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This essay argues that the liberal conception of private property is not a solution to anthropogenic climate change but …, rather, the source of the problem. The concept of private property facilitates the human activities that cause anthropogenic …
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strong private property right in water is slowly (in the North-American case) and more abruptly (in the Brazilian case …
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doctrine, climate change, intergenerational justice, Indigenous rights, and Indigenous intellectual property. The new …
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This essay is based on our new book, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Law in a Nutshell (West 2011) which describes the close relationship between sustainable development and climate change management. It begins with a discussion of recent discussions and agreements at the...
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Temperature records compiled by the International Panel on Climate Change are biased by non-climatic factors that are largely socioeconomic in origin. The result is that as much as 50 percent of the land-surface warming that has been detected in recent decades may not be the product of global...
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market environmentalism" (FME), is grounded in the recognition and protection of property rights in environmental resources …. Despite this normative commitment to property rights, most self-described advocates of FME adopt a utilitarian, welfare … traditional conceptions of property rights. Viewed globally, the actions of some countries - primarily developed nations (such as …
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This article proposes a way of introducing some organization and tractability in climate science, generating more widely credible evaluations of climate science, and imposing some discipline on the processing and interpretation of climate information. I propose a two-part policy instrument...
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The EU is making progress in reducing its carbon footprint. The creation of a High-Level Group on Sustainable Finance has supplemented recent market-led initiatives and provided some recommendations for future reform. This article argues that more remains to be achieved. In particular, in light...
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uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as … of the Ramsey discounting formula that takes into account confidence into future growth estimates and a measure of … aversion to the lack of confidence. If confidence decreases in the futurity of the growth forecast, the discount rates have a …
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. Developers and property owners currently lack incentive to make investments in climate resilience measures given evolving … can engage and incentivize developers and property owners to invest in climate resilience measures on privately-owned land … to developers and property owners, such as a revolving loan fund …
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