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SGS Economics and Planning Ellen W

Living on Australian coastline will get too risky and houses will be impossible to insure

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Ellen Witte, economist and partner at SGS Economics and Planning, says that the new research by Perth’s Edith Cowan University into using the coastal vegetation in Australia to combat climate change, is worthwhile but doesn't take coastal residential developments into account and that the sea levels will keep rising. According to Ellen living along the Australian coastlines will become too expensive to insure and too risky. Listen to the interview.
SGS Economics and Planning suburban rail loop

Balanced perspective required on the Suburban Rail Loop

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Transport

Economics and planning go together like toast and vegemite (or whatever your preferred spread is) – neither is much good without the other. Marion Terrill’s critique of the proposed Suburban Rail Loop underlines the need to apply both economics and planning in the successful prosecution of infrastructure policy. Economists look at the world and try to explain why it is as it is. Planners look at the world and consider how it should or could be. Public policy suffers whenever one perspective trumps the other.