| DOI: | 10.1002/wcc.96
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-79961224775
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| 论文题名: | The role of law in adapting to climate change |
| 作者: | Mcdonald J
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| 刊名: | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
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| ISSN: | 17577780
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| 出版年: | 2011
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| 卷: | 2, 期:2 | | 起始页码: | 283
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| 结束页码: | 295
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Decision making
; Laws and legislation
; Adaptation decisions
; Climate change adaptation
; Climate change impact
; Climate hazards
; Climate impacts
; Legal institutions
; Market mechanisms
; Social justice
; Climate change
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| 英文摘要: | Legal institutions and instruments will play an important role in climate change adaptation, along with technological, managerial, and behavioral strategies. Law can facilitate adaptation, using regulation to reduce exposure or sensitivity to climate hazards, establishing the legal architecture for new market mechanisms, and funding arrangements for adaptation costs and liability for climate impacts. It can also ensure the accountability of adaptation decision making and addressing some of the social justice dimensions of adaptation. Yet there are also characteristics of legal institutions, processes, and principles that may impede adaptation, including by creating compensable property rights that hinder new regulation. There are several characteristics of climate change and associated impacts that will make law-making for adaptation uniquely challenging. These include high levels of cascading uncertainty, irreversibility, the context-specificity of impacts, the long delay between emissions and impacts, and the interaction between climate change impacts and other environmental, social, and economic stressors. Laws dealing with substantive climate impacts may be appropriate and necessary in some cases, but the broader challenge for law-makers is to make legal processes and instruments more adaptive and responsive to change itself. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76461
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
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Mcdonald J. The role of law in adapting to climate change[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2011-01-01,2(2)
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