Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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(De)regulating the rural environment
Published 2002The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio Conference) heralded a new era of environmental law, with its purpose to formulate strategies to achieve sustainable development worldwide, recognising ...Open AccessArticle -
Monstrous mothering: Understanding the causes of and responses to infanticide
Published 2023The deliberate killing of a child by its mother is abhorrent and is associated in the minds of many with mental illness and in particular with postnatal depression. However, at least 50% of perpetrators are neither "mad" ...Open AccessArticle -
Is land-use planning being underutilised for ensuring the resilience of new electricity infrastructure?: An Australian case study
Published 2024Australia is a signatory to the Paris Agreement and has embarked upon a radical transformation of its electricity infrastructure to be achieved by 2030. This requires significant investment in new infrastructure including ...Open AccessArticle -
Coal seam gas in the context of global energy and climate change scenarios
Published 2012Coal seam gas (CSG) and other unconventional gases, such as shale gas, have been touted as delivering substantially fewer greenhouse gas emissions than coal. Further, the International Energy Agency has suggested that we ...Open AccessArticle -
Australia’s biodiversity and the bushfire climate catastrophe: Neoliberalism, causality, responsibility and recovery
Published 2024Australia's climate-induced bushfire disaster during the 2019–2020 summer devastated ecological and human communities. The wildfires burnt over 10 million hectares, including vegetation that rarely burns or is poorly adapted ...Open AccessArticle