People or Property : : Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground.

• Author: Jerolleman, Alessandra.
• TeilnehmendeR: Marino, Elizabeth.; Jessee, Nathan.; Koslov, Liz.; Comardelle, Chantel.; Villarreal, Melissa.; de Vries, Daniel.; Manda, Simon.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Authorship -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Part I Conceptualizing Property and Its Contradictions: A Challenge for Climate Justice -- 1 Pulling at the Thread -- Property Law and the Social Creation of Space -- Four Contradictions of Property and Law -- How to Read This Book -- References -- 2 Property Law and Its Contradictions -- References -- Part II Proof of Harm -- 3 Market Orientation as an Environmental Hazard for Resettling Communities -- Introduction -- Community Resettlement as a Real Estate Transaction -- Individuation and Limitations on Receiving Community Engagement -- Out of the Kettle of Coastal Flooding and into the Fire of Predatory Inclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Flood Buyout Relocations and Community Action -- Introduction -- Vacant Lots -- The Political Ecology of Success -- Six Ways to Frame What a Buyout "Community" Is Anyway -- Neighborhood That Emerged Out of Historical Necessity -- Neighborhoods That Should Not Have Been There in the First Place -- Relatively Affordable Places to House More Socially Vulnerable Populations -- Diffused and Ambiguously Bounded Social Networks with Impacts Beyond -- Spaces with Constrained Choice -- Experiences and Attachments to Place -- From Housing Counselors to Community-Led Buyouts -- A Predetermined Redevelopment Strategy -- A Case for Healing and Memory -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Displacing a Right to Act Communally Within Community Relocation -- Introduction -- Legal Definitions of Community -- Undermining Community Action While Administering Community Resettlement Funds -- Consequences of Redefining Community -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Precarious Possessors and "the Right to (Rebuilding) the City" -- Introduction: A Right to Rebuilding the City.

Precarious Possessors: Diverse Categories of Possession/Dispossession -- Disaster Experiences for Renters -- Precarious Possession and Citizenship Status -- Renters and Retreat: Current Policy -- Discussion and Conclusion: A Study in Remembering -- References -- 7 Interrogating "Just Compensation" and Flexibility: Details on the Inadequacy (and Importance) of Voluntary Buyouts for Relocation in Alaska -- Introduction -- Buyouts in Alaska -- What Is Just Compensation in Voluntary Buyouts? -- Flexible Infrastructure and Climate Change: Just Compensation as Repair -- New Infrastructure Technologies Are Not Enough -- Conclusion: From One House to Regional Solutions -- References -- Part III The Legal Framework -- 8 A Primer of Laws, Legal Concepts, and Tools That Structure Relocation and Novel Ways of Utilizing the Law -- Land Use, Building Codes, and Zoning as Hazard Mitigation -- Using and Better Understanding Land Use, Building Codes, and Zoning -- Restricting Development -- Takings Jurisprudence -- Novel Uses of Takings Jurisprudence -- Eminent Domain -- Public Trust and Public Necessity -- Alternatives to Individual Property Exchange as a Relocation Solution -- Existing Communal Relocation Mechanisms -- Community Land Trusts -- Community Development Corporations and Community Housing Development Organizations -- Community Right-to-Buy -- Hazard Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience Grant Funding -- Conclusion: Considering Repair as a Legal Solution -- References -- 9 Discretion and the Roles People Play in Interpreting and Applying the Law -- Regulatory Mechanisms -- Bureaucratic Discretion -- Administrative Evil -- Can Bureaucratic Discretion Be Used in Service of Community Desires? -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Concluding Thoughts -- Reference -- Correction to: People or Property.

Correction to: A. Jerolleman et al., People or Property, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36872-1 -- References -- Index.