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A Constitutional Right Not to Travel? Using the Inverse of an Established Constitutional Right in the Climate Migration Context to Challenge Harmful Government Action

A Constitutional Right Not to Travel? Using the Inverse of an Established Constitutional Right in the Climate Migration Context to Challenge Harmful Government Action

Climate Migration Anthropogenic climate change is arguably the problem of our generation. Unchecked burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, unsustainable development practices, industrial agriculture, and the global transportation sector are just a few examples of the...

Climate Resilient Development at the Local Level: Leveraging FEMA Programs for Floodplain Remapping Initiatives:  A Guide for Local Municipalities

Climate Resilient Development at the Local Level: Leveraging FEMA Programs for Floodplain Remapping Initiatives: A Guide for Local Municipalities

Floods present one of the greatest threats to communities in the United States. Flooding is involved in 90% of all natural disasters and every state has experienced a flood in the last five years. In response to the increases in federal disaster relief due to...

The Role of Environmental Rhetoric in Judicial Decision Making

Aristotle defined rhetoric as “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.” Today, rhetoric is broadly defined as “a mode of altering reality…by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action.” In layman’s terms, rhetoric concerns the discourse regarding how situations are framed. Environmental rhetoric, by extension, encompasses the way environmental situations or events (e.g., the climate crisis) are framed through writing, oration, conversation, etc. 

The Climate Resilient Development Project Local Solutions to the Global Crisis: A Guide to Climate Resilient Development

  The Climate Resilient Development Project Local Solutions to the Global Crisis: A Guide to Climate Resilient Development Student Authors Ethan Baer, Caitlin Boas, Gabriella Izquierdo, Laurel Jobe, and Samuel Stewart Land Use Scholars in the Land Use Law Center at...

Climate Resilient Development at the Local Level: “Sustainable Development for All” – The IPCC Calls for Climate Resilient Development to Adapt to and Mitigate Climate Change

The Climate Resilient Development Project Land Use Law Center Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University  “Sustainable Development for All” The IPCC Calls for Climate Resilient Development to Adapt to and Mitigate Climate Change John R. Nolon, Distinguished...

Lessons Learned

Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Blog No. 40 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Emeritus [*] Lessons Learned   In this 40th and final...

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