PART I. The normative context of environmental law
1. The nature of environmental law
2. The ethical dilemmas of environmental law
3. The international framework of environmental law
4. The constitutional foundations of environmental law
PART II. The normative structure of environmental law
5. The changing directions of environmental law
6. The normative sources of sustainability
7. Sustainability in Australian legislation
PART III. The instrumental structure of environmental law
8. Rules of law in support of environmental policy and regulation
9. Rules of competence
10. Rules of limitation - regulatory, liability and market rules
11. Rules of limitation - methodological rules for environmental governance
12. Rules of limitation - normative and strategic rules
13. Rules of limitation - planning rules
PART IV. Environmental law in operation
14. Facilitation of resource development
15. Protection of the environmental
16. Conservation of the natural and cultural environmental
17. Enforcement
18. How environmental law is responding to global challenges.