Environmental and natural resources law
Overview
Members of our environmental and natural resources law research program conduct research into significant issues which involve the legal arrangements, both international and national, that address many of the world’s contemporary challenges, including:
- pollution control
- resource exploitation
- water conservation
- energy production and regulation
- protection of the natural and cultural environment
- climate change and human rights.
We perform research into law, theory, policy and practice concerning topics, including:
- jurisprudential and doctrinal foundations of environmental and natural resources law
- environmental justice forest governance
- Indigenous interests and human rights
- climate change and totality of carbon cycle
- human rights and climate change
- Native Title and Indigenous land management.
Grants and projects
This is just a sample of our research activity in this area.
