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Climbing Mount Mitigation: A Proposal For Legislative Suspension Of Climate Change "Mitigation Litigation", J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
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Climate Change And The Endangered Species Act: Building Bridges To The No-Analog Future, J.B. Ruhl
Climate Change And The Endangered Species Act: Building Bridges To The No-Analog Future, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Article examines the challenges global climate change presents for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and its primary administrative agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Climate change will reshuffle ecological systems in ways that will defy prediction using existing knowledge and models, posing threats to species through primary and secondary ecological effects and the effects of human adaptation to climate change. Even assuming global-wide regulation of greenhouse gas emissions eventually yields a more stable climate variation regime, it will differ from the recent historical regime and many species will not survive the transition regardless of human interventions using …