Environmental law equips students with the tools to understand environmental law in Australia. The text introduces the framework and fundamental concepts of environmental law, whilst challenging the reader to think broadly and deeply about the inter-connected issues associated with this area of law.

The Online Resource Centre contains extra material, links, references and links to key legislation, suggested teaching structure, reading guide. Original figures from the text will also be available for download for use in PowerPoints and handouts.

 

• An interdisciplinary focus that is in line with the realities of the teaching and practice of environmental law and policy.
• Integration of domestic and international material which draws on the authors’ combined skills and expertise in environmental law and policy.
• Current case study examples – covering application of legal principles, such as ecologically sustainable development and the precautionary principle, as well as the law and regulation relating to water, climate change, heritage protection, pollution, biodiversity management and many other areas.

1. Evolution of Environment Law

2. Changing Notions of Environment

3. Environmental Governance and Actors

4. Environmental Regulation and Legal Tools

5. The Changing Role of Science

6. Challenges of Integration and Complexity

7. Challenge of Internationalisation

8. Future Directions for Environmental Law

Lee Godden – Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Jacqueline Peel – Associate Professor, Melbourne Law, University of Melbourne

The authors Lee Godden and Jacqueline Peel have prepared resources for lecturers adopting the book. The extra material is in two parts:

 
• Supporting Material for Case Studies in the book (this material is also repeated in the ‘Student Resources’ tab.
 
• Sample questions for students

These resources are made available for teaching use only to those using the book as a prescribed text in their courses. If you would like to order the online resources please contact us at highered.au@oup.com.

The authors would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank Anne Kallies and Michael Power for their invaluable assistance in compiling materials for these resources.

For each case study the authors have included extra material including links and references for students to follow up and explore further. Please click on a case study below to see the extra material.

The authors Lee Godden and Jacqueline Peel would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank Anne Kallies and Michael Power for their invaluable assistance in compiling the materials for these online resources.

2.1: Indigenous traditional knowledge
2.2: Environmental notions and legal regulation: non-point source pollution
2.3: Wind farm developments

3.1: Environmental assessment of the Tasmanian pulp mill
3.2: Statutory interpretation by courts in an environmental case
3.3: The Toowoomba recycled water referendum
3.4: Judicial review in the Tasmanian pulp mill case
3.5: Challenge to dredging of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria
3.6: The Blue Wedges anti-dredging campaign
3.7: The Gunns 20 litigation

4.1: Unravelling ESD—the Walker case
4.2: Greentree case—a Commonwealth environmental prosecution
4.3: Wildlife Whitsunday greenhouse effects case
4.4: EIA process under the EPBC Act
4.5: Neighbourhood environmental improvement plans
4.6: Greenhouse challenge program

5.1: The Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth)
5.2: Leatch case 1993 (NSW)
5.3: Friends of Hinchinbrook case 1997 (Cth)
5.4: Tuna Boat Owners case 1999 (SA)
5.5: Yamauchi case 1998 (Qld)
5.6: Bridgetown Greenbushes/Friends of the Forest 1997 (WA)
5.7: Fisheries cases before the AAT (Cth)
5.8: Telstra case 2006 (NSW)
5.9: Anvil Hill case 2006 (NSW)
5.10: Western Water 2008 case (Vic)

6.1: Wind farm revisited
6.2: Nuclear waste sites on Aboriginal land
6.3: ‘No dams’ and desalination
6.4: Native vegetation management and the planning system
6.5: Wielangta Forest litigation
6.6: Reforms to initiate integrated management of invasive species
6.7: Nathan Dam case—institution of an indirect impacts test
6.8: Implementation of ICM
6.9: The Water Act 2007 (Cth)
6.10: Reef Water Quality Protection Plan
6.11: Integrating pollution control and development control
6.12: Integrated environmental management systems
6.13: Greening Australia
6.14: Walker v Minister for Planning
6.15: Gippsland Coastal Board v South Gippsland SC

7.1: The Montreal Ozone Protocol
7.2: Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean
7.3: Interpretation of GATT environmental exceptions
7.4: Quarantine measures and the SPS Agreement
7.5: Climate change refugees
7.6: National carbon pollution reduction scheme
7.7: State renewable energy measures
Extra Case study for chapter 7: International Trans-boundary Pollution