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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... framework in so far as it either prevents , allows or requires the consideration of greenhouse emissions in environmental assessment and development consent processes and the application of 2 CLIMATE LAW IN.AUSTRALIA Chapter.
... framework in so far as it either prevents , allows or requires the consideration of greenhouse emissions in environmental assessment and development consent processes and the application of 2 CLIMATE LAW IN.AUSTRALIA Chapter.
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Tim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff. environmental assessment and development consent processes and the application of general principles such as the precautionary principle and intergenerational equity to greenhouse emissions . Climate law ...
Tim Bonyhady, Peter Christoff. environmental assessment and development consent processes and the application of general principles such as the precautionary principle and intergenerational equity to greenhouse emissions . Climate law ...
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... application also required the approval of the Board of Environmental Management , a council could not include a condition which was inconsistent with , or extended the operation of , a condition required by the board . King Island ...
... application also required the approval of the Board of Environmental Management , a council could not include a condition which was inconsistent with , or extended the operation of , a condition required by the board . King Island ...
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... applying the National Environmental Policy Act , and it had been dismissed for lack of standing.14 The Redbank case was the first in the world where standing was not an issue and a court had to consider arguments about the substance of ...
... applying the National Environmental Policy Act , and it had been dismissed for lack of standing.14 The Redbank case was the first in the world where standing was not an issue and a court had to consider arguments about the substance of ...
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... application by the Swiss company Xstrata for an increase in the area of a lease it held at Newlands , west of Mackay , so it could open a new mine . While both sides in the case accepted climate change as a given , the tribunal's ...
... application by the Swiss company Xstrata for an increase in the area of a lease it held at Newlands , west of Mackay , so it could open a new mine . While both sides in the case accepted climate change as a given , the tribunal's ...
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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