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Assessing the Capacity of Law to Facilitate Adaptation to Climate Change

verfasst von : Margot A. Hurlbert

Erschienen in: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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Abstract

Certainty of law is an important attribute in a democratic society; however, often certainty is synonymous with inflexible, traditional laws, perhaps no longer appropriate in times of rapid social, geographical, and natural system change. Institutional capacity to adapt to climate change has been shown to be a key determinant of adaptive capacity; law is a foundational institution of socio-environmental regimes. Appropriate provisions are required in law in order to ensure that the institution of law can adapt to future variability and extreme climate events of drought and flood. Law must facilitate adaptive governance and reflect principles of adaptive law.
Laws and their mechanisms (regulatory, economic, and suasive instruments) can reduce exposure or vulnerability thereby building capacity to respond to anticipated increasing future variability in extreme climate events. However, there is also the possibility that the opposite impact may occur, and laws impede adaptation. This chapter explores this tension.
This chapter focuses on an assessment of laws and legal mechanisms to improve adaptive capacity of rural agricultural producers to respond to climate variability and change. Legal instruments in relation to water, specifically the property interest in water, impact rural agricultural producers. A comparative assessment of three legal water tools (market, common property, and public property) impacting vulnerability in relation to extreme events of drought and flood is conducted, and conclusions are made on their ability to assist adaptation.

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Metadaten
Titel
Assessing the Capacity of Law to Facilitate Adaptation to Climate Change
verfasst von
Margot A. Hurlbert
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Buch
Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-38669-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-38670-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38670-1_59