School of Law
University of New England
2021 Kirby Seminar series
Via Webinar Thursday 5 August 2021 at 1 pm AEST
If interested and to obtain a link, please register for this Kirby Seminar at:
https://une-au.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8m275D9RRaaRYc3p_JJQtg
Intelligent regulation: harnessing networks and technology for regulating complex environmental challenges
Professor Cameron Holley, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW
In this Kirby seminar, Professor Cameron Holley will present the argument that water supply is essential to the environment, our economy and our future and remains a top five global risk due to continuing pressures from population growth, energy, food and climate change. Yet, the implementation and enforcement of water laws has fallen far short of what is required to address environmental challenges. This is particularly the case in relation to agricultural and other nonurban water uses, which comprises more than 50% of all water consumed. This presentation draws insights from the experiences of nonurban water users and regulators in Australia and France to identify five key challenges that undermine water regulation and enforcement. Pathways for overcoming these challenges will be explored, including harnessing water user networks and utilising monitoring and modelling technologies to enable more productive interventions, higher levels of compliance and, ultimately, better environmental outcomes.
Cameron Holley is Professor and Head of School for the School of Law, Society and Criminology at UNSW Law & Justice. He is the current co-chair of the International Network of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) Academic Committee, a member of the Taskforce on Earth System Law, a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Water Institute and a former Director of the Connected Waters Initiative, UNSW Sydney. He is a member of the Global Risk Governance Programme, University of Cape Town and The National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. He was also a member of The Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law (APEEL). Cameron publishes widely in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, energy law and water law, with a focus on regulation and governance. Within these fields, he has examined issues of compliance and enforcement, environmental security, resilience, adaptive management and collaborative governance. In addition to his various articles, book chapters, and policy submissions, Cameron’s forthcoming book is entitled Intelligent Water Regulation: markets, compliance and technology (Earthscan, 2021). He is the author of The New Environmental Governance (with Neil Gunningham and Clifford Shearing, Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Sustainable Groundwater Management (Springer 2020), Criminology and Climate (2021, Routledge), Reforming Water Law and Governance (Springer, 2018), Criminology and the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017) and Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance (Earthscan, 2016).
Cameron was awarded an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law Scholarship Award for his contribution to environmental law scholarship (2014) and he has been a French Embassy Scientific Mobilisation Laurette on water management (2016).
