One Good Big Idea for Water Reform
By Scott Hargreaves
from Policy Vol 24 No 2 Winter 2008, pp. 26-31
"The article reports on the water supply and disposal reforms in Australia particularly the creation of a national regime for third-party access pipes. In this system, the owners of water and wastewater pipelines transmit water at regulated prices for customers. Furthermore, the Australian government should help facilitate in the reforms in water distribution and allocation."

Warm house cool house : inspirational designs for low-energy housing [book]

By: Nick Hollo

"Gives a simple explanation of the principles of low-energy housing design, and illustrates these principles with more than one hundred and ten examples from around Australia." - cover.

Infrastructure 2008 : a competitive advantage [online resource]

By: Urban Land Institute (US) & Ernst & Young

"Examines the latest trends in infrastructure, how to finance it, and the effect of infrastructure investment on the built environment." - publisher's website.

Climate change 2007 : synthesis report [online resource]

Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

"Discusses adaptation and mitigation options over the next few decades and their interaction with sustainable development." - introduction to report.

Rising powers, shrinking planet : the new geopolitics of energy [book]
Author: Michael T. Klare

Predicts that international cooperation will be essential for survival of modern industrial societies in the face of depleting stocks of not just oil and natural gas, but also resources like uranium, coal and copper.

Electricity Gas Australia 2008 [reference book]

Author: Energy Supply Association of Australia

"Provides industry statistics relating to generation, transmission, distribution and the consumption of energy for 2006-07 and is packed with essential information for those involved in the electricity and gas industry."
Now available in Library & Research Services' Reference Collection.

Zoom : the global race to fuel the car of the future [book]

Authors: Iain Carson & Vijay Vaitheeswaran

"Visits the boardrooms of car executives and shows how some are fearlessly exploring new energy sources and designs ... [and] examines the alliances that are being formed to end our addiction to oil in both the West and the growing markets of China, India and Russia." - cover.

Considers the values and methods required to effectively engage Indigenous Australians in natural resource management [e-book]

Author: Australia. Land & Water Australia

Considers the values and methods required to effectively engage Indigenous Australians in natural resource management.

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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. "