Climate Change and the Roles of Land Use and Energy Law: An Introduction
12 Pages Posted: 4 Mar 2012 Last revised: 23 Dec 2013
Date Written: March 4, 2012
Abstract
The challenges posed by climate change are daunting and have spawned an enormous literature, indeed many literatures. The legal regimes that govern our use of land and energy have already been and will continue to be integral to the effort to devise effective responses. My aim in this introductory essay is to identify and review six aspects of climate change in an effort to capture some of the ferment that now exists as policy makers, scholars, and others wrestle with the challenges that climate change poses for extant legal regimes. I then briefly summarize the articles in this symposium volume.
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