Overview
- Examines the use of relocation and resettlement processes in the USA as a means of responding to climate change
- Argues that certain contradictions in the US property law diminish the usefulness of relocation as a successful strategy
- Considers the disproportionate effect that climate change and failures in US policy and property law have
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice
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Proof of Harm
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The Legal Framework
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Elizabeth Marino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University, USA.
Nathan Jessee is Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA.
Liz Koslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA.
Chantel Comardelle, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Tribal Secretary and Curator.
Melissa Villarreal is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, USA.
Daniel de Vries is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Simon Manda is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Leeds, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: People or Property
Book Subtitle: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground
Authors: Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal, Daniel de Vries, … Simon Manda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36872-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36871-4Published: 10 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36874-5Published: 10 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36872-1Published: 09 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Public Policy, Civil Law, Political Science, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights