This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “The Role of Legal Innovation and Blockchain Technology in “Next Gen” Environmental Markets” – Emily Davies; “Indigenous Water Rights and Water Law Reforms in Australia” – Lee Godden, Sue Jackson and Katie O’Bryan; “Safeguards for the Sea – Offshore Oil Spill Liability in Australia” – Kierra Parker; and “Enhancing the Weather: Governance of Weather Modification Activities in Australia” – Manon Simon, Kerryn Brent, Jan McDonald and Jeff McGee.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged articles, cloud seeding, compensation in the event of an offshore oil spill, distributed ledger technology (DLT), Emily Davies, Enhancing the Weather: Governance of Weather Modification Activities in Australia, EPLJ, high-risk offshore oil exploration, Indigenous Water Rights and Water Law Reforms in Australia, Jan McDonald, Jeff McGee, Katie O’Bryan, Kerryn Brent, Kierra Parker, Lee Godden, Manon Simon, northern Australia, risks from cloud seeding, Safeguards for the Sea – Offshore Oil Spill Liability in Australia, southern Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, Sue Jackson, Sustainable Development Goals, The Role of Legal Innovation and Blockchain Technology in "Next Gen" Environmental Markets, the Yarra, water laws, weather manipulation technologies, weather modification governance in Australia |
This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Generated by Major Projects: Scoping Out the Roles of the Commonwealth and State/Territory Governments” – Guy Dwyer; “Sustainable Finance in Australia: Compliance, Enforcement and Surrogate Regulation” – Neil Gunningham; “Energy Security and “Big Stick” Legislation” – Kin Pan; and “Designing Managed Retreat Policy for an Uncertain Future”– John Watson.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged articles, Australian energy law, climate change adaptation policy, climate finance regulation, compliance and enforcement strategies, constructing a policy response, Designing Managed Retreat Policy for an Uncertain Future, energy crisis, energy policy, Energy Security and "Big Stick" Legislation, Enforcement and Surrogate Regulation, environmental and planning laws, EPLJ, Guy Dwyer, harnessing third parties as regulatory surrogates, intrusion into private property interests, John Watson, Kin Pan, limits of government regulation, Meta-regulation, mitigating the effects of hazards, Neil Gunningham, policy design matters, Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Generated by Major Projects: Scoping Out the Roles of the Commonwealth and State/Territory Governments, removal from vulnerable land, Responsive Regulation, smart regulation, Sustainable Finance in Australia: Compliance, Treasury Laws Amendment (Prohibiting Energy Market Misconduct) Act 2019 (Cth), uncertainty surrounding future sea-level rise and timing of coastal hazards |
This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “Contemporary Issues in Environmental Impact Assessment” – Brian J Preston; “Improving Resilience: Electricity Law, Microgrids and Solar in the Context of Climate Change” – Thomas Duck; “Roadmaps and Regulation: Sustainable Finance in Australia” – Neil Gunningham; “Protecting Coastal Wetland Habitat for Migratory Shorebirds: Is Australian Law Doing Enough?” – Evan Hamman, Revel Pointon and Jemma Purandare; “Green Lawfare: Does the Evidence Match the Allegations? – An Empirical Evaluation of Public Interest Litigation under the EPBC Act from 2009 to 2019” – Annika Reynolds, Andrew Ray and Shelby O’Connor; and “Should CRISPR/Cas9 Technology Be Regulated under the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth)?” – Ella Scoles.