Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2024
Abstract
In Australia, the State of the Environment 2021 report (hereafter, SOE) revealed an unprecedented rate of biodiversity loss. 1 Yet development projects that will reduce biodiversity further continue to receive legal approval. Indeed, shortly after the release of the report, a new outer ring road was approved for construction in the state of Western Australia. 2 Land clearing undertaken as part of the project will result in significant loss of existing habitat for critically endangered western ringtail possums and endangered black cockatoos. This destruction was legitimized through the state government’s commitment to undertake “biodiversity offsetting,” whereby the loss of possum and cockatoo
Discipline
Biodiversity | Environmental Law
Research Areas
Public Interest Law, Community and Social Justice
Publication
Environmental Humanities
Volume
16
Issue
2
First Page
426
Last Page
432
Identifier
10.1215/22011919-11150059
Publisher
Duke University Press
Citation
GOVIND, Paul; HOUSTON, Donna; LIM, Michelle Mei Ling; MCGREGOR, Andrew; O'GORMON, Emily; SUCHET-PEARSON, Sandie; and SYMONS, Jonathan.
Offsetting. (2024). Environmental Humanities. 16, (2), 426-432.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4712
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Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11150059