Humans are perhaps the most successful species in the history of life on Earth. From a few thousand individuals some 200,000 years ago, we passed 1 billion around 1800 and 6 billion in 1999. Our levels of consumption and the scope of our technologies have grown in parallel with, and in some ways out...

Introduction This paper is a detailed critique of "Shaping the Future – An Economic Development and Vision Strategy for the Wheatbelt Region". The critique is organised to address the following issues; · Focus, Organisation and Scope · Economic Audit and Profile &m...