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Andrew Ray, Annika Reynolds, articles, Australia's GMO regulatory scheme, awareness of senior corporate decision-makers, Brian J Preston, bushfires, Capital Requirements, climate change, climate change legislation and disaster planning documents, climate change-induced shocks, climate finance regulation, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), community resilience and adaptation, Contemporary Issues in Environmental Impact Assessment, corporate culture, CRISPR-associated endonuclease protein (Cas9) technology, cumulative impacts, development impact, East Asian Australasian Flyway (EAAF), electricity law and planning, Ella Scoles, Envirionment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), environmental impact assessment (EIA), environmental management, EPBC Act, EPLJ, Evan Hamman, extreme weather, Far Eastern Curlew, fossil fuel industry, Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth), Gene Technology Amendment (2019 Measures No 1) Regulations 2019 (Cth), genetically modified organism (GMO), Green Lawfare: Does the Evidence Match the Allegations? – An Empirical Evaluation of Public Interest Litigation under the EPBC Act from 2009 to 2019, Improving Resilience: Electricity Law, Jemma Purandare, low-carbon investment, Microgrids and Solar in the Context of Climate Change, migratory shorebird conservation, Neil Gunningham, overwintering refuge for shorebirds, Protecting Coastal Wetland Habitat for Migratory Shorebirds: Is Australian Law Doing Enough?, public trust and legitimacy, Queensland’s Moreton Bay wetlands, renewable energy, Reserve Bank, Revel Pointon, Risk Weightings, Roadmaps and Regulation: Sustainable Finance in Australia, Shelby O'Connor, shorebird protection, short-termism, Should CRISPR/Cas9 Technology Be Regulated under the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth)?, tactical lawfare, tactical litigation by public interest groups, temporal problems, Thomas Duck, vulnerability of electricity system |
This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “The Murray-Darling Basin in Court: Administering Water Policy in the Eastern States of Australia – Administrative and Other Challenges” – Justice Nicola Pain and Georgia Pick; “Landowners’ Appeal of Seawalls Refusal Unsuccessful” – John R Corkill; “Higher and Distinctive Standards for Urban River Protection? Special Purpose “River Laws” and Land-use Planning” – Bruce Lindsay; “Take Care or Beware: Victoria’s New Environmental Protection Regime” – Alice Maxwell; “Serial Environmental Offenders: Putting Penalties into Practice” – Kierra Parker; “Planning vs Planning Law: Reconciling Planning Policy and Case Law in the Victorian Planning System” – Stephen Rowley; and “Climate Change Risk and the Urban Landscape” – Sophie Tepper.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Alice Maxwell, articles, Basin Plan 2012 (Cth), Basin State water management regimes, Bruce Lindsay, built environment, Climate Change Risk and the Urban Landscape, climate justice, corporate governance, environmental offences, EPLJ, Georgia Pick, Higher and Distinctive Standards for Urban River Protection? Special Purpose "River Laws" and Land-use Planning, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, John R Corkill, Justice Nicola Pain, Kierra Parker, Landowners’ Appeal of Seawalls Refusal Unsuccessful, local councils' coastal zone planning, management program preparation, National Trust principle, physical climate change risks and liabilities, planning appeal tribunals, Planning vs Planning Law: Reconciling Planning Policy and Case Law in the Victorian Planning System, property rights, responses of government and private actors in Australia, river management, seawall proposals, sentencing serial environmental offenders, Serial Environmental Offenders: Putting Penalties into Practice, Sophie Tepper, Stephen Rowley, superior private property rights, Take Care or Beware: Victoria's New Environmental Protection Regime, The Murray-Darling Basin in Court: Administering Water Policy in the Eastern States of Australia – Administrative and Other Challenges, urban planning and legal professionals, Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety legislation, Water Act 2007 (Cth), Yarra River Protection (wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017 (Vic) |
