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General

Sharon Beder, The Nature of Sustainable Development, 2nd ed. Scribe, Newham, 1996.

David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward Barbier, Blueprint for a Green Economy, Earthscan, London, 1989.

World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, Australian edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990.

Wolfgang Sachs, ed, Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict, Zed Books, London, 1993, Part 2.

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Australian ESD Process

Ian Barnes, 'Value Frameworks in the Sustainable Development Debate', in Ronnie Harding, ed, Ecopolitics V Proceedings, CLGS, UNSW, pp199-208.

Ian Barnes, Mike Mouritz and Laura Stocker, 'Continuing the ESD Process', August 1992.

Mark Diesendorf, 'Reclaiming the Ecologically Sustainable Development Process', Bogong, vol 13, no 3, 1992, pp20-23.

Clive Hamilton, Resources Assessment Commission, 'Ecologically Sustainable Development: Implications for Governance', paper for workshop on 'Sustainable Development: Implications for the Policy Process', Royal Australian Institue of Public Administration, Canberra, December 1991.

W.L.Hare, ed, Ecologically Sustainable Development: Assessment of the ESD Working Group Reports, ACF, Fitzroy, 1991.

Lothian, Andrew 1992, An evaluation of the ecologically sustainable development process in Australia, paper presented to the Inaugural Joint Conference, NZ Geographical Scoiety and Institute of Australian Geographers, Auckland.

B. Tapp, D.Brooks, and S.Waight, 'The Drift Towards Respectability: Ecological Sustainability Transformed into Economic Sustainability', in Ronnie Harding, ed., Ecopolitics V Proceedings, Centre for Liberal and General Studies, unviersity of NSW, 1992, pp214-218.

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Earth Summit in Rio

Karen Alexander, 'Earth Summit Rio Report-Back', Habitat, February 1993, pp34-37.

Hilary French, 'From Discord to Accord', WorldWatch 5(3), May-June 1992, pp26-32.

Stanley Johnson, The Earth Summit: The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, London, 1993.

D. Mackenzie, 'Strong words to save the planet', New Scientist, 10 August 1991, pp. 11-12.

Fred Pearce, 'Last Chance to Save the Planet?', New Scientist, 30 May 1992, p24-28.

Fred Pearce, 'How Green was our Summit?, New Scientist, 27 July 1992, pp12-13.

Preparatory Committee for the UNCED, 'Charting the Course for '92', Environment 33(1), Jan/Feb 1991, pp16-20, 39-44.

Wolfgang Sachs, ed, Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict, Zed Books, London, 1993, Part 1.

R. Weissman, 'Summit Games: Bush Busts UNCED', Multinational Monitor, July/August 1992, pp7-14.

Ros Kelly, Report by the Hon. R.J. Kelly, Minister for the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories on the Earth Summit, the UN conference on Environment & Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 3-14, 1992, AGPS, Canberra, 1992.

Aidan Davison and Ian Barns, 'The Earth Summi and the Ethics of Sustainable Development', Current Affairs Bulletin 69(1), June 1992, pp4-12.

Greeenpeace International, Earth Summit Press Pack: State of the World, May 1992.

'Rio: One Year After', special issue of Third World Resurgence, No 36, August 1993.

Pratap Chatterjee and Matthias Finger, The Earth Brokers, Power, Politics and World Development, Routledge, London and New York, 1994, chapters 3, 6, 7, 10.

Daniel Sitarz, ed., AGENDA 21 : The Earth Summit strategy to save our planet, Boulder, Colo. : EarthPress, 1993.

Nicholas A. Robinson, ed., Agenda 21 & the UNCED proceedings, New York : Oceana Publications, 1992.

Michael Keating, The Earth Summit's agenda for change : a plain language version of Agenda 21 and the other Rio agreements, Geneva : Centre for Our Common Future, 1993.

Luigi Campiglio et al., eds., The Environment after Rio : international law and economics, London ; Boston : Graham & Trotman/M. Nijhoff, 1994.

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ESD Reports

Commonwealth Government, Ecologically Sustainable Development: A Commonwealth Discussion Paper, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, June 1990.

R.J.L.Hawke, Our Country Our Future: Statement on the Environment, AGPS, Canberra, July 1989.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Agriculture, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Energy Use, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Energy Production, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Fisheries, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Forest Use, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Manufacturing, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Mining, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Tourism, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Groups, Final Report - Transport, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

ESD Working Group Chairs, Intersectoral Issues Report, AGPS, Canberra , 1992.

