by ACS.Admin | Mar 7, 2024 | Blog
Coastal vulnerability: an alternative approach Last month I had the pleasure listening to an old friend, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the Sydney Opera House. The occasion was one of his more serious operas, Idomeneo. The Director noted that the “wine-dark sea” of the...
by ACS.Admin | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog
Need for federal intervention in Australian coastal management My interest in a direct and sustained role for the Australian Government knows no bounds! The appetite for such an interest was whetted in 1975 during the inquiry into sand mining on Fraser Island. I...
by ACS.Admin | May 31, 2023 | Blog
Loss of Towns and Villages to the Sea Coastal policy discussion around adaptation to climate change frequently invokes the “holy trinity”: protect, accommodate, retreat. Such discussion provokes property owners at potential risk of coastal erosion/shoreline recession...
by ACS.Admin | Mar 23, 2023 | Blog
Federal Coastal Legislation – Public Trust Principles In two recent blogs (Nos 227 and 233), I outlined how US federal coastal legislation offered a strategic, long-term approach to coastal management in cooperation with the states. Although not without...
by ACS.Admin | Feb 15, 2023 | Blog
US Coastal Barrier Resources Act: Model for Strategic Federal Intervention? Many will be aware of my long-standing obsession with the potential application of US style federal legislation for coastal management in Australia. In a previous blog (No. 227, November 2022)...