Edward Christie, Barrister and Mediator, Queensland Bar, Australia, formerly, Associate Professor (Applied Ecology) Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Australia and formerly, Environmental Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Commonwealth of Australia

'Edward Christie's Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts does more than just analyze the processes through which environmental conflicts can be resolved. The text takes its readers through the basic principles of the environmental decision-making process and explains how litigation, in addition to alternative dispute resolution techniques such as negotiation, can be used to address environmental problems. What makes Christie's text unique is that it helps readers to understand the legal system of not only the United States, but of the United Kingdom and Australia as well, providing readers with a broad sense of the interactions of law and environmental decision-making processes in other common law nations.'

• Contents: Foreword: Justice Peter R.A. Gray, Federal Court of Australia 1. Introduction 2. Principles and Concepts in Environmental Decision-Making 3. Constraints to Participation in Public Interest Environmental Conflicts 4. Enforcement of Environmental Laws: Legal Rights, Conflict Resolution, Knowledge Power and Negotiation 5. Sustainability and the Environment 6. Environmental Impact Assessment 7. Risk, Precaution and the Environment: Biotechnology 8. Hazardous Chemicals and Public Health 9. Biodiversity and Threatened Species 10. Managing and Resolving Environmental Conflicts by Negotiation: NIMBY or NIMBI? Bibliography Index

Edward Christie, Barrister and Mediator, Queensland Bar, Australia, formerly, Associate Professor (Applied Ecology) Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Australia and formerly, Environmental Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Commonwealth of Australia

'Edward Christie's Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts does more than just analyze the processes through which environmental conflicts can be resolved. The text takes its readers through the basic principles of the environmental decision-making process and explains how litigation, in addition to alternative dispute resolution techniques such as negotiation, can be used to address environmental problems. What makes Christie's text unique is that it helps readers to understand the legal system of not only the United States, but of the United Kingdom and Australia as well, providing readers with a broad sense of the interactions of law and environmental decision-making processes in other common law nations.'

• Contents: Foreword: Justice Peter R.A. Gray, Federal Court of Australia 1. Introduction 2. Principles and Concepts in Environmental Decision-Making 3. Constraints to Participation in Public Interest Environmental Conflicts 4. Enforcement of Environmental Laws: Legal Rights, Conflict Resolution, Knowledge Power and Negotiation 5. Sustainability and the Environment 6. Environmental Impact Assessment 7. Risk, Precaution and the Environment: Biotechnology 8. Hazardous Chemicals and Public Health 9. Biodiversity and Threatened Species 10. Managing and Resolving Environmental Conflicts by Negotiation: NIMBY or NIMBI? Bibliography Index

Edward Christie, Barrister and Mediator, Queensland Bar, Australia, formerly, Associate Professor (Applied Ecology) Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Australia and formerly, Environmental Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Commonwealth of Australia

'Edward Christie's Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts does more than just analyze the processes through which environmental conflicts can be resolved. The text takes its readers through the basic principles of the environmental decision-making process and explains how litigation, in addition to alternative dispute resolution techniques such as negotiation, can be used to address environmental problems. What makes Christie's text unique is that it helps readers to understand the legal system of not only the United States, but of the United Kingdom and Australia as well, providing readers with a broad sense of the interactions of law and environmental decision-making processes in other common law nations.'

• Contents: Foreword: Justice Peter R.A. Gray, Federal Court of Australia 1. Introduction 2. Principles and Concepts in Environmental Decision-Making 3. Constraints to Participation in Public Interest Environmental Conflicts 4. Enforcement of Environmental Laws: Legal Rights, Conflict Resolution, Knowledge Power and Negotiation 5. Sustainability and the Environment 6. Environmental Impact Assessment 7. Risk, Precaution and the Environment: Biotechnology 8. Hazardous Chemicals and Public Health 9. Biodiversity and Threatened Species 10. Managing and Resolving Environmental Conflicts by Negotiation: NIMBY or NIMBI? Bibliography Index