Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust

By Tim Smith, Ken Coghill, Charles Sampford

This volume brings together a range of perspectives including leading international thinkers on questions of fiduciary duty and public trust . It presents a detailed examination of the nature and extent of fiduciary duty, looking at the example of governance of climate change policy in Australia and having regard to developments in comparable jurisdictions. It identifies principles that could improve the accountability of political actors for their responses to major problems that may extend over multiple electoral cycles.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409422321
• ISBN13: 9781409422327
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"