This research examines complexities surrounding environmental impact assessment (EIA) in a multi-jurisdictional environment, with a specific focus on opportunities for public participation.
In urban areas, the problems of land use intransigence, political and jurisdictional issues create a difficult environment for implementing ecological networks.
Institution design gives some legislators disproportionately greater power, and jurisdictional requirements often create a contentious environment forcing lobbyists to lobby their ideological opponents.
The analytic framework developed in the Article also illuminates the nature of jurisdictional competition in areas beyond the environment, including corporations law, occupational safety, child labor laws, welfare, and tort reform.
This project consisted of two separate studies to investigate the possibilities for area based management for the marine environment: one to explore the jurisdictional and policy options, and another concerning the ecological aspects of such an approach.
Through intensive case study-based discussion of recent events, participants will develop concepts and frameworks for the design and execution of response in complex, multi-jurisdictional and multi-sectoral environments.
Second, while many aspects of the first three domains are included in plans for general practice, there are critical gaps and inconsistencies in the fourth domain (macro-environment) that render some elements of the jurisdictional plan ungrounded or unrealistic.
Faced with a 12-year-long drought, which brought fatal brush fires to its cities and devastation to its agricultural communities, Australia's state and federal governments agreed in 2007 to manage their water "in the national interest rather than on jurisdictional or sectoral based views," in the words of the federal environment minister.
To fulfil this function, the CDL engaged in the: i) Development of a cross-jurisdictional operational model ii) Specification and implementation of a secure IT environment including linkage software; and iii) Development and adoption of strong governance arrangements The operations and infrastructure in the CDL build on the models created in both WADLS and CHeReL.
The CDL has established a secure IT environment, instituted strong governance arrangements and implemented a unique cross-jurisdictional operational model.
