Associate ProfessorVictor Sposito

Victor A. Sposito, MPhil Regional Planning (Edinburgh), MSc Civil Engineering
(Texas and Uruguay)
Sposito is Associate Professor Strategic Spatial Planning in both Deakin's
Centre for Regional and Rural Futures - Faculty of Science, Engineering and
Built Environment, and the School of Engineering, University of Melbourne,
Australia. Until recently, Sposito was a Principal Scientist and Project
Director in the (former) Department of Primary Industries (DPI), State of
Victoria, Australia. Over many years, he held positions of Executive
Director/Director of Strategic Regional and Metropolitan Planning in the
(former) Ministry for Planning and Environment. He was the recipient of a
Fulbright Scholarship (USA) and a British Council Scholarship (UK); he is also
a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). Sposito has led major
projects in national, regional/rural, urban and organizational development and
planning in Australia and abroad, and has an international and national
reputation for leading-edge initiatives in sustainable development. He has
written and published widely in those fields, and has lectured and researched
at Deakin, Melbourne, RMIT, and Swinburne Universities in Australia and in
various universities in North and South America, and Europe. He has received
multiple international and Australian awards for his work. Current work
involves both theoretical and applied research on sustainable regional/rural
development, climate change impacts and adaptation in regional/rural systems,
and Systems Thinking (Systems Science) mainly the application of system
concepts to strategic spatial planning and in the formulation of integrated
assessment methodologies and methods.