"Stationarity Is Dead" -- Long Live Transformation: Five Principles for Climate Change Adaptation Law
This Article argues for a flexible model of climate change adaptation law to increase the resilience and adaptive capacity of socio-ecological systems. It provides cases of climate change impacts already having a profound impact on these systems, and makes an argument for why environmental laws and policies are not keeping up with the changes afoot. It lays out five principles and several sub-principles for environmental regulation and natural resource management, to guide climate change adaptation law.
This Article argues that, for adaptation purposes, "we are better off treating climate change impacts as a long-term natural disaster rather than as anthropogenic disturbances, with a consequent shift in regulatory focus: we cannot prevent all of climate change’s impacts, but we can certainly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our responses to them."
Publication Date: 2010
Author or Affiliated User:
- Robin Kundis Craig
Related Organizations:
- Harvard Environmental Law Review
Sectors:
- Biodiversity and ecosystems
- Land management and conservation
Resource Category:
Resource Types:
- Legal Analysis
Impacts:
- Air temperature
- Precipitation changes
- Water quality
- Water supply
- Water temperatures
