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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... economic consequences of global warming - and the benefits of acting early rather than late , as argued by the Stern Review in 2006 - has been another . Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has similarly played a vital role as has ...
... economic consequences of global warming - and the benefits of acting early rather than late , as argued by the Stern Review in 2006 - has been another . Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has similarly played a vital role as has ...
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... Economy , Centre for Applied Economic Research , University of New South Wales , 1989 , pp 38-50 ; Robert J Fowler , ' International Policy Responses to the Greenhouse Effect and their Implications for Energy Policy in Australia ' , in ...
... Economy , Centre for Applied Economic Research , University of New South Wales , 1989 , pp 38-50 ; Robert J Fowler , ' International Policy Responses to the Greenhouse Effect and their Implications for Energy Policy in Australia ' , in ...
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... Economic Responses to Global Warming - An Australian Perspective ' Environmental and Planning Law Journal , vol 14 , 1997 , pp 341-355 ; Vincent Cusack , ' Perceived Costs versus Benefits of Meeting the Kyoto Target for Greenhouse Gas ...
... Economic Responses to Global Warming - An Australian Perspective ' Environmental and Planning Law Journal , vol 14 , 1997 , pp 341-355 ; Vincent Cusack , ' Perceived Costs versus Benefits of Meeting the Kyoto Target for Greenhouse Gas ...
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... economy because of the animals ' skins and oil . As hundreds of sealers engaged in unrestricted slaughter , visitors to Bass Strait in 1802 began privately urging Governor Philip Gidley King to intervene . In 1803 Australia's first ...
... economy because of the animals ' skins and oil . As hundreds of sealers engaged in unrestricted slaughter , visitors to Bass Strait in 1802 began privately urging Governor Philip Gidley King to intervene . In 1803 Australia's first ...
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... Economic Trends against the Secretaries of Energy , Agriculture and the Interior for failing to consider the greenhouse effect when applying the National Environmental Policy Act , and it had been dismissed for lack of standing.14 The ...
... Economic Trends against the Secretaries of Energy , Agriculture and the Interior for failing to consider the greenhouse effect when applying the National Environmental Policy Act , and it had been dismissed for lack of standing.14 The ...
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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