Australian Environmental Law

Australian Environmental Law

Author: Douglas Edgar Fisher

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 9780455226873

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Since 2003 climate change and overuse of water resources have emerged as major challenges for the environmental legal system. The second edition of Australian Environmental Law addresses these issues. It remains a principles-based text on environmental law and policy which examines Australia's environmental system from a doctrinal and instrumental perspective. Relevant legislation and case law have been updated throughout and the book has been restructured to reflect ever-increasing levels of social, political and academic interest in sustainable development and environmental planning. The chapters on ecologically sustainable development and the instruments of environmental law have been rewritten, restructured and relocated, and a new chapter on the emerging challenges for environmental law has been added, including discussion of climate change and water resources management.


International Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific

International Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific

Author: Ben Boer

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 1998-02-18

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9041107061

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The purpose of this book is to assess the development of international environmental law in the Asia Pacific. Consideration is given to the impact upon the region of global, regional and subregional environmental law. An assessment is also undertaken of how certain states, and groups of states, have responded domestically and within their own subregions to these developments. For the purposes of this book the Asia Pacific is defined as essentially the states which comprise East and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the island states of the Southwest Pacific. Occasional consideration is also given to the states of South Asia.


Before Environmental Law

Before Environmental Law

Author: Benjamin J Richardson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-10-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1509969039

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This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia's natural environment and examines the subject's legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today's environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century. This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers' greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature's backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia's environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations. Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law.


Implementing Environmental Law

Implementing Environmental Law

Author: Paul Martin

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-08-28

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1783479310

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This insightful book explores why implementation of environmental law is too often ineffective in achieving effective environmental governance. It provides careful analysis and innovative proposals to help improve the practical effectiveness of legal i


Environmental Law in Australia, 9th Edition

Environmental Law in Australia, 9th Edition

Author: Gerard Maxwell Bates

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780409341935

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Environmental Law in Australia provides a clear and authoritative discussion of the fundamental principles underpinning all environmental initiatives. The author explains how the involvement of the law adds value to the design and implementation of environmental policy, providing an impartial process for resolving conflicts about breaches of the law and environmental decision-making. The ninth edition has been fully revised and extensively updated to cover all relevant new developments in policy, case law and legislation, such as the introduction of national biosecurity legislation, updates on international case law relating to whales and climate litigation, new material on mining and coal seam gas, new case law on public interest litigation, criminal prosecutions and review of environmental decision-making. Significant developments also include: a new chapter on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) a new chapter on waste and contaminated lands new material on practical approaches to implementing principles of sustainable development amendments to the chapter on climate and energy following the repeal of clean energy legislation The book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of law, environmental science, environmental management and environmental economic disciplines, enabling readers to approach any environmental law with a clear understanding of how it is intended to work and how it will be interpreted. It is also a valuable resource for non-government organisations, public servants, corporate officers and other practitioners.