Energy Law and the Environment

About this book

The current unsustainable practices worldwide in energy production and consumption have led to a plethora of environmental problems. Until recently environmental law largely overlooked the relevance of energy production and consumption; energy was seen to be of little significance to the advancement of sustainable development. This has changed since 2000 with the global concern attached to climate change, the publication by the United Nations of the World Energy Assessment and the detailed consideration given to this issue at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. Australia has been seen to be lagging behind the other major industrialised nations of the world in addressing sustainable energy issues.

Contents

1. Overview of energy production and use in Australia
2. Energy technologies and sustainable development
3. Energy, international environmental law and sustainable development
4. Evaluating Australian government initiatives relating to energy, climate change and the environment
5. Sustainable energy in the Australian electricity and gas sectors
6. State government initiatives relating to energy and the environment
7. A sustainable energy law future for Australia

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Biography

Rosemary Lyster is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney. Adrian Bradbrook is Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide.