Professor Cameron Holley
- Bachelor of Science (Environment), Griffith University
- LLB (1st Hons), Griffith University
- Graduate Diploma Practical Legal Education and Training, University of Queensland
- Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching, UNSW
- PhD, ANU
Brief overview
Cameron is a Professor at UNSW Law, Director of the Connected Waters Initiative and a member of the leadership team of the Global Water Institute, UNSW Sydney. He is a member of the Global Risk Governance Programme, University of Cape Town and The National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. He was also a member of The Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law (APEEL).
Cameron publishes widely in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, energy law and water law, with a focus on regulation and governance. Within these fields, he has examined issues of compliance and enforcement, environmental security, resilience, planning, accountability, democratic participation, adaptive management and collaborative governance. In addition to his various articles, book chapters, and policy submissions, Cameron's forthcoming book is entitled Intelligent Water Regulation: markets, compliance and technology (Earthscan, 2021). He is the author of The New Environmental Governance (with Neil Gunningham and Clifford Shearing, Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Sustainable Groundwater Management (Springer 2020), Criminology and Climate (2021, Routledge), Reforming Water Law and Governance (Springer, 2018), Criminology and the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017) and Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance (Earthscan, 2016).
An empirical researcher, Cameron has worked closely with Australian and international government and non-government organisations on a range of environmental and natural resource management research projects. His current research agenda is centred on water law and energy governance, including unconventional gas, renewable energy, water planning, conventional regulation and monitoring of groundwater use.
In 2014, Cameron was awarded the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law Junior Scholarship Award for his contribution to environmental law scholarship.
He is an Editorial Board member on the Environmental and Planning Law Journal, and in 2016 was the guest editor of a Special Issue of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ Vol 33 Part 4), entitled Rethinking Water Law and Governance. He is a PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Law International Student Support Advisor and was previously the Co-Director of Postgraduate Studies at UNSW Law and Deputy Convenor of the Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel B: Arts, Humanities and Law.
Areas of expertise
Environmental law, natural resources law, water law, energy governance, energy security, water security, regulatory and governance theory, accountability, participatory democracy, adaptive management and collaborative governance.
Memberships
Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law
Member, UNSW Connected Waters Initiaitve
IAH Australia
National Environmental Law Association (NELA)
National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training
Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Assistant Editor
Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Editorial Board
Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel (HREA Panel) B (2014-2017)
Guest Editor, Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Issue 2, 2014)
Editor (with Dr Erika Techera), Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law (2011)
Member, Climate Futures, Macquarie University (2011)
Member, Centre for Legal Governance, Macquarie University (2011)
Centre for International and Environmental Law representative to the Australian Committee for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2011)
Research supervision
Chris Kelly (PhD, Blended Finance and Low Carbon Shipping)
Kristyn Glanville (PhD, Water Crime)
Rena Hasimi (PhD Public Trust Doctrine)
Carley Bartlett (Phd, PFAS Science and Law)
Alice Bleby (PhD, Nature Rights)
Caterina Guidi (PhD, Climate Change and Forestry)
Rachel Ravagnani (PhD, Energy-Water-Food-Climate Nexus)
Christopher McElwain (PhD, Regulating Food Waste)
Patrick Martin (PhD, REDD+ and Post Development)
Mark Hamilton (PhD, completed, 2019)
Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada (PhD, completed 2017)
Andrew Burke (PhD, completed 2016)
Ekaterina Sofronova (PhD, completed 2016)
Maureen Papas (PhD, completed 2015)
Riyanti Djalante (PhD, completed, 2013)
Courses taught
- Aspects of Environmental Policy and Law (LAWS9801)
- Environmental Law (LAWS3361)
- Environmental Law (LAWS8068)
- Natural Resources Law (LAWS8069)
- Administrative Law (LAWS1160)
- Legal Concepts, Research and Writing for Environmental Law (LAWS8167)

- EMAIL Cameron
- Phone: +61 2 9385 7476
- Fax: +61 2 9385 1175
- Room 336, The Law Building, University of New South Wales, UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia, (Access via Gate 2 off High Street)
