Directory of Scholars
RAY PURDY
LLB LLM
Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director of Centre for Law and the Environment
Primary Research Interests
- Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
- Climate change law
- Enforcement & compliance issues
Secondary Research Interests
- Biodiversity law
- Biotechnology law
- Criminal law & the environment
- Energy law
- Environmental impact assessment
- Indigenous peoples & the environment
- International environmental law
- Occupational health & safety law
- Pollution & toxics control
- Science & risk in environmental regulation
- Regional environmental law (eg European Union)
- Waste management
Selected Publications
- Purdy, R. Macrory, R., & Havercroft, I., [eds.] (2004) Principles of European Environmental Law, (Europa Law Publishing, Groningen).
- Purdy, R ‘Using Earth Observation Technologies for Better Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Laws’, Journal of Environmental Law 22:1 (2010), 59-87.
- Purdy, R (2009) Governance Reform of the Clean Development Mechanism After Poznan, Carbon and Climate Law Review, Vol. 3(1).
- Purdy, R (2010) Satellite Monitoring of Environmental Laws. Lessons to be Learnt from Australia; Centre for Law and the Environment Publication, November 2010.
- Purdy, R & Macrory R (2004) Geological Carbon Sequestration: Critical Legal Issues, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Working Paper No.45.