Benjamin J Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 458685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin J Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3249-5648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nature Travelogues, 1920s–1970s: How State-Sponsored Cinema in Tasmania Shaped Conservationism
An important influence on the historical evolution of Australia’s conservation movement was cinema. Documentary films about travel, commonly known as “travelogues”, were often used to promote nature-based tourism and recreation. They had particular salience in Tasmania, where the government sought to use the island’s natural heritage to define the state’s identity, establishing a specialist film unit for this purpose. Three distinct narratives ab…
Conservation covenants in Castlecrag, Sydney: Walter Burley and Marion Griffin’s legal innovation in the interbellum
Cinematic Activism and Tasmania’s Lake Pedder: How Film Shaped Environmental History
Film has played a seminal role in Australian environmental history, as an instrument of advocacy to shape political disputes and government actions. Such cinematic activism originated in the 1960s with the dispute over the damming of Tasmania's iconic Lake Pedder. Here, documentary filmmaking was used by the protagonists to influence public opinion and convey rival views of the remote wilderness lake. For conservationists, film helped build an em…
The 'Uluru statement from the heart': Investigating Indigenous Australian sovereignty
The Uluru Statement from the Heart, issued in 2017 by representatives of Indigenous Australians, has reactivated simmering debates in Australia about political and legal recognition of Indigenous sovereignty.The Uluru Statement's calls for constitutional reform and bicultural treaty negotiations are premised on an understanding of sovereignty that is problematic because it elides fundamental doctrinal and political obstacles to attaining Indigeno…
From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion: New Protest Movements Shaping our Future
Beauty: ALingua Francafor Environmental Law
This article investigates whether beauty in nature can provide a global language to inform environmental governance, such as by providing shared values and collaborative approaches across and within different cultures. Because art mediates how many people experience environmental aesthetics, such as through photography and music, this enquiry extends to the arts. As is the case for other aesthetic values, beauty is ultimately about relationships …
Aesthetics and environmental law: Valuing Tasmania’s ‘ordinary’ nature
This article evaluates how aesthetic appreciation of the environment, such as perception of beautiful scenery, interacts with environmental law. While nature is tangible and real, its aesthetic properties are culturally embedded and continually evolving as societies change. Because art often mediates how people experience environmental aesthetics, such as through film, paintings and music, the arts also have a role in environmental decision-makin…
The ‘Remarkable Tasmanian Devil’: The aesthetics of persecution and protection
This article evaluates the role of aesthetic values in environmental governance. It uses the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery's recent current exhibition of the ‘Remarkable Tasmanian Devil’ to explore the positive and negative implications of aesthetic values in the cultural and legal status of wildlife and other natural phenomena. The article has wider implications for the role of aesthetics in shaping public values and promoting law reform
Ecological restoration and the law: Recovering nature’s past for the future
Environmental law worldwide dwells on natures future, not its past. The plethora ofenvironmental regulations and policies orients society, ostensibly, to avoid impendingthreats and nurture long-term stewardship of natural resources. The past, in the senseof the natural worlds historic condition before the human onslaught, is relegated for protection in discrete enclaves we commonly call national parks while the much larger,remaining spaces have b…
Restoring layered geographies: Ecology, society and time
Our planet has suffered vast ecological losses, yet the law attaches little priority to restoration of past damage and environmental history. While many jurisdictions have enacted laws for environmental restoration, such as remediation of former mines and cleanup of chemical spills, few focus on regeneration of entire landscapes and ecosystems. However, the rewilding movement and a variety of community-based initiatives are pioneering restoration…
Divesting from Climate Change: The Road to Influence
Is fossil fuels divestment likely to achieve its aims? This article evaluates the rationales for divestment in terms of their capacity to give the campaign influence. It focuses on the direct effects of divestment on financial actors because divestment is a specific means of exerting influence outside of conventional political channels. In seeking to end fossil fuel industries in order to halt climate change, the campaign deploys a variety of arg…
Socially Responsible Investing for Sustainability: Overcoming Its Incomplete and Conflicting Rationales
In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and worsening collateral social and environmental problems, socially responsible investing (SRI) has garnered more interest internationally as a potential civilizing influence on the financial economy. In particular, SRI is increasingly conceptualized as a means to promote environmentally sustainable development by disciplining financial markets to be more attentive to their ecological impacts. In this s…
The Ties that Bind: Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Governance
