This is the final report of the Hawkesbury Nepean River Management Forum. It recommends balancing the management of the greater Sydney water supply region's available water resources to ensure the health of the rivers, whilst continuing to provide a long-term effective water supply. The solutions are integrated and rely on the implementation of all the...

This paper examines before and after conditions surrounding the opening of the Mays Hill to Prospect section of the M4 Motorway in Sydney's west. The aim of the examination has been to identify any possible traces of induced traffic growth, or increases in travel generated as a direct response to the increase in road capacity...

This paper examines subsidies that encourage production or consumption of fossil fuels in Australia. In 2001-02, identified subsidies to fossil fuels amounted to almost $9 billion. Of these, around $8 billion worth increased greenhouse gas emissions and around $5 billion worth decreased economic efficiency. Most of the subsidies support use of petroleum products in the...

The use of demand management programs to achieve permanent and reliable decreases in water consumption through retrofits of water using equipment is relatively new in Australia, and has been carried out on the basis of models which predict savings, and on results of demand management programs undertaken overseas. The availability of information on actual savings...