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Publisher: Bond University
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.53300/001C.6930
Abstract: Food security and the human right to food, as recognised under Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 11 of the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, are intrinsically linked. Both Articles recognize that access to agricultural land and security of tenure is essential to achieving food security. The right to food requires that each in idual, alone or in concert with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. Primarily, however, the right to food requires that: States refrain from taking measures that may deprive in iduals of access to productive resources on which they depend when they produce food for themselves (the obligation to respect) that they protect such access from encroachment by other private parties (the obligation to protect) and that they seek to strengthen people’s access to and utilization of resources and means to ensure their livelihoods, including food security (the obligation to fulfil). This paper explores and assesses three contemporary policy instruments in the area of agricultural production and unconventional gas operations in Australia against the right to food and security of tenure. It examines the new natural resource governance proposals in The Agricultural Competitiveness Green Paper, The Regional Planning Interests Act 2014 (Qld) protecting prime agricultural land and The Multiple Land Use Framework developed in recognition of the conflict arising over land access and land use.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 19-11-2018
DOI: 10.1093/JWELB/JWY026
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Bond University
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.53300/001C.6734
Abstract: The trend of imposing levies in Australia because they are a ‘soft charge’ rather than a ‘hard tax’ is growing. The definition of a levy remains unclear to many Australians. The 2013 announcement by the federal government to increase the existing Medicare Levy to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme (‘NDIS’) invites comment on whether a difference exists between a tax and a levy.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-08-2023
DOI: 10.1038/S44168-023-00059-0
Abstract: Pacific Island Countries (PICs) advocate for greenhouse gas emissions reductions but face many barriers in transitioning from fossil fuels. Despite these obstacles, PICs aim to shift to renewable energy to meet ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Research suggests that this is limited by state and regulatory capacity, market structures, and access to finance. While these problems are salient, this article argues that discussions remain overly focused on technical solutions. We argue that socio-cultural factors also hinder the transition, including international actors conducting program and project development in the Pacific that insufficiently reflect local context. Drawing on recent decarbonisation policy and renewable energy project ex les we argue that PICs are more likely to meet their NDC targets if the transition is fostered through cultural practices for deliberative decision making, such as Talanoa, Talanga, and community-based approaches. Such practices will deliver maximum benefits to communities and ensure a just and sustainable transition.
Publisher: Bond University
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.53300/001C.6926
Abstract: The urgency of securing food supply has increased dramatically in a period when the GFC, environmental degradation, global warming and the rapid increase in industrialised food production has revealed the fragility of the world’s food production systems. In July 2012, Australia published its first Green Paper on food security. noting ‘in the next 30 years the world will have to produce 70% more food to feed the world’s growing population’.[1] In the same month, the US Congress commenced a legislative debate about policy directions and public funding through taxation for farm subsidies to American primary producers. In May 2012, The Canadian government introduced the first National Food Strategy, to manage failures of the social security system to provide adequate and nourishing food to around 800,000 Canadians. In July 2013, the Indian government issued an ordinance to give the nation’s population the right to get 5kgs of food grains every month at highly subsidised rates. This will be the biggest food security program on the planet. Food policy involves vital challenges in humanitarian, health and environmental law. Food law and governance plays an important role in facilitating the transition to sustainable agriculture and food security. The Centre for Commercial Law is embarking on a project to produce international publications, colloquia, presentations and research analysing and proposing reform to areas in food law. Our mission is to conduct research and publishing in the vital area of Food Governance and Food Security policy making, celebrating food, local terroir and its relationship with society. The Centre provides legal studies of culinary modernism, tourism, restaurants, the gourmet and health aspects of food, wine and trade law. Our first contribution, the fruit of a successful Colloquium on Food and Law in 2012, is on Ch agne and Geographical Indications. It is both informative. enjoyable and a little long on taste, like a fine wine. [1] National Food Plan, DAFF, 2012
Publisher: Bond University
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.53300/001C.6924
Abstract: Law schools and MBA programs have been yielding equal numbers of male and female graduates for 25 years. One would reasonably expect, then, that women would populate Australian boardrooms in large numbers. Yet, only 12% or so of directors are women in Australia and the US, and no more than 3% of public company CEOs or Chairs. Norway, France and Spain have acted to redress their imbalances. They say the only proven method of advancing women into boardrooms in large numbers and in timely fashion is to impose quotas.In September 2012, the Credit Suisse Research Institute reported that public companies with at least one woman on the board handsomely outperform those with none. This is a game changing revelation. Prime Minister Gillard announced soon after that the Australian government is ‘committed to achieving a minimum of 40% of women in Australian Government Board by 2015’ A quota may be the best way of achieving this.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-06-2023
DOI: 10.4337/RELP.2022.02-03.02
Abstract: Australia is endowed with some of the richest and most erse renewable energy resources. Its offshore wind resources alone equate to an estimated 5,000 Gigawatts (GW) of electricity potential. Given these substantial estimates, offshore wind energy will likely represent a key pillar of Australia’s future renewable energy mix. Australia’s palpable offshore energy potential is increasingly understood and acknowledged. Yet, the critical legal and policy question remains of how its new regulatory framework to enable offshore wind development, the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021 Act (Cth) (OEI Act), will interact with existing marine sectors and the marine environment. Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) may provide the missing process puzzle piece to enable more strategic coordination of the Australian offshore wind sector within the marine environment. This article adopts a socio-legal approach, examining and drawing upon international experiences to explore the potential adoption of MSP in the Australian offshore wind context. In so doing, the article argues for a coordinated approach to develop a federal MSP process to support and promote strategic offshore wind operations with existing sea users while preserving the Australian marine environment.
Publisher: Utrecht University School of Law
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.36633/ULR.814
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-2023
Abstract: Climate change, and the need to wean the world off hydrocarbon sources of energy, will have a significant impact on the hydrocarbon industry, an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and which has been in existence for over a century. Even though the phasing out of hydrocarbons as an energy source is inevitable, the demise of the hydrocarbon industry is not. This study, demonstrates that the hydrocarbon industry can make a significant contribution as the world transitions to low carbon energy. in this paper, we discuss the role of the hydrocarbon industry in developing a new hydrogen industry, demonstrating how the industry’s know how will be vital in the development, construction, and delivery of both blue and green hydrogen to an energy hungry world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-2022
Abstract: Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change created in part, by worldwide carbon emissions, while also being highly dependent on carbon-intensive imported fossil fuels. Pacific SIDS are also hostage to acute energy price volatility and fossil fuel import dependencies creating the urgent impetus for resilient and accessible renewable energy systems. This article provides a socio-legal case study analysis of current efforts to increase off-grid solar energy in Vanuatu. It focuses on how a just transition can be achieved in rural Vanuatu by applying and implementing three forms of energy justice: distributive, procedural, and recognition justice. Energy justice is a crucial framework for energy regulation and policy reform and action. While all five forms of energy justice are complementary and intrinsically linked, this article specifically examines the ‘triumvirate of tenets’ applied to the Vanuatu Rural Electrification Project (VREP) II deploying solar energy in rural Vanuatu. This article also posits that the current international project funding framework which includes a series of social and environmental safeguards could be revisited, revised, and reformulated to reflect an energy justice framework. Finally, the article also isolates key opportunities to encourage solar energy cooperatives as an alternative legal vehicle harnessing energy justice principles.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-11-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-04-2018
Publisher: World Bank, Washington, DC
Date: 06-06-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
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