ESD Working Group Chairs, Greenhouse Report, AGPS, Canberra , 1992.

Commonwealth Government, National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development, AGPS, Canberra, June 1992.

Commonwealth Government, National Greenhouse Response Strategy, AGPS, Canberra, June 1992.

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Business and Industry Views

Business Council of Australia, Development and the Environment: A Policy Statement by the Business Council of Australia, April 1990.

Australian Chamber of Manufacturers, Manufacturing: Making Our Future, Policy Statement on the Environment, June 1990.

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Environmentalists' Views

W.L.Hare, ed, Ecologically Sustainable Development, Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace (Australia), The Wilderness Society, World Wide Fund for Nature - Australia, 1990.

Malcolm Hollick, 'Questioning Sustainability', Chain Reaction 62, October 1990, pp20-23.

IUCN, UNEP, WWF, Caring For the Earth; A Strategy for Sustainable Living, IUCN, UNEP, WWF, Gland, Switzerland, 1991.

Green Web, 'Sustainable Development: Expanded Environmental Destruction', Green Web Bulletin 16, February 1990.

Paul Fitzgerald, 'Sustainable What!?', in Ronnie Harding, Ecopolitics V Proceedings, CLGS, UNSW, 1992, pp219-224.

Philip Toyne, 'Creating an Ecologically Sustainable Australia for 2001', Social Alternatives, vol 10, no 2, 1991, pp4-9.

Special ESD issue, Habitat, Vol 20, No 1, February 1992, pp.4-5.

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Other Views

Australian Council of Trade Unions & United Mineworkers Federation of Australia, 'Employment Impacts of the Achievement of Ecologically Sustainable Development: A Canvassing of the Issues', paper prepared for the 9th ECO 'l92 Public Forum, Unviersity of Sydney, 1992.

Valerie Brown & Margaret Switzer, 'Women and Ecologically Sustainable Development: Engendering the Debate', paper prepared for the Office of the Status of Women, June 1991.

Don Roberts, 'Engineering a Solution', Engineering World, February 1991, pp26-31.

David Thom, 'The Kiwi Example', Engineering World, February 1991, pp36-37.

Institution of Engineers, Australia, Environmental Code of Practice, 3rd edition, 1991.

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Mining References

Sharon Beder, The Nature of Sustainable Development, 2nd ed. Scribe, Newham, 1996, ch 4.

D Bahi & M Toman, Analysing Non-Renewable Resource Supply: Resources for the Future, Washington, 1984

Business Council of Australia, Achieving Sustainable Development: A Practical Framework, 1991.

Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups, Final Report&emdash;Mining, AGPS, Canberra, 1991.

Doug Cocks, Use with Care: Managing Australia's Natural Resources in the Twenty-First Century, NSWU Press, 1992.

Commonwealth Government, Ecologically Sustainable Development: A Commonwealth Discussion Paper, AGPS, Canberra, 1990.

Miller, G. Tyler, Living in the Environment, 6th edn, Wadsworth, Belmont, California, 1990.

Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur, The Impact of mining on the environment, problems and solutions, Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema ; New Delhi : Oxford & IBH Pub. Co., 1994.

Australian Mineral Foundation, Mining and the environment : a decade of Australian documentation 1981-1990, Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation,Canberra, 1991.

J Rifkin, Biosphere Politics: A new consciousness for a new Century, New York, 1991.

J.S.Russell & R.F.Isbell (eds) Australian Soils: Human Impact, Uni of Queensland Press, 1986, chapter 18.

Trainer, F. E., Abandon Affluence!, Zed, London, 1985, chapter 3.

Young, John E. , 'Mining the earth', in State of the World 1992, Lester Brown et al., Earthscan, London, 1992.

New South Wales Coal Association, Environment policy, Environment and Planning Committee, NSW Coal Association, 1993.

Thompson, Herb, Mining and the environment in Papua New Guinea, Murdoch University, 1990.

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Mining and the environment : resource use in the Kakadu Conservation Zone, AGPS, Canberra, 1990.

Ian Hore-Lacy, Mining ... and the environment, 4th ed., Australian Mining Industry Council, Dickson, ACT, 1992.

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