The talk with present the key results of the IPCC Working Group III 5th assessment report. Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, the report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change. The report has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.

Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change

Review of The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship by John Willinsky, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2006

Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small proportion moving to retirement villages, which provide a purpose designed and built residen- tial and lifestyle environment. Using factor analyses, path analyses, and a push^pull framework, the authors model the decision process of retirees in Australia in order to identify relationships between push^pull factors and predictor variables, using data from a national survey of retirement village residents. The push factors relate to change in lifestyle, home maintenance, social isolation, and health and mobility, whereas the pull factors relate to built environment and affordability, the loca- tional attributes of villages, and the desire to maintain an existing lifestyle. The survey data also identify village attributes considered desirable or undesirable, or important or unimportant. Overall, resident satisfaction with moving is high.

A push-pull framework for modelling the relocation of retirees to a retirement village: The Australian experience

Reviewed by Chris Bodnar Carleton UniversiO~ Journalism and Mass Communication Program p art visionary, part pragmatic, William Mitchell approaches the subject of cities in the new information economy and society in his new book e-topia: Urban Life, Jim--But Not As We Know It. He approaches his subject with an eloquence of precision, devoid of academic utterances and jargon. The person, who five years ago in his book City of Bits predicted that it may, one day, be possible to send e-mail from your plane seat, explains how telecommunications infrastructure must now be viewed as an essential and integral part of the city and its planning--and vice versa. Mitchell states a bold outlook in the book's opening lines: \"The city--as understood by urban theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs--can no longer hang together and function as it could in earlier times. It's due to bits; they've done it in. Traditional urban patterns cannot coexist with cyberspace.\" Within this context, Mitchell, the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, illustrates the fundamental dichotomies of the city and technology: as technology, and telecommunication in particular, facilitates increasingly decentralized production, socializing and commerce, the importance of space is increasing on an accelerated basis. Thus, the city is the paramount space of influence in the new economy. Mitchell advocates embracing the changes technology will bring. He examines how the city might be built to serve the new economy and encompass as many of technology's fruits as possible. This work acts as an insightful follow-up to his 1995 book City of Bits. Within a five year period, the amount of literature published on the state of the city has increased by tremendous amounts. In this time, Mitchell's own predictions, email in airplanes among them, have come to reality. This has sparked interest both within urban development circles as planners attempt to account for the building of cities for a new economy as well as within sociological disciplines as social scientists begin to assess the social benefits and consequences of the cyberage. While Mitchell highlights the increasing importance of space in the technological information economy, he also delineates a problem around access to the resources of such a society. He points out that \"When it all shakes out, the guiding real estate principal turns out to be this: telecommunications networking can add great value to localities where relatively well-off people would like to live. . . . But it doesn't do much for localities that have no intrinsic attraction. Nor does it help people who find themselves trapped in marginalized, under-serviced areas and are too poor to move.\" In his credit, only a year prior to e-topia's publication, Mitchell has co-edited a reader of essays on access to technology. Nonetheless, in the craze of the information economy, the unofficial economies continue down paths of marginalization and lack of recognition. Mitchell does little to address this dilemma of the city in e-topia. One thing urban planners realize in contemporary times is the incredible impact telecommunications infrastructures are having on all parts of cities. The

