The paper outlines the systems used in Queensland, and suggests a possible approach to land-use planning for hazardous establishments that incorporates the ideas of total risk management.

Smith's rent gap theory of gentrification has inspired a substantial amount of critical attention as well as several empirical studies. None of these studies addresses a fundamental problem with the rent gap hypothesis - namely, its dependence on a distinction between actual and potential land rent that does not contribute to the explanation of changes...

One of the great challenges facing scientists, technologists,’ educationists and economists entering the 21st Century will be to produce innovative, constructive and effective responses to unprecedented demands for comprehensive and sustainable waste management strategies.

Public ownership and development of land is a powerful means of controlling the development of an urban area, avoiding high speculative costs of land for housing and public purposes, and siphoning increases in land values that accompany urban growth into the public purse. This paper compares government control of public land in Stockholm and Canberra.

The Aboriginal Land Rights Commission ran from 1973 to 1974 and had the purpose of inquiring into appropriate ways to recognise Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. Gough Whitlam had appointed Justice Edward Woodward to run the Commission, which became known as the 'Woodward Royal Commission'. This is the first time digitised versions of...