important lifestyle, attitudinal, risk, familiarity of technology, cultural and oth...

The functionality expected by governments and citizens from urban water management systems (UWMS) has evolved in time from delivering basic services to enabling complex issues such as healthy ecosystems, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. Alongside these changing expectations, the pressure on policy makers to fulfill disparate perfo...

This paper presents a critical review of the physical impacts of decentralized water supply systems on existing centralized water infrastructures. This paper highlights the combination of centralized and decentralized systems, which is referred to as hybrid water supply systems. The system is hypothesized to generate more sustainable and resilient...

Rainwater tanks are a common feature of the urban landscape in Australia. Many were installed in response to the recent dry years that left many large cities struggling to maintain a positive supply-demand balance. In Queensland, for the period from 2007 to 2012, following the initial success of a number of tank rebate schemes, legislation required...

Analyses a range of various hybrid water supply scenarios in terms of their impacts on wastewater and stormwater flow quantity and quality

Rainwater tanks are being implemented under integrated urban water management and water sensitive urban design approaches to address resource constraints, climate change and increased urbanization challenges. State, local governments and water utilities mandate and/or promote installation of rainwater tanks through regulatory and incentive mechanis...

Can Tho city is located in the Mekong Delta, about 170km southwest of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The rapid growth rate of Can Tho city and the region has put great pressure on environmental conditions within the city. Because of the lack of sustainable development and environmental quality considerations associated with significant population incre...

This article provides a review of the opportunities and challenges of urban agriculture. Secondly, it is explored whether it may be feasible for the urban water sector to facilitate greater uptake of urban agriculture and this is done by exploring a hypothetical case. Urban agriculture is an opportunity for many cities, with some cities sourcing mo...