E-topia: urban life, Jim---but not as we know it

Consumer Fear of Online Identity Theft: Scale Development and Validation

Innovation is vital for the future of Australia.s internet economy. Innovations rely on businesses. ability to innovate. Businesses. ability to innovate relies on their employees. The more these individual end users engage in the internet economy, the better businesses. engagement will be. The less these individual end users engage, the less likely a business is to engage and innovate. This means, for the internet economy to function at its fullest potential, it is essential that individual Australians have the capacity to engage with it and participate in it. The Australian federal government is working to facilitate the internet economy through policies, legislation and practices that implement high-speed broadband. The National Broadband Network will be a vital tool for Australia.s internet economy. Its .chief importancei® is that it will provide faster internet access speeds that will facilitate access to internet services and content. However, an appropriate infrastructure and internet speed is only part of the picture. As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development identified, appropriate government policies are also needed to ensure that vital services are more accessible by consumers. The thesis identifies essential theories and principles underpinning the internet economy and from which the concept of connectedness is developed. Connectedness is defined as the ability of end users to connect with internet content and services, other individuals and organisations, and government. That is, their ability to operate in the internet economy. The NBN will be vital in ensuring connectedness into the future. What is not currently addressed by existing access regimes is how to facilitate end user access capacity and participation. The thesis concludes by making recommendations to the federal government as to what the governing principles of the Australian internet economy should include in order to enable individual end user access capacity.

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The future of the internet economy : addressing challenges facing the implementation of the Australian national broadband network

The authors provide a theoretically generative definition of cyberinfrastructure (CI) by drawing from existing definitions and literature in social sciences, law, and policy studies They propose two models of domestic and international influencers on CI emergence, development, and implementation in the early 21st century Based on its historical emergence and computational power, they argue that cyberinfrastructure is built on, and yet distinct from the current notion of the internet The authors seek to answer two research questions: firstly, what is cyberinfrastructure? And secondly, what national and international influencers shape its emergence, development and implementation (in e-science) in the early 21st century? Additionally, consideration will be given to the implications of the proposed definition and models, and future directions on CI research in Internet studies will be suggested

Cyberinfrastructure Inside Out: Definition and Influences Shaping Its Emergence, Development, and Implementation in the Early 21st Century

level category or 'level' behaviour descriptions examples of activity to be trained, or demonstration and evidence to be measured 'key words' (verbs which describe the activity to be trained or measured at each level) 1 Knowledge recall or recognize information multiple-choice test, recount 3 Application use or apply knowledge, put theory into practice, use knowledge in response to real circumstances put a theory into practical effect, demonstrate, solve a problem, manage an activity identify constituent parts and functions of a process or concept, or de-construct a methodology or process, making qualitative assessment review strategic options or plans in terms of efficacy, return on investment or cost-effectiveness, practicability; assess sustainability; perform a SWOT analysis in relation to alternatives; produce a financial justification for a proposition or venture, calculate the effects of a plan or strategy; perform a detailed and costed risk analysis with recommendations and justifications review, justify, assess, present a case for, defend, report on, investigate, direct, appraise, argue, project-manage

The cognitive domain

Purpose – The paper aims to improve consumer awareness of the complexities of community living. It does this by clarifying how living in a managed community is different from a “traditional” neighbourhood; and identifying matters that can become disputes.Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on research by other authors into strata scheme disputes by examining recent Queensland cases.Findings – Many disputes appear to result from a lack of understanding of the complexities of community living. Matters that should be able to be easily resolved are therefore escalated to formal disputes.Research limitations/implications – The paper considers law and cases from Queensland. The types of matters considered, however, are relevant for any managed community and therefore the research is relevant for all jurisdictions. The research will be of particular interest to jurisdictions looking to boost living density by increasing the development of managed communities.Practical implications – The research will ...

Living a managed community lifestyle: managed community lifestyle from Queensland

This article clarifies the interdependence between high-speed broadband and e-Learning. It does this by identifying the importance of the internet for Australia’s education future and the importance of education for the future of the internet. It concludes by confirming the role the NBN will play as an enabler of both; and the need to ensure access for all to appropriate skills, as well as to services.

Lucy Cradduck

Papers

The future of the internet economy : addressing challenges facing the implementation of the Australian national broadband network

Cyberinfrastructure Inside Out: Definition and Influences Shaping Its Emergence, Development, and Implementation in the Early 21st Century

The cognitive domain

Living a managed community lifestyle: managed community lifestyle from Queensland

The Future of Australian E-Learning: It's All about Access