Global warming, contemporary politics and the principle of least disruption (journal article)
by Tony Lynch and Bert Jenkins
from AQ, Vol. 79 No. 4, July - August 2007, pp. 30-35
"We must appreciate the intertial power of the Principle of Least Disruption, the depth of its grip on us, and then do all we can to overcome that inertia."
The benefit to the economy of early climate change action (journal article)
by Roger Jones
From Ecos, No. 137, June-July 2007, pp. 11-13
Climate change policy debates have been preoccupied with the economic cost of taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet recent assessments have reframed the question, focusing instead on the cost of inaction. In fact, the damage caused by unmitigated climate change may be the bigger threat to the global economy.
ARIS design platform : getting started with BPM [book]
Davis, Rob & Brabänder, Eric
Pessimism, computer failure and information systems development in the public sector (article)
by Shaun Goldfinch
from Public Administration Review Vol. 67 No. 5 September/October 2007
The majority of information systems developments are unsuccessful. The larger the development, the more likely it will be unsuccessful. Despite the persistence of this problem for decades and the expenditure of vast sums of money, computer failure has received surprisingly little attention in the public administration literature. This article outlines the problems of enthusiasm and the problems of control, as well as the overwhelming complexity, that make the failure of large developments almost inevitable.
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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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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Between a rock and a hard place - the science of geosequestration
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Science and Innovation
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