Australia entered the 1980s with separate policies for its international and domestic airline industries and both restricted the scope for competition. Since then, the Australian Government privatised its airlines, it deregulated its domestic industry, it agreed to a single aviation market with...

This paper employs the concepts of centrality, intermediacy and proximity to explain the evolution of air transport networks in Asia and applies them to the region surrounding the Arabian Gulf. In doing so the paper provides a structured, historical account of the development of air transport in...

This paper addresses the concern expressed in some quarters that the process of liberalisation of international air transport has lost its momentum. The paper argues that any assessment about whether liberalisation has stalled needs to be based on an understanding of the outcomes expected to be...

Considers the potential that retail loyalty card schemes offer for a more informed understanding of consumer behaviour. With the widespread introduction of loyalty card schemes across the UK, Europe and North America, retailers now have the opportunity to link detailed shopping pattern...

The environmental burden of collecting recoverables from households is generally omitted from life-cycle analyses comparing the environmental outcome of using secondary material from post-consumer waste (PCW) with virgin feedstock. However, this burden can be considerable, depending upon the...

This paper examines how governments in Asia are changing the way they regulate their domestic airline industries in response to rapid growth in demand. Typically, the national carrier has been responsible for fostering air travel, often in situations where surface transport systems are poorly...

The human family is currently on an unsustainable development path, which is likely to lead to a full blown environmental crisis. Humanity is overshooting nature's carrying capacity by over 20%. In the absence of politically applied environmental limits to growth, some authors believe the...