- FOLLOW
Rinaudo JD; Holley C; Barnett S; Montginoul M, 2020, Preface, http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839439180-001
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2018, Reforming Water Law and Governance: From stagnation to innovation in Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/9789811089770
Holley C; Gunningham N; Shearing C, 2013, The New Environmental Governance, Routledge, Abingdon, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315067278
Holley C; Shearing C; Phelan L, (eds.), 2021, Criminology and Climate: Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, https://www.routledge.com/Criminology-and-Climate-Insurance-Finance-and-the-Regulation-of-Harmscapes/Holley-Phelan-Shearing/p/book/9780367192303
Rinaudo J-D; Holley C; Barnett S; Montginoul M, (eds.), 2020, Sustainable Groundwater Management A Comparative Analysis of French and Australian Policies and Implications to Other Countries, Springer, Switzerland, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8
Holley C; Sinclair D, (ed.), 2018, Reforming Water Law and Governance: From Stagnation to Innovation in Australia, Springer, Singapore, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8977-0
Holley C; Shearing C, (ed.), 2018, Criminology and the Anthropocene, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315541938
Gray J; Holley C; Rayfuse R, (eds.), 2016, Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance, Routledge
Couzens E; Stephens T; Woolaston K; Solis M; Observatory M; Owens K; Karim S; Holley C; Hamman E, 2020, 'Editorial: Carbon emissions trading, compensation for soil pollution, legal rights for rivers, protection of biodiversity in forests, Islamic environmental law', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 23, pp. 99 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/APJEL.2020.02.00
Couzens E; Stephens T; Woolaston K; Solis M; Owens K; Karim S; Holley C; Hamman E, 2020, 'Anthropogenic marine impacts, reform of environmental governance in China, and biopiracy in Southeast Asia', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 23, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/APJEL.2020.01.00
Schneider L; Rose N; Lintern A; Sinclair D; Zawadzki A; Holley C; Lopez M; Haberle S, 2020, 'Assessing environmental contamination from metal emission and relevant regulations in major areas of coal mining and electricity generation in Australia', Science of the Total Environment, pp. 137398 - 137398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137398
Holley C; Mutongwizo T; Shearing C, 2020, 'Conceptualizing Policing and Security: New Harmscapes, the Anthropocene, and Technology', Annual Review of Criminology, vol. 3, pp. 341 - 358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-011419-041330
Couzens E; Stephens T; Hamman E; Holley C; Karim S; Owens K; Solis M, 2019, 'Human and environmental rights, protection of biological diversity, and marine spatial planning in the Asia Pacific region', ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, vol. 22, pp. 183 - 189, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000566723600001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Holley C; kennedy A; Mutongwizo T; Shearing C, 2019, 'Governing Energy Transitions: Unconventional Gas, Renewables and their Environmental Nexus', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 36, pp. 427 - 436, http://sites.thomsonreuters.com.au/journals/2019/10/11/eplj-special-issue-on-governing-energy-transitions-unconventional-gas-renewables-and-their-environmental-nexus/
Mutongwizo T; Holley C; Shearing CD; Simpson NP, 2019, 'Resilience Policing: An Emerging Response to Shifting Harm Landscapes and Reshaping Community Policing', Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/police/paz033
Holley C; Kennedy A, 2019, 'Governing the Energy-Water-Food Nexus: Regulating Unconventional Gas Development in Queensland, Australia', Jurimetrics, vol. 59, pp. 233 - 266, https://www.americanbar.org/groups/science_technology/publications/jurimetrics/2019/winter-2019-volume-59no-2/
Larson R; Holley C; Bowman D, 2019, 'THE ENERGY/WATER/FOOD NEXUS —AN INTRODUCTION', Jurimetrics, vol. 59, pp. 1 - 14, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331000427_THE_ENERGYWATERFOOD_NEXUS-AN_INTRODUCTION
Hamman E; Holley C; Karim S; Owens K; Solis M, 2019, 'Editorial Human and environmental rights, protection of biological diversity, and marine spatial planning in the Asia Pacific region', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 22, pp. 183 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/APJEL.2019.02.00
Ravagnani R; Holley C, 2019, 'Water Management in New Zealand's Canterbury Region: A Sustainability Framework', ENVIRONMENTAL AND PLANNING LAW JOURNAL, vol. 36, pp. 715 - 716, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000497762000009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Holley C; Mutongwizo T; Shearing C; Kennedy A, 2019, 'Shaping Unconventional Gas Regulation: Industry Influence and Risks of Agency Capture in Texas, Colorado and Queensland', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 36, pp. 510 - 530, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3467892
