Rebecca Louise Nelson – The Conversation

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October 29, 2023

We must assess ‘cumulative impacts’ to protect nature from death by a thousand cuts

Rebecca Louise Nelson, The University of Melbourne and Martine Maron, The University of Queensland

Australia has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to fix environmental law. A new Wentworth Group report says the cumulative impacts from multiple projects must be considered.

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February 10, 2022

National parks are not enough – we need landholders to protect threatened species on their property

Stephen Kearney, The University of Queensland; April Reside, The University of Queensland; James Watson, The University of Queensland; Rebecca Louise Nelson, The University of Melbourne; Rebecca Spindler, UNSW , and Vanessa Adams, University of Tasmania

Threatened species don’t just live in national parks. Almost half of their distributions are on private land.

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February 1, 2022

Queensland has an important network of private conservation areas, but they’re dangerously exposed to mining

Rebecca Louise Nelson, The University of Melbourne and Rebecca Spindler, UNSW

New research finds Queensland’s laws fail to protect private conservation areas from the hidden impacts of mining on groundwater.

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February 5, 2021

A major coal mine expansion was knocked back today, but where’s the line in the sand?

Pete Dupen, University of Technology Sydney and Rebecca Louise Nelson, The University of Melbourne

The damage mining causes to Sydney’s water supplies is unsustainable, and the law has failed to stop it.

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May 16, 2018

What happens to small towns whose water becomes big business for bottled brands?

Emma Kathryn White, The University of Melbourne and Rebecca Louise Nelson, The University of Melbourne

Residents of a small Victorian town realised that delicious water can be a curse as well as a blessing, when they lost a legal battle to stop a local farmer shipping groundwater to a nearby bottling plant.

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