Australia
- Capital:
Canberra - Population:
21515754 - Size:
7686850.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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Browse all the latest print documents from the British Library of Development Studies...
- Motivators and barriers to incorporating climate change-related health risks in environmental health impact assessment
- L. R. Turner; K. Alderman; D. Connell; S. Tong / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- This paper presents the findings of a study conducted in Queensland, Australia, which explores various stakeholders’ views on the capacity of the Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) to incorporate climate change. With ...
- Using ICT for Quality in Teaching- Learning Evaluation Processes
- J. Dellit 2002
- ICT does not automatically add quality. There is however, growing evidence that ICT application to the core business of education can accelerate and improve learning on a number of fronts. It can also provide the means of gathering, c...
- The Strategic Plan for ICT 2011-15
- 2011
- The Strategic Plan for ICT 2011-15 sets strategic objectives for the ACT Public Service to begin the journey down this road using all the transformational possibilities that ICT can provide. It also sets the ACT Government’s dire...
- Can an electronic textbooks be part of K-12 education?: Challenges, Technological solutions and Open issues
- H. J. Lee / Monash University, 2013
- An electronic textbook (e-Textbook) is a digitized (or electronic) form of textbook, which normally needs an endorsement by the national or state government when it is used in the K-12 education system. E-Textbooks have been envisione...
- NSW Government ICT Strategy 2012
- 2012
- The NSW Government ICT Strategy 2012 is a culmination of the best minds in ICT in NSW Government, the private sector, and the community coming together to map a way forward. To tackle the issues that need to be tackled. To bring NSW o...
- Review of the australian government’s use of information and communication technology
- P. Gershon 2008
- This report is the outcome of a process in which I have sought to (i) gather a substantial body of evidence to understand how ICT is currently used and managed; (ii) analyse the evidence to identify significant issues; and (iii) produ...
- Victorian ICT Strategy: Public Consultation Draft
- 2012
- This is a draft strategy describing how the Victorian Government will design and use information and technology to deliver better government services. It provides high?level direction on the management and use of information and commu...
- PACER Plus states and trade negotiations
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2009
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus is a regional economic agreement. This paper figures that the experience of negotiating a trade deal between this bloc and the EU alerted trade officials and civil society gr...
- Article highlighting the differences between climate change adaptation, maladaptation and manipulation
- D. C. Thomsen; T. F. Smith; N. Keys / Ecology and Society, 2012
- Adaptation is a key feature of sustainable social-ecological systems, as well as a recent and increasing focus of research and policy regarding responses to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. This article examines the meaning ...
- Grow in concert with nature: sustaining East Asia's water resources through green water defense
- X. Li / World Bank, 2012
- As countries develop, the demand for water increases while water supply becomes less certain. In general, pressures from both the environment and human activities can increase the likelihood of water scarcity. Climate change is likely...
- National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
- The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility is a research community in a national interdisciplinary effort to generate the information needed by decision-makers in government and in vulnerable sectors and communities to manage the risks of climate change impacts. It was established by the Australian Government in 2008 to harness and coordinate the capabilities of Australia’s res...
- Institute for Human Security
- Based at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, the Institute for Human Security is a new university-wide institute, which endeavours to further interdisciplinary research on all aspects related to human security as defined by the United Nations and encourages an ongoing dialogue between academia, development agencies and policy makers.
- Health Information Systems Knowledge Hub
- The knowledge hubs for health initiative aims to build knowledge, evidence and expertise to inform health policy dialogue relevant to Asia and the Pacific. Established by AusAID in 2008, there are four knowledge hubs for health in leading Australian institutions, each addressing different dimensions of the health system: Health information systems Health polic...
- Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
- WWDA addresses disability within a social model, which identifies the barriers and restrictions facing women with disabilities as the focus for reform.
- UNSW Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
- UNSW CCRC is a multi-disciplinary research group comprising one of the largest university research facilities of its kind in Australia. CCRC houses research expertise in the key areas Earth's climate: atmospheric, oceanic and terrestrial processes. We apply basic scientific principles to pressing questions on climate dynamics, global climate change, and extremes of weathe...
- Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
- Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
- Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSES)
- There are over 50 researchers at the ANU Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems conducting research on solar energy. Activities include; world leading research, presentation of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the supervision of PhD students and the provision of educational and consumer resources. Researchers in these areas regularly present their state-of-the-art research for jou...
- University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australian Tsunami Research Centre & Natural Hazards Research Laboratory (ATRC-NHRL)
- Multi-disciplinary research group with a focus on natural hazards
- Australia South Asia Research Centre
- Centre dedicated to research on the economics and politics of development in the South Asia region: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
