Collection: Tech Book

Australian cities are in a period of rapid urban growth, especially at the urban fringe. Councils located on the fringe face the challenge of building socially vibrant, economically viable & environmentally sustainable communities with limited funding.

Reviews available literature on the cost and effectiveness of options for controlling motor vehicle emission of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. Highlights several economic incentives that could be used to complement regulatory controls.

Outlines research into the relationships between the costs and benefits of using private housing as the home base for care for older people rather than residential care facilities.

A literature review and analysis of the existing information related to the economics of urban salinity.

The ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) uses the cultural definition of homelessness to enumerate the homeless population. The 2006 Census targeted Australia's homeless population with a special enumeration strategy,

Intended for use as a resource book for teachers, a life-saver for casual teachers who need a variety of interesting activities at their fingertips and an alternative holiday or spare time reading/activity book for children.

Creating Older Women project was located in the local government areas of Blue Mountains & Penrith in Western Sydney. It aimed to develop better understanding of the ways in which the ageing process, older people & in particular, older women

The aim of this paper is to provide a core set of interim guidelines that will help public libraries to develop widely accessible websites with reliable structure and technical performance.

Findings of study commissioned as part of a Department of Housing and Regional Development program to improve urban development, examining the ways in which various types of urban form and structure may affect the incidence of crime.