Hoddy, Eric orcid.org/0000-0003-0549-8285, Halliday, Simon orcid.org/0000-0001-5107-6783, Ensor, Jonathan orcid.org/0000-0003-2402-5491 et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Legal culture and climate change adaptation:an agenda for research. WIREs Climate Change. e825. ISSN 1757-7799
Abstract
While climate change adaptation research has increasingly focused on aspects of culture, a systematic treatment of the role of legal culture in how communities respond to climate risk has yet to be produced. This is despite the fact that law and legal authority are implicated in most, if not all, of the ways in which actors seek to reduce the risks posed to communities by climate change. Using a scoping review methodology, this article examines the intersection of climate change adaptation and legal culture in existing research. Overall, we find that the significance of legal culture for adaptation actions has been under-explored. Yet, it is also clear that a focus on legal culture holds significant promise for our understanding of climate change adaptation. We set out a research agenda for the field, highlighting the ways in which a focus on legal culture may enrich existing key themes within climate change adaptation research. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. The authors would like to thank the Vetenskapsrådet (VR), Sweden, which funded this research as part of the TRANSIST project, “From everyday forms of resistance to transformational climate change adaptation of the urban poor.” |
Keywords: | legal actors,legal attitudes,legal consciousness,legal pluralism,legal practices |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Law School The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Stockholm Environment Institute at York (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2022 12:50 |
Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2024 00:36 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.825 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/wcc.825 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:194480 |
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