Handbook

Regimes of environmental law serve as a ubiquitous background to almost all environment and society relations and challenges. This course seeks to render these regimes understandable to students from a variety of backgrounds, exploring a variety of legal vehicles, concepts, and institutions for addressing human interrelationships with/in their ecosystems. In the process, you will learn about the workings, opportunities, and limits of different aspects of these regimes to help enable you as effective environment and society leaders and change-makers. You will explore Australian law as a springboard for understanding international and transnational approaches to environmental law, with a focus on emerging legal vehicles for dealing with increasingly “fierce” environmental problems.