People or Property

People or Property

Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground

Environmental politics

This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change.

Jerolleman, Alessandra
Marino, Elizabeth
Jessee, Nathan
Koslov, Liz
Comardelle, Chantel
Villarreal, Melissa
de Vries, Daniel
Manda, Simon

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85054

Springer Nature

2024

Khoirul Falah

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

PDF

English

Textbooks

OI
10.1007/978-3-031-36872-1
ISBN
9783031368721