Energy in Australia : an overview of Australia’s energy sector and its regulation

Minter Ellison

Covers: "The Australian political and regulatory system", "The market for electricity", "Transmission regulation in the NEM", "State by state overview of the electricity market" and "Climate change - issues associated."

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Crude : the incredible journey of oil
Richard Smith
"Consults the leading international scientific experts to join the dots between geology and economy and provide the big-picture view of oil." - cover.
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Infrastructure to 2030. Vol 2. Mapping policy for electricity, water and transport

OECD

Takes a long-term perspective to explore how much investment will be required, and addresses some of the specific interdependencies among the different infrastructure sectors.

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Australian Infrastructure Review 2007
Published for the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Australia
Includes articles on the Northern Economic Triangle, the Dept of Infrastructure’s Program Management Office, South East Queensland’s water projects and creating an inland port.
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Blogosphere: the best of blogs
by Peter Kuhns and Adrienne Crew
Covers: what a blog is, how to build your own blog, and the reviews the best political, environmental and current events blogs.
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Governing environmental flows - global challenges to social theory

edited by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P.J.Mol and Frederick Buttel

Takes a different approach to developing environmental policy, and presents case studies on climate change, biodiversity, globalised food production and transport.

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A Stern warning that markets fail
by John Coulter
An article from Australian Options, Winter 2007, pp 5-8
'Placing the greatest environmental threat ever faced by humanity in the context of 'the market' abd 'economic growth' is disturbing. It assumes a legotimacy of this context for the analysis and presumably the resolution of this and other environmental threats that is unjustifoed. ... Stern identified two areas in which the market system has faild with respect to climate change.'

The national and regional economic consequences of rapid growth in Australia's telecommunications sector.
By James Giesecke
An article from Economic Analysis and Policy 36,(1/2) pp 61-97
This paper investigates the national and regional economic consequences of the sector's growth over the period 1996/97 to 2001/02 using a multi-regional CGE model of the Australian economy.

Regulating infrastructure - monopoly, contracts and discretion
by Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
"How can government fairly and effectively regulate what are ’natural monopolies’ - those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical?"
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Environmental law in Australia, 6th edition
by Gerry Bates
"Updated to include new developments in policy, case law and legislation, and also reflects the ongoing international influence upon the development of Australian environmental law and policy."
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Water - facts, issues, problems and solutions

By David Leaman

A hydrology textbook, which also uses case studies from Tasmania to consider the ethical, political and economic issues for the sustainable management of water resources.

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Between a rock and a hard place - the science of geosequestration
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Science and Innovation
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The Cult of the amateur - how today’s internet is killing our culture and assaulting the economy

by Andrew Keen

Argues that social networking sites such as Wikipedia and YouTube are having a detrimental impact on cultural standards and social values, as well as the creative economy.

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The Last oil shock - a survival guide to the imminent extinction of petroleum man

by David Strahan

Argues that the decline in oil and gas production will provoke a world economic crisis, and that governments are doing little to prevent it.

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Climate change litigation - analysing the law, scientific evidence and impacts on the environment, health and property
By Dr Joseph Smith and Prof. David Shearman
"This book reviews the legal basis of claims and defences available to litigants, discusses obstacles that will stand in their way and summarises the first wave of ground-breaking cases from around the world."
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The Spontaneous Order of Science
Policy, Vol 22 No 4 Summer 2006/2007
This is an 8 page excerpt from the book The Australian Miracle: An Innovative Nation Revisited, by Thomas Barlow.
"Among the biggest problems any country, and, in particular, any government, faces, is where
to invest in order to maximise the likelihood of innovation."

Solar Revolution - the economic transformation of the global energy industry

This book argues that recent technological advances have made solar energy a cost-effective and feasible energy solution.

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