Castilla Rho J; Rojas R; Andersen M; Holley C; Mariethoz G, 2019, 'Sustainable groundwater management: How long and what will it take?', Global Environmental Change, vol. 58, pp. 101972 - 101972, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101972
Couzens E; Stephens T; Karim S; Holley C; Owens K, 2019, 'Forests, corruption, environmental degradation, protection of species and cooperation in the Asia Pacific region', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 22, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/apjel.2019.01.00
Couzens E; Stephens T; Solis M; Karim S; Holley C, 2018, 'Editorial: Governance and development in the Asia Pacific region', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 21, pp. 77 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/apjel.2018.02.00
van den Berg HM, 2018, 'Hydraulic Fracturing in the Karoo: Critical Legal and Environmental Perspectives', Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, vol. 36, pp. 131 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02646811.2017.1323471
Cuadrado-Quesada G; Holley C; Gupta J, 2018, 'Groundwater governance in the Anthropocene: a close look at Costa Rica', Water Policy, vol. 20, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2018.158
Holley C; Shearing C; Harrington C; Kennedy A; Mutongwizo T, 2018, 'Security and the Anthropocene: Law, Criminology, and International Relations', Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 14, pp. 185 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101317-030945
Mutongwizo T; Holley C, 2017, 'Hydraulic Fracturing in the Karoo: Critical Legal and Environmental Perspectives', ENVIRONMENTAL AND PLANNING LAW JOURNAL, vol. 34, pp. 459 - 463, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000408993700006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Holley C; Lecavalier E, 2017, 'Energy governance, energy security and environmental sustainability: A case study from Hong Kong', Energy Policy, vol. 108, pp. 379 - 389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.06.010
Castilla Rho JC; Rojas R; Andersen MS; Holley C; Mariethoz G, 2017, 'Social tipping points in global groundwater management', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 1, pp. 640 - 649, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0181-7
Holley C, 2016, 'Linking Law and New Governance: Examining Gaps, Hybrids, and Integration in Water Policy', Law and Policy, vol. 38, pp. 24 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12048
Holley C; Carmody E; Cosens B; Gardner A; Godden L; Gray J; Lee L; Lindsay B; Macpherson B; Nelson R; O’Donnell E; O’Neill L; Owens K; Sinclair D, 2016, 'The future of water reform in Australia — starting a conversation', Australian Environment Review, vol. 31, pp. 132 - 137, http://lexisweb.lexisnexis.com.au/JournalOverview.aspx?id=201631AE00400106_00006
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2016, 'Governing water markets: Achievements, limitations and the need for regulatory reform', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 33, pp. 301 - 324, http://www.westlaw.com.au/maf/wlau/app/document?docguid=I88b05095530f11e6b8f3f870462e5362&tocDs=AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC&isTocNav=true&startChunk=1&endChunk=1
Timms WA; Holley C, 2016, 'Mine site water reporting practices, groundwater take and governance frameworks in the Hunter Valley coalfields, Australia. (Special Issue: Out of Mines, Out of Site: The water legacies of conventional mining)', Water International, vol. 41, pp. 351 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1173278
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2016, 'Rethinking Australian water law and governance - Successes, challenges and future directions Introduction', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 33, pp. 275 - 283, http://sites.thomsonreuters.com.au/journals/files/2016/07/Introduction-to-Special-Issue-EPLJ-Vol-33-Pt-4.pdf
Gunningham N; Holley C, 2016, 'Next-Generation Environmental Regulation: Law, Regulation, and Governance', Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 12, pp. 273 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110615-084651
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2016, 'Regulation, Technology, and Water: “Buy-In” as a Precondition for Effective Real- Time Advanced Monitoring, Compliance, and Enforcement', GEORGE WASHINGTON JOURNAL OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, vol. 7, pp. 52 - 66, https://gwujeel.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/jeel_vol7_issue1_holleysinclair.pdf
Holley C, 2015, 'Crafting Collaborative Governance: Water Resources, California's Delta Plan and Audited Self Management in New Zealand', Environmental Law Reporter: news and analysis, vol. 45, pp. 10324 - 10337, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2588696
