This book explores in overview the achievements, failures, and challenges of an assemblage of public policy areas unified by their urban context. It comes at a time when Australia must take seriously the prospects and implications of long-term population growth and development in economic, social, and environmental terms.

In early 2022, the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, the main science advisory body to the Prime Minister, commissioned an independent review from the British Academy of science and public trust within the policy-making system. This report summarises the findings of the review.

The impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt, but successive governments have failed to prepare the United Kingdom to adapt effectively. This report looks at how government could move adaptation up the agenda and improve UK climate resilience.

This guide aims to draw out the principles, behaviours and mindsets that underpin lived experience work. In policy-making, lived experience usually refers to people with personal experience who interact with a policy in their daily lives.

This article documents the findings from an experiment that tested whether contemporary natural language processing (NLP) technology is capable of producing public policy-relevant briefing notes that expert evaluators judge to be useful.