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Trade-Offs in Adaptation Planning: Protecting Public Interest Environmental Values
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Foerster, AC and Macintosh, A and McDonald, J, Trade-Offs in Adaptation Planning: Protecting Public Interest Environmental Values, Journal of Environmental Law, 27, (3) pp. 459-487. ISSN 0952-8873 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Like many issues in environmental law and governance, climate change adaptation
planning involves difficult policy trade-offs. Decision-makers must balance competing
public and private interests and short- and long-term concerns against a background of
considerable uncertainty and complexity. One of the classic challenges of environmental
governance is to establish laws and other institutions which support long-term
decision-making in the public interest and this is equally a challenge for adaptation
planning. This article explores Australian approaches to such policy trade-offs in the
context of spatial planning for bushfire and coastal hazards. These examples illustrate
the difficulties of considering cumulative, longer term environmental impacts of adaptation
measures in the face of immediate and known risks to existing private property
and infrastructure, and the way in which current decision-making downplays these
public values. The authors identify institutional factors that help to explain this bias
and propose strategies to improve protection of public interest environmental values
in adaptation planning.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | climate change adaptation, public interest environmental values, |
Research Division: | Law and Legal Studies |
Research Group: | Environmental and resources law |
Research Field: | Environmental law |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in law and legal studies |
UTAS Author: | Foerster, AC (Dr Anita Foerster) |
UTAS Author: | McDonald, J (Professor Jan McDonald) |
ID Code: | 101693 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
Deposited By: | Faculty of Law |
Deposited On: | 2015-07-01 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-08 |
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