Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1. Introduction: Global Arrangements and the Australian Polity -- Australia in the international system -- The natural environment as a policy arena -- I. Australia and International Environmental Order -- 2. International Institutions: The Environment and Foreign Policy -- Australian diplomacy in the United Nations system -- The OECD and environmental policy -- Non-governmental conservation networks -- Environmental institutions in Australian foreign policy -- 3. The Politics of Conservation: Wildlife, Ecosystems and Heritage -- The international politics of the wildlife trade -- Migratory species and habitats conservation -- World heritage sites and the Tasmanian dam -- Australia and international conservation policy -- 4. The International Regulation of Pollution -- Australia and the UNCLOS III negotiations -- International marine pollution conventions -- The western industrialized nations and toxic chemicals -- Pollution as an international issue -- 5. Australia, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean -- Sovereignty and policy in Antarctica -- Environmental protection under the Antarctica Treaty -- The conservation of marine living resources -- Antarctic ecosystems and Australian policy -- II. Charting the Policy Process -- 6. Institution-building and Cooperative Federalism -- The Australian states as environmental actors -- Policy process at the Commonwealth level -- The politics and mechanics of federal-state collaboration -- Cooperative federalism and the environment -- 7. Federal-state Diplomacy and International Institutions -- The states, the Commonwealth and international institutions -- The political economy of chemicals regulation -- Towards a National Conservation Strategy -- Institution-building at the international level.

8. The Management of International Conventions -- The negotiation and impact of international agreements -- Jurisdiction in the marine environment -- Antarctica and the Australian policy process -- The politics of international conventions -- 9. Domestic Contexts: Environmental Constituencies in Australian Politics -- The evolution and character of the environmental movement -- Environmental groups and Australian public opinion -- Influence strategies and environmental issues -- The role of the scientific community -- Domestic politics and the global environment -- III. The Politics of Regimes -- 10. Australia and the Global Environment, 1965-1985 -- The making of Australia's international environment policy -- Impact of the external milieu -- Australia in comparative perspective -- Theory and practice in regime construction -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.