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| Term |
Definition |
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| Trade waste
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Waste water from industry (excluding
sewage from employees) piped to sewerage systems for treatment. |
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| Transport
interchanges |
Places where people change modes
of transport, for example, from train to bus. |
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| Triple-bottom-line |
Integrated approach to the achievement
of environmental, social and economic outcomes. |
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| Urban growth
boundary |
A management tool to contain urban
areas and limit their expansion. It divides land that is urban
– to be used for housing, shops, factories – from
land that is non-urban and to be used for purposes such as conservation,
agriculture, mineral extraction, airports and the like. An urban
growth boundary encourages urban consolidation and protects
valued non-urban areas from urban development. |
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| Urban infrastructure
|
Infrastructure, such as water supply,
sewage disposal plants, and other improvements that are essential
for urban development. |
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| Urban metabolism |
A method of assessing sustainability
by measuring the flow of resources into, and waste outputs from,
settlements. |
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| Victoria Planning
Provisions |
Policies and requirements for the
use, development and protection of land in Victoria. |
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| Walkable |
Walkable communities, or locations,
make footpath-based travel as easy as possible for all members
of the community including children, people with prams/shopping
carts and people using mobility aids. Walkability encompasses
issues of safety (traffic and personal), attractive surroundings,
distance between destinations, gradients, appropriate surfaces
and physical barriers to access such as steps and gutters. |
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| Waste water
(or effluent) |
Water that has been used for various
purposes by households, businesses and industry; includes domestic
sewage (grey water and black water) and trade wastes. Effluent
is treated waste water. |
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| Wildlife corridors
|
Strips of land that provide for
the movement of wildlife between larger areas of habitat. |
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