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2014, 'A new water policy option for Australia?: Collaborative water governance, compliance and enforcement and audited self-management', The Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, vol. 17, pp. 189 - 216, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=410693449917717;res=IELAPA
Sofronova E; Holley C; Nagarajan V, 2014, 'Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations and Russian Environmental Governance: Accountability, Participation and Collaboration', Transnational Environmental Law, vol. 3, pp. 341 - 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2047102514000090
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2013, 'Deliberative participation, environmental law and collaborative governance: Insights from surface and groundwater studies', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 30, pp. 32 - 55
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2013, 'Non-Urban Water Metering Policy: Water Users' Views on Metering Upgrades in New South Wales, Australia', The Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, vol. 16, pp. 101 - 131, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=204693005877192;res=IELHSS
Djalante R; Holley C; Thomalla F; Carnegie M, 2013, 'Pathways for adaptive and integrated disaster resilience', Natural Hazards, vol. 69, pp. 2105 - 2135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-013-0797-5
Holley , 2012, 'Compliance and Enforcement of Water Licences in NSW: Limitations in Law, Policy and Institutions', The Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, vol. 15, pp. 149 - 189
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2011, 'Collaborative Governance and Adaptive Management: (Mis)Applications to Groundwater, Salinity and Run-Off'', The Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, vol. 14, pp. 37 - 69
Djalante R; Holley C; Thomalla F, 2011, 'Adaptive governance and managing resilience to natural hazards', International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, vol. 2, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-011-0015-6
Holley C; Gunningham N, 2011, 'Natural Resources, New Governance and Legal Regulation: When Does Collaboration Work?', New Zealand Universities Law Review, vol. 24, pp. 309 - 336
Gunningham N; Holley C, 2010, 'Bringing the ‘R’ Word Back: Regulation, environment protection and NRM', The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, vol. Occassional Paper, http://www.assa.edu.au/publications/occasional/2010_No3_GunninghamHolley.pdf
Holley C, 2010, 'Facilitating monitoring, subverting self-interest and limiting discretion: Learning from new forms of accountability in practice', Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 35, pp. 127 - 212
Holley C, 2010, 'Removing the Thorn from New Governance’s Side: Examining the Emergence of Collaboration in Practice & the Roles for Law, Nested Institutions & Trust', Environmental Law Reporter: news and analysis, vol. 40, pp. 10656 - 10686
Holley C, 2010, 'Public participation, environmental law and new governance: Lessons for designing inclusive and representative participatory processes', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 27, pp. 360 - 391
Holley C, 2009, 'Aging gracefully? Examining the conditions for sustaining successful collaboration in environmental law and governance', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 26, pp. 457 - 485
Gunningham N; Holley C; Shearing C, 2007, 'Neighbourhood environment improvement plans: Community empowerment, voluntary collaboration and legislative design', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 24, pp. 125 - 151
Holley C; Gunningham N, 2006, 'Environment improvement Plans: Facilitative regulation in practice', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 23, pp. 448 - 464
Holley C; Phelan L; Shearing C, 2021, 'Dark Clouds: Regulatory Possibilities', in Criminology and Climate Insurance, Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon
Bleby A; Holley C; Milligan B, 2020, 'Exploring the Planetary Boundaries and Environmental Law: Historical Development, Interactions and Synergies', in Kotzé L; French D (ed.), Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries
Rinaduo J-D; Barnett S; Holley C, 2020, 'Changing from Unrestricted Access to Sustainable Abstraction Management Regimes: Lessons Learnt from France and Australia', in Sustainable Groundwater Management A Comparative Analysis of French and Australian Policies and Implications to Other Countries, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 537 - 562, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_27
Holley C; Rinaudo J-D; Barnett S; Montginoul M, 2020, 'Sustainable Groundwater Management in France and Australia: Setting Extraction Limits, Allocating Rights and Reallocation', in Rinaudo J-D; Holley C; Barnett S; Montginoul M (ed.), Sustainable Groundwater Management A Comparative Analysis of French and Australian Policies and Implications to Other Countries, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_1
Phelan L; Holley C; Shearing C; du Toit L, 2020, 'Insurance and climate change', in Brisman A; South N (ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology, https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Green-Criminology-2nd-Edition/South-Brisman-Brisman-South/p/book/9781138633803
