See BurdonPeter, ‘Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence’ (2010) 35(2) Alternative Law Journal62 and BurdonPeter (ed), Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press, 2011).
3.
BerryThomas, ‘Legal Conditions for Earth's Survival’ in TuckerMary-Evelyn (ed), Evening Thoughts: Reflections on Earth as Sacred Community (Sierra Club, 2006) 107.
4.
EinsteinAlbert quoted in Klaus Bosselmann, ‘The Way Forward: Governance for Ecological Integrity’ in WestraLauraBosselmannKlaus and WestraRichard, Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity (Earthscan, 2008) 319.
5.
PlumwoodVal, ‘Androcentrism and Anthrocentrism: Parallels and Politics’ (1996) Ethics and the Environment1.
6.
The most comprehensive analysis of the intersection between anthropocentrism and law is BosselmannKlaus, When Two Worlds Collide: Society and Ecology (RSVP Pub, 1999). See also BurdonPeter, Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and Earth Community (PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide, 2011).
7.
BatesGerry, Environmental Law in Australia (Lexis Nexis, 2002) 20.
LoweIan, ‘The Law and Sustainable Futures’ (Paper presented at Earth Jurisprudence: Building Theory and Practice, Brisbane, 16th September 2011).
10.
Ibid.
11.
HorowitzMorton, The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 (Harvard University Press, 1977) 32.
12.
FreyfogleEric T, ‘Property Rights, The Markets and Environmental Change in Twentieth-Century America’ (2001) 01Illinois Public Law and Legal Theory Research Papers Series1: 4.
13.
Ibid4. See further Bryant v Lefever 4 Common Pleas Division 172 (1879) at [175]–[176].
FOE, above n 24. Environmental groups are Friends of the Earth, Inland Rivers Network, Nature Conservation Council NSW, Central West Environment Council, Fair Water Use Australia, National Parks Association NSW and Wilderness Society Sydney.
This requirement is repeated in the purposes and content of the basin plan. S 23(1) requires the plan to reflect ‘environmentally sustainable levels of take’. One possible explanation for this failure concerns s 4 of the Water Act 2007 (Cth).
33.
GardnerAlex, ‘Optimising the Future of the Murray-Darling Basin’ (Paper presented at Water Law & Policy Conference, ANU, 1 December 2011).
See CullinanCormac, Wild Law: A Manifesto For Earth Justice (Green Books, 2003).
39.
Berry, above n 3, 149.
40.
Bosselmann, above n 6, 7.
41.
Ibid.
42.
OttKonrad, ‘A Modest Proposal about How to Proceed in Order to Solve the Problem of Inherent Moral Value in Nature’ in WestraBosselmann and Westra (eds), Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity (2008) 48. Ott argues the division of the moral community into subclasses is necessary ‘since any environmental ethics needs a basic conception for conflict resolution which can meet different types of conflicts’.
WestraLaura, ‘Ecological Integrity’ in MitchamCarl (ed), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics (Macmillan Reference, 2005) 575.
46.
KarrJames, ‘Protecting Ecological Integrity: An Urgent Societal Goal’ (1993) 18(1) Yale Journal of International Law297.
47.
WestraLaura, ‘Ecological Integrity and the Aims of the Global Ecological Integrity Project’ in PimentelDavidWestraLaura & NossReed F. (eds), Ecological Integrity: (Island Press, 2000) 20. One example of ecological integrity in legislation is s 101(a) of the US Clean Water Act 1972: ‘to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters’.
48.
s 21(4)(a) of the Water Act 2007 (Cth) reads the Authority and the Minister must, in exercising their powers and performing their functions under this Division, take into account the principles of ecologically sustainable development.
49.
See KarrJames and ChuEllen, Restoring Life in Running Waters (Island Press, 1999).
50.
Ibid40–41.
51.
Ibid.
52.
MackeyBrendan & RakhyunK, ‘Promise the Earth on the Necessary Relationships Between Earth System Science and International Environmental Law’ (Paper presented at Earth Jurisprudence, Brisbane, 16th September 2011).
53.
KarrJames, ‘Ecological Integrity and Ecological Health are not the Same’ in SchulzePeter (ed), Engineering Within Ecological Constraints (National Academy Press, 1996) 96
For a full exploration of this point see BurdonPeter, ‘What is Good Land Use? From Rights to Responsibilities’ (2010) 34(3) Melbourne University Law Review708. See also JacksonWes, Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (Counterpoint, 2010).
