Water Wind Art and Debate : How Environmental Concerns Impact on Disciplinary Research.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birch, Gavin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2007.

Summary:

The Australian community has become increasingly concerned about environmental issues, resulting in the Australian government placing a higher priority on global warming and climate change. This unique compilation, Water, Wind, Art and Debate highlights current research across a variety of Humanities and Science disciplines.

Contents:

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Part 1 - Legal and political issues

Chapter 1 - A slow burn: the emergence of climate change law in Australia

Chapter 2 - Global warming and discourses of uncertainty: buying time, buying business and engendering risk

Chapter 3 - State of the environment reporting by local government: Australian evidence on compliance and content

Chapter 4 - Framing responsibility: global firms’ environmental motivations

Chapter 5 - Economising water: the changing status of water in the political economy

Part 2 - Scientific viewpoints

Chapter 6 - Management of water resources under uncertainty: what does the future hold?

Chapter 7 - A short geological and environmental history of the Sydney estuary, Australia

Chapter 8 - Energy from offshore wind: an overview

Chapter 9 - Household environmental pressure from consumption: an Australian environmental atlas

Part 3 - Community issues

Chapter 10 - Civilising nature: museums and the environment

Chapter 11 - Not just a pretty picture: art as ecological communication

Appendix A

Contributors

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ISBN:

9781743329474

1743329474

OCLC:

1434177308