People or Property Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground /
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 spe...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice
- Chapter 1: Pulling at the Thread
- Chapter 2: Property Law and Its Contradictions
- Part II: Proof of Harm
- Chapter 3: Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities
- Chapter 4: Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action
- Chapter 5: Displacing a Right to Act Communally within Community Relocation
- Chapter 6: Precarious Possessors and "the Right to (rebuilding) the City"
- Chapter 7: Interrogating "Just Compensation" and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska
- Part III: The Legal Framework
- Chapter 8: A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools that Structure Relocation
- Chapter 9: Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law
- Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts.