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People or Property

Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground

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Authors:
  1. Alessandra Jerolleman

    1. Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, Metarie, USA

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  2. Elizabeth Marino

    1. Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University Cascades, Bend, USA

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  3. Nathan Jessee

    1. High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

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  4. Liz Koslov

    1. Urban Planning, Environment and Sustainability, and Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

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  5. Chantel Comardelle

    1. Houma, USA

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  6. Melissa Villarreal

    1. Department of Sociology and Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

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  7. Daniel de Vries

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  8. Simon Manda

    1. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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  • Examines the use of relocation and resettlement processes in the USA as a means of responding to climate change
  • Argues that certain contradictions in the US property law diminish the usefulness of relocation as a successful strategy
  • Considers the disproportionate effect that climate change and failures in US policy and property law have
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Pulling at the Thread

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 3-22Open Access
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    3. Property Law and Its Contradictions

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 23-40Open Access
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  3. Proof of Harm

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 43-63Open Access
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    3. Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 65-90Open Access
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    4. Displacing a Right to Act Communally Within Community Relocation

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 91-111Open Access
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    5. Precarious Possessors and “the Right to (Rebuilding) the City”

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 113-130Open Access
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    6. Interrogating “Just Compensation” and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 131-145Open Access
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  4. The Legal Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools That Structure Relocation and Novel Ways of Utilizing the Law

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 149-184Open Access
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    3. Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 185-201Open Access
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    4. Concluding Thoughts

      • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
      Pages 203-206Open Access
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  5. Correction to: People or Property

    • Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal et al.
    Pages C1-C1Open Access
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 207-242
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About this book

This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, Metarie, USA

    Alessandra Jerolleman

  • Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University Cascades, Bend, USA

    Elizabeth Marino

  • High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

    Nathan Jessee

  • Urban Planning, Environment and Sustainability, and Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

    Liz Koslov

  • Houma, USA

    Chantel Comardelle

  • Department of Sociology and Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

    Melissa Villarreal

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Daniel de Vries

  • University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Simon Manda

About the authors

Alessandra Jerolleman is Associate Professor of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, USA.

Elizabeth Marino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University, USA.

Nathan Jessee is Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA.

Liz Koslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA.

Chantel Comardelle, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Tribal Secretary and Curator.

Melissa Villarreal is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, USA.

Daniel de Vries is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Simon Manda is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Leeds, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: People or Property

  • Book Subtitle: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground

  • Authors: Alessandra Jerolleman, Elizabeth Marino, Nathan Jessee, Liz Koslov, Chantel Comardelle, Melissa Villarreal, Daniel de Vries, … Simon Manda

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36872-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36871-4Published: 10 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36874-5Published: 10 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36872-1Published: 09 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 242

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Policy, Public Policy, Civil Law, Political Science, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

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