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2024

Conference Publication

Restoration at scale – legal barriers and enablers

Bell-James, Justine (2024). Restoration at scale – legal barriers and enablers. Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, QLD Australia, 16-18 April 2024.

Restoration at scale – legal barriers and enablers

2024

Journal Article

The global shift towards ecosystem restoration: What role for leasehold tenure?

Bell-James, Justine (2024). The global shift towards ecosystem restoration: What role for leasehold tenure?. Australian Property Law Journal, 31 (3), 183-212.

The global shift towards ecosystem restoration: What role for leasehold tenure?

2024

Journal Article

The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation

Bell-James, Justine, Foster, Rose, Shumway, Nicole, Lovelock, Catherine E., Villarreal-Rosas, Jaramar, Brown, Christopher J., Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Saunders, Megan I., Waltham, Nathan J. and Fitzsimons, James A. (2024). The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8 (5), 840-841. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02389-6

The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation

2023

Journal Article

The permitting process for marine and coastal restoration: A barrier to achieving global restoration targets?

Bell‐James, Justine, Foster, Rose and Shumway, Nicole (2023). The permitting process for marine and coastal restoration: A barrier to achieving global restoration targets?. Conservation Science and Practice, 5 (12) e13050. doi: 10.1111/csp2.13050

The permitting process for marine and coastal restoration: A barrier to achieving global restoration targets?

2023

Journal Article

Overcoming legal barriers to coastal wetland restoration – lessons from Australia’s Blue Carbon methodology

Bell‐James, Justine (2023). Overcoming legal barriers to coastal wetland restoration – lessons from Australia’s Blue Carbon methodology. Restoration Ecology, 31 (7) e13780. doi: 10.1111/rec.13780

Overcoming legal barriers to coastal wetland restoration – lessons from Australia’s Blue Carbon methodology

2023

Journal Article

The promise and potential of Queensland’s Human Rights Act for Indigenous Peoples — interpreting the ‘environmental right’

Wray-Jones, Nicholas and Bell-James, Justine (2023). The promise and potential of Queensland’s Human Rights Act for Indigenous Peoples — interpreting the ‘environmental right’. Monash University Law Review, 49 (1), 118-150.

The promise and potential of Queensland’s Human Rights Act for Indigenous Peoples — interpreting the ‘environmental right’

2023

Conference Publication

Untangling legal permitting pathways for coastal and marine restoration

Bell-James, Justine (2023). Untangling legal permitting pathways for coastal and marine restoration. 57th Annual Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2-6 July 2023.

Untangling legal permitting pathways for coastal and marine restoration

2023

Conference Publication

Legal mechanisms for managed retreat of coastal wetlands: an Australian perspective

Bell-James, Justine (2023). Legal mechanisms for managed retreat of coastal wetlands: an Australian perspective. At What Point Managed Retreat?: Habitability and Mobility in an Era of Climate Change, New York, United States (hybrid), 20-23 June 2023.

Legal mechanisms for managed retreat of coastal wetlands: an Australian perspective

2023

Journal Article

Best practice mechanisms for biodiversity conservation law and policy

Brockett, Callum, Woolaston, Katie, Deane, Felicity, Humphries, Fran, Kumar, Ethan, Kennedy, Amanda and Bell-James, Justine (2023). Best practice mechanisms for biodiversity conservation law and policy. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 1 e16, 1-17. doi: 10.1017/ext.2023.14

Best practice mechanisms for biodiversity conservation law and policy

2023

Conference Publication

Law as a barrier to (and enabler of) coastal restoration

Bell-James, Justine (2023). Law as a barrier to (and enabler of) coastal restoration. Australian Coastal Restoration Network Symposium, Townsville, QLD Australia, 18-19 May 2023.

Law as a barrier to (and enabler of) coastal restoration

2023

Conference Publication

Ecological restoration and offsets

Bell-James, Justine (2023). Ecological restoration and offsets. National Environmental Law Association Webinar Series, Online, 27 April 2023.

Ecological restoration and offsets

2023

Conference Publication

From protection to restoration of Australia’s coastal wetlands

Bell-James, Justine (2023). From protection to restoration of Australia’s coastal wetlands . Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 16-17 February 2023.

From protection to restoration of Australia’s coastal wetlands

2022

Conference Publication

Queensland’s Human Rights Act and climate change litigation

Bell-James, Justine (2022). Queensland’s Human Rights Act and climate change litigation. 35th LAWASIA Conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 18-21 November 2022.

Queensland’s Human Rights Act and climate change litigation

2022

Conference Publication

Carbon abatement in marine areas: the potential of the Emissions Reduction Fund

Bell-James, Justine (2022). Carbon abatement in marine areas: the potential of the Emissions Reduction Fund. Maritime Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 12-14 October 2022.

Carbon abatement in marine areas: the potential of the Emissions Reduction Fund

2022

Conference Publication

Key priorities for integrating coastal wetland ecosystem services into law and policy – results of an empirical study in Australia

Bell-James, Justine, Foster, Rose and Lovelock, Catherine E. (2022). Key priorities for integrating coastal wetland ecosystem services into law and policy – results of an empirical study in Australia. Australian Mangrove and Saltmarsh Network Conference, Ballina, NSW, Australia, 4-7 October 2022.

Key priorities for integrating coastal wetland ecosystem services into law and policy – results of an empirical study in Australia

2022

Conference Publication

Coastal wetland restoration in Australia and the need for holistic consideration of ecosystem services

Bell-James, Justine (2022). Coastal wetland restoration in Australia and the need for holistic consideration of ecosystem services. IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 12-15 July 2022.

Coastal wetland restoration in Australia and the need for holistic consideration of ecosystem services

2022

Journal Article

Operationalizing marketable blue carbon

Macreadie, Peter I., Robertson, Alistar I., Spinks, Bernadette, Adams, Matthew P., Atchison, Jennifer M., Bell-James, Justine, Bryan, Brett A., Chu, Long, Filbee-Dexter, Karen, Drake, Lauren, Duarte, Carlos M., Friess, Daniel A., Gonzalez, Felipe, Grafton, R. Quentin, Helmstedt, Kate J., Kaebernick, Melanie, Kelleway, Jeffrey, Kendrick, Gary A., Kennedy, Hilary, Lovelock, Catherine E., Megonigal, J. Patrick, Maher, Damien T., Pidgeon, Emily, Rogers, Abbie A., Sturgiss, Rob, Trevathan-Tackett, Stacey M., Wartman, Melissa, Wilson, Kerrie A. and Rogers, Kerrylee (2022). Operationalizing marketable blue carbon. One Earth, 5 (5), 485-492. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.005

Operationalizing marketable blue carbon

2022

Journal Article

Human rights and climate change litigation: should temporal imminence form part of positive rights obligations?

Bell-James, Justine and Collins, Briana (2022). Human rights and climate change litigation: should temporal imminence form part of positive rights obligations?. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 13 (1), 212-237. doi: 10.4337/jhre.2022.01.09

Human rights and climate change litigation: should temporal imminence form part of positive rights obligations?

2021

Book Chapter

Climate change litigation in Australia

Bell-James, Justine (2021). Climate change litigation in Australia. Climate Change Litigation: A Handbook. (pp. 288-303) edited by Wolfgang Kahl and Marc-Philippe Weller. Oxford, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Climate change litigation in Australia

2021

Journal Article

Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services?

Archibald, Carla L., Dade, Marie C., Sonter, Laura J., Bell-James, Justine, Boldy, Robyn, Cano, Beatriz, Friedman, Rachel S., Siqueira, Flavia Freire, Metzger, Jean Paul, Fitzsimons, James A. and Rhodes, Jonathan R. (2021). Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services?. Environmental Science and Policy, 115, 99-107. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.08.016

Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services?