Untapped capacity for resilience in environmental law
Untapped capacity for resilience in environmental law
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1906247116
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Allen, Craig R.
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作者：
Garmestani, Ahjond;Ruhl, J. B.;Allen, Craig R.
在过去的几十年里，环境治理在应对环境变化方面取得了实质性进展，但新出现的环境问题需要在法律、政策和治理方面进行新的创新。虽然大规模的法律的改革不太可能很快发生，但现有法律在应对环境变化方面仍有未开发的潜力，既可以利用法律本身的适应和变革能力来加强社会生态复原力，也可以利用这些法律来使社会生态系统适应和变革。迄今为止的法律的和政策研究在很大程度上忽视了这一潜力，尽管它提供了一种比等待全面的环境法改革更有利的解决环境变化的办法。我们强调了美国和欧洲联盟的例子，即现有法律中尚未开发的能力，以促进社会生态系统的复原力。我们表明，政府和其他治理机构可以在短期内解决环境变化的重大进展，而无需重大的法律的改革，通过利用这些未开发的能力，我们提供的原则和战略，以指导这些举措。
Over the past several decades, environmental governance has made substantial progress in addressing environmental change, but emerging environmental problems require new innovations in law, policy, and governance. While expansive legal reform is unlikely to occur soon, there is untapped potential in existing laws to address environmental change, both by leveraging adaptive and transformative capacities within the law itself to enhance social-ecological resilience and by using those laws to allow social-ecological systems to adapt and transform. Legal and policy research to date has largely overlooked this potential, even though it offers a more expedient approach to addressing environmental change than waiting for full-scale environmental law reform. We highlight examples from the United States and the European Union of untapped capacity in existing laws for fostering resilience in social-ecological systems. We show that governments and other governance agents can make substantial advances in addressing environmental change in the short term-without major legal reform-by exploiting those untapped capacities, and we offer principles and strategies to guide such initiatives.