Climate Law in AustraliaTim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff Federation Press, 2007 - 315 pages Climate Law in Australia provides the first extended account of Australia's new climate law. It examines key federal and state legislation and the main cases brought before Australian courts. It combines incisive legal analysis with a deep understanding of climate-related issues and policy. The authors include leading academics such as Professors Robyn Eckersley, David Farrier, Rob Fowler and Jan McDonald, and leading practitioners such as Charles Berger, Kirsty Ruddock, Chris McGrath, Allison Warburton and Martijn Wilder. The editors are Professor Tim Bonyhady, Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the Australian National University, and Dr Peter Christoff of the University of Melbourne and Vice President of the Australian Conservation Foundation. The book examines pivotal issues in Australian climate law and policy - the Kyoto Protocol and its alternatives, emissions targets, carbon trading, geosequestration, nuclear decision-making, adaptation to climate change and legal liability. It contains detailed analysis of the leading cases involving the Hazelwood power station, the Anvil Hill, Xstrata and Bowen Basin coal mines, and the Bald Hills and Taralga wind farms. Climate Law in Australia explores both the need for conventional legal regulation and the potential of economic responses to climate change. It shows how climate law has grown in Australia - and how far the law still has to go. |
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... Appeal once termed a ' pious hope ' . Yet this condition was also flawed because there was no prospect of ... appealed to Tasmania's Resource Management and Planning Appeals Tribunal early in 2007 , emphasising that the council's ...
... Appeal once termed a ' pious hope ' . Yet this condition was also flawed because there was no prospect of ... appealed to Tasmania's Resource Management and Planning Appeals Tribunal early in 2007 , emphasising that the council's ...
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... Appeals Tribunal endorsed a new condition arrived at during the mediation . This condition gives the company just three months after it starts operations to decide how it wants to addresses its greenhouse emissions . While the condition ...
... Appeals Tribunal endorsed a new condition arrived at during the mediation . This condition gives the company just three months after it starts operations to decide how it wants to addresses its greenhouse emissions . While the condition ...
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... Appeal . The environmental issues raised by Rosemount included air quality , noise vibrations , effect of dust on the grapes and many other matters . But while the greenhouse consequences of the mine were a subject of parliamentary ...
... Appeal . The environmental issues raised by Rosemount included air quality , noise vibrations , effect of dust on the grapes and many other matters . But while the greenhouse consequences of the mine were a subject of parliamentary ...
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... Appeals Tribunal with nothing like the same public attention . It concerned a proposed quarry at the Basin Banks , two adjoining volcanic lakes in Victoria's Western District , which were a key scientific site for the study of climate ...
... Appeals Tribunal with nothing like the same public attention . It concerned a proposed quarry at the Basin Banks , two adjoining volcanic lakes in Victoria's Western District , which were a key scientific site for the study of climate ...
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... Appeal in October 2007. President McMurdo of the Court of Appeal found that ' [ h ] aving regard to the way the hearing was conducted , the Tribunal's letter did not make sufficiently clear that the Tribunal considered that the critique ...
... Appeal in October 2007. President McMurdo of the Court of Appeal found that ' [ h ] aving regard to the way the hearing was conducted , the Tribunal's letter did not make sufficiently clear that the Tribunal considered that the critique ...
Contents
Anvil Hill in | 189 |
Pyhrric victory or harbinger? | 214 |
Chapter 14 | 230 |
Chapter 15 | 256 |
Chapter 16 | 277 |
References | 293 |
Table of Statutes | 308 |
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