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Environmental Policy Failure
The Australian Story
Kate Crowley & K J Walker
ISBN: 9780734611406 / 978-0-7346-1140-6
Price: A$69.95 NZ$83.95 US$59.95
Binding: Softcover
Trim: 200 x 250 mm 350 (approx.)
Published Date: December 2011
Environmental Policy Failure: The Australian Story reviews some of Australia’s most critically challenging environmental issues of our time and assesses the capacity of contemporary policies to solve them. It reveals, case by case, the endemic failure of environmental policy under both Labor and conservative governments across many generations, and assesses the prospects for a more ecologically sustainable future.
“It should be no surprise that the best scholars in Australia conclude that environmental policy has failed. After reading this book you will be much better informed about the failure of environmental policy. I hope you will also be determined to attack the root cause of that failure, our dominant political culture and the values it embodies.”
Ian Lowe, President Australian Conservation Foundation
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Australia's construction of environmental policy
Chapter 3 - Climate policy failure: Was the CPRS more politics than policy?
Chapter 4 - Lost energy policies, opportunities and practice
Chapter 5 - Between markets and government: Natural resources management policy in Australia
Chapter 6 - Flailing about in the Murray-Darling basin
Chapter 7 - Disintegration or disinterest? Costal and marine policy in Australia
Chapter 8 - Water privatisation: Failure of public policy
Chapter 9 - White shoe waders: Climate change adaptation and government
Chapter 10 - Catastrophic bushfire, politics and the public interest
Chapter 11- Boundless plains to share: Why no population policy?
Chapter 12 - Australian ENGOs and government: Strengthening democratic advocacy
Chapter 13 - Conclusions
Chapter 14 - Afterword—Policy futures
Editors:
Associate Professor Kate Crowley is Head of the School of Government at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, where she lectures in public and environmental policy. Her interests are in: green politics, policy and governance; climate change policy; federalism and environmental policy; sustainability; and policy theory and analysis.
She is a past Dean of Graduate Research for the University of Tasmania, an elected member of the University of Tasmania Council, and the Chair of the Premier‘s Tasmania Climate Action Council, an independent statutory au-thority that reports to Climate Change Minister and Tasmanian Greens Lead-ers Nick McKim—the first Green minister in Australia. Kate has published extensively on environmental governance, green politics and public policy, and is co-editor with KJ Walker of Australian Environmental Policy: Studies in Decline and Devolution.
KJ Walker is an independent researcher and, according to one reviewer, he ‘pioneered the study of environmental politics in Australia’. He has taught at Melbourne, Monash, Flinders, Adelaide, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State, Griffith, Queensland and Macquarie universities, and, from the mid-1970s, he developed and taught groundbreaking interdisciplinary courses in environmental policy and politics.
He writes in the fields of environmental policy and environmental political theory, but has subsidiary interests in technology, technology transfer, and technology history in its social context. His most important papers are: ‘Ecological Limits and Marxian Thought’ Politics; ‘Technology Transfer to India: The Case of the Integral Coach Factory’ Development and Change; and ‘The State in Environmental Management: The Ecological Dimension’ Political Studies.
Contributors include:
Professor Michael Buxton
Associate Professor Geoff Cockfield, USQ
Daniel Connell, ANU, Canberra
Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, Griffith University
Associate Professor Mark Diesendorf, UNSW, Sydney
Michael Howes, Griffith University
Associate Professor David Mercer, RMIT University, Melbourne
Mark O’Connor
Joan Staples, UNSW, Sydney
Associate Professor Geoff Wescott, Deakin University, Melbourne