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2014

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Environmental Law

Matthew Rimmer

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Key Change: The Role Of The Creative Industries In Climate Change Action, Tim Hollo Jun 2014

Key Change: The Role Of The Creative Industries In Climate Change Action, Tim Hollo

Matthew Rimmer

The role of the creative industries – arts and artists – in helping to drive the changes in laws and behaviours that are necessary to tackle climate change, while not superficially obvious, is a deep one. Arts and artists of all kinds, as cultural practitioners, have been closely entwined with social change and social control since time immemorial, in large part because they help shape our understanding of the world, framing ideas, prefiguring change, and opening hearts and minds to new ways of thinking. They have played a major role in campaigns for law reform on many issues, and climate …

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Lock The Gate: Fracking, Investor-State Dispute Settlement, And The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Matthew Rimmer Feb 2014

Lock The Gate: Fracking, Investor-State Dispute Settlement, And The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

There has been much debate about the relationship between international trade, the environment, biodiversity protection, and climate change.

The Obama Administration has pushed such issues into sharp relief, with its advocacy for sweeping international trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. There has been much public concern about the impact of the mega-trade deals upon the protection of the environment. In particular, there has been a debate about whether the Trans-Pacific Partnership will promote dirty fracking. Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership transform the Pacific Rim into a Gasland?

There has been a particular focus …

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