Property Rights and Climate Change

Fennie van Straalen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Thomas Hartmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. John Sheehan is Visiting Professor, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Australia.

1 Introduction

1.1 Changing environmental conditions, property rights and land-use planning

Fennie van Straalen

Thomas Hartmann

John Sheehan

2 Part 1. Impacts in changing contexts

2.1 Climate change induced property re-evaluation in agrarian contexts

Sony Pellissery

Praveena Sridhar

2.2 The challenges with voluntary resettlement processes as a need under changing climate conditions

Thomas Thaler

3 Part 2. Theoretical notions

3.1 18th century property rights for 21st century environmental conditions?

Harvey M. Jacobs

3.2 Climate change and property rights changes

Dušan Nikolić

4 Part 3. Information and land values

4.1 To reveal or not to reveal? The impact of mapping environmental conditions on property rights in Taiwan

Tzuyuan Stessa Chao

Yun Chou

4.2 Costs and benefits: Why Economic quantification in hazard mitigation policy threatens culture in coastal Louisiana

Melanie Sand

4.3 Redistribution of property rights in response to climate change in Ghana, West Africa

Kei Otsuki

Godfred Seidu Jasaw

5 Part 4. Formal rules

5.1 Formal Instruments to Address Environmental Changes and Property Rights

Jesse J. Richardson, Jr.

5.2 The role of judges in using the common law to address climate change

Peter A. Buchsbaum

6 Part 5. Financial responsibility

6.1 Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Local Government in New South Wales, Australia: Old and New Law and Old Bar

Dr Andrew H Kelly

Jasper Brown

6.2 Property rights for insurance markets to enable adaptation to natural disaster risks

W.J. Wouter Botzen

7 Conclusion

7.1 The social construction of changing environmental conditions

Thomas Hartmann

Fennie van Straalen

John Sheehan

Index