Public policies against global warming: a supply side approach
By Hans-Werner Sinn
from International Tax and Public Finance Vol 15 No 4 Aug 2008, pp. 360-394
"The countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol have pledged to limit global warming by reducing the demand for fossil fuels. But what about supply? If suppliers do not react, demand reductions by a subset of countries are ineffective. They simply depress the world price of carbon and induce the environmental sinners to consume what the Kyoto countries have economized on. Even worse, if suppliers feel threatened by a gradual greening of economic policies in the Kyoto countries that would damage their future prices; they will extract their stocks more rapidly, thus accelerating global warming. The paper discusses the remaining policy options against global warming from an intertemporal supply-side perspective. "

Cybercrime in the Year 2025
By Gene Stephens
from Futurist Vol. 42 Iss 4 Jul/Aug 2008, pp. 32-36
"The author reflects the types of cybercrimes and cybercrime fighting that will occur in the U.S. by the year 2025. He discusses few of his past forecasts on cybercrime. The author explains what he got right, what he got wrong, and why. He also offers some frightening speculations on how the future cybercrime fighters can deal with the problem."

Starring Alliance
By Louis White
from Management Today May 2008, pp. 18 - 22
"How do you successfully integrate five parent companies to work together on a series of major infrastructure projects? Louis White finds out about how Trackstar Alliance operates. It is the alliance set up to run with Queensland Rail South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan."

Climate Change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : working group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC [book]

Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II

Includes an evaluation of the scientific evidence, a detailed assessment of the impacts of future climate change, and assessment of the impacts on major regions of the world including Australia.

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Adaptation policy frameworks for climate change : developing strategies, policies, and measures [book]

Authors: Ian Burton, & others

"Can be used by countries to both evaluate and complement existing planning processes to address climate planning and implementation framework, it lays out an approach to climate change adaptation that supports sustainable development, rather than the other way around." - cover.

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Transport infrastructure investment : options for efficiency [e-book]

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); International Transport Forum

"Examines principles for determining the most appropriate models for investment in surface transport infrastructure. The primary focus is on network-based infrastructure: roads, rail and, to a lesser extent, inland waterways." - foreword.

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What role for policies to supplement an emissions trading scheme? : submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review [book]
Author: Australia. Productivity Commission

Considers the features of a cost effective emissions trading scheme and argues that an effective ETS would make most of the current climate change policies redundant.

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Energy, electricity and nuclear power : developments and projections - 25 years past and future [e-book]
Author: International Atomic Energy Agency

"Reports on the current status and estimates of energy use, electricity generation and nuclear power generation in various regions of the world for the medium to long term." - foreword.

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Paying for Environmental Protection in a Cross-national Perspective
By Galina Ivanova and Bruce Tranter
from Australian Journal of Political Science Vol 43 Iss 2 June 2008, pp. 169 - 188
"The threat of global warming has attracted considerable attention from policy makers around the world. We analyse public support for environmental protection and the main drivers of support in Australia and cross-nationally using survey data from the International Social Survey and the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes. Support is measured as a series of trade-off questions based on willingness to pay extra taxes or prices, or accept cuts to one's standard of living to protect the environment. Willingness to pay more for environmental protection has decreased across a range of countries from 1993 to 2000 with the 'routinisation' of 'the environment' as a political issue. Risk perceptions regarding the dangers of global warming, having a tertiary education and holding post-materialist value orientations all increase the willingness to pay for environmental protection. In Australia, environmental support is still divided along partisan lines and global warming was as an important issue in the 2007 federal election. "

Interactive Learning or Technology Transfer as a Way to Catch-Up? Analysing the Wind Energy Industry in Denmark and India
By Kari Kristinsson and Rekha Rao
from Industry & Innovation Vol 15 Issue 3 June 2008, pp. 297 - 320
"This paper uses sectoral systems of innovation framework to examine the relationship between technology policy and industrial development by comparing the emergence of the wind energy industry in Denmark and India. Since the late 1970s Denmark has led the development of a global wind energy industry and in 2004 wind energy supplied 18.8 per cent of Denmark's electricity consumption. India was however a late entrant that managed in a few years to establish itself as the fifth largest producer of wind energy in the world. We suggest that India's unique policy of “interactive learning” with international and especially Danish actors, instead of imitation of foreign technology policies and institutions, was a substantial contributor to India's success in developing their wind energy industry. "