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Author: Nelson, Rebecca × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Scholarly Contribution ×

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    What Happens to Small Towns Whose Water Becomes Big Business for Bottled Brands?
    White, E ; Nelson, R ( 2018)
    Groundwater being pumped from a highland aquifer, only to be whisked away in tankers and sold in little plastic bottles by a multinational corporation – it’s a difficult concept for a small farming town to swallow.
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    Managing the Hidden Water Beneath our Feet
    Nelson, R ( 2019)
    Decision-makers have significant discretion when it comes to regulating groundwater, but there is too little transparency about how it is used and its effect on the local environment.
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    Why do Australia’s Environmental Laws Fail to Save our Species from Extinction?
    Akhtar-Khavari, A ; MacPherson, E ; O'Donnell, E ; Woolaston, K ; Yates, J ; Pelizzon, A ; Nelson, R ( 2019)
    Transformative change is needed in Australia to deal with its extinction record, which is being further exacerbated by large resource extraction approvals and increased urbanization. Legal opportunities are procedurally and jurisdictionally complex and imaginative changes that can drive recovery efforts for ecosystems are urgently needed.
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    Federalism and Environmental Frontiers
    Nelson, R ( 2019)
    Allocating and coordinating powers over parts of the environment horizontally and vertically between governments can help – or hinder – efforts to address environmental problems. As the final blogger in this series, I explain how my research addresses this issue at the intersection of two of the major lines of inquiry of the IACL Research Group on New Frontiers of Federalism, with examples from several jurisdictions around the globe.