The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations
Around the globe, coastal communities are increasingly coping with changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change and ocean acidification, including sea level rise, more severe storms, and decreasing natural resources and ecosystem services. A natural adaptation response is to engin...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/308892 2024-01-07T09:45:46+01:00 The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations Garmestani, Ahjond Craig, Robin K. Gilissen, Herman Kasper McDonald, Jan Soininen, Niko van Doorn-Hoekveld, Willemijn van Rijswick, Helena F. M. W. Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) Faculty of Law 2020-01-02T09:10:01Z 14 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308892 eng eng Frontiers Media 10.3389/fevo.2019.00410 Garmestani , A , Craig , R K , Gilissen , H K , McDonald , J , Soininen , N , van Doorn-Hoekveld , W & van Rijswick , H F M W 2019 , ' The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations ' , Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , vol. 7 , 410 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00410 ORCID: /0000-0003-0941-0594/work/66777359 23079575-2cea-4657-8246-b6350642760d http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308892 000496955800001 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 1172 Environmental sciences 513 Law social-ecological resilience coastal zone management environmental change law environmental governance SEA-LEVEL RISE CLIMATE-CHANGE ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES PROTECTION WATER Review Article publishedVersion 2020 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:01:43Z Around the globe, coastal communities are increasingly coping with changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change and ocean acidification, including sea level rise, more severe storms, and decreasing natural resources and ecosystem services. A natural adaptation response is to engineer the coast in a perilous and often doomed attempt to preserve the status quo. In the long term, however, most coastal nations will need to transition to approaches based on ecological resilience—that is, to coastal zone management that allows coastal communities to absorb and adapt to change rather than to resist it—and the law will be critical in facilitating this transition. Researchers are increasingly illuminating law’s ability to promote social-ecological resilience to a changing world, but this scholarship—mostly focused on U.S. law—has not yet embraced its potential role in helping to create new international norms for social-ecological resilience. Through its comparison of coastal zone management in Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands, this article demonstrates that a comparative law approach offers a fruitful expansion of law-and-resilience research, both by extending this research to other countries and, more importantly, by allowing scholars to identify critical variables or variable constellations associated with countries’ decisions to adopt laws designed to promote social- ecological resilience and to identify mechanisms that allow for a smoother transition to this approach. For example, our comparison demonstrates, among other things, that countries can adopt coastal zone management techniques that integrate social-ecological resilience without fully abandoning more traditional engineering approaches to adapt to environmental change and its impacts. Peer reviewed Review Ocean acidification HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7 |
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1172 Environmental sciences 513 Law social-ecological resilience coastal zone management environmental change law environmental governance SEA-LEVEL RISE CLIMATE-CHANGE ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES PROTECTION WATER Garmestani, Ahjond Craig, Robin K. Gilissen, Herman Kasper McDonald, Jan Soininen, Niko van Doorn-Hoekveld, Willemijn van Rijswick, Helena F. M. W. The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations |
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Around the globe, coastal communities are increasingly coping with changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change and ocean acidification, including sea level rise, more severe storms, and decreasing natural resources and ecosystem services. A natural adaptation response is to engineer the coast in a perilous and often doomed attempt to preserve the status quo. In the long term, however, most coastal nations will need to transition to approaches based on ecological resilience—that is, to coastal zone management that allows coastal communities to absorb and adapt to change rather than to resist it—and the law will be critical in facilitating this transition. Researchers are increasingly illuminating law’s ability to promote social-ecological resilience to a changing world, but this scholarship—mostly focused on U.S. law—has not yet embraced its potential role in helping to create new international norms for social-ecological resilience. Through its comparison of coastal zone management in Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands, this article demonstrates that a comparative law approach offers a fruitful expansion of law-and-resilience research, both by extending this research to other countries and, more importantly, by allowing scholars to identify critical variables or variable constellations associated with countries’ decisions to adopt laws designed to promote social- ecological resilience and to identify mechanisms that allow for a smoother transition to this approach. For example, our comparison demonstrates, among other things, that countries can adopt coastal zone management techniques that integrate social-ecological resilience without fully abandoning more traditional engineering approaches to adapt to environmental change and its impacts. Peer reviewed |
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The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations |
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The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations |
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The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations |
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The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations |
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The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations |
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role of social-ecological resilience in coastal zone management : a comparative law approach to three coastal nations |
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10.3389/fevo.2019.00410 Garmestani , A , Craig , R K , Gilissen , H K , McDonald , J , Soininen , N , van Doorn-Hoekveld , W & van Rijswick , H F M W 2019 , ' The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management : A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations ' , Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , vol. 7 , 410 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00410 ORCID: /0000-0003-0941-0594/work/66777359 23079575-2cea-4657-8246-b6350642760d http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308892 000496955800001 |
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