It has become common for low-voltage electricity distribution networks to be installed underground in new housing developments due to a number of advantages over overhead networks including improved appearance, reliability of supply and safety. This paper investigates the value of these benefits to households by estimating the relationship between the type of network service provided...

The Canberra Plan: Towards Our Second Century (2008) built on the original Canberra Plan (2004) and included new issues including climate change, water security, housing affordability and skills shortages.

Best regarded as an essentially contested concept, ‘sustainability’ gives rise to numerous, sometimes mutually exclusive, interpretations and applications. As exemplified by the Canberra Plan, as discussed in this paper.

This question is rarely posed in Canberra because almost all of the voices heard in public suggest that more growth must be a good thing. The recent debate in the local media about how the government should respond to the slowing of Canberra's growth rate illustrated the uncritical acceptance of this assumption. Clive Hamilton and...

This paper provides details of a preliminary least cost planning assessment carried out for Canberra, as part of the development of a fifty-year Water Resources Strategy. In the assessment a suite of options consisting of demand management, source substitution, reuse and supply were developed to determine how to satisfy water demand requirements for the projected...