Pace Environmental Law Review

A 4°C world will reshape the human and nonhuman landscapes of the planet.  That’s axiomatic.  This reshaping, which we could have avoided, will now unfurl beyond our control: Seas will inundate, storms will destroy, drought will parch.  But within our control is how...

Professors Ruhl and Craig paint a vision of a 4ºC world marked by “discontinuous and often unpredictable transformation.” Nature, from climate to ecosystems to species, is hard to predict in the best of times. It’s a wild beast in a 4ºC world. This means that we will...

Governments, and therefore taxpayers, could be saddled with enormous costs as global temperatures increase over the coming years. One aspect of these costs is the money governments in the United States must pay to private property owners as compensation if governments...

Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 30 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Abigail Dove [*] Health Impact...

In August, 2021, for the first time ever, the federal government declared a water shortage in the Colorado River basin. While the declaration was not necessarily surprising—the Colorado River has been in an official state of drought for the past 22 years and experts...

Western water rights reflect a short and stable climate history, but that period of stability is ending. Looming climate change of 4°C will produce not only higher temperatures, but decreased snowpack, shifts in runoff patterns, and the dramatic shrinkage of giant...

By Shannon Roesler (Professor of Law, The University of Iowa College of Law)[*] The Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) comprises a rotating group of law professors who assemble every other year to think, discuss, and write on an important and intriguing theme in...

This month of October, Pace | Haub Environmental Law's GreenLawBlog will be co-hosting, with Environmental Law Prof Blog, a series of essays by the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) on the adaptation challenges of the worst-case climate scenario: a world that...

Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 29 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Gabriella Mickel [*] Addressing the Four...

Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 28 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Gabriella Mickel [*] Reversing the Legacy...