Canvassing practices in many countries, this chapter analyses the relationships between Indigenous peoples and environmental governance.It examines the environmental values and practices of Indigenous peoples, primarily in order to assess their implications for the Indigenous stake in environmental governance.It identifies at least six major theories or perspectives concerning Indigenous environmental values and practices.Secondly, the chapter re…
Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives
Indigenous Peoples and the Law provides an historical, comparative and contextual analysis of various legal and policy issues affecting Indigenous peoples. It focuses on the common law jurisdictions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, as well as relevant international law developments. Edited by Benjamin J Richardson, Shin Imai, and Kent McNeil, this collection of new essays features 13 contributors including many Indigenous …
Climate Finance and Its Governance: Moving to a Low Carbon Economy Through Socially Responsible Financing
‘Climate finance’ is becoming an important feature of the emerging legal and policy regimes to address global warming. However, the current approach largely confines the financial sector to a transactional agent to mobilise capital for clean energy and to broker emission allowance trading. The sector's potential to leverage more sweeping positive changes in the economy as sought historically through the movement for socially responsible investmen…
Environmental Management in Uganda: The Importance of Property Law and Local Government in Wetlands Conservation
The development of strategies for the conservation and wise use of wetlands in Uganda is significant for what it reveals about how law contributes to the sustainable management of natural resources in poor countries in general. The highly inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral management requirements of wetlands make this issue one of the most challenging, and wetlands constitute today the single most important environmental issue being addressed …
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Beauty: ALingua Francafor Environmental Law
This article investigates whether beauty in nature can provide a global language to inform environmental governance, such as by providing shared values and collaborative approaches across and within different cultures. Because art mediates how many people experience environmental aesthetics, such as through photography and music, this enquiry extends to the arts. As is the case for other aesthetic values, beauty is ultimately about relationships …
Socially Responsible Investing for Sustainability: Overcoming Its Incomplete and Conflicting Rationales
In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and worsening collateral social and environmental problems, socially responsible investing (SRI) has garnered more interest internationally as a potential civilizing influence on the financial economy. In particular, SRI is increasingly conceptualized as a means to promote environmentally sustainable development by disciplining financial markets to be more attentive to their ecological impacts. In this s…
Climate Finance and Its Governance: Moving to a Low Carbon Economy Through Socially Responsible Financing
‘Climate finance’ is becoming an important feature of the emerging legal and policy regimes to address global warming. However, the current approach largely confines the financial sector to a transactional agent to mobilise capital for clean energy and to broker emission allowance trading. The sector's potential to leverage more sweeping positive changes in the economy as sought historically through the movement for socially responsible investmen…
Divesting from Climate Change: The Road to Influence
Is fossil fuels divestment likely to achieve its aims? This article evaluates the rationales for divestment in terms of their capacity to give the campaign influence. It focuses on the direct effects of divestment on financial actors because divestment is a specific means of exerting influence outside of conventional political channels. In seeking to end fossil fuel industries in order to halt climate change, the campaign deploys a variety of arg…
Suidae
Environmental Management in Uganda: The Importance of Property Law and Local Government in Wetlands Conservation
The development of strategies for the conservation and wise use of wetlands in Uganda is significant for what it reveals about how law contributes to the sustainable management of natural resources in poor countries in general. The highly inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral management requirements of wetlands make this issue one of the most challenging, and wetlands constitute today the single most important environmental issue being addressed …
The Ties that Bind: Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Governance
Canvassing practices in many countries, this chapter analyses the relationships between Indigenous peoples and environmental governance.It examines the environmental values and practices of Indigenous peoples, primarily in order to assess their implications for the Indigenous stake in environmental governance.It identifies at least six major theories or perspectives concerning Indigenous environmental values and practices.Secondly, the chapter re…
Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives
Indigenous Peoples and the Law provides an historical, comparative and contextual analysis of various legal and policy issues affecting Indigenous peoples. It focuses on the common law jurisdictions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, as well as relevant international law developments. Edited by Benjamin J Richardson, Shin Imai, and Kent McNeil, this collection of new essays features 13 contributors including many Indigenous …
Climate Finance and Its Governance: Moving to a Low Carbon Economy Through Socially Responsible Financing
