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Climate Change And The Puget Sound: Building The Legal Framework For Adaptation, Robert L. Glicksman
Climate Change And The Puget Sound: Building The Legal Framework For Adaptation, Robert L. Glicksman
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
The scope of climate change impacts is expected to be extraordinary, touching every ecosystem on the planet and affecting human interactions with the natural and built environment. From increased surface and water temperatures to sea level rise and more frequent extreme weather events, climate change promises vast and profound alterations to our world. Indeed, scientists predict continued climate change impacts regardless of any present or future mitigation efforts due to the long-lived nature of greenhouse gases emitted over the last century. The need to adapt to this new future is crucial. Adaptation may take a variety of forms, from implementing …
Making Good Use Of Adaptive Management, Robert L. Glicksman
Making Good Use Of Adaptive Management, Robert L. Glicksman
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Over the last two decades, natural resource scientists, managers, and policymakers have increasingly endorsed “adaptive management” of land and natural resources. Indeed, this approach, based on adaptive implementation of resource management and pollution control laws, is now mandated in a variety of contexts at the federal and state level. Yet confusion remains over the meaning of adaptive management, and disagreement persists over its usefulness or feasibility in specific contexts. This white paper is intended to help legislators, agency personnel, and the public better understand and use adaptive management. Adaptive management is not a panacea for the problems that plague natural …