Biofuels - at what cost? : government support for ethanol and biodiesel in Australia [electronic book]
By: Derek Quirke and others, International Institute for Sustainable Development. Global Subsidies Initiative
A critical examination at the Australian government’s support for the biofuel industry.
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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. "

Foreign investment innovation: a review of selected policies
By Ruth Rama
from Journal of Technology Transfer Vol 33 No 4 Aug 2008, pp. 353-363
"Whereas foreign investment innovation (FII) has become increasingly common, after decades of debate it is still unclear whether it is desirable for the home country or for the company’s host country. This paper reviews articles from three complementary economic and business traditions which investigate this phenomenon and propose policies based on facts: the economics of technological change tradition, the international business (IB) tradition, and the line of research on international technology transfers. Articles in line with these strands of theory complement each other because they approach different aspects of complex events while explaining FII and its effects on host and home countries. Host countries obtain maximum benefits from FII when affiliates import foreign technology, purchase their inputs in the host country and enjoy product and technological autonomy vis-à-vis the parent. Different types of MNEs, affiliates and foreign R&D units have different potentials for transferring technology to host countries and provide different scope for policies. The authors recommend that governments encourage direct vertical linkages between MNEs and domestic suppliers who could reap the benefits from foreign knowledge. However, some important success factors remain exogenous to governments. As for indigenous MNEs, it is a matter of controversy whether governments should always stimulate them to conduct research in foreign locations or, alternatively, incentive them to stay at home. The need for additional evidence is still considerable in many respects. "

New Structures, New Strategies: CSIRO’s Changing Role in Australian Innovation,
By Garrett Upstill and Thomas H. Spurling
from Prometheus Vol 26 Iss 2 June 2008 , pp. 141 - 152
" CSIRO's role in Australian innovation has evolved over the years in response to changes in the external environment and within Australia's national innovation system. The process of organisational change has been characterised by a series of restructurings—in 1978, 1988, 1996 and 2001—and accompanying shifts in the organisation's strategic directions. In this paper we look at the process of organisational change in an historical context, looking at the evolving external environment, the legislative and management background, and the shifts in the organisation's strategic directions. The change process is interpreted from a punctuated equilibrium perspective. We propose that discontinuous, rather than continuous change, is the way that a complex and diversified organisation like CSIRO adjusts to a changing external environment and, moreover, that independent public reviews have an important role in this process. In the light of major changes in the Australian and scientific landscapes over the past two decades we suggest it is time to look again at CSIRO's role and the sustainability of its internal management arrangements. "

Community Participation in Australian Science and Technology Policy: The Case of Nanotechnology
By Jeff Harwood and Renato Schibeci
from Prometheus Vol 26 Iss 2 June 2008, pp. 153 - 163
"Nanotechnology is widely considered to offer enormous competitive advantages to those countries that possess the knowledge and capacity to harness its potential. As in many other countries, Australia's nanotechnology policy is in its infancy and lags international research in the field. We examine the role of community engagement in the development of nanotechnology in Australia, and argue that if Australia is to establish a sustainable nanotechnology policy, then it must broaden its perspective and more carefully consider the social, ethical and environmental aspects of nanotechnology. We support the goal of shared economic growth through technological advancement; however, this seems unlikely as long as the Australian government persists with what is essentially a technical and socially exclusive approach to stimulating innovation in nanotechnology. While opposition to nanotechnology is still 'thin on the ground', it is starting to emerge and the Commonwealth and State governments would do well to treat it with respect. "

Eco Investor [e-journal]
"Focuses on environmental investment - in businesses undertaking or commercializing environmentally positive activities including renewable energy, recycling and waste management, technology breakthroughs and enhancements, eco-design, eco-tourism, and other eco-positive products and services." - website.
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The Management of technological innovation : strategy and practice [book]
Author: Mark Dodgson

"Examines the ways [the management of technological innovation] create and deliver value for firms through innovation networks and communities, research and development, innovation in products, services, operations and processes, and the commercialisation process." - preface.

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Edging towards bioutopia : a new politics of reordering life & the democratic challenge [book]

Author: Richard Hindmarsh

"How civil society is addressing this important issue of the environmental release of genetically modified organisms in Australia and challenges us to question whether the democratic control of technology is within the grasp of modern society." - foreword.

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To Paradise and Beyond
By Peter Meredith
from Griffith Review Edition 20 Winter 2008, pp. 61 - 82
"Peter Meredith reports on the practical dilemmas of providing enough water for Queensland's growing population."

Waking from the Dream
By Brendan Gleeson
from Griffith Review Edition 20 Winter 2008, pp. 11 - 46
"Brendan Gleeson argues that climate change will force an urgent reassessment of the real costs and benefits of city living."

Some Sectoral and Global Distributional Issues in Greenhouse Gas Policy Design
By John Freebairn
from Agenda Vol 15 No 1 2008, pp. 13 - 28
"This paper argues it will be welfare-improving at a national level to auction tradable
greenhouse gas permits, and , at an international level, for first-world countries to
bribe third-world countries to join a cooperative solution."