BOOK REVIEWS: ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
“Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts:
Power and Negotiation (2008)”
Edward Christie ~ Author (Posted 20 January 2025)

“If this book is read, and its contents are heeded, as widely as is justified, then the days of the application of traditional dispute-resolution procedures to environmental disputes should be over in the 21st century”.
Justice Peter R.A. Gray, Federal Court of Australia (2008)

1.0 “Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts: Power and Negotiation” was published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK in 2008. Softback and Google online  book versions followed.

2.0 Shortly after its initial publication, a Google search of the book’s title turned up a #1 result on Google page 1: This outcome persisted over time as the search results for the book became more prominent: -

• On 18 January 2025, a Google search of “finding solutions for environmental conflicts” turned up 433 million results with the book at  Google p.1, #1-4.

• On 20 January 2025, a Google search of “finding solutions environmental conflicts reviews” turned up 1.73 billion results with the book at  Google p.1, #1-9.

•  A Google search of: “finding sustainable solutions environmental conflicts” on 19 January 2025 turned up 628 million results with the book at  Google p.1, #1-2.

3.0  Dr Ted Christie links concepts and principles in this book based on the framework of his changing professional practice, over time - relevant and reliable environmental science, environmental and public law, alternative dispute resolution, community consultation and public participation: These concepts and principles are applied  to find sustainable solutions for environmental conflicts that can be implemented.

4.0  The cornerstone of this book is the  inter-disciplinary, problem-solving approach adopted by Ted  for finding viable sustainable solutions to resolve environmental and land use conflicts.
is endorsed by the independent reviews of
“Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts: Power and Negotiation”
in international research journals.

5.0  A further key feature is that Ted is the book’s sole author.

6.0  But perhaps the Foreword to Ted’s  book by a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia best illustrates some significant features of Ted’s book. Specifically: -

With his breadth and depth of experience and expertise,
Dr Ted Christie has written a book that merits being described as “revolutionary”.
It will bring about change.
But it is more than merely a book about process
in resolving disputes of particular kinds,
as it blends skilfully a number of themes.
  • At one level, this book is a legal textbook.
  • At another level it can be read as a scientific treatise.
  • It is  an excellent resource on the options available for alternative dispute resolution.
  • It arms policymakers with the information to choose more effective processes than legal proceedings.
  • But most of all, the book is a practical manual how to produce optimal outcomes in environmental disputes.
READ MORE... of Justice Peter Gray’s Foreword to Ted’s Book.

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