The Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project and ESD

I was recently published in the book Marine Resources Management, edited by Warwick Gullett, Clive Schofield and Joanna Vince. The book is available from LexisNexis Butterworths. My chapter, ’The Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project and environmental law: A model for ecologically sustainable development?’, inquires into the ‘sustainability’ of the Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project. I conclude: [...]

Questioning the sustainability paradigm

I was recently asked, on behalf of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, to contribute a submission to the Australian Capital Territory’s Commissioner for the Environment Act 1993. The Office of the Commissioner was particularly keen to incorporate the concept of sustainability within her sphere of concern. In addition to proposing a number of amendments [...]

Planning and wind farms in the UK

I was asked to give my view on the planning impediments to wind energy developments to Heren Energy, an energy news service. Heren understandably has a pro-wind agenda, hence the characterisation of the problem. Here is what they decided to use of my contribution about those aspects of the planning process that create often intractable [...]

Understanding environmental conflicts

I have finished my dissertation, which is titled: ‘When environmentalists collide: understanding conflicting views and values of environmentalists to wind energy’. You can download a pdf version from my Select Works site. By way of a tempter, here is an abstract for a paper I will draw from the dissertation. Wind energy is one of [...]