Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge
Document Type
Article
Publication
The Environmental Law Reporter
Year
2013
Citation Information
Michael Burger, Elizabeth Burleson, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Robin Kundis Craig, David M. Driesen, Alexandra R. Harrington, Keith H. Hirokawa, Sarah Krakoff, Katrina Fischer Kuh, Stephen R. Miller, Jessica Owley, Patrick Parenteau, Melissa Powers, Shannon M. Roesler & Jonathan Rosenbloom, Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge, 43 Envtl. L. Rep. 10342 (2013), available at https://elr.info/news-analysis/43/10342./rethinking-sustainability-meet-climate-change-challenge.
Abstract
A group of environmental law professors formed the Environmental Law Collaborative with the goal of engaging environmental law scholars in the thorny issues of the day. The members of the Collaborative gathered in the summer of 2012 to produce an intensive and collective assessment of sustainability in the age of climate change. Their writings examine the process of adapting the principles and application of sustainability to the demands of climate change, including framing the term sustainability in climate change discussions; coordinating sustainable practices across disciplines such as law, economics, ethics, and the hard sciences; and conceptualizing the role of sustainability in formulating adaptation and resiliency strategies. Their work also contemplates the role of law and legal systems in crafting effective climate change adaptation strategies and considers feasible strategies in the context of specific examples.
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