‘Climate finance’ is becoming an important feature of the emerging legal and policy regimes to address global warming. However, the current approach largely confines the financial sector to a transactional agent to mobilise capital for clean energy and to broker emission allowance trading. The sector's potential to leverage more sweeping positive changes in the economy as sought historically through the movement for socially responsible investmen…
Socially Responsible Investing for Sustainability: Overcoming Its Incomplete and Conflicting Rationales
In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and worsening collateral social and environmental problems, socially responsible investing (SRI) has garnered more interest internationally as a potential civilizing influence on the financial economy. In particular, SRI is increasingly conceptualized as a means to promote environmentally sustainable development by disciplining financial markets to be more attentive to their ecological impacts. In this s…
Ecological restoration and the law: Recovering nature’s past for the future
Environmental law worldwide dwells on natures future, not its past. The plethora ofenvironmental regulations and policies orients society, ostensibly, to avoid impendingthreats and nurture long-term stewardship of natural resources. The past, in the senseof the natural worlds historic condition before the human onslaught, is relegated for protection in discrete enclaves we commonly call national parks while the much larger,remaining spaces have b…
Restoring layered geographies: Ecology, society and time
Our planet has suffered vast ecological losses, yet the law attaches little priority to restoration of past damage and environmental history. While many jurisdictions have enacted laws for environmental restoration, such as remediation of former mines and cleanup of chemical spills, few focus on regeneration of entire landscapes and ecosystems. However, the rewilding movement and a variety of community-based initiatives are pioneering restoration…
Divesting from Climate Change: The Road to Influence
Is fossil fuels divestment likely to achieve its aims? This article evaluates the rationales for divestment in terms of their capacity to give the campaign influence. It focuses on the direct effects of divestment on financial actors because divestment is a specific means of exerting influence outside of conventional political channels. In seeking to end fossil fuel industries in order to halt climate change, the campaign deploys a variety of arg…
Aesthetics and environmental law: Valuing Tasmania’s ‘ordinary’ nature
This article evaluates how aesthetic appreciation of the environment, such as perception of beautiful scenery, interacts with environmental law. While nature is tangible and real, its aesthetic properties are culturally embedded and continually evolving as societies change. Because art often mediates how people experience environmental aesthetics, such as through film, paintings and music, the arts also have a role in environmental decision-makin…
The ‘Remarkable Tasmanian Devil’: The aesthetics of persecution and protection
This article evaluates the role of aesthetic values in environmental governance. It uses the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery's recent current exhibition of the ‘Remarkable Tasmanian Devil’ to explore the positive and negative implications of aesthetic values in the cultural and legal status of wildlife and other natural phenomena. The article has wider implications for the role of aesthetics in shaping public values and promoting law reform
Beauty: ALingua Francafor Environmental Law
This article investigates whether beauty in nature can provide a global language to inform environmental governance, such as by providing shared values and collaborative approaches across and within different cultures. Because art mediates how many people experience environmental aesthetics, such as through photography and music, this enquiry extends to the arts. As is the case for other aesthetic values, beauty is ultimately about relationships …
The 'Uluru statement from the heart': Investigating Indigenous Australian sovereignty
The Uluru Statement from the Heart, issued in 2017 by representatives of Indigenous Australians, has reactivated simmering debates in Australia about political and legal recognition of Indigenous sovereignty.The Uluru Statement's calls for constitutional reform and bicultural treaty negotiations are premised on an understanding of sovereignty that is problematic because it elides fundamental doctrinal and political obstacles to attaining Indigeno…
From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion: New Protest Movements Shaping our Future
Cinematic Activism and Tasmania’s Lake Pedder: How Film Shaped Environmental History
Film has played a seminal role in Australian environmental history, as an instrument of advocacy to shape political disputes and government actions. Such cinematic activism originated in the 1960s with the dispute over the damming of Tasmania's iconic Lake Pedder. Here, documentary filmmaking was used by the protagonists to influence public opinion and convey rival views of the remote wilderness lake. For conservationists, film helped build an em…
Conservation covenants in Castlecrag, Sydney: Walter Burley and Marion Griffin’s legal innovation in the interbellum
Nature Travelogues, 1920s–1970s: How State-Sponsored Cinema in Tasmania Shaped Conservationism
An important influence on the historical evolution of Australia’s conservation movement was cinema. Documentary films about travel, commonly known as “travelogues”, were often used to promote nature-based tourism and recreation. They had particular salience in Tasmania, where the government sought to use the island’s natural heritage to define the state’s identity, establishing a specialist film unit for this purpose. Three distinct narratives ab…
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental law and policy (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental law (4 works)