STAFF PROFILE
Professor Andrew Butt
Position:
Assoc Dean, Sustain & Urban Plan
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399253351
Email:
andrew.butt@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Andrew is a Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS) and the Centre for Urban Research (CUR) at RMIT.
Andrew is a planning educator and researcher with a focus on rural and regional planning issues. He has a background in planning practice and his current research and supervision is in the area of land use change and planning policy associated with regional Australia, food systems and peri-urban development.
Publications at Google Scholar.
Andrew undertakes teaching and research in the areas of land use planning, population change and the relationship between environment, society and policy. He is presently the Program Manager of the Master of Urban Planning and Environment and the Master of International Urban Environmental Management.
- PhD, La Trobe University
- Master of Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne
- BA (Urban Studies) Victoria University
Peri-urbanisation processes (Australia and elsewhere)
Rural and regional planning and governance
Planning practice and the profession
Andrew has worked for over 20 years in planning practice in Australia and elsewhere. More recently, he has undertaken several industry-funded research projects with government agencies in the areas of rural planning, regional development and demographic analysis.
- Lyne, K.,Williams, C.,Vardoulakis, S.,Butt, A., et al, . (2023). A Research Translation, Implementation and Impact Strategy for the Australian Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Research Network In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 1 - 8
- Deilami, K.,Shooshtarian, S.,Rudner, J.,Butt, A.,Amati, M. (2022). Resilience and Adaptation Strategies for Urban Heat at Regional, City and Local Scales In: Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience, Springer, Switzerland
- Giles-Corti, W.,Saghapour, T.,Turrell, G.,Gunn, L.,Both, A.,Lowe, M.,Rozek, J.,Roberts, R.,Hooper, P.,Butt, A.,Higgs, C. (2022). Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia'S 21 largest cities: Does city size matter? In: Health and Place, 78, 1 - 16
- Kroen, A.,Dodson, J.,Butt, A. (2022). The benefits and challenges of Australian Government investment in infrastructure in outer suburban growth areas In: National Growth Areas Alliance Melbourne, Australia
- Sun, C.,MacLeod, T.,Both, A.,Hurley, J.,Butt, A.,Amati, M. (2021). A human-centred assessment framework to prioritise heat mitigation efforts for active travel at city scale In: Science of the Total Environment, 763, 1 - 39
- Butt, A.,Kroen, A.,Steele, W.,Duhr, S. (2021). Local government co-ordination: metropolitan governance in twenty-first century Australia In: AHURI Final Report, , 1 - 69
- Deilami, K.,Rudner, J.,Butt, A.,MacLeod, T.,Williams, G.,Romeijn, H.,Amati, M. (2020). Allowing Users to Benefit from Tree Shading: Using a Smartphone App to Allow Adaptive Route Planning during Extreme Heat In: Forests, 11, 1 - 15
- Middha, B.,Butt, A.,Li, T. (2020). Living Locally Beveridge North-West Volume I In: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Melbourne, Australia
- Butt, A.,Middha, B.,Li, T. (2020). Living Locally Beveridge North-West Volume II :Consideration of, precinct structure planning and 20-minute neighbourhoods in greenfield areas In: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Melbourne, Australia
- Giles-Corti, B.,Butt, A.,Zapata-Diomedi, B.,Gunn, L., et al, . (2020). Physical determinants of health: healthy, liveable and sustainable communities In: Medical Journal of Australia, 214, 17 - 21
2 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions
- Integrating housing policy, settlement planning, and disaster prevention, preparedness and response (23/PRO/53331). Funded by: Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute (AHURI) - Competitive from (2023 to 2024)
- Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) - National Research Network on Human Health and Environmental Change (administered by Australian National University). Funded by: NHMRC 2020 SPECIAL INITIATIVE IN HUMAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE from (2022 to 2027)
- Activating social connection to address isolation in Australia (externally led by Swinburne University of Technology). Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2020 from (2022 to 2025)
- Local Government Co-ordination: Metropolitan Governance in Twenty-first Century Australia. Funded by: AHURI Research Grants 2019 (CAT 1 Generic) from (2019 to 2022)
- Enabling active travel in Australian cities by mapping shadeways (Smart Active Transport - Urban Heat Maps for Bendigo). Funded by: Smart Cities and Suburbs Program - 2017 onwards from (2017 to 2020)