MONITORING POPULATION ORHIDACEAE RARELY PLANTS COMMUNITY THE SUBURBS V. SEMIPOLKY

(de)sexing the Suburbs

Sex work and the operation of brothels in Perth (WA) remains an 'illegal' activity. Despite this, brothels manage to continue to operate in the Perth metropolitan area, with most 'formal' brothels located within the inner city-suburban ring. In recent years, there has been a rise in the presence of 'discrete' brothels, i.e. so-called therapeutic massage parlours that are alleged to offer sexual...

Sex in the suburbs.

BACKGROUND Many suburban sexual health clinics exist in Australasia. However, sexual health research has hitherto been restricted to populations from major metropolitan centres. OBJECTIVE To describe the demographic, sexual characteristics and presenting diagnoses of 6521 new patients attending a sexual health clinic in the western suburbs of Sydney (New South Wales). DISCUSSION Patients or...

Visualising London’s Suburbs

Historically, London’s suburbs are, “as old as the city itself” (Ackroyd 2000, p.727) but it is only recently that they have begun to assert themselves on the policy agenda alongside the metropolitan centre. In June 2007 the London Assembly's Planning and Spatial development Committee released a report noting the difficulties predicted for London’s suburbs (GLA 2007). However, future developmen...

Process monitoring in biogas plants

Ecological footprint model for the Eastern Suburbs

The news was delivered to local councils by University of Sydney researcher, Manfred Lenzen. Using an adaptation of the ecological footprint model of resource and environmental impact estimation, Lenzen has worked out the environmental impact of the Eastern Suburbs and compared it to the situation of only a few years previously. The findings? The ecological footprint of the Eastern Suburbs is g...