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Are we as a Global Society on the Verge of Collapse?
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Terence Jeyaretnam, Principal, URS Melbourne, Prepared for Engineers Australia October monthly newsletter
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Benefit Cost Analysis for Environmental Flow Options:Thomson And Macalister Rivers
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Natural resource economists in URS Australia were asked by the Victorian Department of Sustainability and
Environment to assess one of the most important contemporary questions in water
resource management, that is, “how do we best share water resources between the three
principal water users”; namely, the environment, irrigators and urban users. In
late 2000, a Task Force was established to review the bulk entitlements for the
Macalister and Thomson Rivers in Victoria.
J Branson, N Sturgess, R Dumsday, URS Melbourne, Published in Water, September 2005, p.34
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Communicating Spatial Uncertainty using Geospatial Reasoning
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Users of remotely sensed imagery need to know about the spatial uncertainty in their
image data in order to make sound decisions using their imagery. As a minimum, the
user should understand the presence and level of spatial uncertainty in their data.
This paper proposes the use of intelligent software agents as a means of assisting
users to understand the spatial uncertainty in their images.
Blair C. Darragh, URS Melbourne and Chris J. Bellman, School of Mathematical & Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University
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Eternal Sunshine, but an oil-less planet
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If you, like me, have recently been watching the price of a barrel of oil go up in world markets, continuing to break records, and wondered whether you should be trading your petrol-guzzler for a Toyota Prius or Honda Civic, you may well be using that excellent sense of logic that we engineers seem to have.
Terence Jeyaretnam, Principal, URS Melbourne
Prepared for Engineers Australia monthly newsletter
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Financial backers hold miners to account
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The finance sector is playing a growing role in moving the mining industry towards Sustainability.
Chris Jack, Principal Sustainability Consultant, URS Sydney
Prepared for WME Magazine June 2005
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Fuelling Landscape Repair: A Bioenergy Industry as a Sustainable Energy and Land-use Option for Australia
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Development of a biomass energy industry, with short-rotation tree crops established on cleared farmland, could yield substantial economic, environmental and social benefits across the country by reducing dryland salinity impacts of on water quality, agriculture production, biodiversity and built infrastructure. Such an industry would also help to reduce Australia’s dependence on fossil fuels and cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, and promote sustainable regional development.
Bruce Howard, NRM Senior Consultant Environmental Economics, URS Perth and Chris Olszak, Consultant Economist, URS Melbourne
A report prepared for the Australian Conservation Foundation and Joint Venture Agroforestry Program, with the assistance of the Myer Foundation
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Sustainability for whom – shareholders or stakeholders?
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Terence Jeyaretnam, Principal, URS Melbourne, Prepared for Engineers Australia September monthly newsletter
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