This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “Urgent Need to Use and Reform Critical Habitat Listing in Australian Legislation in Response to the Extensive 2019–2020 Bushfires” – James A Fitzsimons; “A Case Study of Incentive Regulation in Electricity Transmission Networks for the Uptake of Renewable Energy: Build It and They Will Come” – Simon Anderson; “”If We Don’t Mine Coal, Someone Else Will”: Debunking the “Market Substitution Assumption” in Queensland Climate Change Litigation” – Justine Bell-James and Briana Collins; “Environmental Class Actions in Australia: A Coming Storm?” – Corey Byrne; “Climate-induced Displacement: Protection under the Current International Legal Frameworks” – Ishrat Jahan; “Reconsidering the Species-specific Approach: Insects and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act” – Sophie Lloyd; “Muddied Waters: Revealing Methodological Confusion in Australia’s Environmental Impact Assessment Process” – Maya Suzuki; and “Essay Topic: A New Era for a Higher Level of Public Participation in the Administration of Environmental Law and Justice in the People’s Republic of China” – Xu (John) Zhang. This issue also includes an Editorial: “Why Australia (Desperately) Needs a New National Sustainability Strategy” – Dr Gerry Bates.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged "If We Don’t Mine Coal Someone Else Will", 2019–2020 Bushfires, A Case Study of Incentive Regulation in Electricity Transmission Networks for the Uptake of Renewable Energy: Build It and They Will Come, Administrative Litigation Law (ALL), adverse impacts of climate change, articles, assessment of environmental and economic impacts of mining projects, Australian class action jurisprudence, bioregional planning, Briana Collins, changing market conditions, Civil Procedure Law (CPL), claims by foreign claimants against Australian-domiciled entities, claims for breach of statutory environmental duties, climate change based claims, Climate-induced Displacement: Protection under the Current International Legal Frameworks, coal mine, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, Corey Byrne, critical habitat, Debunking the "Market Substitution Assumption" in Queensland Climate Change Litigation, Dr Gerry Bates, ecological civilisation, Editorial, EIA, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), Environmental Class Actions in Australia: A Coming Storm?, environmental public-interest litigation, EPBC Act, EPLJ, Essay Topic: A New Era for a Higher Level of Public Participation in the Administration of Environmental Law and Justice in the People’s Republic of China, foreign pollution, impacts of a development project on the environment economy and society, Ishrat Jahan, James A Fitzsimons, Justine Bell-James, Maya Suzuki, moral and ethical issues, MSA, Muddied Waters: Revealing Methodological Confusion in Australia's Environmental Impact Assessment Process, native insect species, new types of claims, offshore wind, Paris Agreement, Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Reconsidering the Species-specific Approach: Insects and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, renewable energy generation, Simon Anderson, solar PV, Sophie Lloyd, Special Issue, species-specific protections, standard of proof and precautionary principle, sustainable development of PRC, threatened species, Urgent Need to Use and Reform Critical Habitat Listing in Australian Legislation, Why Australia (Desperately) Needs a New National Sustainability Strategy, Xu (John) Zhang |
This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “Corporations and Climate Change: An Investigation of Mandatory Climate Risk Disclosure in Australia” – Zoe Caldwell; “Victorian Ecological Sustainable Forest Management: Part VI – Identifying Change Mechanisms in Regulation and a New Model for Victorian Forestry Practice” – Dr Rhett Martin; “Identifying Opportunities for Climate Litigation: A Transnational Claim by Customary Landowners in Papua New Guinea against Australia’s Largest Climate Polluter” – Dr Chris McGrath; “Litigating at the Source: Attributing Climate Change Impacts to Coal Mines” – Kierra Parker; “Coal and Climate Change: A Study of Contemporary Climate Litigation in Australia” – Victoria McGinness and Murray Raff; and “Coastal Management and Protecting the Public Interest: Recent NSW Land and Environment Court Decisions” – Ballanda Sack, Timothy Allen and Bruce Thom.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Ballanda Sack, climate change, Climate Change Impacts to Coal Mines, climate risk disclosure, coastal erosion, Coastal Management Act 2016 (NSW), Coastal Management and Protecting the Public Interest, Contemporary Climate Litigation, Corporations and Climate Change, customary landowners in Papua New Guinea, Dr Chris McGrath, Dr Rhett Martin, environmental assessment of coal projects, EPLJ, Forestry regulation, Gloucester Resources Ltd v Minister for Planning, Kierra Parker, Loy Yang A Power Station, Murray Raff, opportunities for climate litigation, Public Trust Doctrine, Recent NSW Land and Environment Court Decisions, Special Issue, Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 (Vic), Timothy Allen and Bruce Thom, transnational litigation, Victoria McGinness, Victorian Ecological Sustainable Forest Management, Victorian Forestry Practice, Zoe Caldwell |
This Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “Impacts on Agricultural Land from Queensland’s Energy Transition” – Dr Georgina Davis; “China: A Global Renewable Energy Fulcrum?” – Jan Froestad and Tabitha M Benney; “Unconventional Gas and Royalty Sharing: The Benefits of Reconceiving Ownership and Revenue” – Samantha Hepburn; “Mercury Emissions, Regulation and Governance of Coal-fired Power Stations in Victoria, Australia” – Darren Sinclair and Larissa Schneider; “The Global Pact for the Environment: Implications for Climate Change Loss and Damage” – Angela Bruckner; “Clearing of Native Vegetation in Queensland: An Analysis of Finalised Prosecutions over a 10-Year Period (2007–2018)” – Dr Evan Hamman; “Horses, Culture and Ethics: Wildlife Regulation in Kosciuszko National Park” – Sophie Riley; “Aeroconservation – Challenges for Law and Policy” – Pip Wallace and Jennifer Holman; and Book Reviews: “Water Management in New Zealand’s Canterbury Region: A Sustainability Framework”, by Bryan R Jenkins – Reviewed by Rachel Ravagnani and Cameron Holley; and “Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance”, by Erin O’Donnell – Reviewed by Katie O’Bryan.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Aeroconservation, agricultural land, Airspace conservation, Angela Bruckner, animal ethics, biodiversity loss in Australia, Book reviews, Bryan R Jenkins, Cameron Holley, China, climate change, Coal-fired Power Stations in Victoria, Collaboration and Water Governance, Culture and Ethics, Darren Sinclair, Dr Evan Hamman, Dr Georgina Davis, energy transition, environmental protection, EPLJ, Erin O’Donnell, Gas and Royalty Sharing, Global Pact for the Environment, Horses, impacts of siting large-scale solar on high-quality agricultural land, international environmental treaty, Jan Froestad, Jennifer Holman, Katie O’Bryan, land clearing, large-scale solar photovoltaic facilities, Larissa Schneider, Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, loss and damage, Mercury Emissions, Minamata Convention on Mercury, modern energy policies, National Pollutant Inventory, Native Vegetation in Queensland, Pip Wallace, Queensland, Rachel Ravagnani, Reconceiving Ownership and Revenue, renewable energy, renewable energy target, Samantha Hepburn, Sophie Riley, Special Issue, Tabitha M Benney, Water Management in New Zealand’s Canterbury Region: A Sustainability Framework, Wildlife management, Wildlife Regulation in Kosciuszko National Park |
This Special Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes an Editorial: “Governing Energy Transitions: Unconventional Gas, Renewables and Their Environmental Nexus” – Cameron Holley, Amanda Kennedy, Tariro Mutongwizo and Clifford Shearing; and the following articles: “International Environmental Law and the Anthropocene’s Energy Dilemma” – Louis J Kotzé; “Governing the Energy Transition: The Role of Corporate Law Tools” – Jacqueline Peel, Anita Foerster, Brett McDonnell and Hari M Osofsky; “Complicity in Climate Harms: A Case Study of Australia’s Gas Export Industry” – J Moss and E Walsh; “Smart Planning for Unconventional Oil and Gas Development” – Mark Squillace; “Fracking and Transboundary Water Management” – Rhett B Larson; “Shaping Unconventional Gas Regulation: Industry Influence and Risks of Agency Capture in Texas, Colorado and Queensland” – Cameron Holley, Tariro Mutongwizo, Clifford Shearing and Amanda Kennedy; “Big Time: An Empirical Analysis of Regulating the Cumulative Environmental Effects of Coal Seam Gas Extraction under Australian Federal Environmental Law” – Rebecca Nelson; “Coal Seam Gas Regulation in New South Wales: Drawing the Connections Between Risk, Communication and Trust” – Katherine Owens; and “More Joules per Drop–How Much Water Does Unconventional Gas Use Compared to Other Energy Sources and What Are the Legal Implications?” – Wendy A Timms, Sudeep Nair and Rebecca Nelson.