Dr Susie Moloney is Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning and a researcher in the Centre for Urban Research, based in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research focuses on land-use planning, urban sustainability and climate change and the implications for policy and governance arrangements particularly at the local and regional scale. She has over ten years experience working in the public and private sectors on a range of planning and climate change related projects focusing particularly on local government and community organisations.