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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... decision to block the Bald Hills wind farm as an instance of electoral opportunism - designed to win a key marginal ... decisions are intensely controversial , though none more so than the Howard Government's selection of a site for a ...
... decision to block the Bald Hills wind farm as an instance of electoral opportunism - designed to win a key marginal ... decisions are intensely controversial , though none more so than the Howard Government's selection of a site for a ...
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... decision in Leatch v Shoalhaven City Council^5 involved the precautionary principle which had begun to occupy an increasing place in international agreements and domestic policy documents but had little place in Australian legislation ...
... decision in Leatch v Shoalhaven City Council^5 involved the precautionary principle which had begun to occupy an increasing place in international agreements and domestic policy documents but had little place in Australian legislation ...
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... decision that permission to open the quarry should be refused because of ' the community importance of on - going ... decisions and still others have involved judicial review , we should look for their common features . Although the ...
... decision that permission to open the quarry should be refused because of ' the community importance of on - going ... decisions and still others have involved judicial review , we should look for their common features . Although the ...
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... decision being struck down by the Queensland Court of 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 ...
... decision being struck down by the Queensland Court of 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 ...
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... decision not to regulate the greenhouse emissions of new motor vehicles was inconse- quential , a majority of the Supreme Court responded that the Agency had to start somewhere . ' Agencies , like legislatures ' , it declared , ' do not ...
... decision not to regulate the greenhouse emissions of new motor vehicles was inconse- quential , a majority of the Supreme Court responded that the Agency had to start somewhere . ' Agencies , like legislatures ' , it declared , ' do not ...
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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