By Joseph Wayne Smith, Sandro Positano, Nigel Stocks, David Shearman

"[This work] will become the benchmark reference for the report card of the world’s state of health and survival prospects. The authors have done an outstanding intellectual job in marshalling the evidence and arguments, as well as an enormous public service in challenging the climate change skeptics to rebut them. They have also thrown down the gauntlet to the universities, academics and public intellectuals to face up to the challenge of reorienting our civic and economic values towards a sustainable world – and there isn’t much time for us to do it in." - Prof. Kevin White, Australian National University

by Joseph Wayne Smith, David Shearman and Sandro Positano, 2007, Edwin Mellen Pr

"This is a thorough and scholarly approach to the most alarming problems of our time. The implications reach far beyond necessary changes in energy policy and new applications of technology, and reach toward the future of our society and civilization: how we think, how we behave, how we even survive the impact of our small animal species on the earth’s life system of which we are a tiny but immodest part."

Sir Crispin Tickell, Director Policy Foresight Programme, James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, University of Oxford.

by David Shearman and Joseph Wayne Smith

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by Joseph Wayne Smith and David Shearman, 2006, Presidian Legal Publications

Elsewhere around the world, there also have been developments in climate change litigation. Smith and a University of Adelaide colleague, physician David Shearman, recently co-authored a book, Climate Change Litigation, that examines the issue in more of a worldwide perspective, although they focus on the United States and Australia for examples.

by David Shearman with Gary Sauer-Thompson, 1997, Wakefield Press