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Abstract
While this article is an overview of existing international environmental law, its main focus is to explore whether we can develop a legal system that has the ability to adapt to climate change in all its complexities. There is no easy solution to this global issue but the scholarship cited here favors the one most difficult to implement, concluding that an adaptation approach provides the flexibility needed to deal with the ever-changing world of climate change. The question remains whether we are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to adapt.
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1 Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnee, and Lavanya Rajamani, International climate change law, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017.
2 Id.
3 Id.
4 Jutta Brunee, The Rule of International (Environmental) Law and Complex Problems, SSRN-id3000009.pdf.
5 Id.
6 Id.
7 Id.
8 Id.
9 Id.
10 Id.
11 Id.
12 Id.
13 Id.
14 Id.
15 Id.
16 Id.
17 Id.
18 J.B. Ruhl, Climate change adaptation and the structural transformation of environmental law, Environmental Law, Vol. 40-363, 2010.
19 Id.
20 Brunee, supra
21 Id.
22 Id.
23 Orr Karassin and Oren Perez, Shifting Between Public and Private: The Reconfiguration of Global Environmental Regulation, Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3120497
24 Id.
25 Id.
26 Brunee, supra
27 Id.
28 Id.
29 Id.
30 Id.
31 Id.
32 Id.
33 Id.
34 Id.
35 Id.
36 Robin Kundis Craig, “Stationarity is Dead” – Long Live Transformation: Five Principles for Climate Change Adaptation Law, 34 Harvard Environmental Law Review 9, 2010
37 Id.
38 Id.
39 Id.
40 Id.
41 Id.
42 Id.
43 J.B. Ruhl, supra.
44 Id.
45 Id.
46 Brunee, supra
47 Id.
48 Id.
49 Id.
50 Id.
51 Id.
52 Id.
53 Id.
54 J.B. Ruhl, supra.
55 Id.
56 Id.
57 Id.
58 Id.
59 Id.
60 Id.
61 Id.
62 Melinda Harm Benson and Ahjond S. Garmestani, Can We Manage for Resilience? The Integration of Resilience Thinking into Natural Resource Management in the United States, 2011; http://ssrn.com/abstract=1858934
63 Id.
64 Id.
65 Id.
66 Alejandro E. Camacho, Adapting Governance to Climate Change: Managing Uncertainty Through a Learning Infrastructure, 59 Emory Law Journal 1, 2009.
67 Id.
68 Id.
69 Id.
70 Id.
71 Id.
72 Id.
73 Id.
74 Id.
75 Id.
76 Id.
77 Id.
78 Id.
79 Id.
80 Id.
81 Id.
82 Id.
83 Id.
84 Id.
85 Benson, supra
86 Barbara Cosens, Lance Gunderson, Craig Allen and Melinda Harm Benson, Identifying Legal, Ecological and Governance Obstacles and Opportunities for Adapting to Climate Change, Sustainability, ISSN 2071-1050, 2014
87 Id.
88 Id.
89 Id.
90 Id.
91 Id.
92 Id.
93 Id.
94 Id.
95 Id.
96 Id.
97 Id.
98 Camacho, supra
99 Id.
100 Id.
101 Id.
102 Id.
104 Id.
105 Camacho, supra
106 Id.
107 Id.
108 Id.
109 Id.
110 Id.
111 Id.
112 Id.
113 Id.
114 Id.
115 Id.
116 Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold and Lance H. Gunderson, Adaptive Law and Resilience, 43 Env. L. Reporter 10426, 5-2013.
117 Id.
118 Id.
119 Id.
120 Id.
121 Id.
122 Id.
123 Id.
124 Id.
125 Id.
126 Id.
127 Id.
128 Id.
129 Id.
130 Id.
131 Id.
132 Edna Sussman, Climate Change Adaptation: Fostering Progress through Law and Regulation New York University Law School Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 55, 2010. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1675935
133 Id.
134 Id.
135 Id.
136 Arnold, supra.
137 Id.
138 Id.
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Norma A. Polizzi
Norma is an environmental attorney with a private law practice in Rochester. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from University at Albany in Political Science, a Juris Doctor (attorney) from the University at Buffalo School of Law and a Master of Law (LL.M.) in Environmental Law at Buffalo. She participated in the Climate Reality Training in Pittsburgh administered by Vice President Gore in 2017 and has conducted seminars on climate change to many groups in Monroe County since then. Most recently, she participated in the International Conference on Climate Change in Katowice, Poland in December 2018 and has been a Professor of Environmental Law at the State University College at Brockport.