Holley C; Kennedy A; Mutongwizo T; Shearing C, 2020, 'Public Servants and Regulator Capture in Energy and Environmental Governance', in Sullivan H; Dickinson H; Henderson H (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03008-7_7-1
Holley C; Mutongwizo T; Pucci S; Castilla-Rho J; Sinclair D, 2020, 'Groundwater Regulation, Compliance and Enforcement: Insights on Regulators, Regulated Actors and Frameworks in New South Wales, Australia', in Sustainable Groundwater Management A Comparative Analysis of French and Australian Policies and Implications to Other Countries, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 411 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_22
Schuster K; Kennedy A; Holley C, 2020, 'Reducing Groundwater Entitlements in the Lower Murrumbidgee Groundwater Management Area', in Sustainable Groundwater Management A Comparative Analysis of French and Australian Policies and Implications to Other Countries, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 365 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_20
Castilla Rho JC; Holley C; Castilla JC, 2019, 'Groundwater as a Common Pool Resource: Modelling, Management and the Complicity Ethic in a Non-collective World', in Valera L; Castilla JC (ed.), Global Changes: Ethics, Politics and Environment in the Contemporary Technological World, Springer, pp. 89 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29443-4_9
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2018, 'Water markets and regulation: Implementation, successes and limitations', in Reforming Water Law and Governance: From Stagnation to Innovation in Australia, pp. 141 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8977-0_7
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2018, 'Replenishing australia's Water Future: From stagnation to innovation', in Reforming Water Law and Governance: From Stagnation to Innovation in Australia, pp. 1 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8977-0_1
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2018, 'Water Markets and Regulation: Implementation, Successes and Limitations', in Holley C; Sinclair D (ed.), Reforming Water Law and Governance From Stagnation to Innovation in Australia, Springer, Singapore, pp. 141 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8977-0
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2018, 'Replenishing Australia’s Water Future: From Stagnation to Innovation', in Holley C; Sinclair D (ed.), Reforming Water Law and Governance: From Stagnation to Innovation in Australia, Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8977-0
Holley C; Shearing C, 2018, 'Thriving on a Pale Blue Dot: Criminology and the Anthropocene', in Criminology and the Anthropocene, edn. Criminology at the Edge, Routledge, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315541938-1
Holley C; Sofronova E, 2017, 'New environmental governance: adaptation, resilience and law', in Hutter B (ed.), Risk, Resilience, Inequality and Environmental Law, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 129 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785363801.00016
Holley C; Shearing C, 2017, 'Nodal Governance', in Turner B; Kyung-Sup C; Epstein C; Kivisto P; Outhwaite W; Ryan J (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley, pp. 1 - 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0717
Holley C; Shearing C, 2017, 'A nodal perspective of governance: Advances in nodal governance thinking', in Drahos P (ed.), Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications, ANU E-Press, Canberra, pp. 163 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/RT.02.2017.10
Holley C, 2017, 'Future Water: Improving Planning, Markets, Enforcement and Learning', in Levy R; O’Brien M; Rice S; Ridge P; Thornton M (ed.), New Directions for Law in Australia: Essays in Contemporary Law Reform, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 253 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/NDLA.09.2017.22
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2017, 'Enforcement strategies: inspection, targeting and escalation', in Paddock L; Markell D; Bryner N (ed.), Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Law, edn. Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, pp. 101 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785369520
Holley C, 2017, 'Environmental Regulation and Governance', in Drahos P (ed.), Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications, ANU E-Press, Canberra, pp. 741 - 758, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/RT.02.2017.42
Holley C; Shearing C, 2016, 'Policing and New Environmental Governance', in Bradford B; Jauregui B; Loader I; Steinberg J (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing, SAGE, pp. 552 - 572, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473957923.n32
Gray J; Holley C; Rayfuse R, 2016, 'The Future of Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance', in Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance, Routledge, London, pp. 303 - 315
