This book analyses key aspects of transboundary environmental law and policy and their implementation in Asia, Australasia and areas beyond national jurisdiction including Antarctica. It discusses the potential for implementing key transboundary environmental mechanisms, such as the 1991 Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) and its 2003 Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (Kiev Protocol) in Australia and Asia, drawing on experience from other regions and the potential application of these agreements to all UN member states.

Dr Robin Warner is an Associate Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong. Her current research interests include law of the sea, oceans governance, marine environmental law, climate law and transnational criminal law. She is the author of Protecting the Oceans Beyond National Jurisdiction: Strengthening the International Law Framework (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2009) and editor (with Clive Schofield) of Climate Change and the Oceans: Gauging the Legal and Policy Currents in the Asia Pacific (Edward Elgar, UK, 2012) as well as many book chapters and journal articles on oceans law and policy. She is a member of the IUCN Commission of Environmental Law, Oceans Coasts and Coral Reefs Specialist Group and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. Dr Simon Marsden is an Associate Professor at the Law School, Flinders University, formerly also an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty, Chinese University of Hong Kong. His general research interests are in environmental law and policy, environmental planning and management, and the relationship between legal systems and law and politics. These relate to domestic law (Australia, UK, Hong Kong in particular), and international and European law. Specific research interests focus on strategic and transboundary approaches to EIA, terrestrial and marine protected areas, public participation and access to justice, and treaty based non-compliance procedures. As well as many articles and chapters, he is the author or co-editor of three books: Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment in the European Union, London, Earthscan, 2011(with Koivurova); Strategic Environmental Assessment in International & European Law, London, Earthscan. 2008; and Strategic Environmental Assessment in Australasia, Sydney, Federation Press, 2002 (with Dovers).

Contents: Foreword, David Freestone; Perspectives on transboundary environmental governance, Robin Warner and Simon Marsden; Part I Inland and Coastal Perspectives: Transboundary environmental; governance in the Murray Darling basin, Brendan Grigg; Transboundary environmental governance, collaboration and the law: empirical insights from water and natural resource management in inland Queensland, Australia, Cameron Holley; Marine protected areas and transboundary governance, Lorne Kriwoken, Julie Davidson and Michael Lockwood; Effective governance across Central Asian boundaries: what lessons does the Central Asian transboundary watercourse management experience provide for mountain biodiversity conservation across the Kyrgyz-Tajik boundary? Michelle Lim; Developing agreements for transboundary environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment in Asia, Simon Marsden. Part II Marine Perspectives: Transboundary pollution from offshore oil and gas activities in the seas of South East Asia, Youna Lyons; Coordinating strategic environmental assessments of marine and terrestrial plans: Australian experience in the sub-Antarctic, Simon Marsden; Transboundary environmental governance and emerging environmental threats: geo-engineering in the marine environment, Karen N. Scott; A model litigant? Australia's record in transboundary environmental litigation, Tim Stephens; Transboundary environmental impact assessment in marine areas, Warwick Gullett; Conserving marine biodiversity beyond boundaries: developing environmental assessment frameworks, Robin Warner; Could the Espoo Convention become a global regime for environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment?, Timo Koivurova; Bibliography; Index.