Maintaining the commons
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The Shooters and Fishers Party have the balance of power in the NSW upper house and appear to be exploiting it to threaten state parks and reserves. The first indication of their newly gained influence…
Not surprisingly, there was little excitement on the environmental policy front from this year’s Federal budget. This partly reflects the extensive environmental policy in the government’s Clean Energy…
The government recently accepted the recommendations made by an independent review team on the implementation, governance, and operating mandate for the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The CEFC…
In an effort to encourage the States to challenge the Federal government’s Clean Energy Future Policy (CEFP), a conservative think tank – the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) – recently commissioned a…
Environmental policy in Australia and elsewhere would be more stringent if not for the disinformation campaign. ClimateEthics.org, one of Time Magazine’s top ten environmental websites, has recently published…
In “The tragedy of the commons”, Garrett Hardin argues that when natural resources can be openly accessed by all, over-exploitation results. For example, an open access pasture will be over-exploited by…