ARC Research Fellow
Environment and safety: regulation, law and policy
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 5020
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: darren.sinclair@anu.edu.au

Darren completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) at the University of Sydney in 1990. He then worked for the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Technology for six years. During that time he had responsibility for developing environmental policy from an industry perspective, including the creation of a national scheme to phase out the use of ozone depleting gases in industry, and representing Australia at international climate change negotiations (pre-Kyoto). In particular, he was involved in the development of the policy of 'joint implementation', the precursor to an international carbon-trading scheme. In 1995 and 1996 Darren completed a Master of Environmental Law at The Australian National University, and subsequently took up a position as Senior Research Associate at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Australian National University. In that capacity, he worked on a number of environmental regulation and policy research projects, and was a consultant to several government agencies and industry associations. He has been a Research Fellow at SRES since mid 2003.

Professional Activities

I am currently involved in an Australian Research Council funded research project investigating the safety, health and environmental performance of the mining sector (in conjunction with the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission).

Selected Publications

Books, reports and chapters:

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2002. Leaders and Laggards: Next Generation Environmental Regulation, Greenleaf, UK.

Gunningham, N and Sinclair, D. 2002. Environmental Partnerships: Combining Sustainability and Commercial Advantage in the Agricultural Sector, Rural Industries Research Development Corporation, Canberra

Kanowski, P., Sinclair, D. and Freeman, B. 2000. Establishing Comparability and Equivalence amongst Forest Management Certification Schemes, Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia, Canberra.

Kanowski, P., Sinclair, D. and Freeman, B. 1999. International Approaches to Forest Management Certification and Labelling of Forest Products: A Review, Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia, Canberra.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 1999. Chapter 10 in Hutter, B. (ed) A Reader in Environmental Law, Oxford University Press, UK.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 1998. Chapters 2, 3 (with Grabosky, P.) and 6 in Gunningham, N. and Grabosky, P. Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Regulation, Oxford University Press, UK.

Gunningham, N., Sinclair, D. and Burritt, P. 1998. On-the-spot Fines and the Prevention of Injury and Disease: The Experience in Australian Workplaces, National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, Canberra.

Gunningham, N and Sinclair, D. 1997. Barriers and Motivators to the Adoption of Cleaner Production Practices, Environment Australia, Canberra

Articles:

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2005. "Regulating Intensive Agricultural Pollution" Australian Journal of Environmental Management, Vol 12.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2005. "Policy instrument choice and diffuse source pollution" Journal of Environmental Law, Vol 17, No 1.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2005. "Regulating water pollution from light industry: Lessons for the Swan-Canning" Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol 22, No 4.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2004. "Curbing non-point pollution: Lessons for the Swan-Canning" Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol 21, No 3.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2004. "Non-point pollution, voluntarism and policy failure: Lessons for the Swan-Canning" Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol 21, No 2.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2002. "Partnerships, Management Systems and the Search for Innovative Regulation in the Vehicle Body Shop Industry" Business Strategy and Environment, Vol 11.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2001. "Environmental Regulation and Cleaner Production Partnerships with Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Case Study" Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol 18, No 4.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 2000. "Promoting Cleaner Production in South East Asia: A Case Study of the Philippine DTI/BOI Environmental Unit" Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol 5, Issue 3.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 1999. "Integrative Regulation: A Principle-Based Approach to Environmental Policy" Law and Social Inquiry, Vol 24, No 4.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 1999. "Regulatory Pluralism: Designing Environmental Policy Mixes" Law & Policy, Vol 21, No 1.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 1999. "Next Generation Environmental Policy" Melbourne University Law Review, Vol 22, No 3.

Gunningham, N. and Sinclair, D. 1999. "Environmental Management Systems, Regulation and the Pulp and Paper Industry: ISO 14001 in Practice" Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol 16, No 1.

Sinclair, D. 1997. "Self-regulation Versus Command and Control? Beyond False Dichotomies" Law & Policy, Vol 19, No 4.