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged 2014 Gas Plan, Amanda Kennedy, Anita Foerster, Anthropocene's energy dilemma, Australia's gas export industry, Brett McDonnell, Cameron Holley, Clifford Shearing, climate risk management, coal seam gas regulation in NSW, cumulative environmental effects of coal seam gas (CSG), E Walsh, Editorial, effective energy transition governance, environmental nexus of unconventional gas and renewables, EPLJ, fracking and transboundary water management, GHG emissions from exported gas, governing energy transitions, Hari M Osofsky, hydraulic fracturing (fracking), international environmental law (IEL), J Moss, Jacqueline Peel, joules per drop for energy sources, Katherine Owens, Mark Squillace, O'Kane Review, promotion of clean energy sources, Rebecca Nelson, Rhett B Larson, smart planning for unconventional oil and gas development, Special Issue, Sudeep Nair, sustainable energy transition, Tariro Mutongwizo, unconventional gas regulation, Wendy A Timms |
This Special Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ Vol 36 Part 5 ), compiled by Guest Editor, Professor Cameron Holley (UNSW Sydney and PLuS Alliance Fellow) brings together the contributions of leading environmental and energy law and governance experts to distil insights from Australia and the globe and examine the role of law in governing energy transitions, and law and governance mechanisms might be needed to better govern energy transitions and their nexus with the environment. The Introduction to this Special issue – Governing Energy Transitions: Unconventional Gas, Renewables and their Environmental Nexus (by Cameron Holley, Amanda Kennedy, Tariro Mutongwizo and Clifford Shearing) provides a brief overview and synthesises lessons from each article featured.
This Part of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “Joint Crediting Mechanism in Practice” – Dr Justin Dabner; “Remediating Public Interest Environmental Harm: Revisiting the Montara and Deepwater Horizon Oil Spills and the Need for Legislative Reform in Australia” – Edward Dymond; “Regulation of electronic waste under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal” – Michael Goodall; “Regulating Wild Collected Orchids? The CBD, Nagoya Protocol and CITES Overlaps” – Charles Lawson, Jenna Wraith and Catherine Pickering; “Rehabilitation of Abandoned Fracking Operations: A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Levy Schemes in Meeting the Polluter Pays Principle” – Tania Murray, Edward Andre and Krishna Prasad; “Shipping Companies’ Accountability in Ballast Water–induced Pollution Regulation” – Mia Mahmudur Rahim, Md Tarikul Islam and Sanjaya Kuruppu; and “Our Home Is Girt by Seawalls? Preserving the Public Interest in an Era of Sea Level Rise” – Mr Ashley Robb, Michele Payne, Dr Laura Stocker and Dr Garry Middle.
Posted in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Alberta's Orphan Fund Levy, assurance mechanisms in conjunction with levy schemes, Catherine Pickering, Charles Lawson, Conference of Parties, conservation and sustainable development of genetic resources, Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), decisions concerning e-waste and its management, Dr Garry Middle, Dr Justin Dabner, Dr Laura Stocker, Edward Andre, Edward Dymond, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), EPLJ, Expert Working Group, Jenna Wraith, Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), Krishna Prasad, Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, levy schemes in polluter pays principle, low-cost emissions reductions, Market Based Mechanism, Md Tarikul Islam, Mia Mahmudur Rahim, Michael Goodall, Michele Payne, Montara and Deepwater Horizon oil spills, Mr Ashley Robb, Nagoya Protocol, preparing coastal communities for sea level rise, public interest environmental harm, regulation of electronic waste (e-waste) under the Basel Convention, Sanjaya Kuruppu, shipping companies' accountability in ballast water-induced pollution regulation, State coastal policy's public interest objectives, Tania Murray, Western Australia's Mining Rehabilitation Fund |