Sustainability is becoming more important to the general policy discourse on protecting the environment. But despite government adopting a National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development some twelve years ago, Australia's performance on crucial items such as emissions of carbon dioxide equivalents remains poor. Arguably, say Kate Norris and Roger Patulny, not only must people's attitudes...

This paper reviews the content of non-statutory regional natural resource management (NRM) plans from several Queensland regions in terms of their consideration of the economic viability of natural resource dependant enterprises and industries, the plans consideration of the region's ability of regions to respond positively to external change pressures and internal variability, and their consideration...

Since the emergence of widespread concerns over environmental degradation in the 1960s, a great deal of work has been put into the concept of environmental 'sustainability'. More recently, economic and social sustainability have been adopted as additional and interrelated concerns. Sustainability is now a broad multi-focal agenda, and terms such as 'triple bottom line' and...

In this report, existing residential development case studies are sued to develop a methodology for assessing the sustainability (economic, social and environmental) of different types of housing and urban development.

This report is intended to help Australians address the question, ‘Has life in our country got better, especially during the past decade?’