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Full-Text Articles in Land Use Law
Local Government Plan Consistency And Citizen Standing: Renard In The Chicken Coop?, Terrell K. Arline, David M. Layman, Carl Coffin
Local Government Plan Consistency And Citizen Standing: Renard In The Chicken Coop?, Terrell K. Arline, David M. Layman, Carl Coffin
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
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Low Carbon Land Use: Paris, Pittsburgh, And The Ipcc, John R. Nolon
Low Carbon Land Use: Paris, Pittsburgh, And The Ipcc, John R. Nolon
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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Low Carbon Land Use: Paris, Pittsburgh, And The Ipcc, John R. Nolon
Low Carbon Land Use: Paris, Pittsburgh, And The Ipcc, John R. Nolon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article describes strategies that local governments are employing to both mitigate and adapt to climate change, using their state-given powers to plan community development and to regulate private building. Local governments have significant legal authority to shape human settlements and, in so doing, lower CO2 emissions from buildings and vehicles, increase the sequestration of carbon by the natural environment, and promote distributed energy systems and renewable energy facilities that lower fossil fuel consumption. Local elected leaders are highly motivated to avoid the on-the-ground consequences of our changing climate. The effects of climate change manifest themselves at the local level, …