Foreword
Part 1 Legal and political issues
1 A slow burn: the emergence of climate change law in Australia
2 Global warming and discourses of uncertainty: buying time, buying business and engendering risk
3 State of the environment reporting by local government: Australian evidence on compliance and content
4 Framing responsibility: global firms’ environmental motivations
5 Economising water: the changing status of water in the political economy
Part 2 Scientific viewpoints
6 Management of water resources under uncertainty: what does the future hold?
7 A short geological and environmental history of the Sydney estuary, Australia
8 Energy from offshore wind: an overview
9 Household environmental pressure from consumption: an Australian environmental atlas
Part 3 Community issues
10 Civilising nature: museums and the environment
11 Not just a pretty picture: art as ecological communication
12 Framing the debate: an analysis of the Australian Government’s 2006 nuclear energy campaign
Appendix A
Contributors
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