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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... Environmental Law at the Australian National University . His books include The Law of the Countryside , Environmental Protection and Legal Change , Places Worth Keeping : Conservationists , Politics and Law and the prize - winning The ...
... Environmental Law at the Australian National University . His books include The Law of the Countryside , Environmental Protection and Legal Change , Places Worth Keeping : Conservationists , Politics and Law and the prize - winning The ...
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... environmental lawyer in the Australian National University's College of Law . With a background in science and law she has a particular interest in the design of environmental regulation for scientific uncertainty . Her many ...
... environmental lawyer in the Australian National University's College of Law . With a background in science and law she has a particular interest in the design of environmental regulation for scientific uncertainty . Her many ...
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... environmental law 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 ...
... environmental law 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 ...
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... environmental law frame- work has grown rapidly , much as it has in the United States . As with other environmental issues in Australia where government has been more or less inactive , both courts and tribunals have become significant ...
... environmental law frame- work has grown rapidly , much as it has in the United States . As with other environmental issues in Australia where government has been more or less inactive , both courts and tribunals have become significant ...
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... Environmental and Health Effects of Atmospheric and Associated Climatic Change , Adelaide , Institution of Engineers , 1987 ; Robert J Fowler , ' Policy and Legal Implications of the Greenhouse Effect ' , in GI Pearman ( ed ) ...
... Environmental and Health Effects of Atmospheric and Associated Climatic Change , Adelaide , Institution of Engineers , 1987 ; Robert J Fowler , ' Policy and Legal Implications of the Greenhouse Effect ' , in GI Pearman ( ed ) ...
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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