By Associate Professor Marilu Melo Zurita

Journal articles

Munro PG; Melo Zurita M, 2009, 'Aprendiendo del pasado: Impactos históricos de intervenciones en la agricultura de Sierra Leona', Ecología Política, 38, pp. 92 - 95

Conference Papers

Mossmark F; Lindgren P; Frisk EL; Melgaço L; Melo Zurita M; Norrman J; Svahn V; Söderqvist T; Sandström OT; Volchko Y, 2023, 'Case Study-Driven Research to Provide a Foundation for Advancing Geosystem Services and Planning Practices for the Subsurface', in Wu W; Leung CF; Zhou Y; Li X (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Associated Research Centers for the Urban Underground Space. ACUUS 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, Singapore, pp. 529 - 534, presented at The 18th Conference of the Associated Research Centers for the Urban Underground Space. ACUUS, Singapore, 01 November 2023 - 03 November 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1257-1_67

Volchko Y; Söderqvist T; Frisk EL; Lindgren P; Melgaço L; Melo Zurita M; Mossmark F; Svahn V; Sandström OT; Norrman J, 2023, 'Geosystem Services for Subsurface Planning in Sweden: A Pilot Survey', in Wu W; Leung CF; Zhou Y; Li X (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Associated Research Centers for the Urban Underground Space. ACUUS 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering,, Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 1181 - 1184, presented at Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Associated Research Centers for the Urban Underground Space. ACUUS 2023, Singapore, 01 November 2023 - 03 November 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1257-1_155

Von der Tann L; Metje N; Collins B; Melo Zurita M, 2021, 'A perspective on the governance of London's subsurface', in IOP Conference Series : Earth and Environmental Science, IOP Publishing, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 012020 - 012020, presented at 17th World Conference ACUUS 2020 February 3-4 2021, (Helsinki, Finland) Virtual Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 03 February 2021 - 04 February 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/703/1/012020

Conference Presentations

Chatterjee P; Melo Zurita M, 2020, 'The Road through the City – Unaccounted Property, Benefits and Values in Compulsory Acquisition', presented at Legal Geography Symposium, University of Sydney, 24 February 2020

Melo Zurita M, 2019, 'Challenging Sub Terra Nullius: a critical underground urbanism project', presented at Institue of Australian Geographers (IAG) conference, Hobart, 09 July 2019 - 13 July 2019

Melo Zurita M; Ruming K, 2018, 'From Choice to Chance”: examining the choice-based letting system for tenant relocation in NSW', presented at State of Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide, 28 November 2018 - 30 November 2018

Cornes I; Cook B; Satizabal P; Melo Zurita M, 2018, 'What is ‘(in)action’? Rethinking traditional understandings of disaster risk reduction in urban households', presented at The Annual Conference of AFAC and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards, Perth, 05 September 2018

Melo Zurita M, 2018, 'The Geopolitics of Urban Tunnelling', presented at New Zealand Geographical Society / Institute of Australian Geographers conference,, Auckland, 11 July 2018 - 14 July 2018

Melo Zurita M, 2018, 'The Subterranean Geopolitics of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula', presented at Association of American Geographers Conference, New Orleans, 10 April 2018 - 14 April 2018

Melo Zurita M, 2017, 'Roles, responsibilities and emotions – negotiating the politics of forced social housing relocations in Sydney', presented at Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) conference, Brisbane, 11 July 2017 - 14 July 2017

Melo Zurita M; Munro PG, 2017, 'The Subterranean Protagonist: Colonisation, water and the underground in Mexico', presented at Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, 05 April 2017 - 09 April 2017

Melo Zurita MDL, 2016, 'A Journey into the Subterranean Anthropocene', presented at Global Ecologies – Local Impacts Conference,, Sydney Environment Institute: University of Sydney, 23 November 2016 - 25 November 2016

Munro P; Melo Zurita M, 2016, 'Exploring, Constructing and Commodifying the Underground: An environmental history of cave diving in the Yucatan Peninsula', presented at Environmental History and its Publics, American Society for Environmental History Conference, Seattle, 30 March 2016 - 03 April 2016

Munro P; Melo Zurita M, 2010, 'The Role of Water? Henequen, Chicle and the Caste War on the Yucatan Peninsula; 1800 to 1950', presented at Mexico: Revolution, Independence and Beyond Conference 2010, Australian National University: Canberra, 05 July 2010 - 06 July 2010

Reports

Agrawal M; Melo Zurita M; Paraskevopoulou C; Admiraal H; Cornaro A; Gupta A, 2022, Underground urbanism: reimagining the role of underground spaces for India’s urban future., National Institute of Disaster Management, Delhi, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28418

Svahn V; Norrman J; Melgaço L; Sandström O; Volchko Y; Mossmark F; Melo Zurita M, 2021, Societal values and consequences of integrating geosystem services into subsurface planning Results from research project funded by the call Planning for transformation, Stage 1, Chalmers University of Technology, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.27012.96649

Pawson H; Martin C; van den Nouwelant R; Milligan V; Ruming K; Melo Zurita MDL, 2019, Build-to-Rent in Australia: product feasibility and potential affordable housing contribution, Landcom NSW, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27428, https://cityfutures.be.unsw.edu.au/documents/551/LCOM_0000_Build_to_Rent_Report_WEB_July_2019.pdf

Hutchinson J; McPherson J; Melo Zurita M; Ruskin J, 2018, Internships Project: Partner Perspectives,, Professional and Community Engagement (PACE), Macquarie University

Curatorial Outputs

Melo Zurita M, 2023, Hidden Rippon Lea, exhibited at: Venice, 20 May 2023 - 26 November 2023, https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023

Media

Melo Zurita M, 2019, Sinkholes, http://societyandspace.org/2019/03/17/sinkhole/

Other

Timms W; Baker A; Shanafield M; Andersen M; Priestley S; Melo Zurita M, 2025, Event-based groundwater recharge: drip observations reach new depths in mine tunnels, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13495

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