Brad is a geographer, environmental law specialist, and academic. Brad's expertise is in Australian, international, and Vietnamese environmental law, and human geography and environmental policy. Brad commenced his Doctorate of Philosophy in environmental law at the Australian National University, where he is also a member of the teaching staff, in November 2007. Brad's dissertation explores concepts of environmental justice in Australian environmental laws. Brad has a Masters of Philosophy in Environment, Society, and Development from the University of Cambridge. His dissertation explored value conflicts between environmentalists in the wind energy debate in Victoria, Australia and Britain.
Refereed Articles
Plural and hybrid environmental values: a discourse analysis of the wind energy conflict in Australia and the United Kingdom, Environmental Politics (2010)
Wind energy has divided environmentalists. To understand why, disparate groups from Victoria, Australia and the...
The limits of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: Defining bays and redefining regulatory control (with Donald R. Rothwell), Federal Law Review (2009)
The implementation of international environmental treaties in Vietnam (with Tannetje Bryant and Elodie Baquerot), International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability (2006)
Vietnam joined the international community’s efforts to preserve the environment with its accession to the...
The status of international environmental treaties in Vietnam (with Tannetje Bryant), Asia Pacific Law Review (2002)
Energy policy in Australia: a comparison of environmental considerations in New South Wales and Victoria (with David Mercer), Australian Geographer (2001)
World-wide, people and governments are gradually becoming more aware of the potential environmental, economic and...
Contributions to Books
The Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project and environmental law: A model for ecologically sustainable development?, Marine Resources Management (2011)
Investing the law with an environmental ethic: using an environmental justice theory for change, Environmental Law, Ethics & Governance (2010)
The adoption of the concept and theory of sustainability by domestic law has not garnered...
Victoria and the Channel Deepening Project, Mills, Mines and Other Controversies: The Environmental Assessment of Major Projects (2010)
Fragmented pragmatism: the conclusion and adoption of international treaties in Vietnam (with Tannetje Bryant), Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform (2005)
Although The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (hereafter ‘Vietnam’) has rules regarding the conclusion and adoption...
Unpublished Papers
When environmentalists collide: understanding conflicting views and values of environmentalists to wind energy, Unpublished Masters dissertation (2007)
Energy policy in Australia: a comparison of environmental considerations in New South Wales and Victoria, Unpublished Honours dissertation (1999)
Unrefereed Articles
EPBC Act: must the Minister assess indirect environmental impacts of referred actions? (with John Taberner, Mark Dwyer, Tim Power, and Tony van Merwyk), Local Government Reporter (2004)
In December 2003, the Federal Court delivered a decision that requires the Commonwealth Environment Minister...
Lease arrangements for green commercial buildings (with Tim Power and Rebecca Campbell), Australian Property Law Bulletin (2004)
This paper focuses on commercial rental properties, in particular office buildings. Problems, and possible solutions,...