University of Tasmania, Australia

Dr Anna Lyth

Senior Research Fellow - Sustainability

Contact Details

Contact Campus	Sandy Bay Campus
Building	Geography
Room Reference	428
Telephone	62262832
Email	Anna.Lyth@utas.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities

 

•    Guest Lecturer In UTAS postgraduate coursework units
• •    KGA511 Planning Theory, Processes & Applications
  •    KGA518 Planning & Managing for Climate Change
•    Guest Lecturer in UTAS third year undergraduate coursework unit
• •   KGA320 Our Changing Climate

 

Research Interests

 

Anna is a Senior Research Fellow with the Collaborative Research Network: Research Futures Program Sustainability Theme (an Australian Government funded collaboration between the University of the Sunshine Coast, the University of Tasmania and Griffith University). Anna's research program has developed from her involvement and leadership in urban sustainability and regional planning projects as a practitioner, researcher and educator. It is interdisciplinary in nature and informed by her background in social science. Much of her research is practically informed and applied.

 

Broad areas of research focus are:

• Integrated urban and regional planning, decision making, and capacity building
• Integrated planning and vulnerability assessment for climate change adaptation and mitigation
• The role and application of strategic planning
• Capacity building in professional communities of practice for climate change adaptation and resilience development
• Building resilience principles and resilience pactice into policy and planning at the urban, regional and organisational scales
• The role and approaches of institutional participation in planning processes
• Australian urban transport planning
• Implications of urban travel behaviour and social change for transport policy, plans and programs
• Integrated sustainable transport planning approaches
  

 

Higher Degree Research Supervision

PhD Projects Supervised and Completed

• When Travel Matters: Opportunities, Barriers and Policy Options for Workplace Travel Management in Sydney
• Social Capital Perspectives in the context of Climate Change Risk Response in Coastal Urban Settlements
• An Assessment of the Application of Local Agenda 21 in Thailand for Improving Environmental Policy and Planning
• Suburban Planning & the Provision of Effective Bus Services

 

Community Engagement & Professional Affiliations

Anna is a member of the Tasmanian Climate Action Council (Tasmanian Government appointment), is Vice-President of Sustainable Living Tasmania, and a member of the Planning Institute of Australia.

Publications

Selected Publications

Kithiia, J & Lyth, A, 2011 'Urban wildscapes and greenspaces in Mombasa and their potential contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation' Environment and Urbanization, Vol 23(1) 251-265.

Lyth, A & de Chastel, L, 2007, "Shifting towards sustainability: Education for climate change adaptation in the built environment sector", Australian Planner, 44(3).

Lyth, A, 2006, "Climate proofing Australian urban planning: Working towards successful adaptation", Australian Planner,43(2) 12-15.

Lyth, A, Holbrook, NJ & Beggs, PJ, 2005, "Climate, urbanisation and vulnerability to vector-borne disease in subtropical coastal Australia: Sustainable policy for a changing environment", Global Environmental Change B: Environmental Hazards, 6, 189-200.

Rees, C & Lyth, A, 2005, "Exploring the future of car use for an ageing society", Road and Transport Research, (14)2.

Dowling, R, Gollner (Lyth), A & O'Dwyer, B, 1999, A Gender perspective on urban car use: A qualitative case study, Urban Policy and Research, 17(2) 101-110.

 

 

 

Achievements

Anna has a long held active interest in sustainability and integrated strategic challenges for urban places and regions. Following completion of her PhD at the Climatic Impacts Centre, Macquarie University in the early 1990s, she has worked on urban sustainability and environmental policy and planning issues in research, tertiary education, consulting and advocacy roles in both the private and university sectors.

Anna has been actively involved in numerous government, industry and collaborative stakeholder activities and technical working groups as a respected expert at national, state and local government level.  A number of these have been high-level committees and sate government Ministerial appointments. Anna has made significant contributions via the design, development and roll out of pioneering and collaborative sustainable transport initiatives and climate change adaptation projects.  She is the holder of a number of significant awards, including an International Women's Day Award (2007) from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in recognition of ongoing commitment to climate change research and education.