ABOUT 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... "
FOREWORD: 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. Ted is the book’s sole author.

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 environmental practice, over time - relevant and reliable environmental science, environmental and public law, alternative dispute resolution, community consultation and effective public participation.

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

5.0  But perhaps the Foreword to Ted’s  book by a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (FCJ Peter R. A. Gray) best illustrates some of the significant features of  the scope and content  of Ted’s book. Specifically: -

With his breadth and depth of experience and expertise,
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.

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