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Harnessing the Complexity of Legal Systems for Governing Global Challenges

This book chapter synthesizes the body of work using complexity science—the study of complex adaptive systems—to explore the theoretical and empirical bases for thinking of legal systems as complex adaptive systems.

J.B. Ruhl and Daniel KatzDecember 2, 2019

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Governing Cascade Failures in Complex Social-Ecological-Technological Systems: Framing Context, Strategies, and Challenges

This article discusses the problem of cascade failures and how to control them, and the particular governance challenges for strategies to control such failures in the context of large scale social-ecological-technological systems.

J.B. RuhlOctober 18, 2019

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Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution in Natural Resources Management

This article traces the policy evolution that embedded consideration of ecosystem services in lands management, assesses why and how that happened and what it means for the future of lands management, and argues that land management agencies' emphasis on the flow of ecosystem services from public lands to off-site human…

J.B. Ruhl and James SalzmanOctober 17, 2019

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Untapped Capacity for Resilience in Environmental Law

This article discusses U.S. and EU examples of untapped capacity in existing laws for fostering resilience in social-ecological systems.

J.B. Ruhl and OthersOctober 1, 2019

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State Hazard Mitigation Plans & Climate Change: Rating the States 2019 Update

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides technical assistance to states to develop State Hazard Mitigation Plans (SHMPs) which serve as “blueprints” for state efforts to prepare for natural and man-made hazards. This report analyzes SHMPs issued since 2014 and assesses their compliance with the 2016 FEMA Climate Guidance. The…

Dena Adler and Emma GoslinerSeptember 16, 2019

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Comments to Connecticut PURA on Value of Distributed Energy Resources

These comments to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Public Utilities Regulatory Authority discuss their proposed distributed energy resource value categories, encouraging the agencies to include electricity system resilience and community resilience in their list of value categories.

Justin GundlachAugust 21, 2019

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What is Habitat?

This essay explains the Supreme Court decision requiring agency to determine if an area is a species' "habitat" before it can be designated as critical habitat under the ESA and provides suggestions for how to define habitat, which is not done by statute or regulation.

J.B. RuhlAugust 17, 2019

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The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management

This textbook includes a new section detailing the impact of climate change and the emerging legal and administrative issues that are arising in response to it.

John Nagle, J.B. Ruhl and Kalyani RobbinsJuly 24, 2019

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Changing the National Flood Insurance Program for a Changing Climate

This comment assesses the current state of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the threats to it from climate change . In addition, it explores several strategies to change the NFIP for a changing climate.

Dena Adler, Michael Burger, Rob Moore and Joel ScataApril 1, 2019

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