This book includes contributions by a range of leading international and national experts on the general theme of environmental law, policy, and sustainability. Its contributors identify a number of emerging trends in environmental law and policy on a global, regional, and local level and provide a number of perspectives on how business and government can and should respond to diverse, and increasingly serious, threats to sustainability.

Post-Rio political developments, including current initiatives, form a particular focus, as do the Commonwealth's environment protection and biodiversity conservation legislative initiatives and trends and developments at Australian State level.

Also covered are: ISO 14001, incentives for cleaner production, the APEC trade liberalisation process, heritage protection, EIA, and community right-to-know. The book complements but goes beyond previous books in this series in its distinctive focus on sustainability issues and their implications for environmental law and policy.

Table of Contents

Opening Address: Reform of Commonwealth Environmental Law - Senator Robert Hill
CHAPTER 1: Recent Developments in the European Union and the Earth Summit +5 - Margaret Brusasco-Mackenzie
CHAPTER 2: Recent Developments in Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific - Lal Kurukulasuriya
CHAPTER 3: Implementation of International Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific - Ben Boer
CHAPTER 4: Recent Developments in the United States: Prospects for the 105th Congress - J. William Futrell
CHAPTER 5: Incorporating Sustainability Principles in Legislation - Paul Stein and Susan Mahoney
CHAPTER 6: Towards Sustainability: Incentives for Cleaner Production - Neil Gunningham and Darren Sinclair
CHAPTER 7: APEC and ESD: Turning Sustained Economic Growth into Ecologically Sustainable Development - Jan McDonald
CHAPTER 8: Scope of the Commonwealth's Environmental Powers and Responsibilities - Geoffrey Lindell
CHAPTER 9: Trends and Developments at State Level: A Western Australian Perspective - Bryan Jenkins
CHAPTER 10: Recent Trends and Developments in South Australian Environmental Law - Paul Leadbeter
CHAPTER 11: Beyond the National Environment Protection Council - John Taberner
CHAPTER 12: International Marine Environmental Law and Policy: 20th Century Responses and 21st Century Challenges - Donald R Rothwell
CHAPTER 13: The Development of Australia's Ocean Policy: Implications for Marine Environmental Law - Sam Bateman
CHAPTER 14: "Barbarians at the Gates of the Garden of Eden - Revisited": Heritage Protection Foundation for the New Millennium - Simon R. Molesworth
CHAPTER 15: Having Our Cake and Eating It: Heritage Protection and the Australian Minerals Industry - Ian Gould
CHAPTER 16: EIA and the Politics of Reform - Steven Münchenberg
CHAPTER 17: Environmental Marketing: Would You Buy It? - Amanda Cornwall
Concluding Remarks - Brian Preston
References
Index