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 Introduction1.1 Changing environmental conditions, property rights and land-use planningFennie van StraalenThomas HartmannJohn Sheehan2 Part 1. Impacts in changing contexts2.1 Climate change induced property re-evaluation in agrarian contextsSony PellisseryPraveena Sridhar2.2 The challenges with voluntary resettlement processes as a need under changing climate conditionsThomas Thaler3 Part 2. Theoretical notions3.1 18th century property rights for 21st century environmental conditions?Harvey M. Jacobs3.2 Climate change and property rights changesDušan Nikolić4 Part 3. Information and land values4.1 To reveal or not to reveal? The impact of mapping environmental conditions on property rights in TaiwanTzuyuan Stessa ChaoYun Chou4.2 Costs and benefits: Why Economic quantification in hazard mitigation policy threatens culture in coastal LouisianaMelanie Sand4.3 Redistribution of property rights in response to climate change in Ghana, West AfricaKei OtsukiGodfred Seidu Jasaw5 Part 4. Formal rules5.1 Formal Instruments to Address Environmental Changes and Property RightsJesse J. Richardson, Jr.5.2 The role of judges in using the common law to address climate changePeter A. Buchsbaum6 Part 5. Financial responsibility6.1 Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Local Government in New South Wales, Australia: Old and New Law and Old BarDr Andrew H KellyJasper Brown6.2 Property rights for insurance markets to enable adaptation to natural disaster risksW.J. Wouter Botzen7 Conclusion7.1 The social construction of changing environmental conditionsThomas HartmannFennie van StraalenJohn SheehanIndex