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Rachel O?Leary Author

media@cdu.edu.au (08) 8946 7798

Subjects of specialization
environmental gains

Affiliation
The Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs Campus,Grevillea Drive, PO Box 795, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia

Biography

Rachel is an environmental scientist with more than a decades worth of experience in delivering resource efficiency programs, within the energy and waste management sectors.
As an environmental scientist she has the following skill set: Research design, Policy development, Project management, Program evaluation, Sustainability reporting, Environmental modelling, Waste auditing, Stakeholder liaison, Staff management and development

Publications

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Impacts of the Alice Solar City Program on the Local Tourism Industry

Author(s):

Benxiang Zeng, Rolf Gerritsen and Rachel O?Leary

Impacts of the Alice Solar City Program on the Local Tourism Industry

The Alice Solar City (ASC) project was one of seven under the Australian Government’s Solar Cities Program. This paper investigates the actual and potential multi-dimensional impacts of the Alice Solar City project on the local tourism industry in Alice Springs. The results suggest that the ASC project was not a tourist attraction. There was a positive contribution from the ASC to the image of the town as well as significant impacts, both economic and non-economic, on the view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8807.1000134

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