Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

In confronting the challenges of global climate change, land use law frequently takes on the status of a fallback position. Through the example of water conservation, this brief essay argues that the trivialization of land use law is a missed opportunity. Because water use is ultimately...