gray J; holley C; rayfuse R, 2016, 'The challenge of trans-jurisdictional water law and governance', in gray J; holley C; rayfuse R (ed.), Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance, Routledge, London, pp. 3 - 18
Holley C, 2016, 'New Environmental Governance: Environmental Harms, Enforcement and Collaboration', in Spapens T; White R; Huisman W (ed.), Environmental Crime in Transnational Context Global Issues in Green Enforcement and Criminology, edn. Green Criminology, Routledge, pp. 157 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315580029
Holley C; Sinclair D; Lopez-Gunn E; Schlager E, 2016, 'Conjunctive Management Through Collective Action', in Jakeman T; Barreteau O; Hunt R; Rinaudo JD; Ross A (ed.), Integrated Groundwater Management: Concepts, Approaches and Challenges, Springer, pp. 229 - 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23576-9
Holley C; Lawson A, 2015, 'Implementing environmental law and collaborative governance', in Implementing Environmental Law: Implementing Environmental Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 238 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781783479313.00016
Holley C; Jakeman A; Kelly (nee Letcher) R; Ticehurst J; Blakers R; Croke B; Curtis A; Fu B; El Sawah S; Gardner A; Guillame J; Hartley M; Hutchings P; Pannell D; Ross A; Sharp E; Sinclair D; Wilson A, 2013, 'Modelling for Managing the Complex Issue of Catchment-Scale Surface and Groundwater Allocation', in Obaidat MS; Filipe J; Kacprzyk J; Pina N (ed.), Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03581-9_2
Holley C, 2013, 'Transboundary Environmental Governance, Collaboration and the Law: Empirical Insights from Water and Natural Resource Management in Inland Queensland, Australia', in Marsden DS; Warner DR (ed.), Transboundary Environmental Governance: Inland, Marine and Coastal Areas, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Holley C, 2013, 'International Environmental Law and Australia and New Zealand', in Alam S (ed.), Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law, Routledge
Holley C, 2012, 'International environmental law and australia and new zealand', in Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law, pp. 479 - 507, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203093474-39
Holley C; Kelly B; Andersen M; Baker A; Roshan H; Triantafilis J; Regan G, 2020, National Water Reform Inquiry Submission, Australian Government Productivity Commission, Canberra, 46, https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/water-reform-2020#draft
Holley C; Carmody E; Cosens B; Gardner A; Godden L; Gray J; Lindsay B; Macpherson L; Nelson R; O'Donnell E; O'Neill L; Owens K; Sinclair D, 2017, Submission to the inquiry into the reform of Australia's water resources sector, Productivity Commission, http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/216258/sub006-water-reform.pdf
Thorpe A; Holley C, 2016, Submission to the NSW Government on 'Revised Consultative Committee Guidelines for State Significant Projects'
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2015, Water extraction in NSW: Stakeholder views and experience of compliance and enforcement, DPI Water, http://www.connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au/research/projects/water-governance-collaboration-compliance-and-enforcement
Holley C; Sinclair D; Gray J; Cuadrado G, 2013, Submission to Natural Resource Commission and NSW Office of Water on the Review of 31 Water Sharing Plans, Australia
Thorpe A; Holley C; Sherry C, 2012, Submission to the NSW Government on the New Planning System for NSW Green Paper, Australia
Holley C; Nagarajan V, 2011, Submission to the ALRC on the National Classification Scheme Review, Australia
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2015, Metering, Measurement and Water Policy Reform, LexisNexis, http://lexisweb.lexisnexis.com.au/JournalOverview.aspx?id=201530AE00600130_00002
Conference Abstracts
Auhl A; Rutlidge H; Andersen MS; Eberhard S; Baker A; Holley C, 2016, 'Ecohydrological Impacts of Groundwater Drawdown : Effects on Microbial Activity in the Hyporheic Zone', in Ecohydrological Impacts of Groundwater Drawdown : Effects on Microbial Activity in the Hyporheic Zone, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 12 December 2016 - 16 December 2016
Castilla Rho JC; Mariethoz G; Rojas R; Andersen MS; Kelly BFJ; Holley C, (ed.), 2014, 'Triggering cooperation in managed groundwater systems: An agent-based modelling approach', in Triggering cooperation in managed groundwater systems: An agent-based modelling approach, AGU, San Francisco, presented at AGU, San Francisco, 15 December 2014 - 19 December 2014
Conference Papers
Jakeman A; Kelly R; Ticehurst J; Blakers R; Croke B; Curtis A; Fu B; Gardner A; Guillaume J; Hartley M; Holley C; Hutchings P; Pannell D; Powell S; Ross A; Sharp E; Sinclair D; Wilson A, 2012, 'Modelling for the complex issue of groundwater management', in SIMULTECH 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications
Conference Posters
Holley C, 2016, 'Water Markets, Regulation and Groundwater- Insights from Australia', Montpellier, France, presented at 43rd IAH Congress, Montpellier, France, 25 September 2016 - 29 September 2016
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2012, 'Existing and Innovative Approaches to Groundwater Governance', National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Canberra, presented at Groundwater for Decision Makers, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Canberra, 30 May 2012 - 30 September 2016
Conference Presentations
Holley C, 2016, 'National Water Reforms and Pragmatism', presented at Learning from Discretion, The Relevance of Professor Charles Sabel’s Experimental Approach to Australian Public Administration, Canberra, 18 February 2016 - 19 February 2016
Holley C, 2016, 'Future Water: New Directions or Staying the Course?', presented at National Law Reform Conference (NLRC), ANU, Canberra, 14 April 2016 - 15 April 2016
Holley C, 2016, 'Regulating Water Bore Drillers', presented at Water Education Foundation & UC Davis, 'Towards Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture' 2nd International Conference Linking Science and Policy, San Francisco, 28 July 2016 - 30 July 2016
Holley C, 2016, 'Markets Groundwater and Law', presented at Water Education Foundation & UC Davis, 'Towards Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture' 2nd International Conference Linking Science and Policy, San Francisco, 28 July 2016 - 30 July 2016
Holley C, 2016, 'Closing Panel - Toward Sustainable Groundwater In Agriculture: Challenges, Observations, & Key Outcomes', presented at Water Education Foundation & UC Davis, 'Towards Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture' 2nd International Conference Linking Science and Policy,, San Francisco, 28 July 2016 - 30 July 2016
Holley C, 2016, 'Roundtable Panel: A Dialogue on Agricultural Nitrogen Management and Policy – Can We Fix Groundwater Nitrate?', presented at Public Policy Institute of California & UC Water, Nitrates & Groundwater Workshop, San Francisco, 27 July 2016 - 27 July 2016
Holley C, 2016, 'Water Markets, Regulation and Groundwater- Insights from Australia', presented at 43rd IAH Congress, Montpellier, France, 25 September 2016 - 29 September 2016
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2015, 'Water Enforcement and Compliance: Views and Experiences in NSW', presented at NGWA Groundwater Summit 2015, San Antonio, Texas, 16 March 2015 - 18 March 2015
Holley C, 2015, 'Collaborative Groundwater Planning: Lessons from Australia', presented at NGWA Groundwater Summit 2015, San Antonio, Texas, 16 March 2015 - 18 March 2015
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2015, 'Real Time Monitoring and Audited Self Management', presented at Advanced Monitoring, Remote Sensing, and Data Gathering, Analysis and Disclosure in Compliance and Enforcement, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Symposium, George Washington Law School, 26 March 2015 - 27 March 2015
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2015, 'Water Metering and Monitoring in Australia', presented at Advanced Monitoring, Remote Sensing, and Data Gathering, Analysis and Disclosure in Compliance and Enforcement, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Symposium, George Washington Law School, 26 March 2015 - 27 March 2015
Holley C, 2015, 'Water Citizenship and Non-Urban Water Users', presented at Water Citizenship – advancing community involvement in water management, Environmental Justice Australia Seminar, 04 February 2015 - 04 February 2015
Holley C, 2015, 'Environmental Policing', presented at Global Policing Workshop, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, 23 April 2015 - 24 April 2015
Holley C, 2015, 'Groundwater and Planning: Sustainable Allocation, Monitoring and Community Engagement', presented at Australian Groundwater Conference 2015, Shine Dome, Canberra, 03 November 2015 - 03 November 2015
Holley C, 2015, 'Water Markets: A Failed Experiment?', presented at National Environmental Law Association National Conference 2015, Sydney, 13 November 2015 - 13 November 2015
Holley C, 2015, 'Reshaping Compliance and Enforcement: Regulation, Water Protection and Biodiversity', presented at IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Forest and Marine Biodiversity, Atmajaya Indonesia Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia, 07 September 2015 - 12 September 2015
Holley C, 2014, 'Collaborative Governance and the Energy Water Nexus', presented at IUCN AEL Colloquium, Tarragona, Spain, 30 June 2014 - 05 July 2014
Holley C, 2014, 'Crafting Environmental Governance Systems: Collaboration and Law', presented at ECPR General Conference 2014, Glasgow, Scotland, 03 September 2014 - 06 September 2014
Holley C, 2013, 'Implementing Environmental Law in an Age of Collaborative Governance: Water and Natural Resource Planning', presented at IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and IUCN Environmental Law Centre Workshop, Towards a Jurisprudence of Implementation in Environmental Law, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 25 June 2013 - 25 June 2013
Holley C, 2013, 'Constructing Complementary Water Governance Arrangements', presented at 2013 Annual Conference, Murdoch University, Perth, 30 September 2013 - 02 October 2013
Holley C, 2013, 'The New Environmental Governance', presented at Environmental Crime and the World, Tilburg University, Netherlands, 11 November 2013 - 12 November 2013
Holley C, 2013, 'Transjurisdictional Water Governance and Collaboration', presented at Transjurisdictional Water Governance Workshop, UNSW Law, Sydney, 09 December 2013 - 10 December 2013
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2012, 'Compliance and Enforcement of Groundwater in Australia: A Contemporary Challenge for Water Law and Regulation', presented at National Groundwater Association, Groundwater Summit, Innovate and Integrate, Garden Grove, California, 08 May 2012 - 08 May 2012
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2012, 'When Does Agricultural Management of Groundwater Work?', presented at National Groundwater Association, Groundwater Summit, Innovate and Integrate, Garden Grove, California, 08 May 2012 - 08 May 2012
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2012, 'Water Regulation and Governance: Collaboration, Compliance and Enforcement', presented at Delta Science Program Brown Bag Series, Sacramento, California, 09 May 2012 - 09 May 2012
Holley C, 2012, 'Design Principles for "Good" Collaborative Governance: Empirical Insight from Environmental, Natural Resource and Water Management in Australia and New Zealand', presented at International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 17 June 2012 - 22 June 2012
Holley C, 2012, 'Modelling for the complex issue of groundwater management', presented at SIMULTECH 2012 - 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Rome, Italy, 28 July 2012 - 31 July 2012
Holley C; Sinclair D, 2012, 'Water regulation: compliance and enforcement in NSW', presented at Water Law & Policy 2012: The State of National Water Resources Management, ANU, Canberra, 07 December 2012 - 07 December 2012
Holley C, 2011, 'The Administrative State and Participatory Decision-Making: Empirical Insights from the New Environmental Governance', presented at Annual National Administrative Law Conference, Australian Institute of Administrative Law, Canberra, 21 July 2011 - 22 July 2011
Holley C, 2011, 'Existing and Innovative Approaches to Groundwater Governance', presented at Groundwater for Decision Makers, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Canberra, 01 September 2011 - 01 September 2011
Holley C, 2011, 'The New Environmental Governance', presented at Centre for Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 28 July 2011 - 28 July 2011
Holley C, 2011, 'Environmental NGOs and the Dilemma of Collaborative Environmental Governance', presented at CSIRO and University of Oregon Symposium on ‘The Limits of Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Governance’, Brisbane, 20 December 2011 - 20 December 2011
Holley C, 2010, 'Too Hard, Too Remote, Too Cosy? Lessons From International Experiences With Participatory Multi-level Environmental Governance', presented at GoverNat Conference, Leipzig, Germany, 20 January 2010 - 22 January 2010
Holley C, 2009, 'Regional Collaborative Environmental Governance in Practice', presented at Annual Conference of the Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand, Canberra, 01 October 2009 - 01 October 2009
Holley C, 2009, 'Bringing the ‘R’ word back in: regulation, environment protection and NRM', presented at Academy of Social Sciences Roundtable, Canberra, 01 August 2009 - 01 August 2009
- 2019-2021, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 'Non-urban water governance: rethinking compliance and enforcement', $338,000 (with Darren Sinclair, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo and Rhett Larson)
- 2017-2019, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 'Integrated governance of water and coal seam gas', $291,914 (with Amanda Kennedy and Clifford Shearing)
- 2016, Embassy of France Scientific Mobilisation Program - 'Decentralised Groundwater Management: Comparative Lessons from France and Australia'
- 2014-2016, Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award - 'Revitalising Collaborative Water Governance: Lessons from Water Planning in Australia', $356,291
- 2013-2016, Australian Research Council Linkage Grant - 'Compliance and enforcement in non-urban water extraction in NSW' - Partner Organisation, DPI Water, $236, 394 from ARC; $90,000 from DPI Water plus in-kind contributions (with Neil Gunningham; Partner Investigator, Susan Pucci)
- 2015 UNSW Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant (with Amelia Thorpe),
- 2013 UNSW Faculty Research Grant, Water Law and Regulation
- 2013 UNSW Workshop Support Scheme, Transjurisdictional Water Governance (with J Gray and R Rayfuse)
- 2011 Macquarie University New Staff Grant
- 2011 Concentration of Research Excellence funding in Legal Governance, Macquarie University
Environmental law, natural resources law, water law, energy law, regulatory and governance theory, accountability, participatory democracy, adaptive management and collaborative governance