Collection: Tech Book

Represents a second edition of the original Energy Efficient Site Planning Handbook, which was reviewed and updated as a result of the increase in importance of concepts such as The Greenhouse Effect, Global Warming and Ecologically Sustainable Development.

"Based on a study carried out for the Department of Environment and Planning by consultants Jackson, Teece, Chesterman Willis Pty. Ltd. in association with Tract Consultants Australia Ltd.'

This study examines the relative costs of supplying urban infrastructure when the urban fringe is developed according to different patterns. It sets out to measure some of the dividend which might be expected from good planning of urban growth and to develop a model for assessing the wider costs ...

Describes the results of the seventh national survey on the use of tobacco by Australian secondary school students

Update of the original 1998 guidelines, aiming to recognise and build on the many existing council efforts to promote the wellbeing of their community members and effectively meet their needs through social planning.

Supplements the Social and Community Planning and Reporting Guidelines and provides additional information as well as practical options and suggestions to help councils successfully carry out their planning and reporting roles.

Economic stress in the sense of economic depivation which results in financial hardship, regardless of whether its effects include emotional stess and also to describe social factors which impose hardship on families.

Report of project aimed to understand the socio-economic and spatial patterns of water use, including values, attitudes and behavious linked to consumption.

A systematic overview of the relationship between the social and political environment and health. Examines the long term health impacts of the Indigenous experience of dispossession, colonial rule and racism