Overview of Environmental Law in Australia -- Managing Environmental Conflict -- Land Use Planning -- Development Control -- Environmental Assessment in New South Wales -- Commonwealth Assessment and Approvals under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) -- Energy and Climate Law -- Water -- Integrated Natural Resource Management -- Conserving Biodiversity -- Protected Areas -- Heritage -- Pollution -- Waste and Contaminated Land -- Chemicals and Dangerous Goods -- Corporate Social Responsibility
Summary
The key changes in this edition concern planning and assessment, energy and climate law. The book continues to provide effective integration of planning and assessment provisions with environmental law topics such as pollution control, broadly defined; the protection of biodiversity and heritage; natural resource issues such as energy and water; global and domestic attempts to deal with climate change; and corporate social responsibility. The focus goes beyond NSW to take account of international as well as national developments, including detailed analysis of the relevant Commonwealth law