Property Rights and Climate Change

This book explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land-use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental changes, with their particular effects and impact on land-use, share common issues regarding the relationship between the social construction of land via property rights and the dynamics of a changing environment. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Making these common issues explicit and discussing the different approaches to them is the central objective of this book. Through examining a variety of cases from the Arctic to the Australian coast, the contributors take a transdisciplinary look at the winners and losers of climate change, discuss approaches to dealing with changing environmental conditions, and stimulate pathways for further research. This book is essential reading for lawyers, planners, property rights experts and environmentalists.