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Associate Professor Jon Kellett
Position: Associate Professor Associate Professor Jon Kellett
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Natural and Built Environments
Campus: City East Campus
Office: BJ3-10
Telephone: +61 8 830 21701
Fax:
Email: Jon_dot_Kellett_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Jon.Kellett

Head of Urban & Regional Planning

Teaching interests

  • The role of planning within Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Development of distance and on-line learning approaches

I teach the following courses

ARCH 4034Urban Development and Implementation
ARCH 1012Introduction to Planning
ARCH 4027Policy and Development Assessment Workshop
ARCH 4042Environmental Impact Assessment

Professional associations

Member of the Planning Institute of Australia

Qualifications

PhD Sheffield Hallam University

Master of Civic Design (MCD) University of Liverpool

BA(Hons) Prehistory & Archaeology and Ancient History University of Sheffield

Research interests

  • Planning policy responses to climate change; energy planning; implementation of renewable energy technologies and their environmental impacts
  • Environmental policy and techniques for furthering sustainable development
  • Planning responses to natural resource exploitation problems, especially minerals

Research publications

Kellett J & Hamilton C 2009 Carbon Reduction at the Local Level, International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 5 (1) pp 115-126

Kellett J & Cole D 2009 Urban Roof Tops: New Resource, New Problems, Paper delivered at the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law conference Sustainability & Property Rights, University of Auckland, 17 April

Yuan X, Kellett J & Ma C, 2008, Conflicts Between State Planning, Market Development and Environmental Sustainability: A Case Study of the Electric Power Industry in Shandong Province, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 15, 5 pp 430-439

Yuan X, Kellett J & Lijun Ren, 2008, Can Industrial Restructuring Lead to a Sustainable Future? A Critical Environmental Risk Assessment of Industrial Policy in Shandong Province, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 14, 3 pp 593-609

Hamilton C, Kellett J & Yuan X, 2008, Carbon Profiling: An Analysis of Methods for Establishing the Local Emissions Baseline, Solar Cities Conference, Adelaide

Kellett J & Hamilton C, 2008, Low Carbon Futures: Renewable Energy Potential in Playford, Australian Institute of Building Surveyors South Australian State Conference, Barossa Valley

Kellett J, 2007, Community Based Energy Policy: A Practical Approach to Carbon Reduction, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol 50,No 3

Hamnett S & Kellett J 2007, Reducing, Adapting, Innovating: South Australia’s Greenhouse Strategy, International Journal of Social, Economic, Cultural and Environmental Sustainability, 3, 2, pp165-173

Hamnett S & Kellett J, 2007, Onward, Outward, Upward? Prospects for Growth of Australian Cities. Third State of Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide, February 18-20.

Kellett J, 2006, Energy Performance Contracting: A Route to More Sustainable Australian Cities? Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Vol 13, No 4

Kellett J, 2005, Improving balance & mobility through problem based learning, Paper delivered to ASCILITE Conference, Brisbane

Kellett J, 2005, Adelaide sets city example, Planning, 23 September

Kellett J, 2003, Planning Policy for Renewable Energy, Planning Practice & Research Vol 18, No 4

Research Degree Supervisor

I am currently supervising two PhD students on urban planning related topics

Current Projects:

 Carbon Neutral Communities
 This project examines how Playford Council might shift towards a more carbon neutral future.
Lifetime Affordable Housing
 This is part of a larger project which examines issues concerned with redefining housing affordability. Its focus is on developing a framework for assssing the sustainability and affordability opportunities offered by Transport oriented Development.



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