Ceri Warnock is Professor of Law at the University of Otago.

• 1. Introduction I. The Rise in Specialist Environmental Adjudication II. An Interactional Theory for Environmental Adjudication III. The Method of Developing a Theory for Environmental Adjudication IV. Certain Caveats 2. Specialist Environment Courts: Mapping the Landscape I. Specialist Environment Courts: A Typology II. Specialist Environment Courts as Dynamic Adjudicatory Forms III. Introducing the Case Studies: The Environment Court of New Zealand and the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales IV. Underlying Tensions 3. The Struggle to Make Legal Sense of Specialist Environment Courts I. Normative Legitimacy and Analytical Frames II. The ‘Administrative Justice-Adjudicative Pluralism’ Frame III. The ‘Generic Instrumentalism’ Frame IV. The ‘Separation of Powers’ Frame V. Developing a Frame that We Can Agree On? 4. Developing the Theory: Adjudicative Integrity I. The Malleability of Adjudication II. Normative Justifiability and Adjudicative Integrity 5. Developing the Theory: Contextual Foundations I. The Inherent Features of Environmental Problems II. Interaction and Change III. Uncertainty IV. Drawing the Threads Together 6. The Interactional Theory in Practice I. Acknowledging the Challenges in Environmental AdjudicationII. Responding to Uncertainty III. Responding to the Collective Action Nature of Environmental Problems IV. Testing the Theory 7. Conclusion I. Findings II. Developing the Theory III. Filling in the Frame IV. Employing the Theory V. Future Directions VI. Conclusion

The book is well written, dense with ideas and filled with detail … it will repay reading many times over.

Ceri Warnock is Professor of Law at the University of Otago.

• 1. Introduction I. The Rise in Specialist Environmental Adjudication II. An Interactional Theory for Environmental Adjudication III. The Method of Developing a Theory for Environmental Adjudication IV. Certain Caveats 2. Specialist Environment Courts: Mapping the Landscape I. Specialist Environment Courts: A Typology II. Specialist Environment Courts as Dynamic Adjudicatory Forms III. Introducing the Case Studies: The Environment Court of New Zealand and the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales IV. Underlying Tensions 3. The Struggle to Make Legal Sense of Specialist Environment Courts I. Normative Legitimacy and Analytical Frames II. The ‘Administrative Justice-Adjudicative Pluralism’ Frame III. The ‘Generic Instrumentalism’ Frame IV. The ‘Separation of Powers’ Frame V. Developing a Frame that We Can Agree On? 4. Developing the Theory: Adjudicative Integrity I. The Malleability of Adjudication II. Normative Justifiability and Adjudicative Integrity 5. Developing the Theory: Contextual Foundations I. The Inherent Features of Environmental Problems II. Interaction and Change III. Uncertainty IV. Drawing the Threads Together 6. The Interactional Theory in Practice I. Acknowledging the Challenges in Environmental AdjudicationII. Responding to Uncertainty III. Responding to the Collective Action Nature of Environmental Problems IV. Testing the Theory 7. Conclusion I. Findings II. Developing the Theory III. Filling in the Frame IV. Employing the Theory V. Future Directions VI. Conclusion

The book is well written, dense with ideas and filled with detail … it will repay reading many times over.

Ceri Warnock is Professor of Law at the University of Otago.

• 1. Introduction I. The Rise in Specialist Environmental Adjudication II. An Interactional Theory for Environmental Adjudication III. The Method of Developing a Theory for Environmental Adjudication IV. Certain Caveats 2. Specialist Environment Courts: Mapping the Landscape I. Specialist Environment Courts: A Typology II. Specialist Environment Courts as Dynamic Adjudicatory Forms III. Introducing the Case Studies: The Environment Court of New Zealand and the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales IV. Underlying Tensions 3. The Struggle to Make Legal Sense of Specialist Environment Courts I. Normative Legitimacy and Analytical Frames II. The ‘Administrative Justice-Adjudicative Pluralism’ Frame III. The ‘Generic Instrumentalism’ Frame IV. The ‘Separation of Powers’ Frame V. Developing a Frame that We Can Agree On? 4. Developing the Theory: Adjudicative Integrity I. The Malleability of Adjudication II. Normative Justifiability and Adjudicative Integrity 5. Developing the Theory: Contextual Foundations I. The Inherent Features of Environmental Problems II. Interaction and Change III. Uncertainty IV. Drawing the Threads Together 6. The Interactional Theory in Practice I. Acknowledging the Challenges in Environmental AdjudicationII. Responding to Uncertainty III. Responding to the Collective Action Nature of Environmental Problems IV. Testing the Theory 7. Conclusion I. Findings II. Developing the Theory III. Filling in the Frame IV. Employing the Theory V. Future Directions VI. Conclusion

The book is well written, dense with ideas and filled with detail … it will repay reading many times over.