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. |
From inside the book
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... issue in the late 1980s , the role of the law started to excite attention . In a series of papers all the more significant because they reached far beyond a narrow legal audience , one of Australia's foremost environmental lawyers , Rob ...
... issue in the late 1980s , the role of the law started to excite attention . In a series of papers all the more significant because they reached far beyond a narrow legal audience , one of Australia's foremost environmental lawyers , Rob ...
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... issue in Australia started only in 2006. As widely recognised , the most severe drought since European settlement , possibly presaging a long - term transformation of precipitation patterns across the continent , has been a key factor ...
... issue in Australia started only in 2006. As widely recognised , the most severe drought since European settlement , possibly presaging a long - term transformation of precipitation patterns across the continent , has been a key factor ...
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... issues in Australia where government has been more or less inactive , both courts and tribunals have become ... issue in Australia - not even the protection of the continent's old forests9 - has engendered so many cases in such ...
... issues in Australia where government has been more or less inactive , both courts and tribunals have become ... issue in Australia - not even the protection of the continent's old forests9 - has engendered so many cases in such ...
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... issues and decisions are intensely controversial , though none more so than the Howard Government's selection of a site ... issue has been radically different from that of the Central Land Council and has been fiercely criticised by an ...
... issues and decisions are intensely controversial , though none more so than the Howard Government's selection of a site ... issue has been radically different from that of the Central Land Council and has been fiercely criticised by an ...
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... issue were the greenhouse emissions that would result from reopening what had once been the biggest scheelite mine in the southern hemisphere.2 When King Island Scheelite submitted a development proposal and environmental management ...
... issue were the greenhouse emissions that would result from reopening what had once been the biggest scheelite mine in the southern hemisphere.2 When King Island Scheelite submitted a development proposal and environmental management ...
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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