How to find stuff on this site.

Environmental Law Online has the following structure:

1. Articles - information on various environmental law topics,
2. Sources - a catalogue of primary sources of environmental law,
3. Portals - “home pages” for various topics/themes and issues - primarily designed to pull together links to content from different parts of the site,
4. Resources - editorial and points of view about environmental law and environmental issues in a legal context,
5. Opinion and editorial - editorial and points of view about environmental law and environmental issues in a legal context,
6. About this site - Information on this site and the Environmental Defenders Office.

This site also organizes information based on these About article categories;

• General framework
  • Governance and administration
  • Reporting
• Land use planning and management
  • Development controls
  • Land use planning
  • Catchment management
• Public land management
• Habitat and biodiversity
  • Threatened species
  • Wildlife protection
  • Habitat protection
• Pollution, waste and energy
• Natural resource management
  • Mining and extractive industries
  • Water
  • Forestry
  • Fisheries
• Environmental impact assessment
• Climate
• Coastal and marine
• International law

Recognising and following a link within text is simple, links are either:

• Links to pages on this site (internal links) are green;
• Links to other sites (external links) can be recognised by this logo; or
• If you see a red link; this simply means no information has been added to this page, it is a “work in progress”.

When you see a link click on it to follow it to a new page.

There is a search box on the right of your screen. Type a word into the box; ie biodiversity. This will give you a list of pages that contain this word.

When you click on one of these pages you will notice that the word (or phrase) you were searching for is highlighted in yellow. This allows you to quickly scroll to the information you are seeking within that page.

Clicking on the “page name” in the top left of your screen takes you to pages that link to the page you are on.

The 'toolbox' at the bottom left of your screen also contains a 'backlinks' button which displays this same list.

Many pages within this site contain green “tags” in the bottom left of your screen. Tags are keywords assigned by the contributor who created the page. Clicking on these takes you to a list of all pages tagged with the same topic.

The 'tag cloud' is located in on the right hand side of your screen. It displays some of the most popular tags used on this site. Tags which are used on more pages appear larger in the tag cloud.

This site came about in order to replace the EDO's paper based publications with a free online resource accessible to everyone. The site is largely “text based” and we hope this assists speedy download of information even through slow connections. However if you don't have access to the internet or are having trouble please contact EDO and talk to one of our staff.

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