Agenda, Volume 15, Number 3, 2008
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Agenda, Volume 15, Number 3, 2008

Table of Contents

Editors and Editorial Committee

Will we all be Rooned without a Desal Plant?

Introduction

Predicting the climate

The effect of climate uncertainty on the urban water balance in Western Australia

System reliability and the effect of climate-change assumptions

Implications for long-run marginal cost

Impact on the risk of a sprinkler ban of aligning prices with climate expectations

Conclusions

Australia’s Transition from Native Forests to Plantations

Abstract
Introduction
The plantation wood surge
Wood processing
Sawn timber and wood-based panels
Pulp and paper
Unprocessed wood exports
Australia’s current forest policy issues
Federal Government disengagement
Managed investment schemes, tax deductibility and future plantation wood supply
Climate change
Concluding comments
References

Righting Australia’s Vertical Fiscal Imbalance

Introduction

The 1998 GST Agreement and its aftermath

State Finances in the 21^st century

Expenditure Pressures: The public-hospital funding debate

Reforming federalism: Issues and objectives.

Arguments for fiscal decentralisation
Arguments for fiscal centralisation
Vertical fiscal balance and financial accountability

Reforming Fiscal Federalism: Challenges and Opportunities

Transferring Public Hospitals

Getting Real about Adapting to Climate Change

Abstract
Introduction
Impacts assessment: the Mikado’s little list
Australian governments: more of the same
Uncertainty makes deterministic planning dangerous
‘Real options’: a cleverer option
Identifying and creating ‘real options’ in adapting to climate change
Steering, not rowing: the role of government
Conclusion
References

Can Urban Water Markets Work? Some Concerns

Successes of rural water markets
Failings of the rural water market
Scope for urban water markets
Other market issues
Concluding remarks
References

Can Urban Water Markets Work? An Optimistic View

State of Play: Politicisation
Why introduce urban water markets?
Implementing urban water markets
Discussion
References

Controversy

Is policy the problem or the solution for Indigenous people? A Rejoinder to Gary Johns

References

Dave Clark (1946–2008): Economist, Larrikin, ‘Critical Drinker’ and Friend

References

A Farewell to Alms
Gunnar Myrdal. An Intellectual Biography
Research Without Tears: From the First Ideas to Published Output

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