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Sustainability

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Sustainability 2.0: using sustainability to drive business innovation and growth


The Web is transforming how organisations conduct business, ranging from improving efficiency to creating new, innovative products and services—all with an eye toward improving the bottom line. Adoption of sustainability may be following a similar path. At first, organizations were just trying to be good corporate citizens, focusing on energy conservation and offering “green” products...
Dataset

5609.0 - Housing Finance, Australia, Dec 2011


The total value of dwelling commitments excluding alterations and additions (trend) rose 0.8% in December 2011 compared with November 2011 and the seasonally adjusted series rose 3.8% in December 2011.
Journal article

How do we regenerate middle suburban ‘greyfield’ areas?

This bulletin reveals areas of the country which require major regeneration of residential, energy, water and communications infrastructure, better known as 'grey fields'.
Article

Exploring the use of residual measures of housing affordability in Australia: methodologies and concepts


This essay argues that new approaches to measuring housing affordability are needed and are possible in Australia. The residual income approach has a key advantage over the more commonly used ratio approach, because it measures household outcomes (such as living standards) rather than inputs to household welfare (such as housing costs and income). This is...
Position paper

Creating the Cook Islands Marine Park: great commitments, great vision


This brochure highlights the Cook Islands vision and commitment to ocean conservation and management by the establishment of the Cook Islands Marine Park and their close partnership with Conservation International. The Cook Islands Marine Park is currently the largest commitments to the Pacific Oceanscape, an innovative initiative led by 15 Pacific Island nations, including New...