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Population ageing and Australia's future
This volume provides evidence from many of Australia’s leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines to support policies that address challenges presented by Australia’s ageing population. It builds on presentations made to the 2014 Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. The material is in four parts: Perspectives on Ageing Population Ageing: Glob…
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- 9
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- 9781760460662
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- xvi, 240 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 304.610994 HAL p
Intersections : history, memory, discipline
“A wonderfully rich, insightful and personally touching collection of essays by the Pacific region’s most prolific and engaging historian. Brij Lal writes eloquently and poetically about his professional and political journeys, and the many different people and worlds he has encountered on the way. Readers will be inspired by this collective account of a courageous life committed to the ach…
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- 22
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- 9781922144379
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- -
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- 996.11 LAL i
Urban Food Sharing : Rules, tools and networks
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the history and current practice of food sharing. Illustrated by rich case studies from around the world, the book uses new empirical data to set an agenda for research and action. The book will be an important resource for researchers, policy makers and sharing innovators to explore the impacts and sustainability potential of suc…
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- 9781447349846
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- 363.8091732 ANN u
Fishing for fairness : poverty, morality and marine resource regulation in th…
Fishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes Islands, fishing, conservation and tourism provide the context where competing visions of how to engage with marine resources are played out. The book draws on data from ethn…
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- -
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- 9781921862663
- Collation
- viii, 223p.; ill.
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- Asia-Pacific environment monographs
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- 333.91609599 FAB f
Dilemmas of development : the social and economic impact of the Porgera gold …
The Porgera gold mine in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea is technically one of the most sophisticated and successful mines of recent times. In its second year of operations (1992) it was the third largest gold producing mine in the world. Socially, though, the mine has brought a range of massive changes for the local Ipili community-both positive and negative. Dilemmas of Development is a …
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- 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144423
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- -
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- 338.274109953 FIL d
The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia
Artistic research is an endeavour in which the artistic and the academic are connected. In this emerging field of research artistic practices contribute as research to what we know and understand, and academia opens its mind to forms of knowledge and understanding that are entwined with artistic practices. Henk Borgdorff also addresses how we comment on such issues, and how the things we say ca…
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- 19
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789087281670
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- x, 277 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 707
Connected & disconnected in Viet Nam : remaking social relations in a post-so…
Vietnam’s shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people’s relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social rifts have emerged that divide citizens by class, region and ethnicity. By drawing on social connections as a traditional resource, Vietnamese are able to accumulate wealth,…
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- 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022926
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- -
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- 959.7044 TAY c
Social cost-benefit analysis in Australia and New Zealand : the state of curr…
All is not well with the evaluation of government programs and projects. Resources available to any society are limited. If governments are to increase the well-being of their citizens, they must be able to select and implement the socially most beneficial projects and policies. But many government agencies lack the expertise to carry out a cost-benefit analysis, or even to commission one…
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- 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760460198
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- -
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- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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- 352.439 DOB s
Security, Loyalty, and Science
Both sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national security and its effect upon scientific progress. The costs and advantages of secrecy in certain areas of science and the conflict between national safety and individual rights in the administration of our federal loyalty program are presented; all the arguments are objectively weighed.…
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- 32
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501740688
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- v, 312 p
- Series Title
- Cornell Studies in Civil Liberties
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- -
Passage of change : law, society, and governance in the Pacific
Numerous issues face Pacific states trying to find their way in the early 21st century. Countries are striving to secure the benefits of modernisation. Governance, law and order are needed to reach such a goal, but development cannot be at the price of culture or the environment. The question of how to develop and maintain sound legal systems and legal rules whilst maintaining the unique cultur…
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- -
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- 9781921666889
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- -
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- -
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- 340.5295 JOW p
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