Before Environmental Law - A History of a Vanishing Continent

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin J Richardson is Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His international academic career has spanned law faculties in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. He held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Global Law Visiting Chair at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Professor Richardson’s environmental interests extend to community-focused groups including the Tasmanian Independent Science Council and the Restore Lake Pedder campaign. Klappentext This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia's natural environment and examines the subject's legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today's environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century. This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers' greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature's backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia's environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations. Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law. Vorwort The origins and making of environmental law in Australia are told in this unique, internationally significant history of the struggle to defend a vanishing natural world during the first two-thirds of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung This landmark book unveils the history of defending Australia’s natural environment and examines the subject’s legal and political contexts from the birth of the nation in 1901 until the advent of the so-called modern era of environmental regulation in the late 1960s. It rejects the mythology that Australia lacked environmental law before the late 1960s in revealing how many of today’s environmental laws, from pollution control to nature conservation, emerged from precedents or events much earlier in the 20th century. This history however reveals a discrepancy between lawmakers’ greater efficacy to exploit rather than protect the environment, a discrepancy that grew as nature’s backlash intensified in a rapidly degrading continent colonised to build the Australian nation. In exploring these dynamics, the book offers a rich tapestry of case studies illustrated with historic photographs that show the origins of Australia’s environmental laws and how they borrowed from international precedents or furnished lessons for other nations. Through its multi-disciplinary enquiry, the book offers scholars and students of environmental law, legal history and the environmental humanities a unique story about the failures and successes in the making of environmental law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Governing 1901 to 1967 1. Young Nation, Ancient Continent2. 1901: Nature for Nationhood3. 1967: Nature for Nature Part II: Transforming a Continent 4. Taming the Bush5. Prickly Pears to Toxic Toads6. Engineered Landscapes7. Testing Times Over the Outback Part III: Defending a Continent 8. The Furry and Feathered9. Scenic and Primitive Areas10. Town Planning and the Bush Capital11. Resource Users and Polluters12. Looking South: Icy Lands and Stormy S...

Sommario

Part I: Governing 1901 to 1967
1. Young Nation, Ancient Continent
2. 1901: Nature for Nationhood
3. 1967: Nature for Nature

Part II: Transforming a Continent
4. Taming the Bush
5. Prickly Pears to Toxic Toads
6. Engineered Landscapes
7. Testing Times Over the Outback

Part III: Defending a Continent
8. The Furry and Feathered
9. Scenic and Primitive Areas
10. Town Planning and the Bush Capital
11. Resource Users and Polluters
12. Looking South: Icy Lands and Stormy Seas

Part IV: The Future's Past
13. Restoring a Continent

Info autore

Benjamin J Richardson is Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His international academic career has spanned law faculties in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. He held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Global Law Visiting Chair at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Professor Richardson's environmental interests extend to community-focused groups including the Tasmanian Independent Science Council and the Restore Lake Pedder campaign.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richardson Benjamin J Richardson, Benjamin J Richardson
• Editore: Hart Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9781509969029
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-6902-9
• Pagine: 376
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto pubblico, amministrativo, costituzionale; LAW / Legal History, LAW / Environmental, Legal History, Environment law, Australasia, Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa