Rebecca L. Nelson is an Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and Director of the Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment. She was the Australian Law Council's Mahla Pearlman AO Young Environmental Lawyer of the Year (2014), IAH/NCGRT Distinguished Lecturer (2016) and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2018-2021).

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• 1. Introducing cumulative environmental impacts as a central problem for law; 2. Why cumulative environmental problems are difficult and implications for law: introducing the CIRCle framework; 3. Law and cumulative environmental problems: a landscape for analysis; 4. Conceptualization: laws for defining what matters, who matters, and what unacceptable harm means; 5. Information: Laws for producing, sharing, aggregating and analyzing information; 6. Regulatory intervention: laws for influencing cumulative harm; 7. Coordination: Laws for making links; 8. Not a drop to drink: Conceptualizing environmental justice in California groundwater; 9. Coral, coal and cattle: cumulative impacts and the great barrier reef; 10. Between nature and culture: regulating cumulative impacts on alpine Grasslands; 11. Design for regulating a thousand cuts: summary guidance and concluding reflections; Glossary; Index.